Bougainville Explained: How the world’s newest country might bloom out of protests against a copper mine

The conflict in Bougainville and the desire of Bougainvillean people for independence is rooted in the historic plunder of the resource-rich island that has large deposits of copper and the unequal distribution of wealth that followed.

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