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	Operation Helpem Fren:Rebuilding The Nation of Solomon Islands
		Driving the operation would be our conviction that for too long Solomon Islanders had suffered at the hands of a small number of militants and criminals who had terrorised the society and brought the country to its knees.
		In planning the operation, it was decided that the first priority would be to disarm the militants, who retained high-powered weapons taken from police armouries during the so-called “ethnic tensions”.
		A second early success of Helpem Fren was the surrender of the Weathercoast militant leader, Harold Keke on Guadalcanal’s remote southern shores.
	www.dfat.gov.au /media/speeches/department/040323_nsc_ramsi.html (3785 words)

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		On our arrival RAMSI’s civilian, police and military leaders laid out the framework of Operation Helpem Fren to the Prime Minister, his Cabinet, the Opposition, the police and most importantly the people of Solomon Islands. Comprehensive engagement of these individuals and groups and the gaining of their support was critical.
		In the first week of Operation Helpem Fren we announced a nationwide gun amnesty with the endorsement of the government that would run for three weeks throughout the country. All guns were to be handed in, without exception. This included all police weapons.
		A second early success of Helpem Fren was the surrender of the Weathercoast militant leader, Harold Keke on Guadalcanal’s remote southern shores. Resolving the Weathercoast conflict was a key objective for RAMSI. Without pacifying Keke and his followers, we could not hope to restore law and order.
	www.ramsi.org /files/news/key_speeches/040323_Op_Helpem_Fren_-_NW.doc (0 words)

	Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI), also known as Operation Helpem Fren, was created in 2003 in response to a request for international aid by the Governor-General of the Solomon Islands.
		The Solomon Islands Government was perceived by Islanders as being corrupt, as well as neglecting outer regions of the island group, focusing most of its resources on Guadalcanal.
		In early January 2005, a joint operation between the Royal Solomon Islands Police (RSIP) and Participating Police Force (PPF) resulted in the arrest of James Tatau.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Helpem_Fren (628 words)

	Australian Peacekeeper and Peacemaker Veterans' Association
		Operation Catalyst is Australia's contribution to the rehabilitation of Iraq.
		Operation Anode is the ADF's contribution to the Australian led Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands known as Operation HELPEM FREN.
		Operation Mazurka is Australia's contribution to the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in the Sinai.
	www.peacekeepers.asn.au /current_ops.htm (861 words)

	Marine Corps Gazette
		Operations by the 1 RAR RCG in the Solomon Islands between 22 December 2004 and 25 January 2005 were based on three interrelated premises: (1) the existing Operation A
		This was a corporal’s operation, and the 12 section commanders, with their well-trained soldiers, displayed their calm professionalism and superb patrolling skills during the 34-day deployment.
		In addition, the PPF had the longer term goal of turning police operations in the Solomon Islands over to the RSIP in order to ensure that law and order in the Solomon Islands was controlled by the Solomon Island people.
	www.mca-marines.org /gazette/06field.asp (1954 words)

	Recent Cloth patches
		During Operation 'Slipper' in the Persian Gulf, 2002, Detachment Six from the unit served on board the Destroyers USS John Young, USS Ford and USS Russell, as part of the Maritime Interdiction fleet, which also included Australian forces.
		During Operation 'Slipper' in the Persian Gulf, 2002, detachments from the unit served on board the Destroyer USS John Young, as part of the Maritime Interdiction fleet, which also included Australian forces.
		While participating in Operation 'Slipper' as part of the coalition fleet, this detachment was engaged in the interception of suspected smuggling vessels.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-badges/patches/recent.htm (1832 words)

	Australia troops prepare to land on Solomons
		In what is code-named Operation Helpem Fren -- pidgin for "help a friend" -- Australian troops will come ashore on Guadalcanal's Red Beach, the same strip of land US Marines used in 1942 to drive out the invading Japanese.
		It is the first transactional military operation in the Pacific since PNG sent forces into Vanuatu in 1980 to crush an insurrection on the eve of that nation's independence.
		Operation Helpem Fren commander Nick Warner and an Australian-designated deputy Solomons Police Commissioner, Ben McDevitt, will arrive mid morning to a traditional Solomon Islands cultural welcome.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/at/Qsolomons-australia.RYmD_DlN.html (556 words)

