The success of an Australian-led mission to restore law and order by seizing firearms in the Solomon Islands has resulted in a huge increase in crocodile attacks.
Police and soldiers from a regional intervention force have confiscated almost 4,000 weapons since last July in an effort to stamp out violent crime and fighting between ethnic militia groups in the former British colony.
But local people complain that they are no longer able to shoot the large saltwater crocodiles which inhabit much of the archipelago 1,600 miles east of Australia. The latest victim was a girl whose remains were found inside a 16ft reptile.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/22/wbul22.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/22/ixworld.htmlFor those who you who were waiting for the latest news from our esteemed "Coalition of the Willing" partner, the Solomon Islands. :(
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