'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 (even if their crimes are politically-motivated) 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.'

'This Bill is not about crime committed within one group of people but involves many races living in Fiji. Therefore we can not apply one law onto another. We …

'Why should only a few people be freed and not others when we are all serving under the same law?'

'Our Fiji today is a new Fiji where individual freedom is protected and not a Fiji solely for Fijians. Wise decisions from this august house will promote multi…