01185 2200169 4500010001500000090001100015101000800026200009300034210004500127215002800172330060600200606004000806607005100846700002200897701002600919995007000945 a0195542231 9372491 aeng aLightning meets the West WindbLIVethe Malaita massacrefRoger M. Keesing, Peter Corris aMelbournecOxford university pressd1980 a219 p.cphotogr.d23 cm aIn october 1927 William Bell, colonial government representative on Malaita, in the Solomon islands, was murdered, while collecting taxes, and his party of native police massacred. Bell was an Australian, a towering figure in the pacification of the wildest island in the Pacific, and his murder by the kwaio warrior leader Basania was the climax of a confrontation betwwen two trong men and two opposing ways of life, as Basiana and his followers, in the face of a pervasive threat to their ancestral way of life, resolved to challenge the power of Empire by killing its most forceful representative. aMassacresySalomon|Malaita, (île) aMalaita (Salomon ; île)xHistoirez1900-1945 aKeesingbRoger M. 4AuteuraCorrisbPeter bBBcBBf00169224jMAAk00169224m2019-05-18 00:00:00o1sLIVuSPE