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...zone in Ona's apparent ceding of control to Musingku. "I think Ona's kingdom is shriveling up," he says. "The crowning was a bad move." P.N.G.'s Minister for Inter-Government Relations, Sir Peter Barter, described the coronation as a "mockery of Bougainvillean traditions and customs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jungle Fever | 12/14/2004 | See Source »

...spiral of bloodletting, which began in November, escalated last week, when landowners raided a mining camp, killing four people and setting houses ablaze. An angry mob from the settlement retaliated by slaughtering a Bougainvillean woman and her baby and torching her home. So far 39 have died in the dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPUA NEW GUINEA Blood and Copper | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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