There was no impending invasion into Fiji by foreign troops which would justify a necessity to remove the SDL government as claimed by the interim government and the RFMF.
Those were the words of Queens Counsel representing the ousted Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and others against the interim government as the case continued this afternoon.
Our News Director Vijay Narayan filed this report:
Earlier today Perram said that the Interim Prime Minister and Army Commander Frank Bainimarama should come forward and give details of the necessities under which he carried the takeover on December 5th, 2006.
Perram said Commodore Bainimarama is the only person who knows everything behind the real reasons for removal of a democratically elected government.
Perram said Laisenia Qarase came forward and was also subject to not so respectful cross examination by QC Gerad McCoy and the Commander should also come forward and give his side of the story.
The QC stressed that Commodore Bainimarama could singularly reveal why December 5th was necessary. He also said that certain contradicting evidence has been put forward on behalf of the Commander and if he were to take the stand it would be a cross examiner's dream.
Perram said the Commander had explained after the events of 2000 stating what was the necessity of his actions, however this time around he refuses to come forward.
He said the Commander also saw it fit to the tell the nation the status and stand of the President in an address on December 5th, 2006, but he sends his people to court to argue executive privileges not to reveal certain information.
The SDL Lawyer also said that the defendants submissions of the Great Council of Chiefs recommendations on December 22th, 2006 cannot be accepted. He said the defense failed to note the fact that the GCC recognized that it was ONLY due to the actions of the military that the SDL government had been rendered incapable and ineffective.
Perram stated that saying the SDL government was dysfunctional cannot be justified as the defendants were the cause of the dysfunction, when Qarase was removed from Office and confined against his will on Vanuabalavu.
He said the GCC statement is inept and incapable of providing plausible arguments on the necessity which led to the events of December 2006.
No Impending Invasion To justify SDL Removal
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