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A time comes when silence is betrayal
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered the following address from Riverside Church, New York City, April 4th, 1967.
NOTE: This speech by the great Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, is so applicable to Fiji. If we apply Dr King's speech to the current evil situation in Fiji, then we must move past indecision to action. This is especially true for the Fiji military forces, police force and public servants. But if we all do not act, Fiji shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time occupied by the murderer Bainimarama and his thieving AG Khaiyum who illegally possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight. Some of us in Fiji have already begun to break the 'silence of the night' that Dr King refers to in his speech and in doing so they have found that speaking out was a vocation of agony, but Dr King says that we must speak out, and that we must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For Fiji is deeply in need of a new way beyond the brutal, corrupt and oppressive military junta led by the murderer Bainimarma and his thieving AG Khaiyum.
Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,------------------------------------
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves in the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on.
Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation, for those it calls "enemy," for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers. I think of them, too, because it is clear to me that there will be no meaningful solution until some attempt is made to know them and hear their broken cries.
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities over the pursuit of war.
This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, clan, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves in the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
May our country, on the brink of war, take to heart the final refrain of "America, the Beautiful": "America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law."
NOTE: This speech by the great Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, is so applicable to Fiji. If we apply Dr King's speech to the current evil situation in Fiji, then we must move past indecision to action. This is especially true for the Fiji military forces, police force and public servants. But if we all do not act, Fiji shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time occupied by the murderer Bainimarama and his thieving AG Khaiyum who illegally possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight. Some of us in Fiji have already begun to break the 'silence of the night' that Dr King refers to in his speech and in doing so they have found that speaking out was a vocation of agony, but Dr King says that we must speak out, and that we must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For Fiji is deeply in need of a new way beyond the brutal, corrupt and oppressive military junta led by the murderer Bainimarma and his thieving AG Khaiyum.
Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,------------------------------------
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves in the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on.
Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation, for those it calls "enemy," for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers. I think of them, too, because it is clear to me that there will be no meaningful solution until some attempt is made to know them and hear their broken cries.
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities over the pursuit of war.
This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, clan, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves in the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
May our country, on the brink of war, take to heart the final refrain of "America, the Beautiful": "America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law."
The Peregrinations of Rev Akuila Yabaki October 2011 Leave Comment
There are no Senior Methodist Ministers in Fiji who are at liberty to travel overseas because of the risk that they may tell the truth and espouse unfavourable views of the current military junta led by the murderer Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama.
This travel ban does not apply to Rev Akuila Yabaki, who was dismissed from the pulpit by the Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma in 2001. But he continues to use the title Reverend. Rev Yabaki is free to travel overseas and to espouse the asserted merits of the illegal junta. He also purports to represent Non Governmental Bodies in Fiji.
Rev Yabaki turned up in Auckland at the 2011 Pacific Islands Forum meeting, and sought to distribute copies of the discredited Lowry Report, which ridiculously purported to give high approval rankings in Fiji for the current military dictatorship. Recipients placed the reports in bins as fast as the enthusiastic Reverend was keen to hand them out. He also turned up at the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting submitting that the current junta has sincere intentions to hold democratic elections and that Australia and New Zealand are blocking the elections from being held. Yabki’s submission does not stand up to scrutiny. The current illegal junta and its election promises are insincere virtually by definition and if there is any blocking done by Australia and New Zealand then it is a blocking of "incredible" elections. They will not block any credible elections.
It is also a cause for wonder where Rev Yabaki's travels will take him to next and what he will say in support of the illegal military junta. Of additional wonder is:
(i) Who gives him freedom to travel?
(ii) Who is funding him?
(iii) Why can not other clerics freely travel and freely speak?
This travel ban does not apply to Rev Akuila Yabaki, who was dismissed from the pulpit by the Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma in 2001. But he continues to use the title Reverend. Rev Yabaki is free to travel overseas and to espouse the asserted merits of the illegal junta. He also purports to represent Non Governmental Bodies in Fiji.
Rev Yabaki turned up in Auckland at the 2011 Pacific Islands Forum meeting, and sought to distribute copies of the discredited Lowry Report, which ridiculously purported to give high approval rankings in Fiji for the current military dictatorship. Recipients placed the reports in bins as fast as the enthusiastic Reverend was keen to hand them out. He also turned up at the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting submitting that the current junta has sincere intentions to hold democratic elections and that Australia and New Zealand are blocking the elections from being held. Yabki’s submission does not stand up to scrutiny. The current illegal junta and its election promises are insincere virtually by definition and if there is any blocking done by Australia and New Zealand then it is a blocking of "incredible" elections. They will not block any credible elections.
It is also a cause for wonder where Rev Yabaki's travels will take him to next and what he will say in support of the illegal military junta. Of additional wonder is:
(i) Who gives him freedom to travel?
(ii) Who is funding him?
(iii) Why can not other clerics freely travel and freely speak?
A call to the Republic of Fiji Military Forces
Press Release
A CALL TO THE REPUBLIC OF THE FIJI MILITARY FORCES, - NOT ONLY FOR SUBJECTION OR SUBMISSION; BUT FOR CO-OPERATION AND RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW AND ORDINANCES OF OUR DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT.
(By Rev. J. F. Koroi)
I write with great concern, not only as a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus the Christ, but also as a fellow RFMF “Commissioned” officer to the Rank of Chaplaincy 3rd Class (Major) by His Excellency, the late Ratu Sir George Kadavulevu Cakobau, Governor General and Commander in Chief to the Fiji Infantry Regimental Forces, to remind Commodore F. Bainimarama and all other RFMF officers of the “common oath of allegiance” we all undertook regarding the Ordinance and Authorities of all other Powers which enabling the Commander-in-Chief, who in reposing especial trust and confidence in our loyalty, obedience, courage and good conduct did, thereby present, constitute, nominate and appoint each one of us to be an officer of the RFMF.
Each one of us (officers) are therefore carefully and diligently ordered to discharge our various duties in the rank for which the officer is commissioned.
We are thereby commanded by His Excellency – the Commander-in-Chief to obey our superior officers and to observe and follow orders and directions as from time to time one shall receive from his or her superior officers according to the rules and discipline of war, and of the Military Forces of Fiji in pursuance of the trust thereby reposed upon us.
And being Commissioned for life for example, as a Senior Chaplain in the RFMF, who had 15 yrs service in the Military – both at home and abroad in peace keeping duties; I am morally obligated to plead for obedience and respect to the rule of law, and reconciliation in services between the Military and the Government - regarding the ongoing impasse, which now has brought to a stand still our most valued economic progression of tourism in the country.
As for Commodore Bainimarama with his Commissioned officers with him, being antagonistic to the rule of law and order, and conspiring to march into the office of Prime Minister Qarase and force him to resign, and then take over the reign of his democratically elected government, they are “not only denying” their “oath of allegiance” to the supreme authority of the State and, or “abusing the trust of loyalty to duties” placed upon them, but they are deliberately conspiring to committing an act of “mutiny”, “treason” and a “felony” against the State and its democratically elected Government.
But, at the moment, all are being caught up in political and military dilemma and power rivalry stalemate between them, and not knowing of where or whom to turn for a happy solution to the many serious problems that are threatening to the welfare, wellbeing, prosperity, security and peace in the country.
I therefore would like to focus all attention to some words of divine wisdom from the scriptures, as moral guide to our character for good citizenship of a country. As we are trying to follow these divine directives from the Scriptures, let us bear in mind what the Apostle Paul said in addressing Christian citizens who were under the “Authoritarian” rule of the Roman Empire, and not a “democratically” elected government such as ours. Nevertheless, both types of Government are founded on the same moral and spiritual principle of righteousness, obedience, justice, and truth.
All Christian citizens, as St. Paul said to Titus (3:1-2) are “to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no one, not to be aggressive, to be kindly, to show all gentleness to all people”. And again St. Paul continued to tell the Christians in Rome to ---“Render due obedience to those who occupy positions of outstanding authority, for there is no authority which is not allotted its place by God, for the authorities which exist have been set in their place by God. So, he who sets himself up against authority has really set himself up against God’s arrangement of things ………” said the Apostle Paul (Rom 13:1-7).
The above passages are to counsel “absolute obedience” on the part of the Christian citizen to the civil power.
As a general rule, God “condemns” civil disobedience toward the lawfully – existent government. Those who are contrary and rebel against it, must know that opposition to government is opposition to God. However, the obedience which the citizen owes to the government is never absolute and must be carefully weighed in the light of his subjection to God. To unlawfully and unethically resist government, as the Commander RFMF has been doing, brings the judgement (not condemnation) of God upon the people of the country.
Since God’s purpose in ordaining government of the day is to “restrain” wickedness and “promote” virtue, we are to be in subjection to any government, which fulfils this purpose.
The Ministers of the State are ordained of God to minister that, which is good. Therefore the town Mayor or a Police or an Army Officer, or a Village chief is as much a minister of God as the local pastor of the church, but in a very different way. We ought to have as much respect for good mayor or government minister as we do for a good priest of Hindu temple, Mosque or a Church.
The hands of good government should never be so tied, that they cannot execute good judgement and the wrath of courts of law upon those who do wrong and evil things.
However, at this point, the Apostle Paul, reiterates God’s general rule that we need to be subject to the higher powers, but he introduces also the question of the “conscience” as well. The Christian citizen always lives in a tension between the “two” competing claims of “obedience” to the “State” and “obedience” to “God”.
The State has the right to demand our respect and conformity. Thus, we are to be in subjection to those in authority over us, not only out of fear and respect but also out of “good conscience” before God. However, the “morally conscientious” dare not “blindly” bow to the State if his conscience is offended by the wickedness of the State. There may be times when “we ought to obey God rather than men”. (Acts 5:29; cf 4:9). Since the “State” and its “magistrate” are “not infallible”, the moral objector may at times have to conscientiously object to what the State requires is in direct contradiction to the divine law of God.
To be a good citizen of the State we must as St. Paul said, “render …. To all their dues”, that is to discharge our obligation to all citizens.
If we disobey the State, we are to fear, concern, and reverence those who have been charged with responsibility of punishing disobedience and the rebellious. At the same time we are to respect the laws of the State and those who make the laws. It is dishonourable of anyone to speak in a disrespectful way of the State or officers of the State and as well as our own local leaders.
OBEDIENCE AND RELATIONSHIP TO POWER AND AUTHORITY.
St. Paul’s letter to Titus (3:1-2) says that “He is to remind Christian citizens to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey each several command, to be ready for every good work. To speak evil nor slander of no one, not to be aggressive nor brawlers, but to be kindly, gentle and showing all meekness unto all citizens.”
Truly, here, with this passage, there is laid down the duty of all good citizens; and its advice is particularly relevant to the turmoil situation facing the Fiji Military and the Government authorities. The RFMF Commander, Commodore F. Bainimarama and officers have, for sometime now been notoriously turbulent and quarrelsome and as well as impatient of all government authority, particularly in regards to the proposed R.T.U. and Qoliqoli Bills. This passage lays down six qualifications for the “good reputable and desirable” moral character of a citizen.
(1) The good citizen is “law abiding”. He or she recognises that unless the laws are kept, life becomes chaos. He or she gives proper respect to those who are set in authority, and carries out whatever command is given to him. Christianity does not insist that a man should cease to be an individual, but it does insist that that, he must always remember that he is also a member of a group. As someone, once said: “Man is a political animal”. And what it means is that, a man best expresses his personality not in isolated individualism, but within the framework of the group. A good citizen best finds him/herself in the company and the service of others.
(2) A good citizen is “active in service”. He or she is ready for every work, so long as it is good. The characteristic modern disease is “boredom”; and “boredom” is the direct result of “selfishness”. So long as a person lives by the principle of “self importance” and “self aggrandizement” – whose only desire is to be served rather than giving service for others, is bound to be bored and stressed. Is it not this the kind of “boredom” the RFMF and its Commander suffers?
As it has been for some years now, since the withdrawal of the Military guards personnel from all government services and its Prime Minister; and have shifted all services to themselves by providing heavy security, only for its own Q.E Camp and to the seemingly most insecure person in the country – Commodore F. Bainimarama – to whom the government has entrusted all weaponry ammunition for the purpose of providing national security and stability, but who has failed miserably because he suffers from the dreadful moral disease of “boredom” – as a direct result of “lack of active service” for others, and of selfishness and self aggrandizement.
(3) A good citizen is “careful in speech”. He or she must slander no one. No person should say about other people what he or she would not like other people to say about him or her. The good citizen will be as careful of the words he speaks as of the deeds he or she does. It may be true to think that, there would not be another military “coup” as pronounced by the RFMF spokesperson Major. Leweni; but the “Slandering words” that have been uttered about the Government and its officers by the Commander, Commodore F. Bainimarama has had already its same destructive effect, if not worse, on good relationship that existed – politically, economically, socially and morally both, nationally and internationally between Governments, with all the citizens and allies.
(4) The good citizen is “tolerant”. The word “tolerant” in Greek means – not a fighter”. He or she is “not aggressive”. This does not mean that the good citizen will not stand for the principles which he or she believes to be right, but it does mean that he will never be opinionated that he cannot believe that any other way than his or her own is right. He will allow to others the same right to have their convictions as he or she claims for him/herself to have his own. The call by Commodore F. Bainimarama for the Government to resign if it would not drop the so called “unjust” policies such as the R.A.T.U and the Qoliqoli Bills; - can only be best described as aggressive, unconstitutional, immoral and intolerably unacceptable.
(5) A good citizen is “kind”. The word “kind” describes the person who does not stand upon the letter of the law. It denotes “indulgent consideration of human infirmities”, it also denotes the “ability” to consider not only the letter of the law, but also the “mind” and “intention” of the “legislator”. The person who is kind is ever ready to temper justice with mercy, and to avoid the injustice, which often lies in being “strictly” just. Is it not this, the justice with mercy which the “R.T.U and Qoliqoli Bills” is trying to bring in with the Landowners in order to avoid the “injustice” which lies in being “strictly just” as advocated by the RFMF Commander F. Bainimarama, with his policy of “retaliation” which is “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”. This opposes the Christian principle of “forgiveness and reconciliation” which is not the resisting of evil with evil: but, “whoever smacks you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also” said Jesus. Jesus is here telling the Christian believers how they should respond to personal injury.
He is not discussing the government’s obligation to maintain law and order. Although, the question of non-retaliation or non-violence is often discussed in relation to these verses, however these passages alone do not mean that a person should not defend his family or his country, but rather that he should not attempt personal vengeance as Commodore Bainimarama is now doing, even through the means of the law, to compensate for a personal injury.
The reason for this “non-retaliation” or “non-violence” of Christian principle is that – all justice ultimately is in the hand and heart of God. As long as human governments prevail, justice will be limited by people’s finite abilities. The practical application of this principle is that the Christian citizen should not attempt to justify him or herself or inflict vengeance, even through legal means. He is to place his total confidence in the ultimate sovereignty of God over the affairs of his life.
