Bougainville Tastes Peace - Papua New Guinea

Dec 1997
New Zealand peacekeepers have arrived on the beleaguered South Pacific island to observe the current truce. Mark Worth gets to heart of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) finding a rebel movement committed to ending the country's nine year civil war. If the current cease-fire holds until January then the UN will go in and the Papua New Guinea army will withdraw. BRA leader Francis Ona was the only important player not at recent peace talks. But almost his entire BRA command feel confident there is hope for the peace process. At Market Day in a local front-line village the BRA are spreading the message: "Be careful! Don't breech the cease-fire. If you breach it, you let your side down." Travelling up into Ona territory in the mountains, the mood is sharply different. Mark is ambushed by paranoid & hostile Ona supporters who call him a PNG spy. The support of local Chiefs has been vital to the BRA. But a village Chief rails against the long-running war: "Too many people have died. I'm really sick of it!" Despite the apparent split in the BRA thinking, the future for Bougainville looks brighter than ever. A report full of character and hope

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[Riyun72]

@420Carnivore I'm sure you personally benefit from that very same system. You owe everything you have to that system and now you bag it like you dont want it. Obviously you have never experienced life without it. People like you spout that crap as its just a fashionable thing to say. Let me guess you read crap like that in some bullshit socialist magazine huh. Yeah Im sure,,,,

[420Carnivore]

By peace, democracy and investment he means the American capitalism system. Look how well that happened for the U.S..... very peaceful, very organized, very rich. LMFAO

[420Carnivore]

By peace, democracy and investment he means the American capitalism system. Look how well that happend for the U.S..... very peaceful, very organized, very rich. LMFAO

[MrDANIELDMARTINRIOS]

it is a reach land ,with peace ,democracy and investment they could progress fast

[atonomic]

These people are speaking Pidgin English, mixture English, German and local dialect etc spoken in Papua New Guinea, Solomom Islands and Vanuatu, with a slight difference. They are Melanesian people, indigenous to Oceania.

[Killayut]

These people speak patois that seems mixed with haitian creole and they look a bit like some caribean people. Is there a link between them and the caribean people ?

[ricohmahn4librex]

PEACE IN BOUGAINVILLE