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Issue No: 771; 17 May 2001
Villagers in Nabitu in Sigatoka have blocked the road cutting off access for about 200 ethnic Indian families. The villagers are demanding $10 per person each time the person uses the road, and $50 per truck for each trip in and out of the area. The tenant families lease land owned by the Bayly Trust about 63 km from Sigatoka town. The land through which the access road goes belongs to the villagers. The police says that because the road passes through native
land, it is a civil matter. Meanwhile now the regime is trying its best to provide ethnic
Indians residential leases where their present homes are, and take away the
agricultural land surrounding the homes. If this plan succeeds, then the Nabitu
style roadblock for the entire ethnic Indian rural community is the likely
possibility. The National Federation Party, which claims to represent ethnic
Indians, has supported the regime's plan on residential leases. |
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