Papua New Guinea
armed forces structure
OVERVIEW
Papua New Guinea maintains close military, economic and diplomatic ties with Australia. In 1975, it attained full independence from Australia.
A civil war was fought from 1989 to 1998 between the separatist Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) and government forces. Some 20,000 people were killed during the conflict.
In 1995, Australia, Fiji and New Zealand dispatched a small peacekeeping force to PNG to quell the Bougainville conflict. After a permanent cease-fire...
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