Fiji's Attorney General is denying that the Reconciliation and Unity Bill will end all investigations into the 2000 coup.
This appears to contradict comments reportedly made by the prime minister, Laisenia Qarase, and published in the Fiji Times, that it would mean an end to all investigations related to the upheaval.
Mr Qarase is also reported to have told the people of Kubulau in Bua on Vanua Levu that the bill offered a political solution to the coup and that coup investigations would never end were it not for the bill.
But, the Attorney General and Justice Minister, Qoriniasi Bale, who drafted the bill, says if it's passed, there could be further investigations.
"Some may not qualify under the criteria set out in the proposed legislation, some may qualify but those involved may not want to access the mechanism because remember it's only voluntary, it's not compulsory."
The bill contains provisions to grant amnesty to coup perpetrators and convicts if they can prove their actions were politically motivated.
Meanwhile, Fiji's military says it's not prepared to keep quiet over legislation it believes threatens the security of the nation.
A military spokesman, Captain Neumi Leweni, says the military commander has called for the resignation of the Home Affairs Minister because he's failed to air the army's concerns over the government's Reconciliation and Unity Bill.
Captain Leweni says Commodore Frank Bainimarama believes it's obvious that the minister, Josefa Vosanibola, has not told cabinet of the military's security concerns over the bill.
We had raised it with him, it's not going anywhere, so what do you suggest we do? Just sit back and watch and see everything ruined by these people.?
Commodore Bainimarama has reportedly said no decent minister would sit back and endore a bill which was in his view radical.
He's reportedly warned that the military will hold people accountable if they appear to be leading Fiji into another coup.
