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Anyone catch the Australian story episode on this recently?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-05/black-cat-track-attack-png/5428118
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...-hacked-to-death/story-fni0xqrb-1226716581010
I found the tone of the Australian story episode, and particularly the way it tried to talk up the trek leader Christy King as some sort of hero pretty unbelievable.
In summary, an Australian trekking group, including a number of army veterans, led by an experienced Australian nurse, with 13 PNG porters gets set upon in the jungle by an armed gang, the Australians get beaten up and robbed, and the porters get held down and hacked up very badly with machetes, to the point where they couldn't walk.
The Australians, including the nurse, and including the army veterans, decide to walk for help and leave the porters behind, because they are afraid the gang may come back. They left as a group and left the porters, all badly injured, without any care. One of the porters subsequently died of his injuries.
I get it was a very difficult, life or death situation, but a group of military men, and a nurse, leaving a group of badly injured men without any care, in the jungle seems a pretty spineless thing to do. Especially when the gang had made it quite clear it was the porters they had a serious grudge against.
If two or three of the badly injured were Australian, would they have left them?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-05/black-cat-track-attack-png/5428118
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...-hacked-to-death/story-fni0xqrb-1226716581010
I found the tone of the Australian story episode, and particularly the way it tried to talk up the trek leader Christy King as some sort of hero pretty unbelievable.
In summary, an Australian trekking group, including a number of army veterans, led by an experienced Australian nurse, with 13 PNG porters gets set upon in the jungle by an armed gang, the Australians get beaten up and robbed, and the porters get held down and hacked up very badly with machetes, to the point where they couldn't walk.
The Australians, including the nurse, and including the army veterans, decide to walk for help and leave the porters behind, because they are afraid the gang may come back. They left as a group and left the porters, all badly injured, without any care. One of the porters subsequently died of his injuries.
I get it was a very difficult, life or death situation, but a group of military men, and a nurse, leaving a group of badly injured men without any care, in the jungle seems a pretty spineless thing to do. Especially when the gang had made it quite clear it was the porters they had a serious grudge against.
If two or three of the badly injured were Australian, would they have left them?