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	Louis Antoine de Bougainville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bougainville was born in Paris, France, the son of a notary.
		Bougainville obtained the rank of vice-admiral in 1791; and in 1792, having escaped almost miraculously from the massacres of Paris, he retired to his estate in Normandy.
		Bougainville's name is given to the largest member of the Solomon Islands; and to the strait which divides it from the island of Choiseul.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Antoine_de_Bougainville (1162 words)

	Bougainville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bougainville is the largest of the Solomon Islands and a province of Papua New Guinea.
		Bougainville and the adjacent island of Buka are sometimes called the North Solomons, and are ecologically and geographically, although not politically, considered part of the Solomon Islands.
		A former surveyor with the Bougainville Mining Limited, Francis Ona started the 10-year secessionist war in November 1988 with sabotage attacks on the mine in Panguna in support of demands for compensation for environmental damage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bougainville (480 words)

	Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
		Technically, Bougainville belongs to the Solomon Islands group but was politically divided from the Solomon Islands as a result of a British, German and United States trade-off known as the Anglo-German treaty on Samoa in 1889.
		In 1942 the advancing Japanese army occupied Bougainville until it was recaptured by the United States army in 1944.
		Bougainville Copper Ltd. was formed with Conzinc Rio Tinto in conjunction with the Papua New Guinea Government to mine the copper.
	www.janeresture.com /png_bougainville (477 words)

	Bougainville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bougainville took possession of the island for the French nation, erecting a sign on a tree near the beach and burying a bottle with a message asserting the action.
		Bougainville (who was reluctant himself to promote the Noble Savage theory) and others wrote descriptions of the climate, the vegetation, the ready supply of good food, the lack of a need to do much work, all of which combined to convey the sense that Tahiti was a Utopia.
		Bougainville speculated that it was Carteret in the Swallow.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /books_and_maps/bougainville.asp (9311 words)

	Bougainville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bougainville Parliamentarians are allowed observer status in the House of Representatives but may not introduce motions; or vote on any matter or be counted towards a quorum.
		Bougainville leaders and Mekamui soldiers confirmed that the man shot dead at the Morgan Junction road block, gateway to Francis Ona’s No Go Zone, is from the Haku area in North Bougainville while the man seriously injured comes from Manetai, Central Bougainville.
		The Bougainville peace process is an important national priority, recognised on a bipartisan basis to restore peace and normalcy on the island.
	www.exkiap.net /news/bougainville.htm (2662 words)

	MRF > Development > Indigenous People > Bougainville Island
		Following the signing of the Bougainville Peace Accord in January 2001, negotiations between the parties have been focussing on the details and implementation of its articles.
		Bougainville Transition Team (BTT) - The BTT was a small, unarmed team of civilians from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Vanuatu deployed for a six month period in the second half of 2003 on the withdrawl of the PMG.
		Bougainville declares its independence from PNG for the second time and the Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) is established.
	www.natural-resources.org /minerals/development/indigp/Bougainville.htm (1474 words)

	Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Accompanied by naturalists and astronomers, he made a voyage around the world (1767–69), visiting Tahiti in the Society Islands, the Samoan group, and the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), and rediscovering the Solomon Islands, the largest of which (Bougainville, now a part of Papua New Guinea) is named for him.
		His name is also given to the strait between Bougainville and Choiseul Island, to a strait in Vanuatu, and to the bougainvillaea vine.
		Bougainville’s Description d’un voyage autour du monde (2 vol., 1771–72; tr.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bo/BougainvL.html (206 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Both operations served their primary purpose of drawing Japanese troops away from Bougainville, but the positions gained in the Treasuries, including valuable Blanche Harbor, were held and strengthened to provide staging for the landings on Bougainville.
		Campaign Results The Bougainville campaign remains one of the most resounding successes of the war in the Pacific in terms of the smooth coordination between the Navy and Marine Corps.
		The capture of Bougainville caused Marine casualties of 423 dead and 1,418 wounded.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/wwii/facts/bougbttl.txt (1597 words)

	Louis-Antoine de Bougainville biography
		Bougainville's mathematical ability continued to increase and in 1751 he became a pupil of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, the mathematician and one of the principal authors of the Encyclopedie.
		Bougainville had his first experience of warfare, as a member of an assault party that skirted the forts, fording the river and attacking from the south.
		Bougainville was rightly pleased with the expedition having landed the first settlement on the islands and had returned with a healthy ship to France.
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~boug2.html (21119 words)

	Bougainville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After New Georgia, the next major operation was an invasion of the island of Bougainville, which was approached by landings at Mono and Stirling in the Treasury Islands on October 25-27, 1943.
		A Marine division landed on the west coast of Bougainville at Empress Augusta Bay on November 1, 1943.
		Allied planes neutralized enemy airfields in the northern part of the island, and the Allied command made use of its naval and air superiority to contain the Japanese garrison on Bougainville and cut its supply line to Rabaul by occupying the Green Islands (February 14, 1944).
	www.worldwar2history.info /Bougainville (279 words)

