The future of the Panguna mine, page-21

There I meet port worker Francis Baubake, a man with a wooden leg and a tragic story to tell. ‘In 1996, the Papua New Guinea Defence Force got a new mortar bomb that was untested. So they tested it on my family,’ he explains. ‘We were in church in a refugee camp in Buin, in the south, when it struck. My daughters Brenda and Alvina, aged 7 and 12, and my wife Sicilia were instantly killed. I lost my leg,’ he says, tapping his wooden stump.
I ask Baubake who he holds accountable for his loss. He stares numbly and thinks for a while before mumbling: ‘The Defence Force. And BCL.’
But when I ask what might happen if BCL returned to Bougainville, he answers immediately: ‘War.’