{"id":39233,"date":"2021-11-25T17:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T08:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/25\/honiaras-chinatown-targeted-as-violent-protests-break-out-for-second-day-in-solomon-islands"},"modified":"2021-11-25T23:31:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:31:01","slug":"australia-sends-police-and-troops-to-honiara-as-violent-protests-continue-in-solomon-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39233","title":{"rendered":"Australia sends troops and police to Solomon Islands as unrest grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deployment to support \u2018riot control\u2019 as protesters defy lockdown order to take to streets for second day<\/p>\n<p>Australia is deploying more than 100 police and defence force personnel to Solomon Islands, where anti-government protesters took to the streets in the capital, Honiara, for a second day running in defiance of a lockdown order.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government said the deployment would support \u201criot control\u201d and security at critical infrastructure, a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/24\/parliament-building-and-police-station-burned-down-during-protests-in-solomon-islands\">demonstrators attempted to storm parliament and topple the prime minister<\/a>, Manasseh Sogavare.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/25\/honiaras-chinatown-targeted-as-violent-protests-break-out-for-second-day-in-solomon-islands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deployment to support \u2018riot control\u2019 as protesters defy lockdown order to take to streets for second dayAustralia is deploying more than 100 police and defence force personnel to Solomon Islands, where anti-government protesters took to the streets in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2699,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39256,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39233\/revisions\/39256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}