This Christian principle “to overcome evil with good” (Rom 12:21) is probably the “most feared statements in all the Bible”. People have gone to great lengths in an attempt to explain it away. But still, it remains the most pungent statement of Christian ethic. The life of a Christian citizen in society is to be lived with such a quality of moral verity and justice that he needs “no physical retaliation” in order to defend or justify his position.
This pungent statement of ethics should speak directly to the minds and hearts of Commodore Bainimarama and his armed soldiers that they “must not” continually bully the innocent general public with “guns”, and stop the takeover threat and their clean up campaign by force of our democratically elected government of Fiji.
(6) The good citizen is “gentle”. The word describes the person whose temper is always under complete control. “Gentle” usually refers to our outward conduct while “meekness” to our inward attitude. It describes the person who knows when to be angry and when not to be angry, the person who patiently bears wrong done to himself, but is ever ready to spring to the help of others who are wronged or injured.
If such a high moral standard of conduct is required for a good “gentle” leadership in good citizenship, who of the two gentlemen Mr. F. Bainimarama or Mr. L. Qarase, in your own personal understanding of their attitude and character is best suited to the moral quality of leadership for the good and “gentle” governance of our country?
What duties are expected of a Christian for good citizenship?
The Apostle Peter looks at the duty of a Christian as a citizen where he happens to live by saying that they are to “submit to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether it be to the “king”, who has the first place, or to “governors” as sent by Him for the “punishment” of whose deeds are “evil”, and the “praise” of those whose deeds are “good” for it is the will of God that by so doing, you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men”. (1 Peter 2:13-15)
Nothing is further from the thought of all the Apostles and Christ than any kind of anarchy. Jesus had said, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s (Matt 22:21).
The Apostle Paul was certain that those who governed the nation were sent by God and held their responsibility from God, and that they were no terror or threat to the person who lived an honourable life (Rm. 13:1-7). St. Paul had instructed all Christians to pray for Kings and for all that are in authority (1 Tim.2:2). The instruction of these Apostles is that the “Christian” must be “good” and “useful” and “faithful” citizen of the country in which his or her life is set.
All societies are built by people who join themselves together and agree to live under certain laws, in order that not only the good and the honourable people, but all common citizens as well may have peace, to live their lives, to do their work, and to go about their business, and in order that the evil people should be restrained and controlled and kept from their evil doing. The whole idea of these Apostles (Paul and Peter) is that life is meant by God to be an “ordered business”, and that the “state” is divinely appointed to provide and to maintain that order.
This point of view, expressed by these Apostles, is perfect and “just” and “logical”. Paul and Peter holds that a person cannot accept the privileges, which the State provides him or her without also accepting the responsibilities and the duties which the State demands from him or her. A person cannot in honour and decency, take everything and give nothing.
HOW ARE WE TO TRANSLATE THIS CONCEPT INTO OUR SOCIO – POLITICAL, AND SOCIO – RELIGIOUS SITUATION TODAY?
It is understood that there is a fundamental difference between the State in Paul and Peter’s time and the State we know today. In the Apostle’s times “State” was “authoritarian”. The “ruler” was an “absolute” power and the sole duty of the citizen was to render “absolute” obedience to the State and to pay taxes as the State ordained (Rom. 13:6-6).
Under these conditions the “keynote” was bound to “subjection” to the State. We no longer live in an “authoritarian” State, but we now live in a “democracy”; and, in a democracy something far more than unquestioning “subjection” and “submission” becomes necessary. In a democracy, Government is not only government “of” the people; is also government “for” the people and “by” the people. Now the demands of both Apostles (Paul and Peter) is that the Christian citizen should fulfil their responsibility and obligation to the State.
In the “authoritarian” State, that obligation consisted solely in “submission and subjection”. But what is that obligation in the very different circumstances of a democracy? Or to ask the question in another way if “subjection” is the “keynote” of the obligation of the citizen in the authoritarian State, what is the “keynote” of the obligation of the citizen in the “democratic” State?
While it is true in any State, there must be a certain subjection, there also must be “a voluntary subordination of oneself to others, putting the interest and welfare of others above one’s own, preferring to “give” rather than “to get”, to “serve” rather than to “be served”.
But in a “democratic State”, the keynote must not be “subjection”, but “co-operation”, for in the democratic State the duty of the citizen is not only to submit to be ruled, but to “take the necessary share” in ruling. Therefore, if the citizen is to fulfil his duty to the State, he must take his part in the government of the State; that is, he must take his part in the local government of the city, the town, the district, the province, the village and the community where he stays. He must also take his part in the life and work and administration of the trade union, business Company or association connected with his trade, craft or profession.
“No one” can, entirely disassociate himself from a democratic society in which he lives and has a part”.
No one can, in conscience, opt out of the nation; not even Commodore F. Bainimarama with his tons of bullets dubiously confiscated from the Customs at the Suva wharf. Each of the Military personnel is a part of the body of the state, and enjoys benefits which he could not as an individual.
He cannot reasonably claim all the privileges and then refuse all the duties and responsibilities. He is bound up in the bundle of life as he is part of the body of the military, just as is a policeman, a member of a political party, a town councillor etc. And he is also a part of the State which calls for his loyalty and co-operation.
There is no such thing in this world as an independent isolated individual. A person has a duty to the state, and must discharge that duty even if he be a Dictator such as Emperor Nero of Rome or Commodore Bainimarama, who is threatening to be one.
It is to the democratic State government that a person owes his protection. The State exists for the sake of justice and safety; personal security against violence, savagery and calamity.
A State is essentially a body of people who band themselves, co-operate and covenant together to maintain certain relationships between each other by the observance of certain laws and policies.
Without the State, or without these laws, and without the mutual agreement and co-operation to observe them, the antagonist, the selfish and the out of control militant man, such as Commander Bainimarama, would be supreme. The weak, the innocent, the begging to be different in the general population, would go hiding behind walls. Life would become ruled by the law of the jungle. Every ordinary person owes his security to the State, and is therefore under a duty and responsibility to it.
Ordinary people benefit from a wide range of state provided services which individually they could not attain to.
It would be impossible for every person (especially the state paid Fiji Military Forces) to have his own water, lighting, sewage and transportation system, etc.
It would be impossible for a person by himself to enjoy a system of municipal services, communication, social security, health and education, etc.
These things are only obtainable when people agree and co-operate to live together. It would be quite wrong for a person to enjoy every thing wherewith the State provides him and refuse all responsibility to that State.
No person in all fairness takes everything and gives nothing. That in fact, is one compelling reason why the individual person is bound in honour to be a good citizen, and to take his part in all the duties of citizenship.
It was St. Paul’s main views that “Governments are Divinely Ordained To Save The World From Chaos”. The Apostle Paul, as he saw things of his day, believed that the Roman Empire was the divinely ordained instruments to save the world from chaos. Take away that Empire, as St. Paul saw it, and the world would disintegrate into flying fragments.
It was in fact, the Roman State, which gave the individual citizen the chance to do his work (Christian missionaries included).
Ideally people should be bound and co-operate together by the love of one’s own country; but they are not; and the only ultimate bond which keeps them together is the rule of law of the State.
The Apostle Paul saw in the State an instrument in the hand of God; the state preserved the world from chaos; those who minister the State are playing their part in that great task. Whether they know it or not they are doing God’s work, and it is the duty of every citizen not to hinder, but rather to co-operate and positively assist.
And lastly, but not least, Paul said that all citizens have a higher obligation than even his obligation to the State. While he must render to Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, he must also render to God the things that are God’s.
These are perilous times for our small nation and I call upon all to ponder earnestly and consider the path of lawful righteousness, truth, integrity and peace!!
………………………………………………
Rev. Josateki F. Koroi
(27/11/2006)
A CALL TO THE REPUBLIC OF THE FIJI MILITARY FORCES, - NOT ONLY FOR SUBJECTION OR SUBMISSION; BUT FOR CO-OPERATION AND RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW AND ORDINANCES OF OUR DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT.
(By Rev. J. F. Koroi)
I write with great concern, not only as a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus the Christ, but also as a fellow RFMF “Commissioned” officer to the Rank of Chaplaincy 3rd Class (Major) by His Excellency, the late Ratu Sir George Kadavulevu Cakobau, Governor General and Commander in Chief to the Fiji Infantry Regimental Forces, to remind Commodore F. Bainimarama and all other RFMF officers of the “common oath of allegiance” we all undertook regarding the Ordinance and Authorities of all other Powers which enabling the Commander-in-Chief, who in reposing especial trust and confidence in our loyalty, obedience, courage and good conduct did, thereby present, constitute, nominate and appoint each one of us to be an officer of the RFMF.
Each one of us (officers) are therefore carefully and diligently ordered to discharge our various duties in the rank for which the officer is commissioned.
We are thereby commanded by His Excellency – the Commander-in-Chief to obey our superior officers and to observe and follow orders and directions as from time to time one shall receive from his or her superior officers according to the rules and discipline of war, and of the Military Forces of Fiji in pursuance of the trust thereby reposed upon us.
And being Commissioned for life for example, as a Senior Chaplain in the RFMF, who had 15 yrs service in the Military – both at home and abroad in peace keeping duties; I am morally obligated to plead for obedience and respect to the rule of law, and reconciliation in services between the Military and the Government - regarding the ongoing impasse, which now has brought to a stand still our most valued economic progression of tourism in the country.
As for Commodore Bainimarama with his Commissioned officers with him, being antagonistic to the rule of law and order, and conspiring to march into the office of Prime Minister Qarase and force him to resign, and then take over the reign of his democratically elected government, they are “not only denying” their “oath of allegiance” to the supreme authority of the State and, or “abusing the trust of loyalty to duties” placed upon them, but they are deliberately conspiring to committing an act of “mutiny”, “treason” and a “felony” against the State and its democratically elected Government.
But, at the moment, all are being caught up in political and military dilemma and power rivalry stalemate between them, and not knowing of where or whom to turn for a happy solution to the many serious problems that are threatening to the welfare, wellbeing, prosperity, security and peace in the country.
I therefore would like to focus all attention to some words of divine wisdom from the scriptures, as moral guide to our character for good citizenship of a country. As we are trying to follow these divine directives from the Scriptures, let us bear in mind what the Apostle Paul said in addressing Christian citizens who were under the “Authoritarian” rule of the Roman Empire, and not a “democratically” elected government such as ours. Nevertheless, both types of Government are founded on the same moral and spiritual principle of righteousness, obedience, justice, and truth.
All Christian citizens, as St. Paul said to Titus (3:1-2) are “to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no one, not to be aggressive, to be kindly, to show all gentleness to all people”. And again St. Paul continued to tell the Christians in Rome to ---“Render due obedience to those who occupy positions of outstanding authority, for there is no authority which is not allotted its place by God, for the authorities which exist have been set in their place by God. So, he who sets himself up against authority has really set himself up against God’s arrangement of things ………” said the Apostle Paul (Rom 13:1-7).
The above passages are to counsel “absolute obedience” on the part of the Christian citizen to the civil power.
As a general rule, God “condemns” civil disobedience toward the lawfully – existent government. Those who are contrary and rebel against it, must know that opposition to government is opposition to God. However, the obedience which the citizen owes to the government is never absolute and must be carefully weighed in the light of his subjection to God. To unlawfully and unethically resist government, as the Commander RFMF has been doing, brings the judgement (not condemnation) of God upon the people of the country.
Since God’s purpose in ordaining government of the day is to “restrain” wickedness and “promote” virtue, we are to be in subjection to any government, which fulfils this purpose.
The Ministers of the State are ordained of God to minister that, which is good. Therefore the town Mayor or a Police or an Army Officer, or a Village chief is as much a minister of God as the local pastor of the church, but in a very different way. We ought to have as much respect for good mayor or government minister as we do for a good priest of Hindu temple, Mosque or a Church.
The hands of good government should never be so tied, that they cannot execute good judgement and the wrath of courts of law upon those who do wrong and evil things.
However, at this point, the Apostle Paul, reiterates God’s general rule that we need to be subject to the higher powers, but he introduces also the question of the “conscience” as well. The Christian citizen always lives in a tension between the “two” competing claims of “obedience” to the “State” and “obedience” to “God”.
The State has the right to demand our respect and conformity. Thus, we are to be in subjection to those in authority over us, not only out of fear and respect but also out of “good conscience” before God. However, the “morally conscientious” dare not “blindly” bow to the State if his conscience is offended by the wickedness of the State. There may be times when “we ought to obey God rather than men”. (Acts 5:29; cf 4:9). Since the “State” and its “magistrate” are “not infallible”, the moral objector may at times have to conscientiously object to what the State requires is in direct contradiction to the divine law of God.
To be a good citizen of the State we must as St. Paul said, “render …. To all their dues”, that is to discharge our obligation to all citizens.
If we disobey the State, we are to fear, concern, and reverence those who have been charged with responsibility of punishing disobedience and the rebellious. At the same time we are to respect the laws of the State and those who make the laws. It is dishonourable of anyone to speak in a disrespectful way of the State or officers of the State and as well as our own local leaders.
OBEDIENCE AND RELATIONSHIP TO POWER AND AUTHORITY.
St. Paul’s letter to Titus (3:1-2) says that “He is to remind Christian citizens to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey each several command, to be ready for every good work. To speak evil nor slander of no one, not to be aggressive nor brawlers, but to be kindly, gentle and showing all meekness unto all citizens.”
Truly, here, with this passage, there is laid down the duty of all good citizens; and its advice is particularly relevant to the turmoil situation facing the Fiji Military and the Government authorities. The RFMF Commander, Commodore F. Bainimarama and officers have, for sometime now been notoriously turbulent and quarrelsome and as well as impatient of all government authority, particularly in regards to the proposed R.T.U. and Qoliqoli Bills. This passage lays down six qualifications for the “good reputable and desirable” moral character of a citizen.
(1) The good citizen is “law abiding”. He or she recognises that unless the laws are kept, life becomes chaos. He or she gives proper respect to those who are set in authority, and carries out whatever command is given to him. Christianity does not insist that a man should cease to be an individual, but it does insist that that, he must always remember that he is also a member of a group. As someone, once said: “Man is a political animal”. And what it means is that, a man best expresses his personality not in isolated individualism, but within the framework of the group. A good citizen best finds him/herself in the company and the service of others.
(2) A good citizen is “active in service”. He or she is ready for every work, so long as it is good. The characteristic modern disease is “boredom”; and “boredom” is the direct result of “selfishness”. So long as a person lives by the principle of “self importance” and “self aggrandizement” – whose only desire is to be served rather than giving service for others, is bound to be bored and stressed. Is it not this the kind of “boredom” the RFMF and its Commander suffers?
As it has been for some years now, since the withdrawal of the Military guards personnel from all government services and its Prime Minister; and have shifted all services to themselves by providing heavy security, only for its own Q.E Camp and to the seemingly most insecure person in the country – Commodore F. Bainimarama – to whom the government has entrusted all weaponry ammunition for the purpose of providing national security and stability, but who has failed miserably because he suffers from the dreadful moral disease of “boredom” – as a direct result of “lack of active service” for others, and of selfishness and self aggrandizement.