	DIAR.com - Example of DIAR.com e-Newsletter (printversion)
		Operation 'Anode' is a separate operation to Operation 'Trek', the initial mission to the Solomon Islands that ran from 4 November 2000 to 15 March 2002, the relevant award for which was the ASM with Clasp 'Solomon Is'.
		In an effort to improve the operational effectiveness of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), Northrop Grumman and the Lockheed Martin (LM) development team have undertaken a demonstration of the loading of weapons by military ordnance personnel with a full-scale model of the aircraft's internal weapons bay.
		The involvement of operational users at such an early stage in the design of aircraft components is said to be 'unprecedented' for a military aircraft program.
	www.diar.com /data/print/e_letter.htm (0 words)

	Semaphore (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		Australian Defence Force (ADF) participation in HELPEM FREN came under the banner of Operation ANODE, and continued a long tradition of positive involvement by Australian and Australian-based naval vessels in the development of the Solomon Islands.
		Moreover, in addition to being the first time that the RAN had supported a police-led mission, (footnote 6) the operation was unusual in that its leader, Nick Warner, was a civilian from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
		The RAN's diplomatic contribution to Operation ANODE was on par with its military undertakings.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/semaphore/issue13_2005.html (1760 words)

	Socialism Today - Aussie imperialism
		‘Operation Helpem Fren’ (Help a Friend), was made up of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.
		The unanimous vote by the Solomon Islands parliament in favour of the intervention force was also hardly surprising, given that Australia provides most of the funding for the Solomons’ government.
		But the operation has nothing to do with humanitarian concerns or the alleged threat of terrorism.
	www.socialismtoday.org /77/australia.html (1380 words)

	OP_Anode
		Command Support Regiment comprising 48 RASigs, six RAAC (employed as Radio Operators) and three RAAOC (clerical and que support) personnel deployed to Honiara, Solomon Islands as the third rotation of the CIS Squadron element for the Combined Task Force 635 (CTF 635).
		Operation ANODE is the ADF codename to the mission – which is more broadly referred to as Operation HELPEM FREN.
		The deployment of ADF personnel to Operation ANODE occurred on 24 July 2003.
	1csr.au104.org /Story-1/Story-2.htm (348 words)

	Print Article: Overkill in the Solomons
		Operation Helpem Fren got under way in the Solomon Islands to the brassy blare of media bugles and the thunder of media drums.
		It is the greatest military operation in the South Pacific since World War II.
		Helpem Fren, by comparison, is a police operation to restore law and order which, with any luck, will not see a shot fired by the 1500-odd defence personnel sent in support.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/07/25/1059084203050.html (801 words)

	Press Releases: Solomon Islands, Beyond Operation Helpem Fren - An agenda for development in the Solomon Islands
		The Operation must insist on cultural and gender sensitivity, allow time and resources for adequate information flows to the people of the Solomon Islands, and model appropriate conduct at all times.
		Operation Helpem Fren is responding to problems with Solomon Islands governance which result in massive insecurity, widespread economic hardship and civil disorder.
		Monitor Appropriate Conduct: Senior Operation Helpem Fren officers should monitor and prohibit acts of sexual violence and harassment of women by international peacekeeping forces.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/343f8b6f40d10f0b49256d8d000cb122?OpenDocument (1650 words)

	The World Today - PM officially launches Solomons mission
		He's described Solomon Islands as a nation fast approaching failed state status, but he says the operation to assist, which will be codenamed "Helpem Fren" - pidgin for Help them Friend - is not "some kind of colonial hangover exercise by Australia".
		But Operation Helpem Fren has rules of engagement that allow the military to shoot to kill if necessary.
		All operations have unexpected turns and whilst it would be our hope that the combat component of the Defence deployment could be out in a fairly short period of time, I'm not going to try and put a number of weeks or months on that.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2003/s907449.htm (773 words)

