“If we continue to pardon or excuse the wrongdoers who commit acts of criminality in unsettling an elected government, we don't have any guarantee, do we, that this kind of exercise won't be repeated in the future.”

—  Graeme Leung

14 June 2005 letter to Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase

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