Town Ground, Honiara Town Ground, Honiara Town Ground is a suburb in Honiara, Solomon Islands, located in the main center on the Tandai Highway. Town Ground is in the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi and Rove-Lengakiki. Town Ground is East of Rove and West of Point Cruz. In 2003 Iron Bottom Sound Hotel was the initial base for the first elements of the intervention force sent to restore order following the civil tensions. Prior to the 2006 ethnic riots, a political crisis was unfolding. The Prime Minister Snyder Rini, remained under police guard and the Opposition Leader Francis Billy Hilly and his
Honiara with the addition of many administrative buildings, the town began to develop and grow in population. Since the late 1990s, Honiara has suffered a turbulent history of ethnic violence and political unrest and is scarred by rioting. A coup attempt in June 2000 resulted in violent rebellions and fighting between the ethnic Malaitans of the Malaita Eagle Force (MEF) and the Guadalcanal natives of the Isatabu Freedom Movement (IFM). Although a peace agreement was made in October 2000, violence ensued in the city streets in March 2002 when two diplomats from New Zealand and numerous others were murdered. In July