	Australia Conducts Largest Military operation in Pacific Since WWII
		Military aircraft carrying advance units of an Australian-led intervention force were flying towards the troubled Solomon Islandslast night to launch the biggest military operation in the Pacific since the Second World War.
		One of its first tasks will be rounding up an estimated 1,300 weapons still at large, the majority in the hands of gangs of the sort that have sent the prime minister fleeing for his safety.
		From some six months after Operation Stabilise was put into action, peacekeeping forces from Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom and the United States were added, although UK SBS were involved early also.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/951658/posts (946 words)

	Solomon Islands - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Prisons and police posts resumed operations and courts were overwhelmed with cases.
		Prior to the armed intervention by the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) in July, civilians, public servants and officials including the Prime Minister and Police Minister suffered frequent violence and threats of extortion by police and former rebels.
		RAMSI’s Operation “Helpem Fren” (Helping a Friend) was the first regional intervention in the Pacific and regarded as a possible blueprint for future armed operations in the region outside a UN mandate.
	web.amnesty.org /report2004/slb-summary-eng (1177 words)

	The Solomons Islands 1998-2003
		The Solomon Prime Minister, Sir Allan Kemakeza, had left the island on a navy patrol boat the preceding Tuesday amid fears for his safety, and he returned on the Thursday shadowed by Australian security officers.
		HMAS Manoora was deployed immediately after a tour of duty in the recent Operation Iraqi Freedom.
		The peacekeeping force, at first, focused on reducing the number of illegal weapons on the islands as well as supporting the police.
	britains-smallwars.com /RRGP/Solomons.html (640 words)

	Australian soldiers ashore in Honiara - ADVrider
		Warner said Australian police would be on the beat in Honiara by this afternoon as part of Operation Helpem Fren - Helping Friends in the pidgin English used throughout the nation's 992 islands.
		Warner said the Solomons intervention was a unique operation, bringing together elements of peace-keeping, law enforcement and nation building.
		The arrival of the intervention force came as the countries involved - Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and The Solomons - officially agreed to the rules of engagement in Townsville.
	www.advrider.com /forums/showthread.php?t=21493 (1012 words)

	Gallery - Ships (Royal Australian Navy)
		Operation Helpem Fren Date: 28 DEC 03 Pic by: Captain Anthony Kirk.
		On 28 Dec 03, at approximately 06:15hrs Navy Patrol boat HMAS Cessnock rescued 13 fishermen when their vessel, the Pacific Tarker 116, ran aground on Roncondor Reef approximately 200 nautical miles north of Honiara, Solomon Islands.
		The Australian lead Mission, called Operation Helpem Fren (Pijin for Help A Friend) involves police, military and civilian components from around the Pacific region.
	www.navy.gov.au /gallery/?c=4&id=73 (197 words)

	RAMSI - Wikipédia
		Le nom de l'opération est opération Helpem Fren (aider un ami en pidgin local).
		Operation Anode is the Australian Defence Force contribution to the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
		The overall RAMSI undertaking is known as Operation HELPEM FREN.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/RAMSI (687 words)

	Towards a Stable Solomons: Operation Helpem Fren and the Regional Assistance Mission : Public Lecture : Events : The ...
		Towards a Stable Solomons: Operation Helpem Fren and the Regional Assistance Mission : Public Lecture : Events : The University of Melbourne
		Towards a Stable Solomons: Operation Helpem Fren and the Regional Assistance Mission
		'Helpem Fren' and the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) worked with their Solomon Island counterparts to stabilise government finances, revitalise public services and strengthen the justice and prison systems.
	events.unimelb.edu.au /eventid_1412.html (368 words)

	An exchange on the Australian intervention in the Solomon Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Like the Howard government, you insist that the dispatch of 2,200 troops, police and officials to the Solomon Islands last July was primarily a humanitarian operation, dedicated to ensuring that “the lives of everyday Solomon Islanders are improved”.
		Yet the record demonstrates the opposite: Canberra and its allies, chiefly the Clark government in New Zealand, have bullied the Solomons people into submitting to a neo-colonial regime, with RAMSI taking control over the key institutions of the state—the prisons, the police and the finance ministry.
		Operation Helpem Fren (Helping Friend) is part of an underlying shift in foreign policy, in the wake of the Iraq invasion, aimed at asserting unchallenged Australian hegemony throughout the southwest Pacific.
	www.wsws.org /articles/testdir/mar2004/solo-m31_prn.shtml (2118 words)

