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...them, led by forceful Josephine Abaijah, 32, who is the only woman in the 100-member Papua New Guinea Parliament, trumpets independence for the southern region of Papua. A more serious threat to the new nation comes from separatists on the outlying island of Bougainville. Coal-black farmers and miners who disparagingly refer to lighter-skinned mainlanders as "redskins," the Bougainville secessionists argue that their island has stronger ethnic and geographic ties to the nearby Solomons, a British protectorate, than to New Guinea. A break with Bougainville would cripple the new country; the island is the site of Papua...
...last week, Michael Somare, the territory's chief minister and a New Guinean from Wewak, seemed determined to stick by the new name. But Josephine Abaijah, a Papuan and sole woman member of the House of Assembly, was rallying the opposition...