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((Short description|Independence movement in the British Solomon Islands))
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'''Maasina Ruru''' was an [[emancipation]] movement for [[self-government]] and [[self-determination]] in the [[British Solomon Islands]] during and after [[World War II]], 1945–1950, credited with creating the movement towards independence for the [[Solomon Islands]]. The name is from the [['Are'are language]] meaning the Rule of "relationship of siblings together" and is often corrupted to "Marching Rule", "Marxist Rule", or "Rule of Brotherhood".

==Foundation and influences==
The movement was created after Nori, [[Aliki Nono'oohimae]], [[Jonathan Fiifii'i]], and a host of others from Malaita who worked together in the [[Solomon Islands Labour Corps]] during World War II. One of the influences is said to have been the African-American soldiers whose humane treatment of the fellow workers was markedly different from the [[plantation]] owners. They spread a message of independence amongst the [[Malaita]]n soldiers who began a campaign of [[non-compliance]] and [[civil disobedience]].

They were also influenced by other revolutionary or anti-government movements, progressive missionaries such as Rev. [[Richard Fallowes]] and [[Apocalypticism|apocalyptic movements]] such as that of the priest [[Noto'i]]. During 1939 in [[Uogwari]] and [[Atobala]] he had been a [[prophet]] of the ancestor [[La'aka]] and channelled that [[Tulagi]] would be destroyed and the government would be thrown into the sea. His followers were arrested by the government but in 1946, the capital moved from [[Tulagi]] to [[Honiara]]. Noto'i joined the Maasina Ruru movement as did people from all over the islands.

==Operation DeLouse and Operation Jericho==
In 1947, the British government launched Operation De-Louse to arrest the leaders of the movement. The nine main chiefs or Alaha were also arrested and charged under the ''[[Sedition Act 1661|Sedition Act]]'' for organising secret meetings.<ref>((cite book|pages=268–269|title=Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom|last1=Akin|first1=David W.|date=31 October 2013|isbn=9780824838140|publisher=[[University of Hawaii Press]]))</ref> This despite the fact that Maasina Ruru meetings were mass meetings of thousands of people at a time. They were mostly sentenced, including Fifi'i, Nonoohimae and Aliki, to six and a half years hard labour.

While the leaders were in jail the campaign of civil disobedience continued with villages refusing to pay taxes ''en masse''. While many villages were also barricaded against the British, the government launched Operation Jericho. Two thousand arrests were made in [[Malaita]] alone,<ref name="PIM1949-9">((cite web| last =| first = | work= XIX(12) Pacific Islands Monthly |title= 'Marching Rule' Is Now Nearly Dead|date =1 July 1948|url= https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-317435866/view?partId=nla.obj-317514668#page/n43/mode/1up| accessdate=30 September 2021))</ref> and yet the resistance continued.

In 1951 the British government held meetings with the imprisoned leadership and brokered a deal for self-government in the form of the [[Malaitan Congress]]. The prisoners were released and demands were met towards the end of 1951.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[[Jonathan Fifi'i|Fifi'i, Jonathan]]; ''From pig-theft to parliament: My life between two worlds'', translated and edited by [[Roger Keesing]]. [[Suva|Suva, Fiji]] : Institute of Pacific Studies ; Solomon Islands College of Higher Education, 1989.

[[Category:History of the Solomon Islands]]
[[Category:Solomon Islands in World War II]]
[[Category:National liberation movements]]


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