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Tanis was inaugurated as Bougainville's second elected president in a colorful swearing-in ceremony on 6 January 2009, as Bougainvilleans in traditional costumes travelled from all corners of the island to attend the ceremony in Arawa, Central Bougainville. [2] [11] The ceremony lasted most of the day and included indigenous music and dance. [12]
He was also the official spokesman of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army. [12] In Australia, he helped establish the Bougainville Freedom Movement in support of Bougainvillean independence. [1] Havini attended the 1991 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Zimbabwe to lobby for an end to Papua New Guinea's blockade of Bougainville. [13]
A non-binding independence referendum was held in Bougainville, [1] an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, between 23 November and 7 December 2019.The referendum question presented a choice between greater autonomy within Papua New Guinea and full independence; voters voted overwhelmingly (98.31%) for independence.
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Bougainville has been inhabited by humans for at least 29,000 years, according to evidence obtained from Kilu Cave on Buka Island. [11] Until about 10,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum, there was a single island referred to as "Greater Bougainville" that spanned from the northern tip of Buka Island to the Nggela Islands north of Guadalcanal.
The referendum question was a choice between greater autonomy within Papua New Guinea and full independence for Bougainville, and voters voted overwhelmingly (98.31%) for independence. [46] Negotiations between the Bougainville government and national Papua New Guinea on a path to Bougainville independence began after the referendum, and are ...
The election received the support and participation of most former independence fighters. [4] The Papua New Guinea government provided US$3.7 million to the Autonomous Bougainville Government to run the election, and it was agreed to temporarily move the provincial capital to Buka after the previous capital Arawa was largely destroyed during ...
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