Senior media representatives in Fiji say several unsuccessful attempts were made to try and secure compensation for the veteran news photographer Sitiveni Moce whose funeral was held in Suva today.
Mr Moce passed away last Friday from debilitating injuries he sustained after being beaten by rebels in the 2000 coup and by soldiers after the 2006 coup.
The editor of Fiji's Islands Business Magazine Samisoni Pareti said lawyers had advised them that although Mr Moce's injuries had left him semi-paralysed for over a year, too much time had passed to qualify a worker's compensation claim.
"We are hoping that commonsense will prevail, I mean he got injured through his line of work and we are hoping that through his former employers the Fiji Sun and the Fiji Times newspapers there will be some consideration for his widow, Mili as well as his 12 year old son Jione who are now left without a father."