	Operation Helpem Fren - Military Photos
		The Australian-led intervention force of 2,000 troops and 300 police are on their way help to restore law and order to the troubled South Pacific nation.
		Quick dip : Melanesian children cool off in the tropical waters of Iron Bottom Sound as locals await the arrival of Operation Helpem Fren in Honiara.
		There is overwhelming public backing for the force, which is called "Operation Helpem Fren" in the pidgin English that loosely unites the 450,000 islanders and their 60 different languages.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=1599 (970 words)

	Australia’s intervention may last 10 years -DAWN - International; July 27, 2003
		The action was preceded by a formal invitation from the Solomons government and is, technically, a joint operation by the Pacific Islands Forum, a regional body comprising Australia, New Zealand and 14 other island countries.
		The name of the operation, Helpem Fren, (pidgin for helping friend) is deliberately non-aggressive.
		The programme envisaged by an Australian government thinktank is for a 10-year intervention costing #356m, the bulk of which would be paid by Australia.
	www.dawn.com /2003/07/27/int1.htm (752 words)

	Green Left - Features: SOLOMON ISLANDS: RAMSI: Helpem fren or reimposing colonial rule?
		While Canberra has brand-named its commitment to RAMSI as Operation Helpem Fren, the “friends” who have been “helped” are not the poor and working people of the Solomons, but Australian and other Western big businesses and their local collaborators.
		Most mainstream media reports of RAMSI’s “success” since 2003 have focused on its police operations, such as the arrest of Harold Keke, the disarming and arrest of hundreds of gang members and the collection of thousands of guns.
		A key component of the “economic reforms” that Australia is seeking is the resumption of environmentally damaging foreign-owned mining and logging operations, and plantations, against the wishes of traditional landowners.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2006/666/6755 (1774 words)

	Operation Helpem Fren
		Prime Minister John Howard farewelled the intervention force leaving Townsville on Thursday for the Solomon Islands with this gesture of friendship: "It is an opportunity to say to the people of the Solomon Island that we in the Pacific are your friends.
		We understand you need help, we understand you want conditions of law and order and peace and hope for your people in the years ahead and you've reached out your hand and asked us for help and we have come together in a friendly Pacific way, under the appropriate codename of Operation Helpem Fren.
		Operation Helpum Fren is designed to end five years of ethnic tension.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/feature_stories/article_1339.asp?MSID=1e457242c8694f9595e0adeb214b3c6f (0 words)

	Vanuatu to Congo UN Peacekeeping Mission, MONUC
		It is also understood that the UN requirement for a peacekeeping mission remains the same, despite the United Nations having taken over the UN Peacekeeping Mission powers a month ago from the European Union, EU.
		The government through the Council of Ministers has endorsed Vanuatu's participation on the Operation 'Helpem Fren' which aims in restoring law, order and security in the Solomon Islands.
		The Council of Ministers has agreed also to maintain the insurance arrangements made for the previous contingents, which was for each peacekeeper to sign a binding agreement with the government concerning their entitlements and to instruct the Police Commissioner to submit medical and insurance documents to the Council of Ministers for any future peacekeeping deployment.
	www.news.vu /en/news/national/872.shtml (506 words)

	One year on for RAMSI-Operation Helpem Fren - AFP
		On 24 July 2004 it will be one year since the first Australian Hercules touched down at Henderson International Airport in Honiara, marking the start of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
		As part of this police led operation, the Australian Federal Police sent 206 officers (including officers from what was then Australian Protective Services) as the law enforcement contingent.
		The commencement phase of the operation (July to December 2003) met all objectives including establishing a PPF presence in Honiara and key provinces, establishing a safe social environment in which law, order, security and good governance could be realised, and reducing illegal activity including serious crime, extortion, violence and corruption.
	www.afp.gov.au /media_releases/national/2004/one_year_on_for_ramsi-operation_helpem_fren.html (0 words)

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