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Fiji's interim Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, says freedom of speech causes trouble and is to blame for the country's political turmoil.
Commodore Bainimarama has imposed tough restrictions on local and international media in Fiji, including stationing military censors in newsrooms and deporting ABC journalist Sean Dorney back to Australia.This morning his government also shut down ABC Radio Australia's transmitters in Fiji.
Commodore Bainimarama, who first took power in a 2006 coup, says Fiji does not need free and open public discussion about current issues.
"That was how we ended up with what we came up with in the last couple of days," he told Radio New Zealand this morning."If we [the Government and the media] had worked together from 2006, we wouldn't have had that happen to us.
"The circumstances have changed. We [the Government] now decide what needs to be done for our country, for the reforms that need to be put in place for us to have a better Fiji."We want to come up with these reforms and the last thing we want to do is have opposition to these reforms throughout.
- By Gus Leonisky at 15 Apr 2009 - 9:38pm
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Brad Pitt drinks it, Barack Obama has been photographed with it and Paris Hilton sips it through a straw to save her lipstick.
Fiji Water is one of the world's top selling bottled aqua brands, recognised as the epitome of chic by the rich and famous.
Americans and Europeans consumed 240 million litres of the Pacific product last year to get their taste of paradise.
But the famous product, drawn from an aquifer in Fiji's remote Yaqara Valley, has come under fire for helping to legitimise the Pacific nation's repressive military regime.
The radical US magazine Mother Jones has claimed that while not actually abetting the dictatorship, the US company allows the junta, in control since a 2006 coup, to use the Fiji Water image for positive PR spin.
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