Vic: RSL chief calls for calm after Aboriginal camp threat

AAP General News (Australia)
04-19-2006
Vic: RSL chief calls for calm after Aboriginal camp threat

The Victorian RSL says a soldier's threat to walk through an Aboriginal protest camp
on Anzac Day is a stupid idea.

A man claiming to be a soldier has sent an email to Southern Cross Broadcasting ..

saying he and his friends plan on breaking the protection zone set up by protesters around
the area they call Camp Sovereignty.

The email says they'll walk through the camp on their way from the dawn service at
the Shrine of Remembrance to the Anzac Day march.

But RSL President Major-General DAVID MCLACHLAN has called for calm.

He's urged anyone planning on being involved in the walk-through to reconsider .. saying
it won't achieve anything.





Protesters have occupied Kings Domain for more than a month .. declaring a fire on
the site sacred.

The fire is now the subject of a 30-day emergency heritage protection order.

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