Right To March

Right To March

Editor,

Australia is an imperfect democracy but in Australia in a recent case just this past week the supreme court has ruled that citizens have the right to march in a peaceful protest and the police cannot take away that right

We are told that the aim of the 2006 military coup in Fiji is to create a " true democracy". But the decision of the Fiji police to stop a solidarity march in support of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia tells us Fiji might still have a fair distance to go to become the "true democracy" it aspires to become.

Some of us will recall peaceful protest march was also arbitrarily stopped by the Fiji police after the first military coup of 1987.

Apparently some old ways have not gone despite the passage of time.

Yours sincerely,

Rajend Naidu
Sydney

ENDS

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