"The Bill will legitimise the 2000 coup and will weaken the law and order agencies. All the good work of rebuilding Fiji to what it is today will be undone. The freeing of anyone will show to the world that we are a nation that condones law breakers. It also means that we support terrorists as the Police Commissioner has commented."

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