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Eighty years after intense battles were fought over the archipelago, Solomon Islanders are still regularly maimed and killed by ordnance

The Nobel Peace Prize 1997 was awarded jointly to International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"

Other Countries get Money To Clean Up Bombs and Mines. Why Not the Solomon Islands?. International treaties have directed billions of dollars to countries ravaged by war. But World War II was a long time ago in the Solomons and help has passed it by. A platoon of decaying World War II...

But not much can be done until a U.S.-funded nationwide survey documents where the unexploded bombs are located.  

US and Japan urged to act after old WWII shell kills man in Solomon Islands By Rani Hayman, Evan Wasuka and Prianka Srinivasan © Provided by ABC NEWS Solomon Islands police say a group of young people started a fire to cook food without realising there was a bomb buried under the ground. (Supplied: Royal Solomon Islands Police Force) A man has been killed and three people injured after a World War II shell detonated in the Solomon Islands.  Police said the explosion happened over the weekend when a group of young people holding a fundraiser in the capital, Honiara, built...