Australia Network News:Stories:Bougainville residents call for WW2 ammunition clean-up The people of Torokina in Papua New Guinea's autonomous Bougainville region have called on the US, Japanese and Australian governments to clean up ammunition dumps left behind after World War Two. Anthony Reagan from the Melanesia Project at Australian National University says a United Nations supervised weapons disposal process over the past decade has seen 2,000 weapons destroyed, including 240 World War Two era weapons. A young man was killed just before Christmas after trying to extract explosives from an old bomb. Anthony Reagan says no-one knows how many weapons have been left behind by what was a base for aircraft and 50,000 American soldiers. "There's still weapons being dug up there and that's a concern for any long term disposal of weapons in Bougainville that that source of weapons is not continuing and so the people in Torokina, the leaders there are just very keen for the government of America, Japan and Australia to consider coming in and survey and remove weapons and munitions from the area," he said.
