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the republic of. counting the cost. on the pristine shorts of this. is truly this is not you live with me. please and. i johnny's 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 a little smaller stuff i mean no respect for anyone else except for money but locals say the company is breaking the law and destroying their home the good fortune. one of just this one i want to investigate what price the g.e. is paying for its truth and 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 both the land next to us and moved in australian navy and folks in fiji and join a just and another see things i own the land along fine the chinese development you know 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. fluid 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
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his 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 how many american troops and all that they have dug out where we were it was about $4000.00 square metres of relief 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 rod through them and 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 eminent and did you help them out about that yeah i spoke to dixon pang a while ago about it. and 8 years. as a director of the company. limited bicycle you told me you know. you were
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taking it anyway we're taking your land right. in the lane on the other side of the reed gates. to the wrong. this is what it looked like before free so illegally reclaimed it so the whole i taught was he say what you say yes you had a whole todd mark was he and that's a legally dumb 3 so they have just comma and i'm a full time. full. full. yeah so tell me how i can put this. inside knowledge base past that. i shouldn't be allowed to do they got no approval to do that. but after being here for well not very long 3 so representative primarily to confront us have you made. now if this is this is never never. here no yes it does.
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so let's go i don't know which is on the right on the 2nd we go through the go to hell and no no. no but this is i'll end this. here 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 are no no it's not dixon no dixon is dixon the do. not want development don't know it's not dixon line or you'll go oh yeah i mean. you can get the police know this is there you can get the police is an injunction on this and.
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so there you go around. the courts have now deemed that free so is not entitled to hear this. because it blocks public to the fore. the neighbor folks the only why through is around the bank you get a felon. you get a felony you get off not only. you get off. you get off land. get off while you're called here. this is how little you know i don't know who will do what stop it stop it this is a law and these add a law and know why mohawk this is the end. go white get off now do you well you know what my mike said to me you know what i
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just had a why. this is a bigger deal you'll notice today leave the blanks night the boundary of the students free so he's down most of the trees here. clearly this part of the land is behind the free soul gates kind if you know that's full on but it's. sure to tell me you. have this guy pushing shoving. 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 fijian 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 like
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it's just tones and 10 hundreds in tones of. further in their property. where they've just got stuck paul to. extinguish the mango forest. and build a tourist. just devastated devastated for the fiji and for fiji. just thinking how can this happen you know a company just coming in from any part of the world and 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 governs.
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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 that resort development free cell is from the. 350 barrier is were planed here many of the implicit over the water. of the is the illegal recombination of the food and. the dread jing 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. rubbish going into protected seaside areas. a few drawings previously flown over the saw it crashed in there were rumors that the developer has an jamming thing 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 in the chief. 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 and is shipped inside to the chinese as well as to stop free so almost saw it. the damage to the environment we think. is the thesis. in the never. been given to them by me but i suspect. they're referring to free so ignoring stall . in the government not doing anything about the governance of the very seriously. sure 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. just. one justice.
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the early warning we made the birds from the village. no right to stop them going on to the side. to the food. morning. armed with the documents from the court the people from the village want to do it the ownership 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. 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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crips. so if the rules there are just going into them and guards with the 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. locked. 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. ma you want to please to come here 1st thing you know. do what you want i'm not worried about what we know that will feature you don't
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know the. man i don't think you know them know of no. other way and money is also the man responsible for the chinese develop is the lace what to say has a drawing to do that is and it contains should is an understatement how. to channel out the law says 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 they know me and know my land mine also use my piece of land and the full of the few senior is my no mine just might not want to see mine. tell me why i was being prosecuted it took to the law about why they're paying for it and why it's very selfish prosecutors don't mind if everything is about money she's going to pay everything on the money we have. so that's all about the money
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yes this is all about money. 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 calm the situation down in the villages agreed to leave without going on to the thought in wait for the coup decision. re continued filming. constantly raised by freestyles 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. it because.
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i don't need to give you one. and only good. business if i didn't tell you anything i tell you the in the usual free so free of involving. we wouldn't say to counter the theory next. 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 is no one in the reception area so we pull into the office. to get waited about. development. and then environmental damage that's been. 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 what's in well that all the work that's being done
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without environmental profile i think. we need leaders of these. take particular note of this man a former fiji an army officer who would free cell who will play a food a part in this story we will not answer any questions and that 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 there non of it will soon become a rather big event so the court will make a determination on those issues we interviewed a lawyer keen chambers who was representing the soul of you village in the city has with the land adjoining frey so when there is 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 is it. so welcome to. visit with you. what does it mean charge. and no one could enter the country wall. for. riot there's
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a. back down stay is the place man who's been patiently waiting who wants to get going noticed the free cell he still creeping around across the road and then we get to the. rubble of. this is. a police station which will see a lot of over the next 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 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 pick 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 sudan complain from where you so and why he did it attracted the most important people in fiji. with the prime minister with him asking how we knew about the phrase development story myself i feel. he. said i didn't. feel you. could see.
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question for the. future. of. our. money. i don't think it's thank you thank you thank you thank you. within one day if that morning today 50 jean government has officially stole the phrase so resolute. government officials have revived free souls' 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 the mangrove forests and the
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