First war monument inaugurated by President

By Aloysius Laukai

The first monument to the Bougainville conflict was opened last Friday at Polamato village in the lower tailings area of the now closed Panguna copper mine.

The Bougainville Revolutionary Army was formed at Palomato in early 1988. The village was the home of the Army’s second in command, the late James Singko.

There was also a weapons destruction ceremony, the first since ABG President James Tanis took office in January, with destroyed home-made weapons being placed inside the monument [above].

The weapons destruction was organised by the chief of Polamato integrated community and witnessed by Mr Tanis, the Peace Reconciliations and Weapons Disposal Minister, Robert Hamal Sawa, ABG Government officials, the General of the Mekamui Defence Force, Chris Uma, and a representative of the United Nations on Bougainville.

Mr Tanis said Polamato had demonstrated it just took the heart of the people, not officials from overseas, to disarm and reconcile.

He promised the people that a proper shelter would be built over the monument to mark the first Bougainville crisis weapons memorial.

Lower photo: Peace Reconciliations and Weapons Disposal Minister, Robert Hamal Sawa, signs the weaons destruction agreement wtached by local chiefs [Aloysius Laukai]

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Let this memorial represent the SHAME as well...to those that started this war in the first place without using their heads...where commonsense could have prevailed to prevent the unnecessary loss of good peoples' lives.

Let it become a a silent voice the to those that continue to carry arms...that there will be no need for anymore wars. There is no more enemy. Just why do they still carry arms...let alone kill another blackman ??

This is not Somalia. This is not Mogadishu. This is not Africa. Why do we want to be like them? Shame on you !!

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Blood, Misery, Hunger, Disease, DEATH!!!!!!
That's the really best friends of war, hand by hand, shoulder to shoulder, it's a very sad thing to see, to live, to die for...
The soldiers never think in the kids, in the women, in the old people, they only care about ''winning'' an others cause, they there not by own means, they have no word, no will, just a puppet...
That's my personal way of think, my intention is not to offend anyone, in fact, i feel sorry for the people who had a familiar in that field, God be with you...

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