Panguna landowners talk of reconciliation - PNG/Bougainville
17/3/08
A major reconciliation planned for the landowners of the Panguna area, where the giant Bougainville copper mine is now lying dormant, may soon come to reality. This planned family reconciliation for the Panguna Landowners Association (PLOA) will be in three phases and could pave the way for a lot of positive things to happen. Leaders of the Panguna landowners, who had not seen eye to eye for the past two decades, are negotiating a possible reconciliation that would see mothers, fathers, aunties, children and the three clans – Kurabang, Bakoringku and Basikang – live normal lives again like they used to be before the Bougainville crisis broke out.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:20 am
It is High Time things get moving…I will be looking forward to that day…being an unfortunate child who was a victim of the civil war on B’ville…I would like to see the situation be made right……..it is not fair for our future generation to suffer also the way we did……lack of education has brought us very low….only a few of those well off families were able to save thier children and give them good education……..I ask my good people of Panguna……….it time….lets not look back but look to the future so that our later generation will appreciat this moment of reconciliation…..to allow them a better life…..our point has been made now let go of the past and embrace the future……Long Live our Motherland Bougainville - so rich and beautiful…..Tampara Masika