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Monday, February 12, 2007

PM Sogavare lashes out at 'bully' Australia

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Mr Sogavare said the government was concerned that Johnson's case was being “poorly handled by the police and allowed to fall into the hands of Australian officers, who could be perceived to have serious conflict of interest issues”.

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Fri, 9 Feb 2007

HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS ---- Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has attacked prosecutors and police handling an alleged assassination plot against him, and has also taken another swipe at Australia, Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Australian Vietnam war veteran Bill Johnson, 61, was granted bail on Wednesday after being charged with plotting to kill Mr Sogavare.

Johnson has denied the charges, allegedly hatched during a drinking session at a Honiara motel. Locals have characterised the Solomons resident as a happy drunk whose drunken ramblings should not have been taken seriously.

Johnson was charged late last month, as Sogavare pushed to re-arm Solomons police starting with his own personal protection unit.

The plan is fiercely opposed by the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomons Islands (RAMSI), which disarmed Solomons police in 2003 following years of ethnic tension, some of it involving police.

When Johnson faced court yesterday, the Solomons Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Ronald Talasasa said his department would not tolerate police concocting stories for their own agendas.

“I would like to emphasise very strongly that the criminal justice system in this country will not be allowed to be interfered with, to be tainted, to satisfy people's personal vendettas, more so for police to make up stories,” Mr Talasasa said.

Mr Sogavare hit back today, saying Talasasa's comments were very serious.

“The allegation this week that the criminal justice system in this country has been interfered with and tainted to satisfy people's vendettas is a serious matter for concern,” he said in a statement.

“These are very serious allegations and the government will not rest until we establish the motives and reasons behind why the DPP dared to make such a public statement when that office has yet to fully establish the truth behind the matter “

He said he was “personally insulted” by opposition suggestions that the allegations against Johnson had been “framed to build support for the government's plan to re-arm the (police) Close Protection Unit”.

Mr Sogavare said the government was concerned that Johnson's case was being “poorly handled by the police and allowed to fall into the hands of Australian officers, who could be perceived to have serious conflict of interest issues”.

It is the latest swipe Sogavare has taken against Australia, who he accuses of being a bully in the Pacific region.

He has previously accused Australians serving with RAMSI of pushing Canberra's agenda in his country, and last year threatened to oust Australians working with the mission.

Earlier today, trade unions in the Solomons threatened a nationwide strike to protest against Mr Sogavare’s plan to re-arm police.

The Solomon Islands Council of Trade Unions (SICTU) said it was planning a nationwide strike if the government continued to ignore the wishes of the people and put guns back in the hands of police

SICTU national secretary Tony Kagovai said all nine affiliates making up the council, including teachers, nurses and doctors, had very strong feedback from their members that people were fiercely opposed to rearmament.

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