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Scoop Video: Tonga – Aftermath of Black Thursday
Scoop Video: Tonga – The Aftermath of Black Thursday
SPECIAL FEATURE DOCUMENTARY - Scoop Video, Includes previously unreleased footage: Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning reports that Akilisi Pohiva, controversial leader of Tonga's pro-democracy movement and No. 1 People’s Representative to Parliament, has been arrested on charges relating to "Black Thursday" . Pohiva is the highest profile leader arrested so far in a sweep by Tongan authorities determined to display a state of control in the deeply divided Pacific Island state. But is this merely a strategy to fight off reformists who demand democracy?
KiwiFM Audio: The People's No.1
MP in Tonga, Akilisi Pohiva, has been arrested on sedition
charges resulting from the arson attacks that destroyed
NukuA'lofa in November.. Scoop's Selwyn Manning talks to
KiwiFM's Wallace Chapman about what lies behind this
arrest.
Nuku'alofa (Scoop Media image)Pacific
News: Tonga's Top People's Rep Arrested Over Nov 06
Riots - Akilisi Pohiva, controversial leader of
Tonga's pro-democracy movement and No. 1 People’s
Representative to Parliament, has been arrested on charges
relating to 16/11 - “Black Thursday”. Pohiva is the
highest profile leader arrested so far, accused of being one
of the ringleaders of the riot that led to the burning of
downtown Nuku’alofa on November 16, 2006. His friend and
No. 2 People’s Representative, ‘Isileli Pulu, is still
in police custody, charged with sedition. See... Tonga:
Akilisi Pohiva Detained Over
16/11
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