Fiji hopes a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on its history of violent coups can heal the divisions between its two main ...

The tribal, convulsive movements displayed by such cultures as the aborigines, the Melanesians of Papua New Guinea and the Polynesians of the Tuamotus have been around for centuries, perhaps more.

All of the island countries, largely inhabited by Indigenous Melanesians, are located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, within the region known as Melanesia.