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Isatabu Freedom Movement (IFB) is a nationalist militant organization of the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

Thge faction known as the Guadalcanal Liberation Front was lead by warlord Harold Keke.

It movement also included the Guadalcanal Revolutionary Army.

It was engaged in fighting against the Solomon Island Governement and the Guadalcanal Provincial Governemnt as well as with another militant organization, Malaita Eagles Force.

The group is said to be influenced by the Moro movement of the 1930's, with its return to the name of Isatabu from the colonial Guadalcanal, and demands for the establishment of a federal government system.[1]

Dear Mr. Government

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. [But] when I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist," (Anon)

The above saying epitomizes what is happening to us. Look, Mr. Government, when we give our land for your benefit and that of the nation-state, You call us generous. When we ask why we have not benefited, you ignored us. When we start shouting, wanting to be heard, you call us troublemakers. When we take up arms to ask what rightfully belongs to us, you call us militants. When we became angry because you trampled on us, you call us hot-headed youth. Those are the names you use to justify your disregard for/of us. Soon, you may call us guerrillas or terrorists. That, however, will not get rid of us.

(Isatabu Tavuli: The Isatabu Freedom Movement newsletter, 24 February 2000, volume 1 number 3: 3).

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