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A controversial book revealing a suppressed report into the reconstruction of the Nuku’alofa central business district in Tonga following the 2006 riots has been launched at AUT University.

The author, Dr Teena Brown Pulu, is a lecturer at AUT and launched the book, Shoot the Messenger, at the Manukau Campus.

Brown Pulu, who with Melino Maka, was authorised to write a report by the Tongan Prime Minister, Lord Tui’vakano, on this reconstruction project in April 2011. But its release was later blocked with the report considered “inadequate and unreliable”.

Teena Brown-Pulu is the Curriculum Leader for Pacific Development at the AUT.

Melino Maka is chairman of the Tongan Advisory Council in Auckland

 

 

Source

• Pacific Media Watch
• AUT
• Image: TonganetNZ

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