The curfew, only a Suva phenomenon these days, operates now between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., and has most of us applauding a little peace and quiet anyway. Retailers too are happy to have it till Christmas if needs be. So I suppose all that is a kind of peace. And yet, it is peace without justice, something the prophets of old railed about. Reconciliations galore have gone on, and you have to understand Fiji culture to appreciate the importance of these events.
People here can forgive almost anything.
Again, it has to be better than the violent intransigence of the warring groups further West of us in the Solomons, but it depends how short or long a view one has of life in Fiji. The landowners who took over Turtle Island Resort had a beef concerning lack of compensation from around 1870. There are long memories at stake in everything here. What happened on 19th May will not be quickly forgotten by those who were hardest hit either. The culture seems to admirably allow the lion and the lamb to sit down together around a bowl of 'grog', whatever has occurred - but that would not stop 'apocalypse now' if anyone were to seriously and with political intent question the new doctrine of Fijian supremacy.