(3) A good citizen is “careful in speech”. He or she must slander no one. No person should say about other people what he or she would not like other people to say about him or her. The good citizen will be as careful of the words he speaks as of the deeds he or she does. It may be true to think that, there would not be another military “coup” as pronounced by the RFMF spokesperson Major. Leweni; but the “Slandering words” that have been uttered about the Government and its officers by the Commander, Commodore F. Bainimarama has had already its same destructive effect, if not worse, on good relationship that existed – politically, economically, socially and morally both, nationally and internationally between Governments, with all the citizens and allies.
(4) The good citizen is “tolerant”. The word “tolerant” in Greek means – not a fighter”. He or she is “not aggressive”. This does not mean that the good citizen will not stand for the principles which he or she believes to be right, but it does mean that he will never be opinionated that he cannot believe that any other way than his or her own is right. He will allow to others the same right to have their convictions as he or she claims for him/herself to have his own. The call by Commodore F. Bainimarama for the Government to resign if it would not drop the so called “unjust” policies such as the R.A.T.U and the Qoliqoli Bills; - can only be best described as aggressive, unconstitutional, immoral and intolerably unacceptable.
(5) A good citizen is “kind”. The word “kind” describes the person who does not stand upon the letter of the law. It denotes “indulgent consideration of human infirmities”, it also denotes the “ability” to consider not only the letter of the law, but also the “mind” and “intention” of the “legislator”. The person who is kind is ever ready to temper justice with mercy, and to avoid the injustice, which often lies in being “strictly” just. Is it not this, the justice with mercy which the “R.T.U and Qoliqoli Bills” is trying to bring in with the Landowners in order to avoid the “injustice” which lies in being “strictly just” as advocated by the RFMF Commander F. Bainimarama, with his policy of “retaliation” which is “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”. This opposes the Christian principle of “forgiveness and reconciliation” which is not the resisting of evil with evil: but, “whoever smacks you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also” said Jesus. Jesus is here telling the Christian believers how they should respond to personal injury.
He is not discussing the government’s obligation to maintain law and order. Although, the question of non-retaliation or non-violence is often discussed in relation to these verses, however these passages alone do not mean that a person should not defend his family or his country, but rather that he should not attempt personal vengeance as Commodore Bainimarama is now doing, even through the means of the law, to compensate for a personal injury.
The reason for this “non-retaliation” or “non-violence” of Christian principle is that – all justice ultimately is in the hand and heart of God. As long as human governments prevail, justice will be limited by people’s finite abilities. The practical application of this principle is that the Christian citizen should not attempt to justify him or herself or inflict vengeance, even through legal means. He is to place his total confidence in the ultimate sovereignty of God over the affairs of his life.
This Christian principle “to overcome evil with good” (Rom 12:21) is probably the “most feared statements in all the Bible”. People have gone to great lengths in an attempt to explain it away. But still, it remains the most pungent statement of Christian ethic. The life of a Christian citizen in society is to be lived with such a quality of moral verity and justice that he needs “no physical retaliation” in order to defend or justify his position.
This pungent statement of ethics should speak directly to the minds and hearts of Commodore Bainimarama and his armed soldiers that they “must not” continually bully the innocent general public with “guns”, and stop the takeover threat and their clean up campaign by force of our democratically elected government of Fiji.
(6) The good citizen is “gentle”. The word describes the person whose temper is always under complete control. “Gentle” usually refers to our outward conduct while “meekness” to our inward attitude. It describes the person who knows when to be angry and when not to be angry, the person who patiently bears wrong done to himself, but is ever ready to spring to the help of others who are wronged or injured.
If such a high moral standard of conduct is required for a good “gentle” leadership in good citizenship, who of the two gentlemen Mr. F. Bainimarama or Mr. L. Qarase, in your own personal understanding of their attitude and character is best suited to the moral quality of leadership for the good and “gentle” governance of our country?
What duties are expected of a Christian for good citizenship?
The Apostle Peter looks at the duty of a Christian as a citizen where he happens to live by saying that they are to “submit to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether it be to the “king”, who has the first place, or to “governors” as sent by Him for the “punishment” of whose deeds are “evil”, and the “praise” of those whose deeds are “good” for it is the will of God that by so doing, you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men”. (1 Peter 2:13-15)
Nothing is further from the thought of all the Apostles and Christ than any kind of anarchy. Jesus had said, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s (Matt 22:21).
The Apostle Paul was certain that those who governed the nation were sent by God and held their responsibility from God, and that they were no terror or threat to the person who lived an honourable life (Rm. 13:1-7). St. Paul had instructed all Christians to pray for Kings and for all that are in authority (1 Tim.2:2). The instruction of these Apostles is that the “Christian” must be “good” and “useful” and “faithful” citizen of the country in which his or her life is set.
All societies are built by people who join themselves together and agree to live under certain laws, in order that not only the good and the honourable people, but all common citizens as well may have peace, to live their lives, to do their work, and to go about their business, and in order that the evil people should be restrained and controlled and kept from their evil doing. The whole idea of these Apostles (Paul and Peter) is that life is meant by God to be an “ordered business”, and that the “state” is divinely appointed to provide and to maintain that order.
This point of view, expressed by these Apostles, is perfect and “just” and “logical”. Paul and Peter holds that a person cannot accept the privileges, which the State provides him or her without also accepting the responsibilities and the duties which the State demands from him or her. A person cannot in honour and decency, take everything and give nothing.
HOW ARE WE TO TRANSLATE THIS CONCEPT INTO OUR SOCIO – POLITICAL, AND SOCIO – RELIGIOUS SITUATION TODAY?
It is understood that there is a fundamental difference between the State in Paul and Peter’s time and the State we know today. In the Apostle’s times “State” was “authoritarian”. The “ruler” was an “absolute” power and the sole duty of the citizen was to render “absolute” obedience to the State and to pay taxes as the State ordained (Rom. 13:6-6).
Under these conditions the “keynote” was bound to “subjection” to the State. We no longer live in an “authoritarian” State, but we now live in a “democracy”; and, in a democracy something far more than unquestioning “subjection” and “submission” becomes necessary. In a democracy, Government is not only government “of” the people; is also government “for” the people and “by” the people. Now the demands of both Apostles (Paul and Peter) is that the Christian citizen should fulfil their responsibility and obligation to the State.
In the “authoritarian” State, that obligation consisted solely in “submission and subjection”. But what is that obligation in the very different circumstances of a democracy? Or to ask the question in another way if “subjection” is the “keynote” of the obligation of the citizen in the authoritarian State, what is the “keynote” of the obligation of the citizen in the “democratic” State?
While it is true in any State, there must be a certain subjection, there also must be “a voluntary subordination of oneself to others, putting the interest and welfare of others above one’s own, preferring to “give” rather than “to get”, to “serve” rather than to “be served”.
But in a “democratic State”, the keynote must not be “subjection”, but “co-operation”, for in the democratic State the duty of the citizen is not only to submit to be ruled, but to “take the necessary share” in ruling. Therefore, if the citizen is to fulfil his duty to the State, he must take his part in the government of the State; that is, he must take his part in the local government of the city, the town, the district, the province, the village and the community where he stays. He must also take his part in the life and work and administration of the trade union, business Company or association connected with his trade, craft or profession.
“No one” can, entirely disassociate himself from a democratic society in which he lives and has a part”.
No one can, in conscience, opt out of the nation; not even Commodore F. Bainimarama with his tons of bullets dubiously confiscated from the Customs at the Suva wharf. Each of the Military personnel is a part of the body of the state, and enjoys benefits which he could not as an individual.
He cannot reasonably claim all the privileges and then refuse all the duties and responsibilities. He is bound up in the bundle of life as he is part of the body of the military, just as is a policeman, a member of a political party, a town councillor etc. And he is also a part of the State which calls for his loyalty and co-operation.
There is no such thing in this world as an independent isolated individual. A person has a duty to the state, and must discharge that duty even if he be a Dictator such as Emperor Nero of Rome or Commodore Bainimarama, who is threatening to be one.
It is to the democratic State government that a person owes his protection. The State exists for the sake of justice and safety; personal security against violence, savagery and calamity.
A State is essentially a body of people who band themselves, co-operate and covenant together to maintain certain relationships between each other by the observance of certain laws and policies.
Without the State, or without these laws, and without the mutual agreement and co-operation to observe them, the antagonist, the selfish and the out of control militant man, such as Commander Bainimarama, would be supreme. The weak, the innocent, the begging to be different in the general population, would go hiding behind walls. Life would become ruled by the law of the jungle. Every ordinary person owes his security to the State, and is therefore under a duty and responsibility to it.
Ordinary people benefit from a wide range of state provided services which individually they could not attain to.
It would be impossible for every person (especially the state paid Fiji Military Forces) to have his own water, lighting, sewage and transportation system, etc.
It would be impossible for a person by himself to enjoy a system of municipal services, communication, social security, health and education, etc.
These things are only obtainable when people agree and co-operate to live together. It would be quite wrong for a person to enjoy every thing wherewith the State provides him and refuse all responsibility to that State.
No person in all fairness takes everything and gives nothing. That in fact, is one compelling reason why the individual person is bound in honour to be a good citizen, and to take his part in all the duties of citizenship.
It was St. Paul’s main views that “Governments are Divinely Ordained To Save The World From Chaos”. The Apostle Paul, as he saw things of his day, believed that the Roman Empire was the divinely ordained instruments to save the world from chaos. Take away that Empire, as St. Paul saw it, and the world would disintegrate into flying fragments.
It was in fact, the Roman State, which gave the individual citizen the chance to do his work (Christian missionaries included).
Ideally people should be bound and co-operate together by the love of one’s own country; but they are not; and the only ultimate bond which keeps them together is the rule of law of the State.
The Apostle Paul saw in the State an instrument in the hand of God; the state preserved the world from chaos; those who minister the State are playing their part in that great task. Whether they know it or not they are doing God’s work, and it is the duty of every citizen not to hinder, but rather to co-operate and positively assist.
And lastly, but not least, Paul said that all citizens have a higher obligation than even his obligation to the State. While he must render to Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, he must also render to God the things that are God’s.
These are perilous times for our small nation and I call upon all to ponder earnestly and consider the path of lawful righteousness, truth, integrity and peace!!
………………………………………………
Rev. Josateki F. Koroi
(27/11/2006)
RFMF Board of Inquiry Report.......its here
In August this year we reported that we would release a copy of the RFMF Board of Inquiry Report that the murderer Bainimarama didn't want you to see. The murderer Bainimarma had ordered it destroyed, with one copy remaining with his pet Brig.Aziz (Brigadier??.... food for thought....). But now we can release the report to you. The Report is over 0ne thousand pages long so we will release it to you in sections, including records of key interviews.
The first four pages of the report are shown here (Just click on an image to see an enlarged view). They show the cover page and memo by Col.Tuatoko establishing the Board of Inquiry to look into the involvement of the 1st Fiji Meridian Squadron, Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit (more commonly know as CRW) in the illegal take over of Parliament on 19 May 2000 and the subsequent holding of hostages until 13 July 2000.
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The first four pages of the report are shown here (Just click on an image to see an enlarged view). They show the cover page and memo by Col.Tuatoko establishing the Board of Inquiry to look into the involvement of the 1st Fiji Meridian Squadron, Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit (more commonly know as CRW) in the illegal take over of Parliament on 19 May 2000 and the subsequent holding of hostages until 13 July 2000.
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Ratu Tevita Mara distributes submission to CHOGM 29 October 2011
Ratu Tevita Mara, in Perth, distributed a submission document to CHOGM and held successful meetings with a number of delegates yesterday to update them on the Fiji situation. The submission document is from all Fiji Democracy and Freedom Movement (FDFM) groups.
At CHOGM the leaders have already agreed to give the Ministerial Action Group and the Secretary General more powers to speak out if member states deprive their citizens of human rights or threaten the media or judiciary.
They can also speak out if democracy is threatened through postponing elections. And, the Action Group will be empowered to police election rigging and the detention of political leaders. The Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma (Pictured) says the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's work was key to getting the reforms approved.
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At CHOGM the leaders have already agreed to give the Ministerial Action Group and the Secretary General more powers to speak out if member states deprive their citizens of human rights or threaten the media or judiciary.
They can also speak out if democracy is threatened through postponing elections. And, the Action Group will be empowered to police election rigging and the detention of political leaders. The Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma (Pictured) says the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's work was key to getting the reforms approved.
Read more on ABC NEWS
Like Gen Pinochet, No Escape for Bainimarama 26 October 2011
There will be no escape for the murderer Bainimarama and his subordinates and supporters. As with Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte of Chile Bainimarama will be held to account for the murder, rape, corruption, lies to the people of Fiji and for the theft of public funds and for his other evil deeds.
The event that defined Chile for decades was the overthrow of the government by Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. Seizing power on 11 September 1973, the general and his military allies staged a bloody coup that toppled the democratically elected Socialist government of President Salvador Allende.
The dictator then led the country into an era of robust economic growth. Yet for nearly two decades, General Pinochet repressed and reshaped Chile and became a notorious symbol of human rights abuse and corruption. During his rule, more than 3,200 people were executed or disappeared, and scores of thousands more were detained and tortured or exiled.
General Pinochet, who died on 11 December 2006, was forced to give up the presidency, and he did so in 1990 after promulgating a Constitution that empowered a right-wing minority for years. He held on to his post of commander in chief of the army until 1998. With that power base, he exerted considerable influence over the democratically elected governments that replaced his iron-fisted rule.
He set limits on economic policy debates with frequent warnings that he would not tolerate a return to statist measures, and he blocked virtually all attempts to prosecute members of his security forces for human rights abuses. Through intimidation and legal obstacles, General Pinochet sought to ensure his own immunity from accountability and in fact was never brought to trial.
The general did not count on the international community and the determination of jurists abroad to bring him to justice. In October 1998, while recuperating in a London clinic from a back operation, he was arrested by the British police in response to an application from a Spanish judge seeking the general's extradition to Madrid to stand trial on charges of genocide, torture and kidnapping.
A 16-month legal battle ensued, ending with a decision to send him back to Chile in March 2000 because his physical and mental ailments made him unfit to stand trial.
For the rest of his life, the general had to fight off lawsuits and accept the humiliation of constant news reports about widespread brutality under his rule. President Lagos allowed the hundreds of criminal complaints filed against General Pinochet to run their course in the courts. President Lagos was succeeded in March 2006 by Michelle Bachelet, a former political prisoner and exile.
Ms. Bachelet's father, an air force general loyal to Mr. Allende, was jailed by his colleagues, tortured and died in prison. Military officials also detained and tortured Ms. Bachelet and her mother before they were allowed to go into exile in Australia. Ms. Bachelet returned in 1979.
