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Date Posted: 03:07:39 03/18/00 Sat
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Full support for ya actually coming from many sides sekim toktok blo Kabui
In reply to: 's message, "PEOPLE POWER and the seeds of revolution (reposting)" on 17:30:16 03/17/00 Fri

BOUGAINVILLE revolutionalist Joseph Kabui believes there is a bigger revolution waiting to explode in PNG.
Returning to Port Moresby for the first time in 12 years, the former premier of North Solomons, now president of the Bougainville Peoples Congress said he feared a people's uprising against the State and Government because of social problems and disharmony.
The problem, he said, is caused by bad leadership, and the onus was on leaders to find solutions.
Mr Kabui and a delegation of Bougainvillean leaders arrived yesterday afternoon for a three-day meeting on Loloata Island to negotiate with the PNG Government for autonomy and for a referendum for independence.
PNG team leader, Bougainville Affairs Minister Sir Michael Somare said the Government was prepared to discuss both issues and reach a compromise, even though a referendum is not allowed in the Constitution.
Both leaders believe the talks starting today would reach the decisions sought in the peace process, if not a major step to achieving it.
Mr Kabui said as a revolutionist he believed PNG is headed for big trouble.
"You know why my hair stands up because I can smell that there is another revolution that PNG is heading to," he warned. "If Bougainville with a small population was able to come up with a revolution that is really causing lots of lives and so much destruction of properties, you look at Port Moresby, the population is almost the same as Bougainville.
"Then you look at Lae and Mount Hagen and you are talking about a huge populations, and there's problems and if nothing is done, I am afraid that and I just hate to see another revolution happen in PNG."
He said that returning to Port Moresby after a decade "in the bush" he was surprised to see fences around houses and offices.
"It really saddens me in a way that I ask myself, where are we going. Why are we afraid . . . even the fear that is in us that who is causing this, who is responsible, these are the multitude of questions that are running through my mind.
"In one way the challenge is on the political leaders. If the political leaders can grapple and get a hold of and really do an honest day's work of trying to eradicate the root causes of all these fears that are now leading to the building of fences surrounding individual homes.
"If an honest day's job can be done by politicians, please do something about it because what I am afraid of, and coming out of a revolution in Bougainville, it makes my hair stand up.
"This time you know who is going to cause the revolution, it's going to be the people's power, and this is the challenge for leaders.
"And perhaps one good lesson from Bougainville is that the leaders of PNG have to try to look at the root causes of the revolution and try to take the remedial measures for the whole of PNG, 'please before it is too late'."
Mr Kabui said he was confident of achieving results in the talks now under way.
"I am quietly optimistic that judging from the way preparations have taken place since we last met in Buka, and up to now, indicate to me that something good is going to come out of it," he said.
"There has been a genuine move on the part of PNG for us to look at real avenues to the peace process going."
He said the two important issues to be discussed were being granted the highest possible autonomy and referendum.
"It is clear from the counter offer proposed that autonomy and referendum is that they still are both alive and this is what we will be tackling this week," he said.
"They (PNG Government) are willing to consider referendum, so they are not closing the door."

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