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Bougainville Civil War

1988 CE – 1998 CE · 10 years

A secessionist conflict on Bougainville Island triggered by environmental destruction from the Panguna copper mine. The bloodiest conflict in the Pacific since World War II, it killed up to 20,000 people before a peace agreement.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Papua New Guinea & Resistance Forces
  • Bougainville Revolutionary Army

Key moments

Defining events in the Bougainville Civil War.

  1. 1989 Siege of Panguna Mine
  2. 1990-1997 PNG naval blockade
  3. 1997 Sandline Affair

Elsewhere in Oceania at the time

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1988 CE and 1998 CE.

1988 CE Nagorno-Karabakh Wars 1989 CE Liberian Civil Wars 1989 CE US Invasion of Panama 1990 CE Gulf War 1990 CE Rwandan Civil War & Genocide

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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