POLICE stopped a march by the NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji in Suva yesterday due to security reasons.
Fiji Police Force ACP Operations Livai Driu said ‘The decision was made based on security reasons’.
Mr Driu was responding to a statement by the coalition which called out the police and Government for not issuing a permit to march in solidarity with Palestine.
In the statement, the coalition said the delaying tactics and routine questioning through phone calls was ‘reminiscent of a dictatorial system of the past’.
“It is shameful that the Fiji Coalition Government which has lauded itself internationally and regionally as being a promoter of human rights and peace has continued to curtail the rights of its citizens by denying permit applications calling for an end to the Genocide in Gaza,” the statement said.
“We remind the Prime Minister that an Ocean of Peace must also mean Peace in Gaza, West Papua and Kanaky (New Caledonia).”
