Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 06:50:14 +0100 (MET)
Subject: M-G: Re: (Fwd) 449 MEDIA: Bougainville Update 15/2/97


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>BOUGAINVILLE UPDATE 15/2/97
>Subject:       449 MEDIA: Reports on foreign newsmen conflict
>
>Title -- 449 MEDIA: Reports on foreign newsmen conflict
>Date -- 15 February 1997
>Origin -- Pacific Media Watch
>Source -- Post-Courier (PNG), 15/2/97
>Copyright -- Post-Courier
>Status -- Unabridged
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>
>REPORTS ON FOREIGN NEWSMEN CONFLICT
>
>CONFLICTING reports are filtering out on the whereabouts of the two expatriate
>journalists who entered Bougainville through the Solomon Islands.
>
>PNG security forces are still searching for the men who were in Bougainville
>last month covering a meeting at Laguai in South Bougainville, which attempted
>to free five security force members held captive by BRA rebels following the
>Kangu Beach massacre.
>
>Reports fropm security foces in Bougainville said the two journalists were
>still on Bougainville.
>
>Commander of Forward Tactical headquarters Lt-Col Tarua Falaniki said that
>earlier last week locals reported sighting them around the Arco Motors area on
>the outskirts of Arawa trying to photograph a PNGDF armoured security vehicle
>from long range and they seemed in no hurry to leave Bougainville.
>
>But sources from the government-controlled areas in Central Bougainville appear
>to agree with rebel sources that they left soon after the meeting in Laguai.
>+++niuswire
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