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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:47:28 +0100 (MET)
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: M-I: Bougainville Updates 


>From: "Vikki John" <VIKKI-AT-lexsun.law.uts.edu.au>
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>BOUGAINVILLE MASSACRE DETAILS - Media Release No.314
>9th December, 1996
>
>Further information received from the Bougainville Interim Government (BIG)
> authorities on Bougainville of the Papua New Guinea Defence Forces (PNGDF)
> 1st December massacre of Bougainville civilians at Makakuru village, 
Siwaii area; 
> we now have to hand the names and details of the killed and wounded
> Bougainvilleans.
>
>The Bougainville Interim Government authorities have reported that the early
> dawn raid by the Papua New Guinea Defence Forces and its allies, the
> Bougainville Resistance fighters took place between 4.00am and 5.30am on
> 1 December, 1996, whilst people were sleeping in their beds.
>
>The names, ages and villages of the victims of the early dawn raid massacre 
at the 
>Mokakuru village care centre in the Siwaii area, south west Bougainville are as
> follows.
>
>The eleven (11) civilians who were killed outright were:
>
>Paul Kumpa (M)	50 years from Laku village
>Mrs Kumpa(F)	45 years from Laku village
>Apronia Kumpa (F)	18 years from Laku village
>Momis Maimoi (M)	21 years from Laku village
>Mukunia Maimoi (F)	69 years from Laku village
>Soiri Meri 	(M)	13 years from Hinno village
>Joseph Moiru(M)       50 years from Tonui village
>Christen Tuwai (F)	19 years from Tonui village
>Rachael Kempi (F)	  7 years from Tonui village
>Anasioro Tukeu (M)	16 years from Paramo village
>Michael Kumpa (M)	16 years from Paramo village
>
>The eleven (11) wounded people are now in the Solomon Islands being 
>treated.  They are:-
>
>Robbin Maoiru (M)	18 years from Tonui village
>Gloria Moiru	(F)	13 years from Tonui village
>Roselyne Moiku	  7 years from Tonui village
>Regard Mukauwa (M)	17 years from Tonui village
>Theresa Meru 	(F)	60 years from Tonui village
>Tabeke Kumpa (F)	32 years from Baramu village
>Anne Moiru	(F)	49 years from Tonui village
>Victoria Moiru (F)	12 years from Tonui village
>Joseph Kumuniu (M)	18 years from Ipiro village
>Justin Kumpa 	(M)	13 years from Laku village
>Shaa Kumpa 	(M)	11 years from Laku village
>							END.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>MASSACRES IN BUIN - SOUTH BOUGAINVILLE AND
>SIWAI - SOUTHWEST BOUGAINVILLE  - Media Release No.313
>5th December, 1996
>
>Bougainville:  The Papua New Guinea Security forces and the Resistance are
> embarking into a new spate of horrendous massacres on innocent civilians, 
>men, women and children in South and Southwest Bougainville.
>
>Reports reaching the Sydney Bougainville Interim Government Office today said
> more than 20 innocent civilians, men, women and children were killed and
> wounded beginning from November 26 to December 1, 1996; but it is feared that
> the figure could be as hight as 100 civilians.
>
>On Monday, 26 November 1996, witnesses said a group of Resistance fighters
> and some members of the PNG Security forces from Oria Care Centre entered
> Bogisagu village, South Bougainville raiding a family home and killed 2 
children,
> wounding another child with their 2 grandparents.  Those that were killed and
> wounded were:
>
>Killed:
>1 .Mast Kenneth Ariku - boy - age 3 years
>2. Miss Iroba Ariku - girl - age 6 years
>
>Wounded
>
>3. Miss Bouai Ariku - girl - age 8 years - two of her fingers were chopped off
>4. Mr Kasia - Grandfather - shot on his back and one of his hands broken, now 
>    in a very critical condition
>5. Mrs Iravia - Grandmother - wounded and is also in a very critical condition
>
>A message written and left at the scene of the crime by the Resistance and
>PNG Security forces gave a warning in Pidgin reading "yupala tu bai kisim 
>mekim save, stat nau" - in English "You too are going to be punished as from
>now on".
