Shootout at the Gizo Hotel

Prologue: In June 2000 the Solomon Islands experienced an armed coup that removed the then Prime Minister from office. The coup was ethnically fuelled and was basically a dispute between various tribal groups from Guadalcanal and Malaita. The “ethnic tension”, as it is know, was brought to a semblance of equilibrium in 2003 when the … Continue reading Shootout at the Gizo Hotel