A Fijian soldier directs members of the news media to leave the Fijian Parliament in Suva December 6, 2006. Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has called on Fijians to stand up for democracy, and in what seemed like an act of defiance, senators in his deposed government held a budgetary sitting in parliament on Wednesday as armed soldiers patrolled the parliamentary compound. [Reuters]

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