Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Malaita . - noun A native or inhabitant of
Malaita . - proper noun Any of a family of related languages spoken on
Malaita .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not surprisingly, the Malaitan elite are increasingly fearful.
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"The trend in rebel demands suggests that what they really want is independence," says John Maetia, a Malaitan who is head of Honiara's town council.
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Rebels are demanding that ousted Malaitan workers not be permitted to return.
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Police suspect that the campaign to drive out Malaitan settlers was planned months in advance in secret meetings along the Weather Coast.
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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.
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Coming so early in our deployment, it was also a useful means of defusing suggestions that RAMSI was an anti-Malaitan operation, purely targeted at the ethnic group responsible for the 2000 coup.
Operation Helpem Fren:Rebuilding The Nation of Solomon Islands 2004
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Ben McDevitt and I and Colonel John Frewen, the then RAMSI military commander, travelled to Malaita to talk to the former commanders of the Malaitan Eagle Force as we had talked to other militants on Guadalcanal.
Operation Helpem Fren:Rebuilding The Nation of Solomon Islands 2004
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The Agreement resolves a dispute between people of Guadalcanal and Malaitan origin living at Marau, on the eastern tip of Guadalcanal, and provides for the surrender of weapons and stolen property.
Solomon Islands: Marau Peace Agreement - Media release - Minister for Foreign Affairs 2001
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Malaitan militant groups is holding, but the security situation on the ground remains uncertain and much work is needed by the
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Several thousand people of Malaitan origin have left their homes on Guadalcanal to return to villages on Malaita and other islands.
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