…(Bougainville Island). Bougainville Copper Limited’s Panguna mine closed in 1989 after an armed struggle against the company and the government of Papua New Guinea. BCL is controlled by mining giant…
Women representing an indigenous landowner’s group on the Papua New Guinean island of Bougainville say they’re opposed to reopening the mine that was at the centre of a bloody civil…
But there are questions over Rio Tinto subsidiary’s recent role Bougainville’s vice-president has said that the “future and re-opening of the Panguna copper mine is to be decided by the…
…claimed the film tells the real story of their lives today. See http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=15576. See also comment on similarities between Avatar and the Bougainville struggle against Rio Tinto’s Panguna mine: http://socialistaotearoa.blogspot.com/2010/02/avatars-secret-history-lesson-on-our.html….
Two short video productions provide background and update For background to this story, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/?s=Bougainville. See recent video at Panguna Mine, Bougainville, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg6q7AGhmo8; some background to this video is…
