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a slogan that whatever the problem is of course jobs and counting the cost on al-jazeera. on the pristine shores of this p.j. in arms this. advice is brewing this is not your landlord you're calling i mean these 3 good police and. a chinese developer is building a large resort and casino basically tell me you're. taking your land. feel like i'm living next to a lawless monster i mean no respect for anyone else except for money the locals say the company is breaking the law and destroying their home sequel to this. one just this one i want to waste investigates what price they jay is paying for its tourism development.
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the crystal clear waters of malone no island feature. we're going to design to fiji's biggest resort development a development that's caused serious environmental damage last year we heard that china develop a sort of border land next to us and moved in australian navy and folks in fiji and joined in a just and another see things my own the land along the chinese development you know when we rocked up we went really ready john or would feel this in a little bit but along the way here at home i taught right now about there was 2 or 3 excavate is it out here just digging up the really hill is to get out is in which . to be. fluid going everywhere and i'm just going hell for leather. all without time it's not for sure but i mean it's no nothing and i think prime minister is so strong on his stance against the involvement being wrecked you know
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he's is really being in the un and it's also what he's doing it's just that in his own backyard i don't think he really understands how much is getting wrecked by what these developers are doing and tell me about the tree and all that they have dug out here we worked out was about $4000.00 square metres of of raif and they've dug and they stuck paul that either on their land. and then they've also you know built this makeshift sort of piece of land in front of what used to be a bitch about 30 made is of illegal gracie's there and then they've made a road through the man drives around the corner to access their land and make a road bicycles that used to be all mangroves and modern because their land has no access they bought land with no access so one of they do about that which they've just taken over eleanor. did you have enough about that yeah i spoke to dixon peng a wall ago about it. and he is the head of this development the director of the company for the sole real estate limited basically told me you know. you are taking
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it anyway we're taking your land right. this is on the other side of the reed gates and behind me to the right this is what it looked like before free so illegally reclaimed it for the hard toil was he said what you say this year the whole todd mark was here and that's a legally. so they have just come and i'm a full time. full. yeah so tell me how i can put this fence up there and say. i shouldn't be allowed to do they're going to approval to do that. after being here for well not very long and the 3 so representative primarily to confront us have you might not know if this is this is never never
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a side here. yes it does. so let's go i don't know which is on the right over there so can we go through the go to l.a. no no no but this is our land this. this is this is not your learned this is not your land no but this is not your land this is these this is no you know no it's not dixon no dixon is. the do. not want development i don't know it's not dixon line you know you're going you know i mean. you can get the police know this is there you can get the police as an injunction on this and. all it. was.
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so crowded you got around it. this courts have now deemed it free so is not entitled to have this. because it blocks public access to the for sure for neighbor and folks the only why through is a round the bank you get a felon. you get a felony you get off never leaves you get off. you get off land. get off while you'll come here. this is how little i know i don't know who will do what stop it stop and this is a lame these out along know why i'm ok. this is al end. go away get off now do you well you know what mike mike said to don't want me to
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get a wife just what i want. this is a good deal you'll notice to them leave the blanks night the boundary of the students free so he's. down most of the trees here this is clearly this part of the land is behind the free so gay. kind if you know that's full on but it's. sure to come here. and have this guy questions. yeah it sucks you know it's. you know what do you say you know i mean are you coming for this i mean phage or you know i mean i'm coming to have a look at the land that we've invested in and doing the right thing with jane family. any stand over there now with the middle what's that all about what's he going to do you know like come on oil and start hitting us with it. like what.
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it's there's just tons and 10 hundreds in tones of dead raif further in their property. where they've just got stuck paul to. extinguish the mangrove forest. and build the rice for tourists. just devastated devastated for the fiji islands and for fiji is just thinking how can this happen you know the company does come in. from any part of the world in d.c. . i guess i feel like i'm living next door to a lawless monster. a moment no respect for anyone else except for money and i agree governance.
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if you bring up 1000000000 then we want to blow up on you. the local people all think malou island want the world to know who they are crying for the land. the only way to get a good look at the land the thought of the mess the resort development free cell is from the. 350 barrier is were planed here many of the implicit over the water. obvious is the illegal recombination of the food and. the dredging and smashing of an east demanded 5000 square meters of raif to build a boat channel the in illegal roads built on the for sure using their deed rate.
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is the gash is through the mangrove destabilization of the hillsides causing exceeds the 3rd thing and. rubbish going into protected seaside areas. that few drawings previously flown over the saw it crashed in there were rumors that the developer has an anecdote jamming system that the 3 to draw on lease sophisticated workers try to knock it out of the air by throwing rocks at it. if even 30 pm and the chief has cool. having never gated the reefs in the dock we arrive at sully village for a meeting of the elder is. the chiefs have
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a court injunction against friso over the lane ownership to the chinese as well as to stop free so. the damage to the environment we think this. is. in the never suspected. been given to them by me but i suspect. they're referring to free so ignoring stolpe within what is in the government not doing anything about the goodness of the very seriously disturbing to hear what. they walk. the. walk of. the plan is see they going to front up to free cell and they've invited us to go with them so that. just. one justice.
