Solomons warlord makes plea for forgiveness

A former Solomon Islands warlord Harold Keke has reportedly made a plea for forgiveness.

The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation reports that Keke and some of his followers made the plea at a prison reconciliation ceremony.

Keke was a leader in the Guadalcanal Revolutionary Army, a guerilla group which took up arms in the late 1990s and mounted a campaign of intimidation against Malaitans on Guadalcanal.

He is serving a life sentence for murder after he arrested by peacekeepers in 2003.

The Corrections Service said Keke apologised to his victims at the ceremony and pleaded for forgiveness.