List of massacres in the Solomon Islands

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the Solomon Islands archipelago prior to the formation of the nation state of Solomon Islands (numbers may be approximate):

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Lavinia massacre	1872	Nggela Islands	6	Death of the crew of the trading schooner Lavinia while collecting bêche-de-mer.[1]
Sandfly Passage incident	October 1880	Nggela Islands	4	Death of Lieutenant Bower, commander of HMS Sandfly, and 3 crewmen.[2]
Young Dick massacre	20 May 1886	Malaita	12	Death of about 6 crewman and 6 Malaitans on the schooner Young Dick while on a blackbirding voyage.[3]
Malaita massacre	October 3, 1927	Malaita	15	Death of William R. Bell, the District Officer of Malaita, his assistant Lilley, and another thirteen of his deputies while collecting tax.[4] About sixty people were shot in the punitive expedition; about 200 men were taken to jail in Tulagi, where 31 died of dysentery. 6 were hanged and 17 were sentenced to long prison terms.[4]

Notes

Footnotes

1. "Lavinia Massacre". Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
2. "Sandfly Passage, Nggela, Incident, 1880". Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
3. "Young Dick Massacre, Malaita, 1886". Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
4. "Bell, William Robert (1876 - 1927)". Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978. Retrieved 24 March 2014.

References

• Roger Keesing and Peter Corris. Lightning Meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1980.
• Swinden, G. The natives appear restless tonight; HMAS Adelaide and the punitive expedition to Malaita 1927 in Maritime power in the twentieth century: the Australian experience, D. Stevens, ed. Allen and Unwin, 1998, 54–67.