OT : Australian intervention in Solomon Islands

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Baron Grazic: Thought I'd make a new thread to avoid annoying people.

Maybe the language that I originally used was too harsh, but these are some of the facts that I'm certain of:

1) The Solomon Islands Parliament is being pressed by the Australian Government to ratify a bill drafted in Canberra that would effectively give Australian troops and police "license to kill" authorizations (i.e. there will be no legal recriminations for any Solomon Islanders killed by OZ personnel.)

2) There will be changes to the laws of the Solomon Islands to allow Australians and New Zealanders to hold government Posts. Effective day-to-day control of government and the country's finances will pass to Australia while the entire bureacracy and system of government is rejigged from the ground up.

3) The intervention force will include such support staff as legal prosecutors and judges so that criminals can be prosecuted and sentenced immediately without waiting for the Solomon Islands judiciary to be rebuilt.

4) There will supposedly be a big military operation on Guadalcanal Island to flush out and capture Harold Keke and his followers.

P.S. The S.I. Parliament held off passing the said bill earlier by not convening, but I just heard on the radio this afternoon that the debate officially started today with an address by the Prime Minister in favor of intervention.