Weeks after the general's death, Ms. Bachelet pushed to invalidate an amnesty law that for nearly 30 years has exempted his subordinates from prosecution on murder and torture charges. In the past, pro-Pinochet right-wing parties were able to block congressional efforts to overturn the amnesty, but Ms. Bachelet's coalition had a large enough majority in both houses to pass the bill.
Now the General’s subordinates face prosecution. This same fate awaits ALL of the murderer Bainimarama’s subordinates, supporters and stooges.
The event that defined Chile for decades was the overthrow of the government by Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. Seizing power on 11 September 1973, the general and his military allies staged a bloody coup that toppled the democratically elected Socialist government of President Salvador Allende.
The dictator then led the country into an era of robust economic growth. Yet for nearly two decades, General Pinochet repressed and reshaped Chile and became a notorious symbol of human rights abuse and corruption. During his rule, more than 3,200 people were executed or disappeared, and scores of thousands more were detained and tortured or exiled.
General Pinochet, who died on 11 December 2006, was forced to give up the presidency, and he did so in 1990 after promulgating a Constitution that empowered a right-wing minority for years. He held on to his post of commander in chief of the army until 1998. With that power base, he exerted considerable influence over the democratically elected governments that replaced his iron-fisted rule.
He set limits on economic policy debates with frequent warnings that he would not tolerate a return to statist measures, and he blocked virtually all attempts to prosecute members of his security forces for human rights abuses. Through intimidation and legal obstacles, General Pinochet sought to ensure his own immunity from accountability and in fact was never brought to trial.
The general did not count on the international community and the determination of jurists abroad to bring him to justice. In October 1998, while recuperating in a London clinic from a back operation, he was arrested by the British police in response to an application from a Spanish judge seeking the general's extradition to Madrid to stand trial on charges of genocide, torture and kidnapping.
A 16-month legal battle ensued, ending with a decision to send him back to Chile in March 2000 because his physical and mental ailments made him unfit to stand trial.
For the rest of his life, the general had to fight off lawsuits and accept the humiliation of constant news reports about widespread brutality under his rule. President Lagos allowed the hundreds of criminal complaints filed against General Pinochet to run their course in the courts. President Lagos was succeeded in March 2006 by Michelle Bachelet, a former political prisoner and exile.
Ms. Bachelet's father, an air force general loyal to Mr. Allende, was jailed by his colleagues, tortured and died in prison. Military officials also detained and tortured Ms. Bachelet and her mother before they were allowed to go into exile in Australia. Ms. Bachelet returned in 1979.
Weeks after the general's death, Ms. Bachelet pushed to invalidate an amnesty law that for nearly 30 years has exempted his subordinates from prosecution on murder and torture charges. In the past, pro-Pinochet right-wing parties were able to block congressional efforts to overturn the amnesty, but Ms. Bachelet's coalition had a large enough majority in both houses to pass the bill.
Now the General’s subordinates face prosecution. This same fate awaits ALL of the murderer Bainimarama’s subordinates, supporters and stooges.
Dictators Get the Deaths They Deserve Simon Montefiore, 26 October 2011
“ALL political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure,” wrote Enoch Powell, the controversial but often perspicacious British politician, “because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.” But the political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power. If a tyrant dies peacefully in bed in the full resplendence of his rule, his death is a theater of that power; if a tyrant is executed while crying for mercy in the dust, then that, too, is a reflection of the nature of a fallen regime and the reaction of an oppressed people.
This was never truer than in the death, last week, of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The only difference between his death and those of so many other tyrants across history was that it was filmed with mobile phones, a facility unavailable to contemporaries of, say, the Roman emperor Caligula.
Despite brandished phones and pistols, there was something Biblical in the wild scene, as elemental as the deaths of King Ahab (“the dogs licked up his blood”) and Queen Jezebel (thrown off a palace balcony). It was certainly not as terrible as the death of the Byzantine emperor Andronicus I, who was beaten and dismembered, his hair and teeth pulled out by the mob, his handsome face burned with boiling water. In modern times, it was more frenzied than the semi-formal execution, in 1989, of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, but not as terrible as the ghastly lynching, in 1958, of the innocent King Faisal II of Iraq (age 23) and his hated uncle, who were supposedly impaled and dismembered, their heads used as soccer balls. In 1996, the pro-Soviet former president of Afghanistan, Najibullah, was castrated, dragged through the streets and hanged.
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This was never truer than in the death, last week, of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The only difference between his death and those of so many other tyrants across history was that it was filmed with mobile phones, a facility unavailable to contemporaries of, say, the Roman emperor Caligula.
Despite brandished phones and pistols, there was something Biblical in the wild scene, as elemental as the deaths of King Ahab (“the dogs licked up his blood”) and Queen Jezebel (thrown off a palace balcony). It was certainly not as terrible as the death of the Byzantine emperor Andronicus I, who was beaten and dismembered, his hair and teeth pulled out by the mob, his handsome face burned with boiling water. In modern times, it was more frenzied than the semi-formal execution, in 1989, of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, but not as terrible as the ghastly lynching, in 1958, of the innocent King Faisal II of Iraq (age 23) and his hated uncle, who were supposedly impaled and dismembered, their heads used as soccer balls. In 1996, the pro-Soviet former president of Afghanistan, Najibullah, was castrated, dragged through the streets and hanged.
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Crime Does Pay In Fiji..... 21 October 2011
The motto of democratic countries is: CRIME DOES NOT PAY. In Fiji, however, CRIME DOES PAY.
On 5 December 2006, the Fiji Military Forces, led by the murderer Bainimarama, removed the legally elected SDL Government at gunpoint. It was a crime of treason. The public outcry was lukewarm and strong action to arrest this crime of treason was missing.
Three years later, in 2009, the Appeals Court of Fiji comprising eminent international judges ruled that the 2006 Military Coup was illegal, the Military Junta that took over governance of the country was illegal and all acts by it are illegal. Yet, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Island Countries and others pursue relationships with the illegal Bainimarama Military Junta. The Fiji Military Junta has even been invited to participate, at the officials’ level, in the PACER PLUS negotiations. These countries have all violated the basic motto and principle of democracy that Crime Does Not Pay. However, the docile reaction to events in Fiji over the past six years clearly shows that, in Fiji, Crime Does Pay.
Innocent Fijian citizens have been arrested without due process and without warrant. That is a crime. It is also a breach of their civil rights. Yet, the regional countries, the United Nations, the Commonwealth and the European Union took no strong stand against Fiji and its illegal military Junta. So Crime Does Pay.
Some women who were taken into custody were raped. That is a crime. The Fiji Police never investigated the rapes. No soldier faced court martial. There was no condemnation by Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Island Countries and international institutions. So Crime Does Pay.
Those taken into custody were slapped around, beaten, kicked, stomped on by the murderer Bainimarama and his Military henchmen. That was a crime. The Fiji Police never investigated. No soldier faced court martial. The voices of the countries in the region were again silent. So Crime Does Pay.
Two young men died as a result of the beatings. Those were crimes of murder. There were no coroner inquests. The Fiji Police never investigated. No soldier faced court martial. The voices of the countries in the region were also silent. So Crime Does Pay.
Corruption and fraud by the murdering dictator Bainimarama and his controller, the illegal Attorney-General Aiyaz Khaiyum, and by other Military Officers and junta supporters, is rampant in every area of public activity. That is a crime. There are no police investigations. The voices of the countries in the region are silent. So Crime does Pay.
The events in Fiji, circumscribed by the abrogation of the Constitution, the absence of the rule of law, the control and censorship of the media and the rape of the fundamental rights and freedoms of Fiji citizens, and the lack of any strong action against these crimes by regional countries are laying the foundation for more Coups in Fiji.
The absolute power in the hands of the Military Commander and the dishing out of top Public Service and Diplomatic jobs to Military Officers without any strong objection and action from regional countries, create and establish a situation in which the Military, like in Myanmar (Burma) and in North Korea, have tasted power and wealth. Subsequently they will never want to give them up now and will be unrestrained from carrying out more coups in the future. As the old saying goes, A dog that likes to steal and suck eggs never stops.
These events also create and establish the principle that government is not really founded in democratic elections but on the whims and fancies of the Military. This applies most dangerously to small developing countries which have a Military Force.
Once the Military, its supporters, its apologists come to accept that Crime Does Pay, like in Fiji, Coups in the region will no longer be a phenomenon, they will become an alternative option and even popular. The chances of this occurring is high given the regional countries failure to take critical action, in the case of Fiji, and turn a blind eye to the crimes that have taken place and continue to take place in Fiji.
Sadly, in Fiji, Crime Does Pay.
On 5 December 2006, the Fiji Military Forces, led by the murderer Bainimarama, removed the legally elected SDL Government at gunpoint. It was a crime of treason. The public outcry was lukewarm and strong action to arrest this crime of treason was missing.
Three years later, in 2009, the Appeals Court of Fiji comprising eminent international judges ruled that the 2006 Military Coup was illegal, the Military Junta that took over governance of the country was illegal and all acts by it are illegal. Yet, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Island Countries and others pursue relationships with the illegal Bainimarama Military Junta. The Fiji Military Junta has even been invited to participate, at the officials’ level, in the PACER PLUS negotiations. These countries have all violated the basic motto and principle of democracy that Crime Does Not Pay. However, the docile reaction to events in Fiji over the past six years clearly shows that, in Fiji, Crime Does Pay.
Innocent Fijian citizens have been arrested without due process and without warrant. That is a crime. It is also a breach of their civil rights. Yet, the regional countries, the United Nations, the Commonwealth and the European Union took no strong stand against Fiji and its illegal military Junta. So Crime Does Pay.
Some women who were taken into custody were raped. That is a crime. The Fiji Police never investigated the rapes. No soldier faced court martial. There was no condemnation by Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Island Countries and international institutions. So Crime Does Pay.
Those taken into custody were slapped around, beaten, kicked, stomped on by the murderer Bainimarama and his Military henchmen. That was a crime. The Fiji Police never investigated. No soldier faced court martial. The voices of the countries in the region were again silent. So Crime Does Pay.
Two young men died as a result of the beatings. Those were crimes of murder. There were no coroner inquests. The Fiji Police never investigated. No soldier faced court martial. The voices of the countries in the region were also silent. So Crime Does Pay.
Corruption and fraud by the murdering dictator Bainimarama and his controller, the illegal Attorney-General Aiyaz Khaiyum, and by other Military Officers and junta supporters, is rampant in every area of public activity. That is a crime. There are no police investigations. The voices of the countries in the region are silent. So Crime does Pay.
The events in Fiji, circumscribed by the abrogation of the Constitution, the absence of the rule of law, the control and censorship of the media and the rape of the fundamental rights and freedoms of Fiji citizens, and the lack of any strong action against these crimes by regional countries are laying the foundation for more Coups in Fiji.
The absolute power in the hands of the Military Commander and the dishing out of top Public Service and Diplomatic jobs to Military Officers without any strong objection and action from regional countries, create and establish a situation in which the Military, like in Myanmar (Burma) and in North Korea, have tasted power and wealth. Subsequently they will never want to give them up now and will be unrestrained from carrying out more coups in the future. As the old saying goes, A dog that likes to steal and suck eggs never stops.
These events also create and establish the principle that government is not really founded in democratic elections but on the whims and fancies of the Military. This applies most dangerously to small developing countries which have a Military Force.
Once the Military, its supporters, its apologists come to accept that Crime Does Pay, like in Fiji, Coups in the region will no longer be a phenomenon, they will become an alternative option and even popular. The chances of this occurring is high given the regional countries failure to take critical action, in the case of Fiji, and turn a blind eye to the crimes that have taken place and continue to take place in Fiji.
Sadly, in Fiji, Crime Does Pay.
Gadhafi Killed, Bainimarama Next ?.....21 October 2011
The long time Dictator and Tyrant of Libya, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi, is dead.
Gadhafi was killed on October 20 while trying to flee his home town of Sirte where he was with troops loyal to him. He was captured, killed and his body dragged through the streets.
Gadhafi paid the ultimate price after 42 years when revolutionary fighters across Libya, made up of engineers, doctors, teachers, businessmen – the everyday people, united to end Gadhafi's evil dictatorship.
Moammar Gadhafi paid the price that Dictators and Tyrants pay...untimely death. What Gadhafi did to others was meted out to him.
One by one, Dictators and Tyrants, having run their gamut, meet their end, one way or another. Perhaps the first to go was Saddam Hussein of Iraq. He was hanged.
In Tunisia, the President was forced to leave.
In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign. He is now languishing in jail awaiting trial.
In Syria, President Assad is facing internal strife and his long rope of tyranny is also nearing its end.
So where does the murderer Bainimarama stand in all this:
Gadhafi was killed on October 20 while trying to flee his home town of Sirte where he was with troops loyal to him. He was captured, killed and his body dragged through the streets.
Gadhafi paid the ultimate price after 42 years when revolutionary fighters across Libya, made up of engineers, doctors, teachers, businessmen – the everyday people, united to end Gadhafi's evil dictatorship.
Moammar Gadhafi paid the price that Dictators and Tyrants pay...untimely death. What Gadhafi did to others was meted out to him.
One by one, Dictators and Tyrants, having run their gamut, meet their end, one way or another. Perhaps the first to go was Saddam Hussein of Iraq. He was hanged.
In Tunisia, the President was forced to leave.
In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign. He is now languishing in jail awaiting trial.
In Syria, President Assad is facing internal strife and his long rope of tyranny is also nearing its end.
So where does the murderer Bainimarama stand in all this:
- Is Bainimarama the Dictator and Tyrant of Fiji the next dictator to go? Needless to say, when he falls, Aiyaz Khaiyum’s days of power and corruption will also be over, one way or another
- What will be the murderer Bainimarama’s fate? Will he be toppled by a revolution or rebellion by the people, organised or not organised?
- Will he be removed by an internal Military Coup in which officers and soldiers, loyal to the country and true patriots, who are in the vast majority, carry out their own Coup, arrest Bainimarama, Khaiyum, and their gang of thugs and conspirators, bring them to justice and return the country to freedom and democracy?
- Will he be shot and killed by a soldier at Military HQ or at a public function by a private citizen fed up with evil that has taken hold in the Army or across Fiji?
- Will he meet a fate similar to Gadaffi?
No Justice in Fiji 20 October 2011
There is no justice in Fiji since the Bainimarama Military Coup of 5 December 2006. The right of every person in Fiji to life, liberty, security and protection of the law is also non-existent as are freedom, democracy, Parliamentary Government and Constitutional rule. Fiji today is a jungle ruled by two bestial conmen, Bainimarama and Khaiyum.
This is the recent situation that Shalend Scott, a citizen of Australia and Fiji faced when he was arrested and held in detention by the biased and prejudiced Fiji Police.
The rule of law in Fiji exists only in the breach and it is what the tyrant Bainimarama and his controller, the illegal Attorney-General Aiyaz Khaiyum, say it is. Scott was not advised of what he was being arrested for, nor was he advised of his rights which is a legal requirement and nor was he offered bail.
Shalend Scott was subsequently charged with unlawfully obtaining confidential documents from Air Pacific Ltd and causing it to be published on an anti-government website. He was charged with four counts.
