Will Bougainville become the world's newest nation?

Bougainville Revolutionary Army fighters hugging PNG policemen at a Bougainville reconciliation ceremony ahead of eferendum in Kokopo, taken on Nov 6,2019. Source: AFP

A new country could soon come into existence in the Pacific just 1,500 kilometres north-east from Australia.

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Published 22 November 2019 8:45pm

Updated 22 November 2019 9:49pm

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A new country could soon come into existence in the Pacific just 1,500 kilometres north-east from Australia.

The people of Bougainville in an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea are set to start voting for independence from this weekend (23 Nov - Dec 8) at the end of a long-running peace process.

Kulasegaram Sanchayan reports in Tamil with a feature written by Stefan Armbruster in PNG.