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Bougainville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (574 words) |
 | Bougainville is part of Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Solomon Islands group. |
| Bougainville, the adjacent island of Buka, and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets are sometimes known as North Solomons. |
| A former surveyor with the Bougainville Mining Limited, Francis Ona started the 10-year secessionist war in November 1988 with sabotage attacks on the mine in Panguna in support of demands for compensation for environmental damage. |
| Footnotes to History- B (3176 words) |
| Tajikistan's independence was marked by the eruption of civil war between a variety of factions within the state; infighting between geographic cliques within the Communist Party prevented the emergence of a true Tajik identity under the Soviet Union. |
| The island of Bougainville seceded from Papua New Guinea as the Republic of the North Solomons in September of 1975, after the Papuan government began development of a major copper mine on Bougainville without employing residents of the island or returning some funds to Bougainville. |
| Bougainville seceded again in May of 1990 as the Republic of Meekamuii, after the government of Papua New Guinea reacted to demonstrations by sending in combat troops and blockading Bougainville. |
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