Peace in prospect. (Bougainville)

The Economist (US) | January 26, 1991 | Copyright

FROM the earliest days of European conquest in the Pacific, the people on the island of Bougainville were regarded as stubborn and easily provoked. But the Germans admired them for their toughness and energy and in 1898 persuaded Britain, which then ran Bougainville, to swap the island for some German possessions elsewhere in the Pacific. The British were glad to dispose of these "Huns in black skins". Germany added Bougainville to its territory in what is now Papua New Guinea. When, in 1975, PNG won its independence from Australia (which had been running the place since ...

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