was not responsible for the violence in honiara even as ap quoted him telling the solomon star news that he agreed with the calls for sogavares resignationover the last 20 years mannaseh sogavare has been in power the plight of solomon islanders has worsened whilst at the same time foreigners have reaped the best of the countrys resources suidani was quoted as saying people are not blind to this and do not want to be cheated anymoreaustralias interest in the pacific nationaustralia has a bilateral security treaty under which sogavare requested assistance morrison saidit is not the australian governments intention in any way to intervene in the internal affairs of the solomon islands that is for them to resolve he clarifiedaustralia also led an international police and military force called the regional assistance mission to solomon islands that restored peace in the country after bloody ethnic violence from 2003 to 2017china concernedchina on thursday expressed serious concerns about the attacks on some chinese citizens and institutions in the chinatown district without providing detailswe believe that under the leadership of prime minister sogavare the solomon islands government can restore social order and stability as soon as possible chinese foreign ministry spokesperson zhao lijian said at a daily briefing in beijinghe said that economic and other cooperation since the establishment of diplomatic relations has benefited both sides any attempts to undermine the normal development of chinasolomon relations are futile he saidbloody historythe solomon islands comprise six main islands and more than 950 smaller ones over an area of around 27500 square kilometres 10600 square miles the islands are often hit by massive earthquakes triggering tsunamis as happened in 2013 2007 and 1977 leaving dozens dead the population of 753000 is overwhelmingly christian and ethnic melanesianthe former british protectorate from whose rainforests vast bulk of wood is exported to china has long been beset by political and ethnic unrestduring world war ii the solomon islands about 1500 km 1000 miles northeast of australia were the scene of bloody fighting it was captured by the japanese after which the us marines landed on the island of guadalcanal in august 1942 they were successful in wresting back control though fighting in and around the solomon islands continued through the end of the warit got independence from britain in 1978 but have been struggling with unrest and political violence sincerivalry between the most populous island malaita and the guadalcanalbased central government has repeatedly led to clashes with the former complaining that it has been neglectedthe late 1990s saw guadalcanal militant attacks particularly on those from malaita and for five years the country was brought to its kneesthe tensions as it was called only eased with the deployment of an australialed peacekeeping mission in 2003riots again erupted in april 2006 after snyder rini was elected prime minister by legislators dozens of businesses owned by ethnic chinese were looted and burned in the capital as local resentment had been building against the dominance of foreign business figures