It is doubtful that obtaining the Air Pacific documents and their contents constitute the basis for the charges levied against Scott. In fact the four charges were made based on spite, the intent to jail the young Airline Pilot indefinitely for obtaining and arranging to publish information that was relevant to a harsh and degrading Public Anti-Trade Union Decree.
In the first case, Air Pacific is a private company. If anything, Scott breached the Code of Conduct of the Company and not any law of Fiji. He was liable to be sanctioned by Air Pacific. Instead, for a simple matter, Scott was treated as a seditious felon.
In the second case, the documents were non-government, were not State classified, were not security related. The claim of sedition for the action was a figment of Khaiyum’s schizophrenic imagination.
And according to information received, there was nothing on them classifying them as private or confidential.
Also, the charges were in flagrant breach of Scott’s right to hold opinion, right of dissent, freedom of expression and freedom of association. In which case, his actions were only a breach of the Code of Conduct of Air Pacific for which he could have been dismissed. The charges against Scott is threat to Trade Union Leaders and dissidents in Fiji to warn them about what will also happen to them unless they toe the illegal junta’s line.
The charges were so bad in law, biased and prejudiced and spiteful that the Judge threw out three of the charges, the penalties for which would have incarcerated him for many years. The remaining charge has a penalty of only two years, if he is found guilty.
The Judge also granted Scott bail.
The condemnation by the International Federation of Air Pilots of the junta’s action and their mention of possible reaction, have been ignored by the illegal oppressive and repressive junta.
In fact, statements by Australia and New Zealand against the junta, over the years, only draw laughter from Bainimarama and Khaiyum. Their failure to act under the Biketawa Declaration and the Millbrook Commonwealth Programme of Action has emboldened the junta to do what they please when they please.
Shalend Scott, Secretary of the Fiji Airline Pilots Association, is paying the price for the lack of strong united action to bring down the junta.
This is the recent situation that Shalend Scott, a citizen of Australia and Fiji faced when he was arrested and held in detention by the biased and prejudiced Fiji Police.
The rule of law in Fiji exists only in the breach and it is what the tyrant Bainimarama and his controller, the illegal Attorney-General Aiyaz Khaiyum, say it is. Scott was not advised of what he was being arrested for, nor was he advised of his rights which is a legal requirement and nor was he offered bail.
Shalend Scott was subsequently charged with unlawfully obtaining confidential documents from Air Pacific Ltd and causing it to be published on an anti-government website. He was charged with four counts.
It is doubtful that obtaining the Air Pacific documents and their contents constitute the basis for the charges levied against Scott. In fact the four charges were made based on spite, the intent to jail the young Airline Pilot indefinitely for obtaining and arranging to publish information that was relevant to a harsh and degrading Public Anti-Trade Union Decree.
In the first case, Air Pacific is a private company. If anything, Scott breached the Code of Conduct of the Company and not any law of Fiji. He was liable to be sanctioned by Air Pacific. Instead, for a simple matter, Scott was treated as a seditious felon.
In the second case, the documents were non-government, were not State classified, were not security related. The claim of sedition for the action was a figment of Khaiyum’s schizophrenic imagination.
And according to information received, there was nothing on them classifying them as private or confidential.
Also, the charges were in flagrant breach of Scott’s right to hold opinion, right of dissent, freedom of expression and freedom of association. In which case, his actions were only a breach of the Code of Conduct of Air Pacific for which he could have been dismissed. The charges against Scott is threat to Trade Union Leaders and dissidents in Fiji to warn them about what will also happen to them unless they toe the illegal junta’s line.
The charges were so bad in law, biased and prejudiced and spiteful that the Judge threw out three of the charges, the penalties for which would have incarcerated him for many years. The remaining charge has a penalty of only two years, if he is found guilty.
The Judge also granted Scott bail.
The condemnation by the International Federation of Air Pilots of the junta’s action and their mention of possible reaction, have been ignored by the illegal oppressive and repressive junta.
In fact, statements by Australia and New Zealand against the junta, over the years, only draw laughter from Bainimarama and Khaiyum. Their failure to act under the Biketawa Declaration and the Millbrook Commonwealth Programme of Action has emboldened the junta to do what they please when they please.
Shalend Scott, Secretary of the Fiji Airline Pilots Association, is paying the price for the lack of strong united action to bring down the junta.
A Climate of Intimidation Prevails in Fiji October 2011
by Jon Fraenkel, Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University
In the five years since Fiji’s military strongman, Voreqe Bainimarama, seized power in a coup, he has liquidated parliament, banned meetings of the Great Council of Chiefs and the Methodist Church, dismissed the judiciary and transformed the media into an obedient servant of his government. In September, an Essential National Industries Decree severely curtailed trade union rights, and several trade unionists have been taken into custody.
Could it be that, despite that poor track record of repression, Bainimarama is gaining public support? In September, the Lowy Institute released a poll claiming that 66 per cent of Fiji citizens now approve of Bainimarama. ‘Twice as popular as Julia Gillard’, crowed Fiji’s chief censor, Sharon Smith-Johns. Civil society activists within Fiji have condemned the poll as inappropriate, misleading and methodologically flawed. Australian government parliamentary secretary for Pacific Island Affairs reasonably asked ‘If you are sitting at home, in a country where a repressive regime has stripped you of human rights and where people do get taken off to barracks and you get a knock on the door and a stranger asks what do you think of the government, what do you think you’d say?’. Writing in The Australian on October 6th, the Lowy Institute’s Jenny Hayward-Jones defended the poll as conveying an authentic voice of the Fiji people.
The 2011 survey, financed by Fiji-born Lowy board member and investment banker Mark Johnson, was carried out by Tebbutt research. It entailed interviews with 1,032 people in urban areas on Viti Levu, Fiji’s main island. The previous such poll, conducted by Tebbutt for the Fiji Times in December 2008, asked respondents to pick their favoured Prime Minister. Deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase emerged as the most preferred leader (with 31 per cent approval) while Bainimarama ran second (at 27 per cent). By contrast, the current poll asked a more loaded question: ‘how good a job do you personally think Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama is doing as Prime Minister?’ The resultant disapproval rating of 8 per cent was way below what most surveys of this kind would expect.
How was it possible to conduct such a poll under conditions of severe media censorship? Hayward-Jones claims that Lowy itself did not seek any direct permission from the Fiji government, but doubts remain about whether the survey was devised in such a way as to avoid responses that might prove politically awkward. Had the poll yielded a negative verdict, Tebbutt Research – a Fiji-based market research company - would probably have been hounded out of business, and the pollsters incarcerated. Former editor-in-chief at the Fiji Times Russell Hunter - himself a victim of Bainimarama’s deportations of foreign journalists - alleges that during his stewardship Tebbutt Research often declined to conduct surveys where the results might prove contentious.
Respondents were also asked how ‘good’ a job government was doing as regards education (82 per cent good), transport (71 per cent good) and health (69 per cent good). It was even reported that 59 per cent thought the government was doing a ‘good’ job on the economy, which has contracted by 7.4per cent over the past four years and which has seen investment grind to a virtual halt. Respondents reported that government was doing a ‘good’ job in ‘preparing to draft a new constitution’ (53per cent good) and ‘reforming the electoral system (51 per cent good), both tasks that the government itself does not intend to commence undertaking until 2012.
Those responses either show a giant gulf between perception and reality, or that respondents concurred with whatever was put before them, or that they felt intimidated. The headline 66 per cent approval rating was broken down into 75 per cent Fiji Indian support and, more dubiously, 60 per cent backing amongst indigenous Fijians. Only 19 per cent of indigenous Fijians chose Bainimarama as preferred Prime Minister in the 2008 poll. Since then, the constitution has been abrogated, and public emergency regulations have become a permanent fixture. Critics of government have been hounded from their jobs, and for the most part silenced. In one notorious case, a senior military officer was overheard denouncing the government while in South Korea, and charged with sedition on his return. In May, he dramatically escaped from Fiji by sea and sought political asylum in neighbouring Tonga.
A climate of intimidation prevails in post-coup Fiji. What was once a frank and straight-talking society has now become a place where people are very guarded about what they say, and to whom they say it. Yet, five years after the coup, there probably is more support, or at least grudging acquiescence, than many of the critics would like to concede. After all, there is no obvious alternative to Bainimarama on the horizon. Deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has never looked like a politician capable of recapturing power. His predecessor, Fiji Indian leader Mahendra Chaudhry is before the courts on corruption charges. Even the 2008 Tebbutt poll suggested that Chaudhry’s support had slumped.
But if there genuinely is such popular support, why is the Bainimarama government so scared? Why the need to continually renew the public emergency regulations? If Bainimarama and his information secretary believe that they have extensive backing, why not hold immediate elections? In fact, it was awareness of popular hostility that in July 2009 led Bainimarama and his Attorney General, to cancel all dialogue with political parties and put off elections until 2014. At that time, they also promised resumption of dialogue towards a new constitution in 2012. And 2012 is now nearly upon us. So soon there will be a fresh test of whether Bainimarama again reneges on his promises (as he did in mid-2008) or whether his government can effectively handle some kind of transition towards elective democracy.
Jon Fraenkel is a senior research fellow at the Australian National University. An Abbreviated version of this article appeared in The Australian, 14th October 2011.
In the five years since Fiji’s military strongman, Voreqe Bainimarama, seized power in a coup, he has liquidated parliament, banned meetings of the Great Council of Chiefs and the Methodist Church, dismissed the judiciary and transformed the media into an obedient servant of his government. In September, an Essential National Industries Decree severely curtailed trade union rights, and several trade unionists have been taken into custody.
Could it be that, despite that poor track record of repression, Bainimarama is gaining public support? In September, the Lowy Institute released a poll claiming that 66 per cent of Fiji citizens now approve of Bainimarama. ‘Twice as popular as Julia Gillard’, crowed Fiji’s chief censor, Sharon Smith-Johns. Civil society activists within Fiji have condemned the poll as inappropriate, misleading and methodologically flawed. Australian government parliamentary secretary for Pacific Island Affairs reasonably asked ‘If you are sitting at home, in a country where a repressive regime has stripped you of human rights and where people do get taken off to barracks and you get a knock on the door and a stranger asks what do you think of the government, what do you think you’d say?’. Writing in The Australian on October 6th, the Lowy Institute’s Jenny Hayward-Jones defended the poll as conveying an authentic voice of the Fiji people.
The 2011 survey, financed by Fiji-born Lowy board member and investment banker Mark Johnson, was carried out by Tebbutt research. It entailed interviews with 1,032 people in urban areas on Viti Levu, Fiji’s main island. The previous such poll, conducted by Tebbutt for the Fiji Times in December 2008, asked respondents to pick their favoured Prime Minister. Deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase emerged as the most preferred leader (with 31 per cent approval) while Bainimarama ran second (at 27 per cent). By contrast, the current poll asked a more loaded question: ‘how good a job do you personally think Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama is doing as Prime Minister?’ The resultant disapproval rating of 8 per cent was way below what most surveys of this kind would expect.
How was it possible to conduct such a poll under conditions of severe media censorship? Hayward-Jones claims that Lowy itself did not seek any direct permission from the Fiji government, but doubts remain about whether the survey was devised in such a way as to avoid responses that might prove politically awkward. Had the poll yielded a negative verdict, Tebbutt Research – a Fiji-based market research company - would probably have been hounded out of business, and the pollsters incarcerated. Former editor-in-chief at the Fiji Times Russell Hunter - himself a victim of Bainimarama’s deportations of foreign journalists - alleges that during his stewardship Tebbutt Research often declined to conduct surveys where the results might prove contentious.
Respondents were also asked how ‘good’ a job government was doing as regards education (82 per cent good), transport (71 per cent good) and health (69 per cent good). It was even reported that 59 per cent thought the government was doing a ‘good’ job on the economy, which has contracted by 7.4per cent over the past four years and which has seen investment grind to a virtual halt. Respondents reported that government was doing a ‘good’ job in ‘preparing to draft a new constitution’ (53per cent good) and ‘reforming the electoral system (51 per cent good), both tasks that the government itself does not intend to commence undertaking until 2012.
Those responses either show a giant gulf between perception and reality, or that respondents concurred with whatever was put before them, or that they felt intimidated. The headline 66 per cent approval rating was broken down into 75 per cent Fiji Indian support and, more dubiously, 60 per cent backing amongst indigenous Fijians. Only 19 per cent of indigenous Fijians chose Bainimarama as preferred Prime Minister in the 2008 poll. Since then, the constitution has been abrogated, and public emergency regulations have become a permanent fixture. Critics of government have been hounded from their jobs, and for the most part silenced. In one notorious case, a senior military officer was overheard denouncing the government while in South Korea, and charged with sedition on his return. In May, he dramatically escaped from Fiji by sea and sought political asylum in neighbouring Tonga.
A climate of intimidation prevails in post-coup Fiji. What was once a frank and straight-talking society has now become a place where people are very guarded about what they say, and to whom they say it. Yet, five years after the coup, there probably is more support, or at least grudging acquiescence, than many of the critics would like to concede. After all, there is no obvious alternative to Bainimarama on the horizon. Deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has never looked like a politician capable of recapturing power. His predecessor, Fiji Indian leader Mahendra Chaudhry is before the courts on corruption charges. Even the 2008 Tebbutt poll suggested that Chaudhry’s support had slumped.
But if there genuinely is such popular support, why is the Bainimarama government so scared? Why the need to continually renew the public emergency regulations? If Bainimarama and his information secretary believe that they have extensive backing, why not hold immediate elections? In fact, it was awareness of popular hostility that in July 2009 led Bainimarama and his Attorney General, to cancel all dialogue with political parties and put off elections until 2014. At that time, they also promised resumption of dialogue towards a new constitution in 2012. And 2012 is now nearly upon us. So soon there will be a fresh test of whether Bainimarama again reneges on his promises (as he did in mid-2008) or whether his government can effectively handle some kind of transition towards elective democracy.
Jon Fraenkel is a senior research fellow at the Australian National University. An Abbreviated version of this article appeared in The Australian, 14th October 2011.
FIJI INDEPENDENCE DAY 10th OCTOBER 2011: Independence from Whom? 09 October 2011
Fiji became an independent sovereign state on 10th October 1970 when its colonial status was abrogated. Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of independent Fiji, received from Prince Charles the documents evidencing Fiji’s independence. That independence was and remains a great source of pride and joy to all Fiji citizens. On that day the dark clouds of colonialism were swept away.
Today, however, a fresh cloud darkens the future of Fiji. That cloud is Bainimarama's evil dictatorship and junta, which now controls all aspects of life in Fiji at the barrel of a gun. A reign of terror exists in Fiji; corruption is rampant; and so is poverty. Promised elections in Fiji have no credibility as holding credible elections would expose the current unlawful rulers to prosecution.
