Kabui is dead
10/6/08
Bougainville’s first autonomous government president Joseph Kabui is dead after suffering a massive heart attack. Buka General Hospital chief executive officer Dr Cyril Imako confirmed the 54-year-old former seminarian from Siromba in Central Bougainville was already dead in the house before he was brought to the hospital for medication. Dr Imako said Mr Kabui was due for medication last December. He ran out of medicine four months ago and was depending on brand of bottled water reputed to have healing properties. He felt chest pains on the left side a week before he travelled for the Governors’ conference in Manus. He was premier of the province until the conflict started and then became the leading figure in the pro-secessionist Bougainville Interim Government which fought for independence from Papua New Guinea.
See: http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20080610/tuhome.htm
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