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the pristine shores of this b.g. an island this. is truly this is not your lead. me. but isn't this. a chinese developer is building a large resort and casino basically tell me you know we're taking your land. feel like i'm living next door along. with no respect for anyone else except for money locals say the company is breaking the law and destroying their home. to this is. one of just this one i want to investigate what price the g. 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 developers sort of bought the land next to us and moved in australian navy and folks in fiji and jonah just named another see things and own the land along the chinese development you know when when we rocked up we went really ready john to read feel this in a little bit but along the way here at home i taught right now but there was 2 or 3 excavate is it out here just digging up the really hill is it is in which. to be. going everywhere and i'm just going hell for leather. all without time it's not for sure i mean it's not no nothing and i think prime minister is so strong on his
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stance against the informant being wrecked you know 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 getting wrecked by what these developers are doing and tell me about the truth 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 stockpiled it 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 they've made a rod through the man drives around the corner to access their land in my car ride bicycles that used to be all mangroves and modern because their land has no access they bought land with no access so what are they do about that they've just taken over em and. did you have enough about at yeah i spoke to dixon paying a while ago about it. in the years ahead of us developers a director of the company for sole real estate ltd basically told me you know.
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you're taking it anyway we're taking your land right. in the lane on the other side of the reed gates and behind a bullet to the right this is what it looked like before free so illegally reclaimed it so 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. full glory. yeah so tell me how i can put this fence up there and say that. i shouldn't be allowed to do they're going to approval to do that. after being here for well not very long 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. he does. so let's go work on which is on the right on the 2nd we go through the go to hell and. no but this is our land yeah this is this is not you will end this is not you will end no but this is not your land this is these are no you will no no it's not dixon no dixon is dixon's many of the do. not want development i don't know it's not dixon line you know you'll go yeah i mean. you can get the police know this is there you can get the police is an injunction on this and. the. whole layout.
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so i tried to go around in. the courts have now deemed that free so is entitled to have this theme. because it blocks public access to the for sure the neighbor and the folks the only way through is around the bank you get a felon. you get a felon you know you get off never leaves you get off. you get off land. get off while you'll come here. this is how little you know i don't know who will do what stop it stop and this is a lane and he's at a lawn and know why mohawk this is the end. go white get off now are you a little bit off right my mike said to me get
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a wife just what i why. this is a good deal you'll notice to the leave the blank. knight that's the boundary. free so he's. down most of the trees here. clearly this part of the land is behind the free so gates kind if. you know that's full on but it's l m. sure to come here. and have this guy push and shove. 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 the faith jane family step aside. any stand over there now in the middle bob what's that all about what's he going to do you know like come on oil and start hitting us with. is
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what. we're on ellen and look with offenses. is you going to ask me or you. if you. are going to you live. of course not i don't know anyway if you are in the lens that someone can still go on the lame that you are in. so what do you think about this. movie. of the day and right yeah this is the day. so you can see it you know it so well. you know it's there's just tons and 10 hundreds in tones of dead
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rafe further in their property. where they've just got stuck paul to. i guess extinguish the mangrove forest. and build better ice for tourists. devastated devastated for the fate jeans and fiji. just thinking can this happen and you know the company just coming in from any part of the world in these . i guess i feel like i'm living next door to last months to. a moment not respect for anyone else except for money you know green governance.
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but i am going. you should be up on the lee and then we want to play upon you. the local people. my low low 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 that resort development free cell is from the. 350 barrier is were plain to hear many of the implicit over the water. obvious is the illegal recombination of the food. and smashing of an easter maajid 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 true the mangrove is destabilization of the hillsides causing exceeds the 3rd thing and. then rubbish going into critique did seaside areas. nephew drawings previously flown over the saw it crashed in there were rumors that the developer has an anecdote jamming thing that the 3 to draw on lease sophisticated workers try to knock it out of the air by throwing rocks at it. even 30 in the chief. having never gated the reefs in the dock we arrive at sully village for a meeting of the out 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 almost on. the damage to the environment we think this. is the. and they never suspected he. didn't give it to them by me but i suspect. they're referring to free so ignoring stall. in the government not doing anything about the goodness of the very seriously disturbed. what. they walk. 'd 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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we made the birds from the village. no right to stop them going on to the side. to the from. morning news. i'm good with the documents from the court the people from the village want to. ship of the flames and ensure that any food that decent creation of the area is wrong and immediately. we will be stopping people getting crabs fishing. the stopping point of the people from the breach. collecting crabs has a common. when. they pull. point. is
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right on the many groups when they leave the. rules they're 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 the village 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. but 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. why you want to place to come here 1st thing you know. 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 setting the chinese develop is the least to say hands are trying to do that is and it contains is an understatement how. to channel the loss is it no no no this is not too pleased. i know for you to know you don't. know i think only that you don't know if you don't know my land mine are also use my piece of land and the full of the few sr is my no mine just might not want to. tell me why freestyle is being prosecuted it took to the law about why they're paying for it and why it's very selfish is going to everything is not money she's going to pay everything that's going about money we have. that's all about money
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yes this is what money is because i'm quite typical on the story for you so it was doing for you as much if not move filming with a film crew. that plays eventually iran have and come the situation down in the villages agreed to leave without going on to the saw it in wait for the coup decision. really continued filming. constantly raised by for he saw this in. this was repeated lies your own going out cameraman underwater to film damage to the brain. the man working for free so security. i take. it you think. i don't need to give you one.
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and only good. business if i didn't tell you anything i tell you the usual pre-sold 3 of involving. we wouldn't say to counter the theory needs to. after 3 days of filming. and we hear 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 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 was no one in the reception area so we pulled into the office. to get waited about the. development. and then environmental damage that's been. we need to make it ok. ok when all that i. know you've. got here has not been so well. because we just want to talk to you have a. situation in libya. what's the what's in well that all the work that's being done without environmental profile i think. we need leaders of these.
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take particular note of this man a former fiji an army officer who would free cell who play a food the part in the story. is you 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 have non of it will soon become a round the big event so the court will not have the termini. we interviewed a lawyer a keen chambers who was representing the soul of you village in the city has with the land adjoining frey so when these 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. they said i've got it at the play station for criminal. criminal what is it. you know. welcome to it. it's what. is it with you. what does it mean. and no one could enter the country wall. for. could a riot 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 free cell is still creeping around across the road and then we get to the. level of difficulty of this is total oakley 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 i'm sure. of it. we'd be in this room for hours on end as police interview for a soul stuff. eventually we are taken to a holding room we spend the night on the floor. only the next morning things move pretty fast food business is the commission and the police himself he'd had
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a phone call from the prime minister frank bonny madama and he our relief. and now a night we a picked up by the police motorcade and taken to palm and 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 did it attracted the most important people in fiji. with the prime minister with him asking how we knew about the phrase story. i feel. he. said i feel you. are.
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person for the. future. of. our 2. 100. 50 thought thank you thank you thank you thank you. within one day if they had morning today to fiji and government has officially stole the phrase so resolute. government officials have revived free souls been farming told him it's 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 the
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