Solomon Islands launches Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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Updated April 29, 2009 19:42:41

The Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been officially launched by South Africa's Nobel laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the capital Honiara. In his address the archbishop urged Solomon Islanders to bury the lingering ethnic tensions between indigenous people of the island of Guadalcanal and their rivals from neighbouring Malaita island.

Presenter Steve Holland
Speaker: George Herming, Government spokesman

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