When the first of the trials ended a group working for Australia's Auscript, which had produced the court transcripts, was checking out of the Centra.
Like some of us reporters, they had made the hotel home and, without any organisation, a big group of hotel staff gathered and broke into that most Fijian of songs, 'Isa Lei'. With its male and female par…
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