>
>November 26, 1996 at 10.06am
>Killed
>Mr Peter Mutampoko, 32 years from Detosi village.  He was intercepted by the
> PNGDF and the Resistance on a bush track while returning from Lambaram
> village to his village.  Witnesses said he was taken back to Lambaram 
village, in
> the Nagovisi area Southwest of the Panguna copper mine and was executed 
>there.  The motive for killing this innocent man is not known.  He was married 
>with 2 children.
>
>November 28, 1996
>Killed
>Nine (9) civilians from Maluoko village were killed at the Malabita care 
centre.
>
>Men, women and children were killed and others wounded by a mortar bomb
> from a new long range 120mm launcher, believed to have come from the
> direction of the Buin town fired by the PNGDF and the Resistance.
>
>The Bougainville civilians were having an early catholic mass in a small 
catholic
> church when they received the direct bomb blast from the PNG Security forces
> bombardment.
>
>Killed
>1. Cathy Tumare - female - age 4 years
>2. Nanny Makau - male - age 5 years
>3. Alvina Makunia - female - age 6 years
>4. Brenda Ruinai - female - age 14 years
>5. Cecilia Ruatu - female - age 36 years
>6. John Tuburu - male - age 38 years
>7. Nicholas Nakei - male - age 39 years
>8. Albert Makau - male- age 42 years
>9. Boisi Kauri - female - age 60 years
>
>Wounded
>1. Makiwa Baubake - male - age 2 years
>2. Kauvina Tom - male - age 24 years
>3. Leona Nike - female - age 24 years
>4. Francius Baubake - male - age 39 years
>5. Catherine Tom - female - 50 years.
>Those that suffered from minor injuries, cuts and burns were not listed.
>
>1 December, 1996
>Massacre at Mokakuru village Siwai Southwest Bougainville. 
> Eleven (11) civilians killed and eleven (11) civilians wounded.
>
>In an early dawn raid between 4am and 5.30am by the PNG Security forces and
> Resistance at Mokakuru village, Siwai, Southwest Bougainville, witnesses that
> managed to escape said, "the men, women and children just did not have any
> chance".
>
>"Those that died were killed while still asleep on their beds and other 
were cut
> (shot) down in front of their houses as they were trying to escape", 
>said one of the  distraught witnesses to the Bougainville Interim Government.
>
>Eleven (11) civilians were killed outright, while another eleven (11) were 
>wounded.  The names and personal details of the dead and the wounded are still
> being collected and will be released as soon as they are received by the
> Bougainville Interim Government Authorities on Bougainville.
>
>"It seems that the PNGDF are trying to kill as many civilians as possible 
before
> they are withdrawn from Bougainville.  Information reaching the Bougainville 
>Interim Government said that those killings and massacres on innocent civilians
> were totally unprovoked."
>
>"We are extremely concerned that the Prime Minister, Sir Julius Chan has now 
>totally lost control of his military on Bougainville.  We now have an unruly
> bunch of undisciplined marauding killers that are making Bougainville their
> "killing fields".  I am very very concerned for our people," said Mr 
Francis Ona,
> President from Bougainville.	END.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>AMNESTY CRITICISES PNG OVER ALLEGED BOUGAINVILLE
> MASSACRES -  Radio Australia, 7 December, 1996
>
>The human rights group, Amnesty International, has criticised the 
>Papua New Guinea government over the latest allegations of civilian massacres
> on the island of Bougainville.
>
>It says the allegations have been met with a resounding silence by the 
government
> in Port Moresby (PNG).
>
>Amnesty says the government has consistently failed to respond adequately to
> killings, disappearances and torture by its forces during the eight-year 
conflict.
