OT : Australian intervention in Solomon Islands - Page 11

Baron Grazic · #**101** August 1st, 2003, 09:00 AM

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Originally posted by deccan:
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I do know that certain high-placed people in the civil service are under investigation for corruption. Serves 'em right too.
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Alert the world press!!! A possible corrupt senior civil servant. That must be a world first.

Edit - At least 1 Canadian knows who is the OZ PM is, and 1 "Mouse" from "Cheese" has an idea.

Edit 2 - Have a good weekend all...

[ August 01, 2003, 08:02: Message edited by: Baron Grazic ]

narf poit chez BOOM · #**102** August 1st, 2003, 06:17 PM

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Edit 2 - Have a good weekend all...

thank you.

Baron Grazic · #**103** August 14th, 2003, 01:06 AM

Warlord Harold Keke and 2 of his senor followers have surrendered to Australian troops and are now in custody aboard an Asutralia navy vessel.

Deccan, How does the SI people feel?

deccan · #**104** August 14th, 2003, 02:24 AM

Whoa, you sure get news fast. I first heard of Harold Keke's capture Last night at dinner, but nobody was sure if it was true or not. There was a lot of helicopter activity but people were saying that they were headed to Choiseul Province.

Probably most of the S.I. locals want Keke's blood. Yesterday's newspaper's headline was a prosecutor asking for Parliament to allow death sentences so it could be used on Keke. Most people around here are pretty riled up about Keke's recent admission that he'd killed the Melanesian Brotherhood emissaries that went sent to him.

Baron Grazic · #**105** August 14th, 2003, 05:24 AM

The Australian forces were not going to sit quietly on news like that for very long.

The next move they want to do is clean up the SI Law Enforcements. They keep showing the same footage of a shackled man being held by 2 officers and hit a couple of time by another. The detanee does attempt to hit the office back however.

deccan · #**106** August 14th, 2003, 05:41 AM

One thing for certain: no more speeding in Honiara. One of my colleagues got pulled over for speeding Last week, first time in 10 years!

Baron Grazic · #**107** August 14th, 2003, 05:55 AM

What is the speed limit?

narf poit chez BOOM · #**108** August 14th, 2003, 08:42 PM

a rather strange, but welcome end to a warlord's um, job, i suppose.

job, because i couldn't remember how to spell carrer. see?

deccan · #**109** August 15th, 2003, 01:24 AM

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.

End excerpt.