Re: OT : Australian intervention in Solomon Islands
Sorry, I have no idea what the speed limit is. My colleague didn't get ticketed by the Ozzie police, just got warned to drive more carefully in the future.
Excerpt from today's copy of the "Solomon Star":
Harold Keke's reign of terror has finally come o an end.
The notorious warlord has surrendered and gave himself up to the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands yesterday, averting a possible bloody assault on his Weathercoast stronghold.
"At 9 o' clock this morning (yesterday), I advised Keke that he was now formally under arrest in relation to a warrant which was issued for his arrest on March 28, 1999," Deputy Police Commissioner Ben McDevitt told journalists.
Keke surrendered and gave himself up to head of the regional mission, Nick Warner, military commander Lt-Col John Frewen, and Mr. McDevitt on their arrival at Mbiti village around 7.30 a.m. yesterday.
After he surrendered, Keke, his wife, children, close family members and two of his right-hand men, were airlifted aboard HMAS Manoora, which was waiting offshore.
In the HMAS Manoora, Keke was told that he was under formal arrest.
Mr. Warner and his party then returned to Mbiti village from HMAS Manoora to join other members of RAMSI for a handing in and destruction of weapons ceremony.
He said about 50 men belonging to Guadalcanal Liberation Front paraded before they presented to them their weapons which were destroyed in front of the villagers.
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