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Issue No: 845; 13 June 2001
The leader of the terrorist George Speight wants to be tried by provincial and tikina courts. Today's Fiji Sun reports Speight as saying that the Speight brothers are indigenous Fijians and ought to be tried under tikina and district courts rather than courts established un English law. There is no provincial or tikina court in Fiji. There are 14 provinces and over 214 tikina in Fiji. The provinces and tikina regulate traditional aspects of living for ethnic Fijians in rural areas. The Speight brothers are registered in the roll of ethnic
Fijians. But their paternal ancestory is European. |
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