Rove, Honiara Rove, Honiara Rove is a suburb in Honiara located west of the main center on the Tandai Highway. Rove borders the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi and Rove-Lengakiki. Rove is East of Tanaghai and West of Town Ground. Previous audits of the Solomon Islands Police armory in Rove were conducted by New Zealand Defence in 1997 and August and November 1999 and the results of these audits were 865, 961 and 881 weapons respectively that were stored in this facility. In 2000, as a precursor to RAMSI, the International Peace Monitoring Team (IPMT) conducted another audit with numbers ranging
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