FIJI: Fijian youths angry over native land dereservation
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A proposal to free up native land in Fiji for economic use has been slammed by a network of youth activists as a Labour Party ploy. Fiji's Interim Sugar Minister and leader of the mainly Indo-Fijian Labour Party, Mahendra Chaudhry, says the plan to de-reserve all native land to make it available for farming would lift the indigenous Fijian community out of poverty by guaranteeing financial returns for their land.
Presenter: Bruce Hill
Speakers: Peter Waqavonovono, spokesman for the Young People's Concerned Network in Fiji
