Separatists confident in Bougainville vote

By Melvin Levongo
Updated November 21 2019 - 5:53pm, first published 5:49pm
Bougainville separatists are confident as voters get set to vote in an independence referendum.
Bougainville separatists are confident as voters get set to vote in an independence referendum.

Twenty years after combatants snapped arrows to signal the end of hostilities in the Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville, voters will on Saturday cast ballots in a long-awaited independence referendum.

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