The author describes the libertaion struggles of New Caledonia's kanaks to end french rule ; the fate of president Remeliik of Belau, an island with the world's first nuclear-free constitution ; the pressures on Vanuatu as a result of its opposition to nuclear weapons ; Indonesia's two forgtotten wars in East Timor and irian Jaya ; and the coup which has divided the two communities of fiji. Graphics accounts include the massacres of Hienghene and Ouvea, the siege of Thhio and the assassination of Eloi Machoro - regarded by some as the Che Guevara of the South Pacific...