THERE is legal precedence for the establishment of a separate state within a country.
This, according to the 2014 caution interview of Ulaiyasi Rabua Tuivono, one of 16 people standing trial for sedition at the High Court in Lautoka this week.
Mr Tuivono and 15 others are accused of trying to establish the Ra Sovereign Christian State by swearing an oath of allegiance to the separatist movement, and discussing plans to formulate their own government.
Detective Vilitati Bari, the policeman who interviewed Mr Tuivono in 2014, read out the accused’s statement in court while taking the stand as a State witness yesterday.
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