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Allegations transmitted
the night by eight members of the Fiji Police
(“strike back team”). Shortly after his arrest,
members of Tevita’s family travelled to the
Valelevu Police Station asking to see him. Officers
at the station denied that Tevita was being held,
although the van that had transported him to the
station was parked outside and three officers
involved in Tevita’s arrest were seen at the station.
A few hours later, a phone call was received
advising the family that Tevita was in CWM
Hospital, Suva, where family members later
observed Tevita’s bruised corpse. A Police
Officers Order for Burial/cremation (form 5)
reports the cause of death of Tevita as “shock and
internal haemorrhage due to multiple bruises as a
complication of multiple blunt impacts”. Post
mortem photos appeared to indicate substantial
bruising to the body of the deceased. Sakiusa
Rabaka was arrested in the course of a joint
military police operation on 28 January 2007. He
was questioned by the military in Nadi and died
three weeks later of a brain haemorrhage, for
which he received emergency surgery. Then
police commissioner stated that police were
treating his death as murder and investigations
were ongoing against suspects including one
police man and six or seven soldiers. Nimilote
Verebasaga was arrested by the police at the
family home in Nakaulevu early in the morning of
5 January, 2007 and taken to the military barracks
for questioning. He was pronounced dead on
arrival at CWM Hospital. The body showed visible
signs of broken ribs and a broken neck. The
Government response
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