Calls for Bougainville inclusion in reconciliation

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Updated February 5, 2010 10:43:54

The Chair of Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission says the 2008 compensation bill needs to be more comprehensive. The act only requires the Commission to consider Solomon Islands claims during the period of ethnic tension between Guadalcanal and Malaita from 1998 to 2003.

But the people of Solomon Islands Western and Choiseul provinces want the Bougainville conflict to be included. They claim they suffered as just as much from the spill over from the Bougainville Crisis.

Presenter:
Speaker: David Tuhanuku, Deputy Executive Secretary of Solomon Islands Truth And Reconciliation Commission

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