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> >Organization: Faculty Of Law, Uni. Of Tech., Syd. >To: Bougainville.Updates-AT-lexsun.law.uts.edu.au >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:11:27 GMT-1000 >Subject: Bougainville Updates >Reply-To: v.john-AT-uts.edu.au >X-Confirm-Reading-To: v.john-AT-uts.edu.au >X-Pmrqc: 1 >Return-Receipt-To: v.john-AT-uts.edu.au >Priority: urgent > >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 > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- http://www.kmf.org/malecki/ Read the book! Ha Ha Ha McNamara, Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Crystalball! 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