Reports of Australian hit-squad for Bougainville
It has been alleged that Australia and Papua New Guinea have sent agents to hunt down leaders of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) and the Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) following the failure of the recent peace conference on the island.
Radio Free Bougainville announced on October 25 that a BRA intelligence network is on the trail of a "hit team" sent to Bougainville via the Solomon Islands to "destabilise".
According to the BRA, one agent, understood to be an Australian army officer out of uniform, has already left Honiara. BIG vice-president Joseph Kabui, one of the alleged targets, called on ASIO, Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organisation and the US CIA to leave them alone. "I know that they have been active in this part of the region for some time now", Kabui noted.