Members of the Bougainville Atoll Foundation today raised concern on the neglect suffered by their people.
Though these islanders live in close proximity to the Melanesian Islands, they are racially more Polynesian than Melanesian. But they are from Bougainville, and their elites pay tax to the PNG Government.
President of the Bougainville Atoll Foundation, Sione Paasia, outlined the major issue faced by the far flung, outlier atolls of Mortlock, Tasman, Fead, Carteret and Nissan.
