The Pacific people of Bougainville will begin voting on Saturday in a historic referendum to decide if they want to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea, nickgbperry writes.
In this April 2018, photo released by United Nations Development Programme, women in the village of Aero, Central Bougainville, come together for a unification ceremony. The Pacific people of Bougainville will on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, begin voting in a historic referendum to decide if they want to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea.
The referendum will run over two weeks and is a key part of a 2001 peace agreement that ended a brutal civil war in which at least 15,000 people died in the cluster of islands to the east of the Papua New Guinea mainland. Gianluca Rampolla, the U.N. resident coordinator in Papua New Guinea, said the world body has been working hard to ensure the vote is peaceful, transparent, inclusive and credible. He said there are 40 U.N. staffers on the ground and more than 100 international observers.“They’ve been waiting 19 years for this historic moment,” he said. “I think they will be left with joy.”
John Momis, the president of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, told reporters Friday the region stood on the verge of a new socio-economic and political order. The violence in Bougainville began in the late 1980s, triggered by conflict over an enormous opencast copper mine at Panguna. The mine was a huge export earner for Papua New Guinea, but many in Bougainville felt they got no benefit and resented the pollution and disruption to their traditional way of living.
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