Yellow Ribbon Campaign (Fiji)
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Most Fijian politicians outside of the government have come out against the legislation to establish a Commission with the power, subject to presidential approval, to pardon perpetrators and compensate victims of the coup d'état against the elected government in 2000. Along with many politicians, the Military and a number of business and professional organizations have also come out against the bill. The campaign gets its name from the yellow ribbons promoted by the opposition United People's Party and worn by many citizens, as a sign of their opposition to the legislation.
A coalition of organizations opposed to the bill announced on 21 July that they had collected more than five thousand signatures throughout the country. Ponipate Ravula of the Citizens Constitutional Forum said that the petition would be presented to the President and other "institutions that can sway public opinion."
Read more about Yellow Ribbon Campaign (Fiji): The Fiji Labour Party, The United Peoples Party, The National Alliance Party, The Mara Family, Other Politicians and Chiefs, The Fiji Law Society, Citizens Constitutional Forum, Religious Opposition, Women's Organizations, Other Non-government Organizations, The Police, The Military
Famous quotes containing the words yellow, ribbon and/or campaign:
“Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“For this your mother sweated in the cold,
For this you bled upon the bitter tree:
A yard of tinsel ribbon bought and sold;
A paper wreath; a day at home for me.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (18921950)
“The winter is to a woman of fashion what, of yore, a campaign was to the soldiers of the Empire.”
—Honoré De Balzac (17991850)