1.   Chan and his ministers had hoped the Sandline mercenary operation would end the frustrating, nine-year secessionist revolt on Bougainville before the June elections.

2.   Chan and his ministers had hoped the Sandline mercenary operation would end the frustrating, nine-year secessionist revolt on Bougainville.

3.   Chan, Haiveta and the Cabinet tried to hire the mercenaries to crush a nine-year secessionist revolt on the island of Bougainville.

4.   Chan and his ministers had hoped the Sandline mercenary operation would end the frustrating nine-year secessionist revolt on Bougainville.

5.   He had demanded that Chan and two ministers resign over their decision to hire British mercenary group Sandline International to crush secessionist revolt on the island province of Bougainville.

6.   India accuses Pakistan of fuelling the secessionist revolt in its only Moslem majority state.

7.   A senior military officer also promised demonstrators the mercenaries hired by his government to crush secessionist revolt on the island province of Bougainville would be sent home.

8.   Mutual animosity has increased since a Moslem secessionist revolt broke out in the Indian zone of Kashmir five years ago.

9.   Singirok had demanded that Chan and two ministers resign over their decision to hire British mercenary group Sandline International to crush secessionist revolt on the island province of Bougainville.