Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 23:43:57 -0500
Subject: M-G: (Fwd) BOUGAINVILLE PRESS RELEASE & PROTEST


This is urgent! International protests can be sent to "Vikki John"..
Bob Malecki

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>Date:          Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:39:08 GMT-1000
>Subject:       BOUGAINVILLE PRESS RELEASE & PROTEST
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>BOUGAINVILLE FREEDOM MOVEMENT
>2 April, 1997 Media Release	Att: News Desk
>
>DEADLY WEAPONRY, AMMUNITION, HELICOPTERS AND MILITARY 
>HARDWARE NOW ON AUSTRALIAN SOIL.
>
>The  Sandlines International mercenary cargo which was unloaded from an 
>Antonov 124 Russian cargo plane on 27 March, 1997, is currently under guard at 
>the Royal Australian Airforce Force (RAAF) base in Tindal, near Katherine in 
>the Northern Territory.  The mercenary cargo includes helicopters, ammunition, 
>rocket-propelled grenades and other military hardware which was bound for 
>Papua New Guinea to be used against the people of Bougainville.
>
>The Papua New Guinea government had asked the Australian government to 
>receive the deadly military weaponry and store it.  We say "DESTROY IT".
>
>"The Australian government had offered Papua New Guinea government an 
>"enhanced military package".  Is the deadly military weaponry that is now 
in the 
>Northern Territory the "enhanced military package" the Australian government 
>has promised?" questioned Vikki John from the Bougainville Freedom Movement.
>
>"For the past 8 years the war on Bougainville has been funded by the 
Australian 
>government.  The Australian government has continued to give Papua 
>New Guinea hundreds of millions of dollars, our taxes,  to win back the 
>CRA-RTZ copper mine at Panguna in Bougainville." said Vikki John.
>
>"Over 10,000 Bougainville people are dead.  I have made many appeals to the 
>Australian government and the Papua New Guinea government to end the war on 
>Bougainville and all the suffering and death that the war has caused," said 
>Moses Havini, from the Bougainville Interim Government.
>
>"My people have experienced the most degrading violations and poverty for the 
>past 8 years.  Both the Australian and PNG governments have admitted the fact 
>that the war on Bougainville cannot be resolved by military means.  
Bougainville 
>wants peace and the right to self-determination.  The Australian government 
is in 
>a strong position to destroy the mercenary equipment on this soil and withdraw 
>the funds to PNG until there is peace and justice on Bougainville." concluded 
>Moses Havini.
>
>PROTEST: 	Thursday, 3 April, 1997 from 4.30pm 
>Australian Defence Forces, 270 Pitt Street, Sydney (behind Town Hall Stn).
>NO MERCENARIES!  NO AUSTRALIAN INTERVENTION! 
>END MILITARY AID!  DESTROY THE DEADLY WEAPONRY!
>
>For further information please contact:
>Vikki John, Bougainville Freedom Movement 	(02) 9558.2730
>Moses Havini, Bougainville Interim Government (02) 9804.7632
>
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