 All right, do you want to introduce yourself? Come on. That's the hexagon. It's like a parallel thing. That's a fiber. So what's happening right now is I'm following Kawa. Now, just give us a sign. What's the sign to give me? What's the... It's pepper... Brutius brumius. I was going to say pepper, my third seed. Yes, something like this. It's a... But it's a pepper, right? I don't know. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, I see. No. You're the yes woman. So, this is too many tonguewaters. It's the filmmaker. I'm here to mix the cookwork. Hello. Full off. And you're my second girl. So, I say better, why not? We needed a girl. We needed an Indigenous lady. An Indigenous woman. So, what's the name of the woman? I'm a filmmaker. Mm-hmm. What type? I... I'll... I guess... All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Do you know what type to give me? No, no, no. I don't know what type to give me. I don't know what type to give me. I don't know what type to give me. We have a reputation. Who does ours after an election that doesn't go down well for the previous government. Mm-hmm. And as long as there's a military... For me going into this... We'll always... I don't know what could... Do we de-weaponize them? Do we... Do we have the men? But they only... They still get involved in peacekeeping duties because that's money also for them. It's a source of income. But we don't carry guns here. Mm-hmm. And so if someone asks for support, we send our men. They use the militia. They use guns and whatever that's there. You think the arms... The arms might be the issue. But I mean, when you think about it... That's nice vehicles. The thing is like with George Spade School, the Bush pushback... Go beyond that. Which is in George Spade School. That's a civilian school. I think if people want to take over, they'll take over. And I think if you disarm the army, then who stops the potential of George Spade School? A civilian school. But they got the militia. They got their guns. From the army. From the army. Yeah. Still. And I was in parliament when they came in. Yeah. And... They came in shorts and like looking like a little bit... Okay, I thought it was like a drama. Because it was the one year anniversary killer of the Labour government. That been here one year. Wait, so you were there... Yes, I was a reporter. Wow. So did you... Oh my gosh. You should have started... Yeah. That's so exciting. Yes. You were just in school. Like teachers like, hey, make your things. We have to go to the... No, that's it. That's our story. So when they came in, did they start firing guns up at the ceiling? No. No, this is the whole thing. No. No, they... Like there was only seven of them or something. Wait, so the parliament could have like overpowered them. That gun is... Okay. Yeah, they couldn't. But like... First of all, we were all a bit shocked because there was someone screaming in the house. Yeah. Like, who screams in the house? And then you don't go past the, you know, Takomba's class. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's it called? The... Parliament. The... The sceptre. Yes, yes, yes. But what's the other name? Wow. The sceptre is the word that they use in email, I think. Chase, the mace. The mace. Yeah, the mace, the mace. That whole, like that whole month, they've been having all these marches. You know, the nationalists were marching in town because of the land reforms that Mr. Chaudhry was doing, yeah. And so this one, I've been covering the march. Yeah. But then this night before, I was in Berlin. So, I'm sorry, can you explain what... I block, no. Berlin is a dance. That nightclub. Nightclub. Draw Bullen. Bullen. Bullen, Bullen. Bullen, Bullen. Bullen, Bullen. I was in Berlin and he finished, like, four. Four years. So, I hardly any sleep. So I went to work late that morning. So, very strict. Bus. Bus. She said, I can sit. Yeah. I sent John to go and cover the march. You go up to Parliament. Some, yeah. Because, look, on a normal day, the march is an exciting thing to cover. Parliament would be like another boring day of statements, whatever was happening. Okay, said. I'll go. So, I went, I was sitting in the press gallery, hung over and all, like, really suffering. So, the photographer who went with me around, I feel like it would be the one decision he's regretted his whole life. Oh. He said, I just go into this job and then I'll come back. Ah. I said, sure. Oh, so he left. He left. He was the only photographer. Oh, so that's why we don't let me. From inside. When it happened. No. When it went down. Yeah. And this is not the time when you, like, pull out your hair full. Yeah. There's no smart phones. Yeah. So, I'm sitting here. Then he finally hear the alarm going because they do a siren thing. All the members come sit down. They had just started. So, kakaila mai. I think, like, who's screaming? Now I'm, like, awake, like. Gone. Yes. I'm looking down, like, who's screaming? And then I saw this boy. Like, they really look like boys who just come up. They were not in military uniform or anything. They're just shorts and, yeah. And he was, like, screaming. Like, this is a takeover. Like, Thelena and Dr. Karustin Gila said, you know, what's going on? Why? No, like, he was, like, trying to. And that's when he shot the first shot. Oh, he fired a gun? He fired. Into the air. Into the ceiling. Yeah. Okay, so. Now everyone was, like, okay, fuck. Like, this is real. How's your hangover? God, kill it. I realized what was going on. And so I, it just kind of automatic. I