>
>Separatists on the island claim that more than 20 people have been killed by 
>PNG soldiers and allied Bougainville fighters in three incidents during the 
last
> month.
>
>Amnesty says that the response to the allegations by the Chief of the
> PNG Defence Force, Colonel Jack Tuat gave no commitment that the allegations
> would be investigated.
>
>Nor did there appear to have been any reaction from the government.
>
>Amnesty says that verifications of the incidents has been hampered by a lack of
> access by independent observers.
>
>It points out that human rights violations by both sides in the conflict 
have been
> facilitated by the lack of international and domestic scrutiny as 
journalists and 
>observers have been barred from the island.   END.
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>MAMALONI ON BOUGAINVILLE REFUGEES
>6 December, 1996 (Source: The Independent (PNG))
>
>Solomon Islands Prime Minister Solomon Mamaloni has accused Australia and
> New Zealand of turning a blind eye on the refugees from Bougainville.
>
>Speaking in Parliament, Mamaloni said it is sad that Australia and New Zealand
> who talk so much about human rights at the United Nations and Commonwealth
> levels, are not giving any humanitarian help to Bougainvilleans who fled the
> troubled island since the crisis began eight years ago.  He also said that 
it is
> surprising that the United Nations and the Commonwealth responded negatively
> to his government's request for humanitarian assistance on the 
>Bougainville issue.
>
>The Prime Minister said Solomon Islands has become the worst victim of the 
>unfortunate situation on Bougainville because countries with good education and
> medical facilities have not seen fit to help.
>
>Mamaloni was clarifying reasons why has government was seeking Parliamentary
> appropriation bill.  He said the Bougainville crisis is one reason why the
> government spent money not budgeted for.	END.
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>LETTER sent to The Editor, The Australian Financial Review
>2 December, 1996
>from the Director of AIDWATCH
>
>With the PNG government inquest finding that PNG Defence Force personnel
> were responsible for the murder last month of Bougainville Premier,
> Mr Theodore Miriung, I am left wondering what obligations there are for
> journalists and their newspapers to ensure that they reports news 
accurately and 
>do not use their newspapers as a means to voice their partisan views.
>
>On 15 October, 1996, your correspondent, Mr Rowan Callick, in reporting the
> tragic death of Mr Miriung wrote about "rebel violence" and that it was
> "most likely that he was felled by one of the rebel factions", clearly 
asserting
> that the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) were responsible for 
>Miriung's death.  This has now been exposed as totally unjustifiable.
>
>At the end of November Coroner Justice Suntheralingham, a former
> Sri Lankan judge sent to PNG for the inquest by the Commonwealth Secretariat,
> found that this assassination had been carried out on October 12 by about
> ten PNG soldiers with the assistance of pro-government resistance fighters.
>
>Mr Callick for years has peddled his PNG prejudices in the Australian Financial
> Review (AFR).  This article is dripping with them - "MPs who believe the 
>message of action movies", "cargo cultist notions" and "drip-feed of foreign
> support".  He deplorably describes the behaviour of soldiers who raped women
> as "apparently played up with local women".  Mr Callick uses such language to
> set the scene for what is clearly biased reporting on the war in Bougainville.
>
>On this occasion Mr Callick's gross inaccuracies have been exposed. 
>Will the AFR and/or Mr Callick provide any explanation to its readers?  
>Will there be an apology to the BRA for wrongly accusing them of Mr Miriung's 
>murder?	
>END.
>-------------------------------------------------------
>For further information please contact
>Bougainville Freedom Movement  Tel 61-2-9558.2730
>Bougainville Interim Government  Tel 61-2-98047632
>Max Watts, Journalist specialising on Bougainville, East Timor and West 
Papua issues
>Tel 61-2-98182343
>Bougainville Freedom Movement
>PO Box 134, Erskineville.  
>NSW.  2043  Australia
>email contacts:  v.john-AT-uts.edu.au  
>		  sashab-AT-magna.com.au
>
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