Descent into armed conflict

In 1988, three Guadalcanal villagers were reportedly murdered in a payback killing by a group of men from Malaita. This led to the submission of a petition to the government from ‘the indigenous people of Guadalcanal’. Among other things, it called for an end to impunity for the crimes of settlers a...

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Hauptverfasser:	Charlesworth, Hilary, Braithwaite, John, Braithwaite, Valerie, Dinnen, Sinclair
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Zusammenfassung:	In 1988, three Guadalcanal villagers were reportedly murdered in a payback killing by a group of men from Malaita. This led to the submission of a petition to the government from ‘the indigenous people of Guadalcanal’. Among other things, it called for an end to impunity for the crimes of settlers and for the government to look for ‘ways and means to repatriate all non-indigenous unemployed illegal squatters’ (Fraenkel 2004a:47). The prime minister at the time was Ezekiel Alebua from Guadalcanal. He took no action on the petition. For this, he was much criticised by his own Guadalcanal people. By