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The
Tongan
government has extended the
state of emergency
in the capital,
Nuku?alofa
, for another month.
The move has been criticised as unnecessary by the chairman of the Tonga Civil Society Forum, Drew Havea. He says that life is now back to normal in the capital, and blames a group of Nuku?alofa businessmen for the rollover.
"We are not sure why they are taking that particular action because we don’t see any issue but that’s their right. If they want to petition for rolling over these emergency regulations, there’s not much we can do, on our part," he said.
The emergency regulations were originally put in place two and a half years ago, as a response to the
2006 Nuku'alofa riots
, and have been renewed monthly ever since. They give police wide powers to search, detain and arrest people without warrant within Nuku?alofa's CBD in order to protect
public safety
.
Central Nuku?alofa was severely damaged by pro-democracy riots on November 17, 2006.
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