This week on The Pacific, we speak people forcibly returned to Tonga despite having little to no connection with the Kingdom. We also look at how science could finally help prove a famous story passed down through oral tradition in Solomon Islands — and we go to PNG to hear all the latest about the autonomous region of Bougainville’s push for independence. Plus former Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is sentenced to one year in jail.

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