'The world is watching and we've got a message'

Abstract

World coverage on the Sandline affair was in contrast to that of the long-running civil war on Bougainville. Foreign journalists have been kept out and perhaps it is just a coincidence that its horrors have never been live on CNN but now peace is close for its hard-pressed people.

Keywords

• Bougainville war
• conflict reporting
• foreign correspondence
• mercenaries
• military
• military relations