“Coups will be taken lightly if we condone this Bill, without justice there is no peace. If you honourable chiefs agree that those involved in the coup be forgiven, it will prove that we support the wrong and will be at odds with the integrity of God.”

— Frank Bainimarama

2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

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