John Momis, President of Bougainville, is an intelligent man. He has lengthly experience of Papua New Guinea politics; at one point in his distinguished career backing secession of his province from the central government. He also sided with the landowners who, in 1988 attempted to gain compensation for massive pollution and crop destruction caused by Rio Tinto’s Panguna copper-gold mine.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/10920.