Reviewing Solomon Islands conflict six years on

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Updated November 18, 2009 09:47:32

The ethnic crisis in Solomon Islands in which Guadalcanal and Malaita competed for limited resources - namely jobs and housing - subsided in the late 1990s to early 2000. Shortly after, that the Regional Assistance Mission was established and sent in to the Solomons to restore law and order.

They have been there now for six years, and Australia Network's Pacific Correspondent Sean Dorney analyses the RAMSI report card.

Presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speaker: Sean Dorney, Australia Network's Pacific Correspondent

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