Bougainville: Killer Deal - Papua New Guinea

July 2008

After Bougainville's President died suddenly in June, the future of the island's huge mineral reserves is in doubt. A secret deal gives an Australian business a 70% share of the resources but does the deal still stand?

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[wewdawg1]

@Microglia1 How are people who have no capital nor infrastructure supposed to tap into their resources? With a shovel? You need foreign resources to extract domestic resources you moron.

[michaelswam]

colonialism is not the same as invinting mirco

[oldhippy111]

@Microglia1 That aint true man I was their in 75/77 and we were training local people

in every aspect White man did a job,Local person was trained to do the same job

The reason it got screwed,Every member of the tribe wanted a share of all moneys paid out

and new ones were appearing every day.....................still the same to day

That is tribal law.........same as compensation

[Microglia1]

The reason black societies can never progress is because the leaders have no compassion for the community, in other words, the leaders act out of pure greed, never thinking about future consequences.

[Microglia1]

These people are so fucking stupid. You have all these gold, copper, and god know what other rare minerals, and you invite white men to come and exploit resource, so you can have the leftover meat, aka menial jobs.

[jackasstroll]

joey boy sold them out. heart attack looked good on him. fuck rio tinto.

i'm white am i allowed to say that? or do some here like division?

[Mrcbclobster]

typical white folk. coming to take shit that does not belong to them!

[danielmountain]

Add &fmt=18 to the end of this URL and press Enter.

Did the quality of the video improve?

[vimalkaruvannur]

grredy mining company's, they should stick theire greedy claws into theire own pockets

[ualegam]

He only had good intentions for his people....Francis Ona said the same thing when he started the rebellion all those years ago which started the Bougainville War....and you know the saying...."the road to hell is paved with good intentions".....