Tell us abt 'Rabi(Banaban) v Kiribati' story

iai ae ataa karakinan maenakoia banaban pple ao kain Kiribati? taiaoka bwa ngaira kan te generation aei tiaki ataa te karaki ma ko tibwaia pls.

i ongo ae a rang kakairiribai kain rabi ma kain Kiribati i Fj, yet GovK provides extra acadamic schoraships for rabi students.

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Permalink Reply by Rob on October 12, 2010 at 1:54pm

bon te koaua anne ko kan ata rongorongon te maenako? N aron au atatai ,imarenan te ririki ae 1900 ao e kuneaki te phosphate iaon Banaba. E nako kain te kenken ao ibukin te labor force or man power a roko temangina ma i Ellice Island ao Kiribati bwa ana makuri nte kenken.Ngke e roko Tiapan ninia nako Banaba man katei aia tabo ikekei ibukin kabongan te phosphate for gun powder ao e korakora te urubwai imwin WW2 are e roko ana babaire Buritan bwa ana kamangaki te botannaomata kiona ngke e rangini korakora te urubwai man tare te amarake ngaia are a kamangaki tabemang nako Tarawa, Kusai,Nauru ao te barongana ake a kamaingaki nako Rabi.Kawara te website aio for more info: banaban.com ke banabanvoicening.com

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Permalink Reply by Rob on October 12, 2010 at 2:06pm

an extract from the banaban.com....

Lost of possessions and hunger

• Did people get injured when the Japanese took away their possessions?

Yes, one victim didn’t give any of his stuff to these people. He was taken to the northern side of Banaba to the place name of Bareimwin, he was killed. Another person who didn’t want to give his stuff was slapped by the butt of a rifle, his name was Tebuke, he was an old man. He was a Banaban ... that’s why they treated him this way. This old man wanted to fight but they stopped him. But he didn’t want to stop, and when they got what they wanted they left him ... A few months later other people came along as workers and these people came from a company known as Nangok, te Nangko Company [Nanyo Kohatu Kabushiki Kaisa] ... The workers came to help in retaining the power plant which the BPC left and other things ... The Japanese couldn’t work the church generator, but they kept on trying until they got the power on ... people who came with the Japanese were the Okinawans and Koreans. They stayed amongst the Banabans until the food ran short ... there were some other problems that happened because the Banabans had already ran out of food. They had nothing left over from the BPC cargoes ... so the soldiers began to ration the people on a very low portion.

... the Japanese began to make other plans on how to survive. They sent 60 young people from Banaba who were Gilbertese and the tall ones to Kusaie ... So these people could send back bwabwai and coconuts. So when the food arrived they split it up amongst the people as a ration ... It is not good, and when you eat the coconut it bites back on your tongue ... It’s gone mouldy. There is nothing we can do about it, we will have to take it in order to survive.

... And beside that, we look for our own food. We eat all sorts of leaves, even the leaves of the creeping plants, the leaves of the trees that grow beside the sea waters, the leaves of the grass known as the ‘boy’. The inner soft part of the coconut tree, the inner stem of the pawpaw tree; which we peeled the skin off and start to mash up the inner part and mix it with fresh toddy and start to boil it. ... we eat it the best way we can so we don’t go hungry, because there was no more food left. We have some other source of food from the sea, such as fish, but the problem when we go out fishing and when we come back the Japanese will force us and take away our fish. If you don’t want to give, you were beaten up and they took away your fish. So a father will go back home after fishing the whole day under the sun, to his crying wife and children because they were hungry. Even though the father will be as tired as can be there is one thing he can share with his family on his return, is his tears. And that is what they used to do to us everyday ... we will have to share our fish with the soldiers in the hope that we will have some to take home.

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Permalink Reply by IOANE AKAU on October 13, 2010 at 12:09am

taiaoka bwa iai au rongorongo ae i karinna ngkoananoa ao eaera akea ni kaoti?

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Permalink Reply by Amota A Merang on October 13, 2010 at 5:10am

Akau iaki ataia bwa tera ae riki n am karaki...tao ko click te bwai teuana..lol

te setting is public..meaning there is no restrictions...copy paste riki n nooria ke attach te link...cheers

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Permalink Reply by Gina on October 28, 2010 at 11:58pm

haha... tao ea kan aki bwati ngkoe am karaki Ioane... jk....
shsh ai kananokawakira naba te kaongora ma iroum Rob?... E rarabwa te kaoti iango aio ma kanga bon akea te ibuobuoki ma irou ma ti te wareware ma ikai n ongora nako kaekaan am kaoti aio... Sorry ma tekeraoi n kaongora nako.. Ia manga oki oki n ongora nako kaeka ikai.. hehe..

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