Rebels Of The Pacific
Tribal hatred is the bitter wartime legacy of Guadalcanal, the crucial link in the archipelago nation of the Solomon Islands. Through jungles depicted in Terrence Malick’s 1998 film “The Thin Red Line,” aboriginal militants are sweeping down from the mountains to uproot Malaitan settlers, whose presence here goes back to the war. Since May guerrillas have expelled 40,000 of the 60,000 Malaitans, who had made up half of Guadalcanal’s population....