These fears (held by indigenous Fijians) must not be ridicu… - Graeme Leung

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These fears (held by indigenous Fijians) must not be ridiculed but understood and addressed. In the final analysis it will be counterproductive to impose democracy on people who have yet to fully understand how it will sit against everything they believe in.

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Graham Everett Leung is a Fijian lawyer and former president of the Fiji Law Society.

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