just started taking notes. Children refused to move, like they were telling them to move up. Children refused to move, and they dragged him out from out his seat and kicked him from behind me to force him to sit down. So they all started getting. Hentai? Yeah. Hentai. Yeah. And the same thing with Tupenin Bam Bam, who is his deputy prime minister. So they did this for each of them. So they didn't touch the, or ask the women, you know. And then at the same time, there were these people with a basket. They were collecting everyone's phone. When they came to opposition, there were a couple of people I noticed. They didn't take their phones. But do you think everyone had a phone back then? No. Oh, no, you saw, but they would have been visible. Yeah. The phones were massive back then. So I just started working. I just started taking notes and everything. Did they notice you? Yeah. By the time I looked around, there was a guy there, a lovely picture with one big tamani girl. Oh, behind you? Next to you? Yeah. I didn't even hear him walk into that. He just appeared right there. What did he say to you? No, I just looked at him and asked again. You know, I thought, okay, first time, and I've been so close to a gunman. They didn't take him on foot? No. I think they wanted people to, they wanted reporters to be there to tell what's happening. Tell what's happening. To take steps, yeah. Yeah, yeah. We were like about 400 meters away from Grandma. Oh, students. Yeah. Back then. I feel so old now. No, but I mean you were just like... Oh, that's about fun. Two decades apart. Did you get held, did you have to stay in Parliament for, or did they let you out the same day? Yeah. What happened after that? Yeah, no, we came, finally it was a lot of work out, so we came down. Nobody. No, I got my notebook and everything. And then I called Fiji Times to say, you know, I'm okay. They all had the gate. The Fiji Times gate? Yeah. I mean, all the media, they all had the back gate. Were you the only media person inside? No, there was this other girl. I forget her name. As soon as this thing is, she starts crying. And I'm thinking, who let them down? Like, I really don't need to... This is not the time. This is not the time to cry. Especially when you turn around. And there's this guy just standing there. No problem, nothing. He just... I thought they were wearing brawls. Yeah. So we had, we were rusted. Like, we would, because George Spade liked to do his press conferences in the morning. So we would like, yeah, Sammy, Sammy Paredi, he's here because he would... We went somewhere out here. This takeover was quite... Yeah. Just the timing. I was very annoyed. Man, a different gang came in. Like, every day, there were people coming and bringing food for this gang. For the rebels. Yeah. And then you start having women who are there to wash clothes and all that. And they come like a whole community. Yeah. Yes. There are areas that we, even as reporters, we just don't go into any of the buildings there. Because they're all stuff, you know, it's parliament complex. We still condition there like this is parliament. Yeah, you don't... Did you see this gang? Killang. Vali is so low across like this everywhere. I saw the... I remember seeing the fire marks, like from the outside cooking, all over that front gate, you know, that ground behind the front gate. Yeah. So he would have his press conferences at night. Kid mommy. Because we were roasted. Like, okay, you start from 11. Yeah. Because you never know when he'd come out and what's going to happen. He wouldn't give a... So to speak to the people. He wouldn't give like a... I'll be out at two o'clock. No. He'll just come down to where the media get now. And then we don't... That's right. I remember that. Yeah. It was quite random when you think about this... He would just walk down and we'd be like, okay, he's not... Put out my expense. Good morning. They're practicing out too much. Really? In their shorts and t-shirts. Left, right, left, right, all around that front of the main building. The Methodist Church come big delegation. And they were singing hymns. Outside the windows that the hostages were. The hostages were right there. So the women were kept in the main parliament building. And the men were like in the Fijileb party office. And so they'd be sitting there listening to these hymns coming from... You know... The road. Like outside. We really shouldn't mix church and their politics. Like I was so uncomfortable as a Christian, right? Just sitting there and listening to this. It was the epitome of hypocrisy or what you want to say. Yeah, if you want to say it. Like it was just really... It really made me like in terms of which could affect you most. That one really... I couldn't believe they were singing hymns. And the hostages were just sitting like the others from them. So just to be clear, when they're singing hymns, they're singing hymns in... Like what was the purpose of them? They're singing hymns like to show support to George Spade or to comfort the hostages? No, this is the Methodist Church delegation coming to visit George Spade and his crew. And to show their support. They had all kind of food and everything. So there was a little bit of a church gathering singing hymns. Yes. And I got the backing of the church. That's big. That's crazy. Anyway. Always have hope, yeah? But the case is, I probably wouldn't be living here anymore. If we decide to make video at home and just stay here, then there's something there. I like that. Gotta have hope. Gotta have hope.