FIJI: Commodore refuses reconciliation offer

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Updated August 28, 2007 11:05:28

Fiji's Armed Forces chief and Interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama has flaty refused an offer for amnesty for participants of the 2006 coup. In an open letter in a local newspaper, Ratu Inoke Takiveikata asked Commodore Bainimarama to hold a national reconciliation to take Fiji forward. The Commodore, however, believes that as one of the perpetrators of the 2000 coup the request by the former Senator and Naitaisiri high chief Ratu Inoke Takiveikata is ingenuous.

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