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Good post John. It sets the context nicely for the video - which is abhorrent.

Sorry this is off-topic, but why is the text for posts on PA all in italics ? Or is it just my computer ?

must be just you, Grant

Outside of Grant's issues-
I NEVER view/download this kind of crap (I spent too many years on the IDP tribunal to ever risk more of my brain being corrupted)
BUT-if that shows brutlisation of Fijian prisoners- why should we be surprised?
Fiji had(has?) one of the most brutal set of societies in the South Pacific - and, in my experience, one of the most hospitable-
one up/one down-

Could somebody please translate what's being said in this video? I'd like to try and understand the apparently incomprehensible.

What would Garth McVicar and Michael Laws et al think of this? Too soft on the journalists?

Indeed. As I read John's superb post I reacted with passion, fully agreeing with the call that this is why we can't ignore what is happing in our part of the world, because the breach of one person's rights is a breach of all of our rights.

But then my heart sank as I realised that people I know, people I love, people I work with, people I socialise with would read the exact same story and go "the scabby thief got what he deserved."

It's awful. Thank you for posting this - I haven't watched it, and will not, but I've seen videos of police and military brutality towards captured suspects (often accused of serious crimes), and it turns me. I don't want to see these things unless I have to.

It also shows us why we should set very firm limits on the application of force by police - because violence of any kind is not the role of the police, and because the capacity for escalation is rapid. Boots quickly hit heads, and batons hit bodies, and where such conduct is normalised.

Someone I know was subject to prolonged and intense pain holds by NZ police after an arbitrary detention (he was not charged with anything, there was no conceivable reason), and while there was strong video evidence, did not go forward with the issue. In the absence of an independent police complaints authority, he felt the act would be fruitless. Where there is no independent press, a breakdown of the rule of law, and no independent judiciary, the outcomes are much worse again.