Joseph Kabui

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Joseph Kabui (* probably 1954 in Panguna , Central Bougainville , † June 7, 2008 in Buka , North Bougainville) was a politician in Papua New Guinea . He was the first president of the Bougainville Autonomous Region from 2005 to 2008. He was premier of the North Solomones Province (now Bougainville) before the civil war in the 1980s.

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Joseph Kabui was probably born in Panguna (Central Bougainville) in 1954. Some sources also give 1950 as the year of birth.

Kabui was close to the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) during the almost 10-year civil war on the Papua-New Guinean island of Bougainville . In the course of this, after a while he fell out with their leader, the hardliner Francis Ona. Together with numerous other leading figures in Bougainville, he agreed to a ceasefire in 1998 . In 2001 he signed the Bougainville Peace Agreement with them , which stipulates the extensive autonomy of Bougainville from Papua New Guinea (PNG). It was also agreed that after a further 10 to 15 years a referendum would be held on the complete independence of the autonomous region of Bougainville from PNG.

In the elections for the Bougainville presidency in 2005, Kabui emerged victorious with an absolute majority (almost 38,000 out of 69,385 valid votes). The big questions of the presidency of the politician respected in Bougainville and overseas were the achievement of economic independence for Bougainville and the consolidation of peace under the motto "peace by peaceful means".

He died on June 7, 2008 in Buka (Northern Bougainville) of a long-standing heart condition.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Death of Joseph Kabui, President of the Autonomous Government of Bougainville, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs website, June 7, 2008
  2. ^ Bougainville president Kabui dies The Age, June 7, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Kabui, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Papua New Guinea politician, first President of the Bougainville Autonomous Region
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Panguna
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2008
Place of death Buka