Meekamui Chief Commends on Reeds Festival Success by Aloysius Laukai

Festival ends and food are being removed for sharing between participants.
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 Picture by Aloysius Laukai

By Aloysius Laukai
Source: New Dawn FM
Link: http://bougainville.typepad.com/newdawn/2011/07/120711-reeds-a-success-by-aloysius-laukai-the-two-day-reeds-festival-that-was-held-at-tubiana-near-arawa-was-described-as-a.html

The two-day Reeds festival that was held at Tubiana near Arawa was described as a success.

Meekamui chief CHRIS UMA said that he was happy that the celebration conclude without incident.

He told New Dawn FM that this was the main aim of the Bougainville struggle to promote the identity of Bougainville and the festival has just achieved that.

MR. UMA thanked all the people that had attended the festival and hopes to see much bigger festival in the future.

New Dawn FM estimates that more than five thousand people including the participants attended the ceremony.

What a better way to end the festival with a feast of pig meat!