The dictatorship route to democracy

Crosbie Walsh has cemented his title as the King of coup apologists with his contribution to a debate on Radio New Zealand’s Bryan Crump Nights programme. Walsh is reported as saying that ‘Fiji could not achieve a full democracy without going through its current post-coup “painful process” under a military-backed regime’. As an educated man, Crosbie Walsh knows well that there is no precedent for democracy being introduced by a repressive military regime. The only explanation for propaganda like this is that Crosbie Walsh is on the dictator’s payroll.

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