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June 29, 2000
Fiji's Indian Refugees have no where to go
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The Girmit Cultural Centre, which was a gift of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to the people of Fiji, is now the centre of a controversy for not accepting refugees during the current political crisis. According to an AFP report, the centre refused to allow 300 refugees of the current ethnic and political crisis to take shelter within its precincts. The centre’s reasoning for this action is that that they do not want to create refugees at the present stage of the political crisis. This controversy is headed to the courts as the centre ignored an ultimatum Tuesday to open its doors to the refugees. Ethnic Indians have been victims during the current 6-week-old crisis in Fiji where the ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry has been taken hostage. Indian homes have been burnt and crops and livestock stolen.
- nriol.com report
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