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...commander has repeatedly denied any responsibility for the deaths of Selesitano Kalounivale, Jone Davui, Epineri Bainimoli and Lagani Rokowaqa. "I never gave any orders to kill," he said in 2003. However, in the weeks before the coup Bainimarama was under increasing pressure over the murders. Police probes and court actions by victims' families and surviving soldiers could have seen him suspended, forced to give evidence about the killings, and potentially facing charges and a six-figure compensation claim against the Fiji Military Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chief on the Run | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...voters that he had been nominated by God to be the first President of Papua New Guinea. A Bougainville Island sorcerer held a conjuring ceremony to make the election go away, so that the spirits of islanders' ancestors could then run the country properly. In relatively sophisticated Rabaul, Epineri Titimur campaigned as Frank Epineri Titimur on the grounds that all politicians should be Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Toward Independence | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

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