The junta and all its actions have been held to be illegal, by Fiji’s Appeal court Ruling of 2009. The current Fiji judiciary is not independent. Fiji remains excluded from international institutions on account of its sharply deteriorating human rights record and failure to take credible moves towards democratic elections. Unions, churches and anyone else putting up their hand in protest are harassed and persecuted. The media is totally controlled. Central administration is totally dominated by army officers, their relations and friends and quislings.
Currently the junta is seeking, with the aid of huge overseas loans that will burden future generations, to bribe its citizens into submission, while continuing its reign of terror. Those bribes, orchestrated in a clumsy and grotesque fashion by the two chief culprits within the military junta, are no substitute for ordinary human rights.
Many Fiji citizens are keen sportspeople. They will be discouraged by the outcome of backhanded and clumsy interference in sport affairs in which (as in the case of most affairs) the junta has no competence. The junta's artificial attempts to inject soldiers into the Fiji rugby team for purpose of confrontation with the New Zealand authorities is a case in point. The
outcome is shame.
An interesting point is that the President has omitted to follow the customary practice of speechmaking on the occasion of Fiji’s independence. Is the President lost for words suitable enough to describe the sadness of Fiji’s current situation?
Fiji WAS independent but NOT now. Fiji is is bound in the shackles of a military dictatorship led by the murderer Bainimarama.
Fiji now needs to be independent from the current evil dictator Bainimarama and military junta. This independence is the only thing that will release Fiji from its current reign of terror, from escalating poverty and from every conceivable ill inflicted by the murderer Bainimarama and his military junta.
God bless Fiji.
Today, however, a fresh cloud darkens the future of Fiji. That cloud is Bainimarama's evil dictatorship and junta, which now controls all aspects of life in Fiji at the barrel of a gun. A reign of terror exists in Fiji; corruption is rampant; and so is poverty. Promised elections in Fiji have no credibility as holding credible elections would expose the current unlawful rulers to prosecution.
The junta and all its actions have been held to be illegal, by Fiji’s Appeal court Ruling of 2009. The current Fiji judiciary is not independent. Fiji remains excluded from international institutions on account of its sharply deteriorating human rights record and failure to take credible moves towards democratic elections. Unions, churches and anyone else putting up their hand in protest are harassed and persecuted. The media is totally controlled. Central administration is totally dominated by army officers, their relations and friends and quislings.
Currently the junta is seeking, with the aid of huge overseas loans that will burden future generations, to bribe its citizens into submission, while continuing its reign of terror. Those bribes, orchestrated in a clumsy and grotesque fashion by the two chief culprits within the military junta, are no substitute for ordinary human rights.
Many Fiji citizens are keen sportspeople. They will be discouraged by the outcome of backhanded and clumsy interference in sport affairs in which (as in the case of most affairs) the junta has no competence. The junta's artificial attempts to inject soldiers into the Fiji rugby team for purpose of confrontation with the New Zealand authorities is a case in point. The
outcome is shame.
An interesting point is that the President has omitted to follow the customary practice of speechmaking on the occasion of Fiji’s independence. Is the President lost for words suitable enough to describe the sadness of Fiji’s current situation?
Fiji WAS independent but NOT now. Fiji is is bound in the shackles of a military dictatorship led by the murderer Bainimarama.
Fiji now needs to be independent from the current evil dictator Bainimarama and military junta. This independence is the only thing that will release Fiji from its current reign of terror, from escalating poverty and from every conceivable ill inflicted by the murderer Bainimarama and his military junta.
God bless Fiji.
The Khaiyum End Game 29 September 2011
The blog site Coup 4.5 exposed the illegal AG Khaiyum’s title of Acting Prime Minister that is set in stone in the official Plaque commemorating the opening of the Fiji National University Film and TV studio. This use of the title, of Acting PM, portrays the illegal, power-hungry, Aiyaz Khaiyum’s clandestine ambition. It also broadcasts a signal of things to come.
The power-drunk and money-grabber Khaiyum, through the Plaque, is sending a loud and clear message to all and sundry, including his tyrant boss, the murderer Voreqe Bainimarama, that he (Khaiyum) intends to become, by hook or by crook, the next Prime Minister of Fiji. Acting as Prime Minister is only the first step. Khaiyum intends to continuingly act as Prime Minister of Fiji whenever the murdering dictator is absent from the country. This is Khaiyum’s next steps.
Bainimarama Not PM of Fiji
The people of Fiji and the countries of the South Pacific and the world all need to be clear that Bainimarama is not Prime Minister of Fiji.
The Fiji Court of Appeal ruled, in its historic judgment in 2009, that the 5 December 2006 Military Coup was illegal, the Military junta that replaced the SDL Government was illegal and all acts by it are illegal. Consequently, the ruling junta led by Bainimarama is illegal and thus is not the Government of Fiji. Ipso facto, Bainimarama is not the Prime Minister of Fiji. And therefore, Khaiyum is not the Acting Prime Minister of Fiji nor is Khaiyum Fiji’s Attorney-General.
In addition, according to informed sources, Khaiyum never informed his boss, the tyrant Bainimarama, of his (Khaiyum) plan to have the Plaque made and mounted. If this be true, then it was a self-enlightened move, by Khaiyum, to show Bainimarama who is the real boss of Fiji.
2006 Coup and Military Junta Illegal
Since the December 2006 Coup is illegal and the regime is illegal, its 2009 Decree abrogating the 1997 Constitution of Fiji has no legal standing, is illegal and is null and void. The fruit of the poison tree is also poisonous.
The 1997 Constitution is the supreme law of Fiji.
In the High Court rulings, the Prasad case being one, one of the Judges wrote that a Constitution is immutable and cannot be abrogated. The 1997 Constitution of Fiji is still valid.
The 1997 Constitution, in Article 98, provides that Fiji’s President shall appoint as Prime Minister “the Member of the House of Representatives who in the President’s opinion can form a Government that has the confidence of the House of Representatives.” The same provision is contained in Fiji’s 1970, 1990 and 1997 Constitutions.
Fiji has no House of Representatives. Bainimarama was not then, or never was, a Member of the House of Representatives. This being the case, Bainimarama cannot be Prime Minister and he is not the Prime Minister of Fiji. Khaiyum cannot therefore be Acting Prime Minister.
The Plaque therefore dubbing the terrorist and former bomb-maker and Fiji’s illegal Attorney-General as the Acting Prime Minister is really, as previously stated, a sign of things to come.
Bainimarama and Khaiyum’s Evil Plan to Rule Fiji
The ultimate and sinister plot of the murderer Bainimarama and Khaiyum is to retain power by hook or by crook until they die. They are considering, subject to events and circumstances, to conduct a fraudulent and crooked election process in 2014. The ins and outs of that proposed election fraud were explained in a previous blog.
With a dubious and fraudulent victory assured by the murderer Bainimarama and Fiji’s Taleban terrorist, the plan, according to insiders, is for Khaiyum to be made Prime Minister and Attorney-General and the murderer Bainimarama to be made President of Fiji. And the two will rule Fiji forever.
Conclusion
The Plaque, commemorating the opening of the Fiji National University Film and TV studio, is only a snippet of the coming event. It also casts an evil shadow, loud and clear, that Aiyaz Khaiyum is Acting Prime Minister now, and will be Prime Minister later.
With Khaiyum as Prime Minister Fiji is doomed to destruction, just like Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible, especially when Khaiyum’s illegal acts wear the false cloak of legitimacy and democracy. With this false cloak the rule of law, human rights and justice all become just words and Fiji, as a country, is doomed.
ENDS
The power-drunk and money-grabber Khaiyum, through the Plaque, is sending a loud and clear message to all and sundry, including his tyrant boss, the murderer Voreqe Bainimarama, that he (Khaiyum) intends to become, by hook or by crook, the next Prime Minister of Fiji. Acting as Prime Minister is only the first step. Khaiyum intends to continuingly act as Prime Minister of Fiji whenever the murdering dictator is absent from the country. This is Khaiyum’s next steps.
Bainimarama Not PM of Fiji
The people of Fiji and the countries of the South Pacific and the world all need to be clear that Bainimarama is not Prime Minister of Fiji.
The Fiji Court of Appeal ruled, in its historic judgment in 2009, that the 5 December 2006 Military Coup was illegal, the Military junta that replaced the SDL Government was illegal and all acts by it are illegal. Consequently, the ruling junta led by Bainimarama is illegal and thus is not the Government of Fiji. Ipso facto, Bainimarama is not the Prime Minister of Fiji. And therefore, Khaiyum is not the Acting Prime Minister of Fiji nor is Khaiyum Fiji’s Attorney-General.
In addition, according to informed sources, Khaiyum never informed his boss, the tyrant Bainimarama, of his (Khaiyum) plan to have the Plaque made and mounted. If this be true, then it was a self-enlightened move, by Khaiyum, to show Bainimarama who is the real boss of Fiji.
2006 Coup and Military Junta Illegal
Since the December 2006 Coup is illegal and the regime is illegal, its 2009 Decree abrogating the 1997 Constitution of Fiji has no legal standing, is illegal and is null and void. The fruit of the poison tree is also poisonous.
The 1997 Constitution is the supreme law of Fiji.
In the High Court rulings, the Prasad case being one, one of the Judges wrote that a Constitution is immutable and cannot be abrogated. The 1997 Constitution of Fiji is still valid.
The 1997 Constitution, in Article 98, provides that Fiji’s President shall appoint as Prime Minister “the Member of the House of Representatives who in the President’s opinion can form a Government that has the confidence of the House of Representatives.” The same provision is contained in Fiji’s 1970, 1990 and 1997 Constitutions.
Fiji has no House of Representatives. Bainimarama was not then, or never was, a Member of the House of Representatives. This being the case, Bainimarama cannot be Prime Minister and he is not the Prime Minister of Fiji. Khaiyum cannot therefore be Acting Prime Minister.
The Plaque therefore dubbing the terrorist and former bomb-maker and Fiji’s illegal Attorney-General as the Acting Prime Minister is really, as previously stated, a sign of things to come.
Bainimarama and Khaiyum’s Evil Plan to Rule Fiji
The ultimate and sinister plot of the murderer Bainimarama and Khaiyum is to retain power by hook or by crook until they die. They are considering, subject to events and circumstances, to conduct a fraudulent and crooked election process in 2014. The ins and outs of that proposed election fraud were explained in a previous blog.
With a dubious and fraudulent victory assured by the murderer Bainimarama and Fiji’s Taleban terrorist, the plan, according to insiders, is for Khaiyum to be made Prime Minister and Attorney-General and the murderer Bainimarama to be made President of Fiji. And the two will rule Fiji forever.
Conclusion
The Plaque, commemorating the opening of the Fiji National University Film and TV studio, is only a snippet of the coming event. It also casts an evil shadow, loud and clear, that Aiyaz Khaiyum is Acting Prime Minister now, and will be Prime Minister later.
With Khaiyum as Prime Minister Fiji is doomed to destruction, just like Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible, especially when Khaiyum’s illegal acts wear the false cloak of legitimacy and democracy. With this false cloak the rule of law, human rights and justice all become just words and Fiji, as a country, is doomed.
ENDS
CORRUPTION IN FIJI SIGNIFICANT 28 September 2011
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“Na butakoci ni vei loga ni Mahogany” 25 September 2011
E dua na i vosavosa vakamatua e dau tukuni tu na nona butakoci na dau butako e marau kina ko lomalagi .E daidai e ra reki mai Lomalagi .Ia, kevaka na “Mahogany” e Viti sa butakoci me ra vakalolomataki kina na dravudravua,o ira na i taukei kei na vanua,e na reki talega vaka kina na vanua taucoko.
Na Mahogany levu duadua e na noda vuravura e ra taukena na i taukei ni vanua e Viti.E ra sa vakalolomataki na i taukei ni vanua mai na nona vakaveitaliataka, vakatawa dodonutaka na i yaubula ni vanua na dau ni Lawa,ka Minisita talega ni veika vaka-Bisinisi ko Aiyaz Khaiyum, me nanumi koya ga vakai koya e dua na i nakinaki ka nanuma ni sega ni bau kidaca na nona i liuliu ko Voreqe Bainimarama.
Na dau vei vakacacani ka mai taura vakatawa dodonu tu na veiliutaki o Bainimarama e dau raica talega o koya me dau tu na nona i votavota mai na vei butako lelevu kece sara.Na nodrau vakaduiduile kei na cala ni nodrau veiliutaki o Minisita Khaiyum kei Bainimarama,rau vakatavitaki rau e na dua na veivosaki vata kei na kabani mai Amerika, na (US Company)(Gibson Guitars) me volia na Mahogany mai na noda vanua. Sa mani mau na veivosaki ka sa vakarogotaki e na noda vanua e na i 22 ni Seviteba.E dua na ka levu a qai yaco e na nodratou mai kidava ka raica na dina na kabani oqo baleta na nodrau i vadi ca. ka mani sega ni vakavatukanataki na veika e ratou a bosea kei na turaga e rua mai Viti.Sa mai suruta wale na vusi....E na dina ni veitalanoa na veika sa yaco e kauta mai na madua kei na cudru vei Bainimarama.Sa rui mositi koya dina ni nanuma na veika e na rawa kina. O koya e dua na vutuniyau(billionaire) dau butako.Na nona loma kocokoco e se sega ga ni rauti koya na veika e sa taukena tu.E na nona i naki ca a mani kovea kina na nodra i yau na lewe ni vanua ka butakoci ira talega na dau musu vakacavacava e na noda vanua oqo ko Viti.Na veika vakailavo nei Bainimarama e maroroi tu e na kaude nei koya nadau ni vika o Nur Bano Ali na vugoi Khaiyum na dau verevuni.
Ke a mani yaco na nodrau naki o ya na kena volitaki na Mahogany e ra sa na vakalolomataki ga kina na kawa i taukei e ra taukena na i yau bula oqo.Na kena teivaki na Mahogany e baleta na nodra vuvale vakaitokatoka, ,mataqali, yavusa se na nodra kawa e na veisiga ni mataka me rawa ni vueta cake na nodra bula vakailavo kevaka e volitaki e na gaunisala e dodonu ka savasava. Eda rawa ni raica rawa e ke ni o Bainimarama ni sa sega sara ga ni bau nanuma na kawa i taukei,...e sa nanumi koya ga kei na nona vuvale...Sa dodonu me lako...
Na muslim ka minisita ni veika vaka bisinisi o Khaiyum a sega sara ni bau kila na nona liumuritaki koya tale na nona i tokani o Bainimarama, o ya na kena volitaki na Mahogany ki na kabani na Gibson Guitar .Sa dua na ka nona kidroataka, kidacala e na veika sa mai rogoca.
