I worked in Panguna as a young fitter in '77-'78 and have fond, good memories of the place and people though I still remember clearly the environmental problems showing themselves downstream of the mine. Change had to come. I wish you all very well. Lukim yu.

True tubas,love the song

Beautiful song.

Love this music....sweet melody........... from solomon island

Panguna mine was the biggest ever..

Sounds so good

it was such a dirty action that the PNG and the whites from the mining companies ,were actually hated by the locals ,the locals were forceably moved from the ancient grounds and given land that was useless for their way of life ,even to this day i'm very sad that I actually worked there for the different corrupt companies and boy did these companies treat the locals with contempt because they argued and complained about the theft and correction with the PNG government the PNG government should be charged with murder and theft of the local land and lively hood of the villagers the real truth is that the bounganville people got approx 3.6% of the actual profits and the PNG got 68% of the profits and they protected this with the PIR from Moresby , I personally knew Mr Moses when I worked the mine site as a plumber for Beavis Bartell under O:Neill Industries in the early 70s this was a very shamefully time for the PNG as a nation due to the government greed and corruption under the Astralian government help

This little is francis ona later become the bouganville revolution army BRA leader

Bougainville will stand with Brothers and Sisters in West Papua

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Great answer I'm not grown up yet lol

The Moroni people, children and people all over Bougainvillea did know or experience mal nutrition at the time. They had never migrated to other parts of PNG. If you saw them anywhere else in PNG, they were there for reasons of their studies in educational institutions, being employed ith organizations or conducting formal businesses. I lived and worked there for the government for ten years. Left before the Bougainvillea crisis. I've always loved this place.

Nice song love frm 🇻🇺♥️💯😢

AROB music. Still the best👍❤💯

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Laikim upla toroxs

What a great talent!!

kolonial propaganda tsomi lo arob...

Beautiful string band music👍👍👍

Regards go long olgeta Toroks..laikim..

Bro I just subscribed to your channel

Wow!!!

Malasang still winning!!!!

Beautiful Voice that means so much❤

I really wanted to go to Bougainvillea and work in Panguna,but didn't because of the crisis. What a beautiful Island.

Woikaine rokihonowo poraka pokairong👍🏽

I was there during Exploration, Mine Infrastructure constriction, start up, Operations and Closure. Witnessed loading of 1st shipment of copper concentrate on MV ANN MARIE BROVIG at Loloho port. MV BOUGAINVILLE MARU WAS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN JAPAN SHIPYARDS 🎉

A huge chunk of my life was consumed by the infamous Copper Mine project. First set foot at Barapinang Valley January 20, 1969 as student undergraduate civil engineer from what is now UNITECH. Attached under a Mr.Max Eden, first Site Mine Planning Engineer .Retrenched 1989 when mine was on verge of being shut down.

😭😭😭 That was home for 14 years since birth and left in 1989.....

mega love to you all

Thank you for the video

Never seen footages! 😢

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Only 7 minutes into this video and I paused it just comment, I definitely witnessed the village elders disagreeing to the stupid mine deals and convincing money or business ideas that the white man tried to explain to them because though they were illiterate locals, you can definitely pick out a con man when you see one. Whether US or Australians, the blood of the brave innocent and fearless people of Bougainville who fought tirelessly to protect their land from natural destruction are in your white but dirty hands. Ino giraun turu bilong yupela tasol how yupela i proceed na kamapim displa mining agreement ya I narapela kain steret. Nogat sem bilong yupela, the root of the evil that resulted in a young island nation turning against each other while you sit back and watched afar. I still do not agree with what you have done, you should best be ashamed of yourselves. Now see what you have created, natural habitat destroyed, services to people cut off, thousands of lives of loved ones lost for what reason. If you think Panguna will operate again, I am sorry but you go look elsewhere and not here. I don't about you people but in PNG Culture, a life lost is not easily forgotten, especially dying in such brutal way. Go look for Gold, Copper and other riches elsewhere. Peace to all and Hate to none 💯💪💪🇵🇬🙏💙 Yumi Sanap Wantaim ❤️

Best music on the Island....

Abanawanu😀👍👍

Love the place and the island,I rode on those seas and lived with those beautiful people in the 90s,both sweet n sour memories,thanks for sharing this song,regards from igiriboy

Good old memories, I cruised that part of the world in the early ,90s,many painful and sweet memories linger,sorry. Hela is just too faraway .

Australia stole these islands by removing them from the Solomon Islands and putting them under papua new guinea which it had colonial rule over inorder to plunder it. The biggest and richest island of the Solomon Islands.

I worked there from July 74 to Dec 88 with a short break part way. It was my best job and the best part of my life (although the place had some health challenges). I still love the memories.

Woikai nee

I worked in Bougainville for around three years, some of that time at the mine. Stayed with my two sons in a village for some time. What lovely people we were able to meet. We spent time on the weekends visiting some village friends on the mine access road. Would love to visit the island again and hopefully find some old friends. Den

😭😭😭😭😭❤️💔💔💔Honest Lewa bruk time stap longwe na harim Kaur.......Em look osem bana high skul yha💯

Aii sore.salim tingting gen😉

Okay naw sitato naponaw

Bannoni has a different style of Sing² Kaur ❤️💯

Confirm 💪🏼😍💯

Wow...

The arrogance and naked greed of these despicable foreign speculators.