Talk:Cannabis eradication in Fiji

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Cannabis eradication in Fiji covers cannabis eradication by the Fiji Police Force: its legal basis, the units and methods involved, the operations reported since 2020, where they took place, the figures police have given, the officers named in reports and community responses. Dated reports are listed in the yearly eradication campaign pages.

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Correction: March 2025 Ono and Yale operations

The March 2025 entry under Major operations has been reworded to keep to the report it cites, The Fiji Times of 23 March 2025. Three phrases went beyond the report:

• The phrase "across multiple sites", of the Ono find. The report gives no number of sites. It reports that the Fiji Police Force said "31,000 marijuana plants have been found in the past week in the tikina of Ono" and later speaks of "the owner of the farm" in the singular. Its mention of seizures "from a number of farms" concerns the operations of the team based in Kadavu in general.
• "In a single week of operations on Kadavu", which put both finds in the same week. The report dates only the Ono find to the past week. It introduces the Yale find as "another raid" and gives it no date.
• "A 19-year-old man arrested at the Yale site". The report places the arrest "following the discovery of close to 4,000 plants" on a farm in the tikina of Yale. It does not say where the arrest was made.

The Ono figure is now given as a statement by the police, as in the report. The entry's link pointed to a page that does not exist and now leads to the news item on the same report. Éloise 04:57, 5 October 2026 (+07)

Correction: anticipated resistance

The section said that in March 2025 Commissioner Tudravu "anticipated resistance from cultivators". The report it cites quotes Tudravu as saying "We anticipate resistance and hostility from those involved" and does not say who those involved are. The section now introduces the quotation without naming them. Éloise 04:57, 5 October 2026 (+07)

Topics not yet covered

The article does not yet cover the nine sequential Operation Sasamaki phases: Phase 1 in March 2025 (4.9 tonnes) and phases 2 to 9 from April to December 2025 (18.2 tonnes cumulative). Per-phase plant counts, geographic targeting and named officers, whether the phases have public names or only numbers, and the comparison with the 2021 "second wave" framing are all open. Fiji Police Force annual reports would be the place to look, if accessible.