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the early morning we made the birds from the village. no right to stop them going on to the side. to the food. morning. i'm good with the documents from the court the people from the village want to. claim and ensure that any food that tastes a creation of the area is wrong and immediately. we will be stopping people getting crabs fishing. yeah stopping the right of the people from the breach. collecting crabs has to comment. when. they pull. point. is right on the many groups when they leave the.
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highway so if the rules are right just going into them and guards with a craft. they don't even know when they come to the village everywhere in the bush. which was. given to them in the school and on the other side of it they do that. the people he. looked. at me he is the fijian. for free so we don't have time for him he's only one. i don't. know i don't care you can do ok i'm not telling the because it's a matter you want to police. why you want to punish to come in 1st. do what you want i'm not worried about that we know them well fiji you don't know
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the. man i don't think you know them know of no. other way and money is also the man responsible for us and i'm the chinese developed is the lease just so he has a drawing to do that is and it contains should is an understatement how. to channel the loss is it that he's willing now only this is not too pleased. i know for you to know you don't. know you. know i think only that you don't know if they know me and know my land mine and also use my piece of land and the whole issue of the few senior is my no some are just might not want to. tell me why i was being prosecuted it took to the law about why they're paying for it and why it's very self is going to everything is not money she's going to pay everything on the money we have. so that's all about
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the money yes this is what money is because i'm quite typical on the story you know it was doing for you as much if not move filming with a film crew. that plays eventually iran have and calm the situation down in the villages agreed to leave without going on to the thought in wait for the cool decision. we continued filming. constantly raised by for a film in. this was repeated lies your own going out cameraman underwater to film damage to the brain. the man working for free so security. id. i take.
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it you think. i don't need to give you one. and only a good. business if i didn't tell you the same thing i did the in the usual pre-sold 3 of involving police. who we wouldn't think to counter the theory needs to. after 3 days of filming i learned back to the main. we take a small boat instead of the theory to avoid unwanted attention. in the travel 3 hours to fiji's capital says. this free souls here in fiji it's the public. street.
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previous attainments to get hold of its director dixon paying have ended in the phone being hung up so to find him here. there is no one in the reception area so we pull into the office. to get way to think about the. development. and then environmental damage that's been done in. we need to make it. ok when all that. smoke. has got here has not been so well. because we just want to talk to you have a. situation. what's the what's and well that all the work that's being done without environmental provo i think. we need readers of these.
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take a particular note of this man a former fijian army officer who would free cell who play a food the part in this story. is we might be breaching a court order. we leave the office in what same's pretty much a nonevent but as they say anything can happen in fiji and they non of it will soon become the big event so the court will make a determination on those issues we interviewed a lawyer keen chambers who was presenting the soul of the village in the supers with the land adjoining free so when a knock on the door. outside is the man from the free so office he watches as the policeman tells us we need to go to the station the allegation criminal trespass.
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we're being taken in by police for asking questions at the freestyle office a few hours earlier. sorry place down the if you've been down on coming back up just tell them to why is it better pack up all my gear so they said i'm going to the play station for criminal. criminal what. i've had here. so welcome to if. it's. in your. future. what does it mean. for us and no one could enter the country wall. for. a while there's
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a. way back down stay is the placement and he's been patiently waiting wants to get going noticed the freestyle still creeping around across the road and then we get to the. level of the top of this is. a police station which will see a lot of over the next 2 scene hours. initially find so i get hold of the new zealand embassy in fiji. already and. after that. in this room for hours on end as police interview for a song. eventually we are taken to a holding room where we spin the night on the floor. only the next morning things move pretty fast food business it is the commission if the police himself he'd had
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a phone call from the prime minister frank bonny madama. be our relief. and now a night we a picked up by the police motorcade and taken to parliament because the prime minister wants to apologize to us for being detained. the question was why did police on such as south sudan complain from are you so and why hate it attracted the most important people in fiji. with the prime minister's stats with him asking how we knew about the phrase development story. i feel. he. said. feel. if you. feel. my.
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question for the. future. of. our 2. 100. 50 thank you thank you thank you thank you. who within one day if they had morning take the 5th each in government has officially stole the phrase so resolute. government officials have revived free sos the environmental pyramids because of the repeated breaches of its conditions. with the environment payments go on and the high court ordered free so to pay the costs of restoring the land and for sure
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