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Women’s forum gagged

6/6/08

The Autonomous Bougainville Government yesterday gagged an open forum on Buka Island which was planned to discuss the dealings of the government. High on the agenda would have been the recent signing of an agreement between the ABG and Bougainville Development Corporation Ltd. Police in Buka were instructed to apprehend two women leaders at the forum venue, they were brought to the police station and advised to cancel the forum pending the next sitting of the ABG parliament next week. Members of the inter-church womens forum, Monica Samu and Celestine Tomi, said the ABG had ordered the police to stop the forum. The police kept watch as the tents prepared for the forum were pulled down.

See: http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20080606/frhome.htm

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