	UNIFEM - Bougainville - Gender Country Profile - Women, War, Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bougainville was devastated by the violent civil war between local groups and the Papua New Guinea government that took place between 1989 and 1998.
		The history of the conflict is rooted in colonial history: Bougainville was added to Papua New Guinea by the Germans, despite is geographical and cultural proximity to the Solomon Islands.
		On 20 August 2001 the comprehensive Bougainville Peace Agreement (S/2000/988) was signed, and includes three main parts regarding a) autonomy, b) a referendum to be held between 5-15 years from the date of the agreement and c) the weapons disposal plan.
	www.womenwarpeace.org /bougainville/bougainville.htm (7331 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Q&A: Bougainville election
		Bougainville is the largest of the Solomon Islands and a province of Papua New Guinea (PNG).
		The Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) fought against PNG forces and pro-government militias until the Bougainville Peace Agreement was signed in August 2001.
		Youths burned electoral rolls in South Bougainville in March, in what has been widely seen as a local dispute rather than a bid to derail the election by the Me'ekamui faction.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4560265.stm (572 words)

	Radio Free Bougainville
		Bougainville is the main island of the North Solomons group which, as the name implies, is not related geographically or ethnically to the rest of the islands of Papua New Guinea; and so, the inclusion of the the North Solomons as a province of PNG might be characterized as a colonial "accident".
		Bougainville is a 130-mile long island with 160,000 citizens, northeast of Australia, between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
		Bougainville was so named by the French Explorer Louis de Bougainville who first sighted the island in 1768.
	radiodx.com /spdxr/RFB.htm (1438 words)

	Bougainville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bougainville is situated in the Solomon Sea between Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Solomon islands.
		Bougainville covers an area of approximately 10.000 km².
		The economy of Bougainville has suffered greatly from the bloccade that PNG put on the island of Bougainville.
	www.unpo.org /member.php?arg=11 (401 words)

	The Papua New Guinea – Bougainville peace process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In August 1994, the women of Siwai, south Bougainville, organised a peace march to petition the BRA to stop the war and to allow people out of their bush camps.
		On their return from Beijing, women from northern Bougainville conducted a silent march in protest against the war, in defiance of the State of Emergency.
		In July 1998, the Bougainville Women for Peace and Freedom (BWPF), an organisation representing women from BRA and BIG, released a statement condemning the presence and conduct of the PNGDF in their areas.
	www.c-r.org /accord/boug/accord12/women.shtml (2445 words)

	Bougainville - The Forgotten War in the South Pacific
		Bougainville - The Forgotten War in the South Pacific
		Bougainville is a large island to the east of Papua New Guinea - which in its turn lies due North of Australia.
		It has a population of about 200,000 - and what most of the world does not know is that most of these people have been living behind a cruel blockade mounted by Papua New Guinea using Australian military equipment for the past four years.
	inquirer.gn.apc.org /boug.html (369 words)

	Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
		The French Sailor, Soldier, Statesman and Mathematician, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, was one of the most interesting characters of the Eighteenth Century.
		The notion of the "Noble savage" had some of its roots in the reports given by members of Bougainville's expedition of their short time on the island of Tahiti.
		Bougainville et ses compagnons autour du monde: 1766-1769, joutnaux de navigation, etablis et commentes par Etienne Taillemite.
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~boug1.html (270 words)

	Bougainville
		Occupied by Australian forces during World War I, Bougainville was mandated to Australia by the League of Nations in 1920.
		A peace accord granting Bougainville broad autonomy and promising a referendum on independence was signed in 2001.
		Peacekeeping forces were replaced by a smaller transition team in 2003, a constitution was adopted in 2004, and a government was elected in 2005.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0808482.html (241 words)

	Summary of Statements in Security Council Meeting on Bougainville
		While weapons disposal and the full operation of new constitutional arrangements were the foundations for progress in other areas, they did not build peace on their own, he said. The Government was working closely with leaders in Bougainville to finalize arrangements to improve policing, access to courts and availability of correctional services.
		Continuing, he welcomed the contributions of United Nations bodies, including the UNDP and UNICEF, to the peace process. In that regard, he requested more information on their contribution to the post-conflict peace-building phase of the process. He was interested particularly with their contribution to the reintegration of ex combatants.
		SINCLAIR, responding to questions and comments, first expressed gratitude for the generous words addressed to the mission and its staff. What the Office had accomplished would not have been possible without the Council’s support. He also expressed gratitude for the support of the Peace Monitoring Group and the Governments of Japan and Papua New Guinea.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2003/sc7839.p2.doc.htm (502 words)

	Bougainville Update
		James Tanis, acting co-chairman of the Bougainville Constituent Assembly, said the proposed reconstruction deal between the defence forces of PNG and New Zealand was ``in grave danger'' of blocking the peace process.
		Among the issues being discussed were the withdrawal of the PNGDF and the police riot squad from Bougainville; the disposal of arms by the BRA and the Resistance forces, and the election of the Bougainville Reconcilitation Government.
		He also assured the people of Bougainville and the parties involved in the peace process that every effort would be made to safeguard the peace achieved, as well as a lasting solution.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/a040399a.htm (473 words)

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