Na veivosaki vakatawa dodonu a vakayacora o Khaiyum me baleta na kena maketetaki na Mahogany i ‘Mega Maderas”na kabani oqo e tiko i Guatemala, mai Amerika.Na kabani oqo e sega mada ga ni bau rogoci tu se kilai e na vanua vaka- Guatemala, ia,e a mani dolavi ga vakatabaki dua e na kena volitaki kina na Mahogany mai Viti Na veitalanoa oqo e sa vakayacori sara e na yabaki 2006 na gauna ka vuaviritaka kina na matanitu o Bainimarama.E tukuni koya vaka i koya me ‘Fine Timber Exporters” na ka e vakaraitaka na “youtube video promotion” ni a caka vakatabakidua me baleta na kena maketetaki na mahogany e Viti.E sa caka tiko mai na volivolitaki i Maderas ka sa mai taura tiko na kena uro vakatawa dodonu o Khaiyum e rai sega beka ni kila o Bainimarama.
Sa rauta mada...sa kena gauna oqo me ra sa yadrava na i taukei na veika lelevu a mai cakava tu o Bainimarama na veivakalolomataki,na veibutakoci kei na kena kovei vakatawa dodonu na i yaubula nodra na i taukei. Me vakayacori na ka oqo me baleta na kena rokovi na tikotiko vakaturaga kei na Bose Levu Vakaturaga.Sa mai vakacacana ka cala na nona nanuma se vakatulewataka na veiliutaki ni lotu Wesele kei ira na kena i talatala.Sa raici sara ga na nona vakaveitaliataka, butakoca na qele ni kawa i taukei e na ruku ni “Ponzi scheme”se vakatokai na “Land Bank”.E ra sa sotava na dravuadravua ni bula na i taukei,na kena sega ni sotavi rawa na i sau ni bula e na veisiga ia o Bainimarama sa qai mai wavokita na noda vuravura vakaitikotiko e na otela kana vata kei ira na yavatu rawa ni da kaya ni sa bula vaka na –tui. nona i vukivuki.Sa sega ni rawa ni ra vosota tiko na i taukei na kena kovei na nodra i yau, qele kei na nodra dodonu. Sa dodonu me rauta ka tarovi.
Sa kena gauna oqo o ira kece sara na gone i taukei i Viti, ka lewena tiko na mataivalu kei na ovisa me ra lomana na vanua kei na kena uma tamata ka toso ki liu me ra taqomaka ka karona na bula ni veisaututaki e na vanua o Viti.
Sa dodonu me sa muduki na bula ni veivakacacani, kocokoco,,dravuavua,na kena tubu cake vakasauri na tawa cakacaka ka me da vakanamata e na gauna vinaka me da lesu tale ki na dodonu ni tamata yadua,na veidigidigi,vakarurugi e na dua na matanitu e digitaki ka koto kina na dina,savsava kei na veiliutaki vinaka. ME DA VEITAURI LIGA KA TOSO KI LIU!!!
TOU VIRIA NA BAI KEI VITI!!!
[NOTE: This is the Fijian version of the Great Mahogany Plantations Robbery, 25 September]
Na Mahogany levu duadua e na noda vuravura e ra taukena na i taukei ni vanua e Viti.E ra sa vakalolomataki na i taukei ni vanua mai na nona vakaveitaliataka, vakatawa dodonutaka na i yaubula ni vanua na dau ni Lawa,ka Minisita talega ni veika vaka-Bisinisi ko Aiyaz Khaiyum, me nanumi koya ga vakai koya e dua na i nakinaki ka nanuma ni sega ni bau kidaca na nona i liuliu ko Voreqe Bainimarama.
Na dau vei vakacacani ka mai taura vakatawa dodonu tu na veiliutaki o Bainimarama e dau raica talega o koya me dau tu na nona i votavota mai na vei butako lelevu kece sara.Na nodrau vakaduiduile kei na cala ni nodrau veiliutaki o Minisita Khaiyum kei Bainimarama,rau vakatavitaki rau e na dua na veivosaki vata kei na kabani mai Amerika, na (US Company)(Gibson Guitars) me volia na Mahogany mai na noda vanua. Sa mani mau na veivosaki ka sa vakarogotaki e na noda vanua e na i 22 ni Seviteba.E dua na ka levu a qai yaco e na nodratou mai kidava ka raica na dina na kabani oqo baleta na nodrau i vadi ca. ka mani sega ni vakavatukanataki na veika e ratou a bosea kei na turaga e rua mai Viti.Sa mai suruta wale na vusi....E na dina ni veitalanoa na veika sa yaco e kauta mai na madua kei na cudru vei Bainimarama.Sa rui mositi koya dina ni nanuma na veika e na rawa kina. O koya e dua na vutuniyau(billionaire) dau butako.Na nona loma kocokoco e se sega ga ni rauti koya na veika e sa taukena tu.E na nona i naki ca a mani kovea kina na nodra i yau na lewe ni vanua ka butakoci ira talega na dau musu vakacavacava e na noda vanua oqo ko Viti.Na veika vakailavo nei Bainimarama e maroroi tu e na kaude nei koya nadau ni vika o Nur Bano Ali na vugoi Khaiyum na dau verevuni.
Ke a mani yaco na nodrau naki o ya na kena volitaki na Mahogany e ra sa na vakalolomataki ga kina na kawa i taukei e ra taukena na i yau bula oqo.Na kena teivaki na Mahogany e baleta na nodra vuvale vakaitokatoka, ,mataqali, yavusa se na nodra kawa e na veisiga ni mataka me rawa ni vueta cake na nodra bula vakailavo kevaka e volitaki e na gaunisala e dodonu ka savasava. Eda rawa ni raica rawa e ke ni o Bainimarama ni sa sega sara ga ni bau nanuma na kawa i taukei,...e sa nanumi koya ga kei na nona vuvale...Sa dodonu me lako...
Na muslim ka minisita ni veika vaka bisinisi o Khaiyum a sega sara ni bau kila na nona liumuritaki koya tale na nona i tokani o Bainimarama, o ya na kena volitaki na Mahogany ki na kabani na Gibson Guitar .Sa dua na ka nona kidroataka, kidacala e na veika sa mai rogoca.
Na veivosaki vakatawa dodonu a vakayacora o Khaiyum me baleta na kena maketetaki na Mahogany i ‘Mega Maderas”na kabani oqo e tiko i Guatemala, mai Amerika.Na kabani oqo e sega mada ga ni bau rogoci tu se kilai e na vanua vaka- Guatemala, ia,e a mani dolavi ga vakatabaki dua e na kena volitaki kina na Mahogany mai Viti Na veitalanoa oqo e sa vakayacori sara e na yabaki 2006 na gauna ka vuaviritaka kina na matanitu o Bainimarama.E tukuni koya vaka i koya me ‘Fine Timber Exporters” na ka e vakaraitaka na “youtube video promotion” ni a caka vakatabakidua me baleta na kena maketetaki na mahogany e Viti.E sa caka tiko mai na volivolitaki i Maderas ka sa mai taura tiko na kena uro vakatawa dodonu o Khaiyum e rai sega beka ni kila o Bainimarama.
Sa rauta mada...sa kena gauna oqo me ra sa yadrava na i taukei na veika lelevu a mai cakava tu o Bainimarama na veivakalolomataki,na veibutakoci kei na kena kovei vakatawa dodonu na i yaubula nodra na i taukei. Me vakayacori na ka oqo me baleta na kena rokovi na tikotiko vakaturaga kei na Bose Levu Vakaturaga.Sa mai vakacacana ka cala na nona nanuma se vakatulewataka na veiliutaki ni lotu Wesele kei ira na kena i talatala.Sa raici sara ga na nona vakaveitaliataka, butakoca na qele ni kawa i taukei e na ruku ni “Ponzi scheme”se vakatokai na “Land Bank”.E ra sa sotava na dravuadravua ni bula na i taukei,na kena sega ni sotavi rawa na i sau ni bula e na veisiga ia o Bainimarama sa qai mai wavokita na noda vuravura vakaitikotiko e na otela kana vata kei ira na yavatu rawa ni da kaya ni sa bula vaka na –tui. nona i vukivuki.Sa sega ni rawa ni ra vosota tiko na i taukei na kena kovei na nodra i yau, qele kei na nodra dodonu. Sa dodonu me rauta ka tarovi.
Sa kena gauna oqo o ira kece sara na gone i taukei i Viti, ka lewena tiko na mataivalu kei na ovisa me ra lomana na vanua kei na kena uma tamata ka toso ki liu me ra taqomaka ka karona na bula ni veisaututaki e na vanua o Viti.
Sa dodonu me sa muduki na bula ni veivakacacani, kocokoco,,dravuavua,na kena tubu cake vakasauri na tawa cakacaka ka me da vakanamata e na gauna vinaka me da lesu tale ki na dodonu ni tamata yadua,na veidigidigi,vakarurugi e na dua na matanitu e digitaki ka koto kina na dina,savsava kei na veiliutaki vinaka. ME DA VEITAURI LIGA KA TOSO KI LIU!!!
TOU VIRIA NA BAI KEI VITI!!!
[NOTE: This is the Fijian version of the Great Mahogany Plantations Robbery, 25 September]
The Great Mahogany Plantations Robbery 25 September 2011
The murderer's gift. Picture by: C4.5
There is an old saying that “when a thief thief from a thief, there is laughter in heaven”. Today, there is laughter in heaven. And if the heinous Fiji mahogany plantations robbery was not so tragic for the poor, indigenous Fijians and for the country, the nation would also be laughing.
The precious valuable Fiji mahogany plantations, the largest in the world, which are owned by the poor, indigenous Fijians, are now being despoiled and robbed by the illegal Attorney-General and Minister for Public Enterprises, Aiyaz Khaiyum, for his personal gain, an act he thought was unknown to his boss, the dictator and murderer Voreqe Bainimarama.
The brutal tyrant and murderer Bainimarama obviously found out and attempted to get his share of the loot. In an underhand move for corrupt gain and unknown to the illegal line Minister Khaiyum, Bainimarama entered into discussions with a US Company, Gibson Guitars, to sell it mahogany. Negotiations were finalised to conclude the illicit deal and announce it at a Press Conference on September 22.
However, the Company’s owner found out the truth about the corrupt, bribe-prone and repressive junta of the murderer Bainimarama and pulled out. The murderer Bainimaorama was shamed, embarrassed and angry over the subsequent turn of events.
According to reports, the deal fell through because the murderer Bainimarama wanted too large a cut for himself. The murderer Bainimarama is a billionaire crook. His greed and avarice are not satisfied with his Emperor’s salary, illegal millions he swindled from over 30 public projects and what he has stolen from Fiji taxpayers. The murderer Bainimarama’s money is all stashed away in an off-shore bank account being handled by accountant Nur Bano Ali, the aunt of his criminal associate, Khaiyum.
In his underhand move to sell the mahogany, he had no thought whatsoever for the indigenous Fijians who own the plantations, or for their families, for the indigenous people as a whole and for the benefits that would accrue to them, their lives and their upliftment if the resources were marketed in a transparent and accountable manner.
THIS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES THAT BAINIMARAMA ONLY CARES FOR POWER, FOR HIMSELF AND FOR HIS FAMILY. NOT FOR THE FIJIAN PEOPLE. BAINIMARAMA MUST GO.
The Muslim and illegal Fiji Minister for Public Enterprise and line Minister, Khaiyum, was blissfully unaware of the backhand move by corrupt partner Bainimarama to sell the mahogany to Gibsons Guitar. Imagine his shock and surprise when he found out. I was half expecting the illegal AG to have Bainimarama suspended!
The illegal and corrupt Khaiyum has been getting his kickbacks and graft from Mega Maderas, a company located in Guatemala, Central America. The company is unknown outside of Guatemala and was opportunely created mainly to market Fiji’s mahogany. It is significant and instructive that Maderas was set up in 2006, the year of Bainimarama’s Coup. Maderas advertises itself as 'Fine Timber Exporters’ but when you listen to a youtube video promotion, it was set up just to market Fiji’s mahogany. It has been doing so for some time now. Khaiyum has been getting his kickbacks from Maderas unknown, or so he thought, to Bainimarama.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
It is high time that the indigenous Fijian people wake up to their ruthless oppression, repression and robbery of their prized possessions by the illegal Bainimarama junta.
The illegal Fiji junta has:
1. done away with their respected and paramount Fijian institution, the Bose Levu Vakaturaga.
2. desecrated and repressed the Methodist Church and their officials
3. turned now to stealing Fijian ancestral land under a Ponzi scheme called a Land Bank.
The Fijian people are living in poverty while the murderer Bainimarama travels around the world staying in posh Hotels and feasting at international dining tables. The murderer Bainimarama, who was sacked and then forced PM Qarase to renew his contract, is living a lifestyle of the rich and the infamous.
Indigenous Fijians cannot and must not continue to tolerate this robbery of their rights, their money and their land. They must put a stop to it.
It is high time that the Fijian police and soldiers loyal and patriotic to Fiji take steps to end Bainimarama’s evil. You and your families are suffering. YOU have a duty and obligation to your country and to your families. Fiji needs You.
It is time that the tyranny, absence of law and justice, corruption, economic and social decline and the rise of unemployment and poverty end now. It is high time that freedom, democracy, the rule of law, Constitutional rule, Parliamentary Government and economic and social growth are restored to Fiji. Our beloved country.
LET’S DO IT NOW!
The precious valuable Fiji mahogany plantations, the largest in the world, which are owned by the poor, indigenous Fijians, are now being despoiled and robbed by the illegal Attorney-General and Minister for Public Enterprises, Aiyaz Khaiyum, for his personal gain, an act he thought was unknown to his boss, the dictator and murderer Voreqe Bainimarama.
The brutal tyrant and murderer Bainimarama obviously found out and attempted to get his share of the loot. In an underhand move for corrupt gain and unknown to the illegal line Minister Khaiyum, Bainimarama entered into discussions with a US Company, Gibson Guitars, to sell it mahogany. Negotiations were finalised to conclude the illicit deal and announce it at a Press Conference on September 22.
However, the Company’s owner found out the truth about the corrupt, bribe-prone and repressive junta of the murderer Bainimarama and pulled out. The murderer Bainimaorama was shamed, embarrassed and angry over the subsequent turn of events.
According to reports, the deal fell through because the murderer Bainimarama wanted too large a cut for himself. The murderer Bainimarama is a billionaire crook. His greed and avarice are not satisfied with his Emperor’s salary, illegal millions he swindled from over 30 public projects and what he has stolen from Fiji taxpayers. The murderer Bainimarama’s money is all stashed away in an off-shore bank account being handled by accountant Nur Bano Ali, the aunt of his criminal associate, Khaiyum.
In his underhand move to sell the mahogany, he had no thought whatsoever for the indigenous Fijians who own the plantations, or for their families, for the indigenous people as a whole and for the benefits that would accrue to them, their lives and their upliftment if the resources were marketed in a transparent and accountable manner.
THIS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES THAT BAINIMARAMA ONLY CARES FOR POWER, FOR HIMSELF AND FOR HIS FAMILY. NOT FOR THE FIJIAN PEOPLE. BAINIMARAMA MUST GO.
The Muslim and illegal Fiji Minister for Public Enterprise and line Minister, Khaiyum, was blissfully unaware of the backhand move by corrupt partner Bainimarama to sell the mahogany to Gibsons Guitar. Imagine his shock and surprise when he found out. I was half expecting the illegal AG to have Bainimarama suspended!
