瑙魯內戰
瑙魯內戰(英語:Nauruan Civil War)發生在1878年—1888年10月,戰爭雙方分別為效忠時任瑙魯國王阿維達的力量和那些試圖推翻他、支持另一位競爭者的勢力。內戰的導火索是火器被引入島上,導致全體瑙魯居民(瑙魯人)掌握了武器。在戰爭的大部分時間裏,忠於國王的一方和反叛者陷入僵局,一方控制着島嶼的北部,另一方則控制着南部。
1888年,德意志帝國介入,幫助阿維達復位,並沒收了交戰雙方的火器。德軍最終從雙方參戰人員手中收繳了791支步槍,幾乎相當於島上剩下的成年居民人均擁有一支槍。據歷史學家估計,1848年瑙魯的人口約為1400;戰爭結束時,人口減少至約900。
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The conflict, which was fuelled by equal parts locally-made palm wine and European armaments, broke out during a wedding feast on the three-kilometre-wide island in 1878. A disagreement between two guests over the finer points of dining etiquette grew hostile, at which point one of the debaters produced a pistol and began blazing away. A stray bullet struck the son of a clan chief killing him. The island’s factions, who were already nursing old grudges, used the occasion to attack one another. The fighting escalated from there.
- ^ Petit-Skinner, Solange. The Nauruans: Nature and Supernature in an Island of the Central Pacific. MacDuff Press. 1981: 29. ISBN 9780960627202 (英語).
This pervasive influence ended, in 1878, with a full scale war which broke out between the people of the Northern and Southern districts.