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Protection urged after Marshall Islands attacks

Taiwan has demanded the Marshall Islands government take a more active role in protecting residents following attacks on two foreign volunteer workers.

A Taiwanese volunteer teacher has been flown home for emergency surgery after being attacked in her apartment, and an American volunteer teacher was repeatedly hit on the head with a beer bottle in a separate incident outside a nightclub.

A 20-year-old Marshall Islands man appeared in court last Friday charged with attempted murder after the Taiwanese woman suffered a fractured cheekbone and other facial injuries when she was attacked with a metal pipe.

In a statement broadcast on Friday on the only AM station in this island nation of 55,000, Witten Philippo, the minister in assistance to Marshall Islands President Kessai Note, said he "condemned the recent acts of violence against our volunteers and visitors."

Justice Minister Donald Capelle said the suspects would be prosecuted to fullest extent of the law.

Taiwan's ambassador, Chen Lien-gene (陳連軍), called on Marshall Islands authorities to take a more proactive stance towards protecting residents from unprovoked assaults.

American Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus was attacked after he accused a local Marshall Islander of inappropriately touching a female volunteer worker.
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