Back in the 1990s, the Solomon Islands broke out into a pretty nasty ethnic conflict which only ended in 2003 with the military Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) and the Participating Police Force (PPF) which includes up to 30 New Zealand police.
Under the peace accord, almost all Solomon Islanders had to surrender their fire arms.
Now, some five years later, the local crocodile population has boomed, and last week a 10-year-old girl was killed by a crocodile.
The solution, at least for now, is not to rearm the Solomon Island natives (ethnic tensions remain), but to send the PPF in to cull the crocs, which is being done.
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