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Issue No: 1012; 13 August 2001
A prominent trade unionist has been threatened by a suspected terrorist at a conference billed as the Fiji Media Election 2001 Seminar. The General Secretary of the Fiji Public Service Association, Rajeshwar Singh told the seminar that the people who visited the Parliament Complex to support the terrorists last year where the elected government was held hostage, were brainwashed by defeated politicians. Singh also stated that the case in Fiji with many was that of "kicking up dust and them complaining that they cant see". To these comments, a chief from Kadavu, Ratu Aca Soqosoqo, told Singh: "You better watch it, better stop bloody making those kind of statements". Soqosoqo, who is an election candidate, was not reprimanded by the seminar organisers. The seminar was organised by the Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association (PIBA) and the Pacific Concerns Resource Center (PCRC). The PCRC is a right wing organisation which has endorsed the calls by right wing nationalist political parties for political and economic supremacy of ethnic Fijians in Fiji. Soqosoqo was implicated, together with former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, with instigating the mutiny at the Nabua army headquarters, and the attempted coup of 2 November. |
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