Eremasi Matanatabu wants perpetrators to be held accountable for what they have done after he spoke about being taken in for questioning in a military van after the 2006 coup, and warned not to write Letters to the Editor.
Matanatabu also says that what some iTaukei people did to Indo-Fijians during the coups was unchristian like.
While speaking to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Lautoka, he shared that a Commanding Officer told him he was receiving instructions from Suva to inform him that he was not allowed to write letters, and that if he continued, worse things would happen.
Matanatabu says the perpetrators continued to be protected through the immunity provided in the Constitution, while the people were left behind in the process.
He says the perpetrators also continue to lead the nation.
He says that at the time, with people being beaten by the Army, his mother and wife asked him to stop writing as it was not worth the risk, and that ultimately made him stop.
The social worker says that people he used to go to church with were robbing and harassing their neighbours, and the churches turned a blind eye to it.
Meanwhile, Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Rachna Nath says they cannot provide compensation.
She assured that the platform will allow people like him to speak out.
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