The illegal and corrupt Khaiyum has been getting his kickbacks and graft from Mega Maderas, a company located in Guatemala, Central America. The company is unknown outside of Guatemala and was opportunely created mainly to market Fiji’s mahogany. It is significant and instructive that Maderas was set up in 2006, the year of Bainimarama’s Coup. Maderas advertises itself as 'Fine Timber Exporters’ but when you listen to a youtube video promotion, it was set up just to market Fiji’s mahogany. It has been doing so for some time now. Khaiyum has been getting his kickbacks from Maderas unknown, or so he thought, to Bainimarama.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
It is high time that the indigenous Fijian people wake up to their ruthless oppression, repression and robbery of their prized possessions by the illegal Bainimarama junta.
The illegal Fiji junta has:
1. done away with their respected and paramount Fijian institution, the Bose Levu Vakaturaga.
2. desecrated and repressed the Methodist Church and their officials
3. turned now to stealing Fijian ancestral land under a Ponzi scheme called a Land Bank.
The Fijian people are living in poverty while the murderer Bainimarama travels around the world staying in posh Hotels and feasting at international dining tables. The murderer Bainimarama, who was sacked and then forced PM Qarase to renew his contract, is living a lifestyle of the rich and the infamous.
Indigenous Fijians cannot and must not continue to tolerate this robbery of their rights, their money and their land. They must put a stop to it.
It is high time that the Fijian police and soldiers loyal and patriotic to Fiji take steps to end Bainimarama’s evil. You and your families are suffering. YOU have a duty and obligation to your country and to your families. Fiji needs You.
It is time that the tyranny, absence of law and justice, corruption, economic and social decline and the rise of unemployment and poverty end now. It is high time that freedom, democracy, the rule of law, Constitutional rule, Parliamentary Government and economic and social growth are restored to Fiji. Our beloved country.
LET’S DO IT NOW!
The Madness of Fiji’s Dictator 23 September 2011
There is an ancient proverb, attributed to Euripides, which is so applicable to the murderer Bainimarama (as displayed in picture on left). It says, “Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”. Here is an example of that madness.
It is laughable that Fiji’s military junta leader and murderer, Voreqe Bainimarama, would make a statement (dated September 22) at the United Nations (UN) on Desertification, Drought and Land Degradation that have no relevance to Fiji. This is because:
DESERTIFICATION
What is interesting is that Fiji is a Member of the UN Desertification Commission although it has no deserts. It would also be interesting to know what annual financial contribution Fiji has to make to the Commission, not to mention the sums of money spent for travel and subsistence to attend meetings.
DROUGHT
The illegal dictator and murderer preached at the UN to member countries about integrated water resource management when Fiji has no such programme in place, especially for the rural areas where two-thirds of the indigenous Fiji population live.
What Fiji does have is a lack of pure water supply or piped water. Drainage and poor sewerage systems and irrigation remain serious problems. Rural electrification is almost absent and interconnecting roads, bridges and transport between villages and districts almost non-existent. A high percentage of indigenous Fijians live in rural areas under primitive conditions while the murderer and his cohorts live in expensive Government funded accommodation and travel the world living in expensive hotels.
LAND DEGRADATION
The land degradation in Fiji applies generally to the coastal areas that surround the islands. It is caused by the Pacific Ocean tides. So while pontificating to UN members about coastal use planning, the murderer Bainimarama has failed miserably to pursue policies, plans, programmes and projects to prevent coastal degradation in Fiji.
RELEVANCE TO FIJI
Instead of the murderer Bainimarama preaching about; deserts, which Fiji does not have; drought, which occurs in Fiji due to the junta’s failure to act; and coastal degradation that has not been addressed, he should have been talking about more relevant topics to Fiji.
This includes increasing levels of Overseas Development Assistance to Fiji, facilitating more export trade, increasing foreign private investment, and attracting higher levels of tourists and transfer of technology.
In addition, the murderer Bainimarama should have been telling the UN about the end of his Public Emergency Regulations in Fiji, and the end of media muzzling, censorship, and the return of the rule of law and the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, and the restoration of Constitutional rule and Parliamentary democracy to Fiji.
Therefore, I find the ancient proverb, “Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”, so applicable to the murderer Bainimarama and his statement to the UN.
It is laughable that Fiji’s military junta leader and murderer, Voreqe Bainimarama, would make a statement (dated September 22) at the United Nations (UN) on Desertification, Drought and Land Degradation that have no relevance to Fiji. This is because:
- Fiji has no deserts
- Fiji experiences occasional droughts, but this is through a lack of proper national water policies, plans and projects
- Land degradation, coastal, is a result of ocean tides that the illegal junta has tragically failed to address during its five years of repression.
DESERTIFICATION
What is interesting is that Fiji is a Member of the UN Desertification Commission although it has no deserts. It would also be interesting to know what annual financial contribution Fiji has to make to the Commission, not to mention the sums of money spent for travel and subsistence to attend meetings.
DROUGHT
The illegal dictator and murderer preached at the UN to member countries about integrated water resource management when Fiji has no such programme in place, especially for the rural areas where two-thirds of the indigenous Fiji population live.
What Fiji does have is a lack of pure water supply or piped water. Drainage and poor sewerage systems and irrigation remain serious problems. Rural electrification is almost absent and interconnecting roads, bridges and transport between villages and districts almost non-existent. A high percentage of indigenous Fijians live in rural areas under primitive conditions while the murderer and his cohorts live in expensive Government funded accommodation and travel the world living in expensive hotels.
LAND DEGRADATION
The land degradation in Fiji applies generally to the coastal areas that surround the islands. It is caused by the Pacific Ocean tides. So while pontificating to UN members about coastal use planning, the murderer Bainimarama has failed miserably to pursue policies, plans, programmes and projects to prevent coastal degradation in Fiji.
RELEVANCE TO FIJI
Instead of the murderer Bainimarama preaching about; deserts, which Fiji does not have; drought, which occurs in Fiji due to the junta’s failure to act; and coastal degradation that has not been addressed, he should have been talking about more relevant topics to Fiji.
This includes increasing levels of Overseas Development Assistance to Fiji, facilitating more export trade, increasing foreign private investment, and attracting higher levels of tourists and transfer of technology.
In addition, the murderer Bainimarama should have been telling the UN about the end of his Public Emergency Regulations in Fiji, and the end of media muzzling, censorship, and the return of the rule of law and the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, and the restoration of Constitutional rule and Parliamentary democracy to Fiji.
Therefore, I find the ancient proverb, “Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”, so applicable to the murderer Bainimarama and his statement to the UN.
ENA YADRA LI KO BAINIMARAMA KEI NA MATAIVALU
E nai ka lima ni Tiseba 2006 ena gauna e mai vuaviritaka kina na Matanitu o Voreqe Bainimarama na turaga e leveca tiko na nodra labati na sotia ena 2000, me sa taura na ulu ni veiliutaki ena bose lawa, a mai vakadaberi Aiyaz Khaiyum edua na loya me sa taura nai tutu vaka vunilawa ni noda vanua.
Ni oti e lima na yabaki mai na gauna koya sa qai mai kune votu tiko ni sa liutaka tikoga na Matanitu veivakatotogani oqo ko Aiyaz Khaiyum.
E dua na qito vakadomobula e vakayacora o Khaiyum ena nona saga me cabeta nai tutu vakaveiliutaki ena nona vakaqumi na liga daulaba nei Bainimarama.
Tekivutaki na nodrau veiwekani ena nona soli koya vakarawarawa vei Bainimarama o Khaiyum ena vakacegui koya ena veigaunisala vaka politiki ka vakalawa talega me yacovi kina na nona maroroi na daulaba.
E mai rawai Bainimarama o Khaiyum me tauri vaka tikoga na Matanitu na yavu ni vakavulewa ni 1997 ni oti na vuaviri me kua ni vakacacani kina na nona sema vaka lewe ni vanua e Ositerilia kei na nona bubului vakalawa mai keya.
Ena kena mai taurivaki tikoga na yavu ni vakavulewa ni 1997, e kila vinaka tiko o Khaiyum ke mani kau vakaveilewai na Matanitu vaka i value na druka ga. Sa qai vakayagataka edua nai vadi duka o Khaiyum me vakagalalataki na vosavakadua o Justice Fatiaki, me rawa ni vakasaurarataki na nona kere vakacegu na Turaga ni lewa qo. Ena nona sa vakagalalataki o Justice Fatiaki sa mani laki rogoci kina na kisi e kauta cake mai nai liuliu ni Matanitu vakasivoi o Laisenia Qarase vei Anthony Gates ka sa yalataki oti koto kina nai tutu vaka vosavakadua me taura. E mani yaco kina na vakatulewa ni mataveilewai nei Gates ni donu vaka lawa na vuaviri ena kena vakayagataki na yavu vakalawa ni veika e dodonu me vakayacori se “Doctrine of Necessity.” E vinaka ga ni sega ni vakatara na yavu vaka lawa oqo ena kisi ni laba me rawa ni galala kina o Bainimarama. Sa mai vakayacora kina o Gates na nona i tavi ena kilavata oqo.
E mani bolea o Qarase na vakatulewa oqo ena mataveilewai e cake se “Appeals Court”. E na vakatulewa ni mataiveilewai e cake oqo e kaya kina na dau ni lewa ni cala vakalawa na vuaviri, na matanivakaivalu kei na veiveisau kece mai cakava o Bainimarama.
E rau mai veicudruvi kina o Bainimarama kei Khaiyum ena veika sav aka taulewa kina na mataveilewai e cake. Sa qai kauta cake mai o Khaiyum nai wali ni leqa nei Bainimarama me sa boko na yavu ni vakavulewa, tauri vakaukauwa na ulu ni veiliutaki vaka Peresitedi ka qai buli nai vakaro vaka lawa mai na kaukauwa vaka Peresitedi se “Decree.” Sa mani yaco kina na lewa me vakayacori sara na nanuma nei Khaiyum.
Ena nona sa kila rawa o Khaiyum ni sa rawai na vakatulewa nei Bainimarama sa qai tekivu me vakaukauwataki koya o na Turaga qo ena nona sa tekivu bulia cake na yavu ni nona veiliutaki. Kila vinaka o koya ni tiko e dakua Bainimarama na mataivalu ka sega vua, sa tekivu me vakayagataki ira na wekana mera dau ni vakasala ni Matanitu. E mai kerea na wekana o Nazat Shameem na nona vakacegu mai na mataveilewai me sa vakaduria edua na nona vale ni volavola. Vaka kina na tacina o Shaista Shameen e mai dolava talega edua na nona vale ni volavola. Vaka talega kina na nona nei o Nur Bano Ali kei na nona kabana ni dauni vika sa ratou duavata tiko ena soli vakasala. Sa mai vakabauta sara vakalevu o Bainimarama na veivakasala mai vei ira nai lawlawa oqo ka sa vakamalumalutaka vakalevu na lewa nei Bainimarama kei na mataivalu.
Toso na sasaga ni lawalawa oqo me vakamalumalutaki vakadua o Bainimarama kei na Mataivalu ena nodratou tosoya cake nai sau kei na kena vaka i lavo taki na veivakatorocake taki ni Matanitu. Sa qai mai kunati Bainimarama tu nai lawalawa oqo ena loma ni qito vaka i lavo sa rerevaka tu o koya me biuta tani, lakolako ena beitaki vua na veibutakoci oqo.
Sa qai vaka io taka talega o Bainimarama nai vakasala ni lawalawa oqo me soli vua na vei tabana ni Matanitu bibi ka kenai i naki me vakalailai taka na vakayagataki lavo ka sega tiko ni kila o Bainimarama ni sa vuaviritaka tiko o Khaiyum vakamalua na kaukauwa ni veiliutaki mai vua kei na mataivalu.
Sa vakadonuya tuga o Bainimarama na vei vakasala kei na veitosoyaki kece e nanuma o Khaiyum. E mataboko vakalevu o Bainimarama ena i naki vuni nei Khaiyum ka sega ni vuli vinaka li me bau kidava na veika e vakalialiai koya tiko kina na nona i tokani.
Sa qai mai toso vakamalua yani na lawalawa nei Khaiyum me ratou veisau taka na veika e kovuta na qele. E ratou kila vinaka nai lawalawa oqo ni ko Viti e vutuniyau duaduaga ena kena qele kani sai vurevure levu duadua ena noda vanua. Ni rauta e walusagavulu na pasede na bisinisi e Viti e nodra na idia, ka walusagavulu ka tolu na pasede na qele e noda nai Taukei. Sa nodra i naki makawa tiko na noda vasu mera rawata vakalawa na noda qele vaka i Taukei.
Taumada me ra rawata na nodra i naki na noda vasu eratou rawai Bainimarama rawa nai lawalawa oqo ena veiliutaki nei Khaiyum me boko na Bose Levu Vakaturaga kei na Bose O Viti ka ratou kila ni tatao levu ni nodratou sasaga ena veigauna sa oti ena kena dau maroroya toka na Lotu kei na Bose Levu Vakaturaga na bai ni vanua o Viti.
E sega sara tuga ni kidava o Bainimarama na sa boko tu na Bose Levu Vakaturaga me vaka na kena vakagalalataki na Palimedi ena 2006. Mai na nona na tuiraki Bainimarama tiko na vakayagataka sara o Khaiyum na matanivalu me vakatikitikitaka na veiliutaki e loma ni lotu Wesele Viti kei Rotuma. Mani sega ni yaco nai nodra i naki ena tikina koya.
Sa mani veisautaka tale o Khaiyum nai walewale ni nodratou i le na noda vasu ena kena vinakati me vakayagataki na qele ena veivakatorocaketaki levulevu ni Matanitu. Mai tauyavutaki kina na Matabose ni Baqe ni Qele se “Land Bank.” E vakatulewataka o Khaiyum na tabana oqo.
Sa Turaga vuku saraga o Khaiyum. E kila o koya ni sega ni rawa ni vakagalalataki i Bainimarama. E sega ni rawa ni liutaka na mataivalu o Khaiyum se rawa na kena vakatulewataki baleta ni vuni kaukauwa kei Viti e tiko ena mataivalu. Me rawata na nona i naki esa vesumona taki Bainimarama tuga o Khaiyum me vakatulewataka nai tutu vaka Komada. Sa vesu o Bainimarama, sa vesu vaka kina nai tutu vaka Komada, ni sa vesu nai tutu vaka Komada sa vesu kina na mataivalu ni noda vanua lomai o Viti.
SAI KOYA SARA TUGA KOYA NAI RAIRAI KEI VITI NI KUA.
Sa yacana wale tuga ni veiliutaki tiko o Bainimarama na kaukauwa sa tiko e ligai Khaiyum. Sa vakayagataki Bainimarama tiko o Khaiyum me vesuka tiko na mataivalu me rawa tiko kina na nona i naki ka lecava tiko na mataivalu na tikina oqo. E ra sa mai vesuki keda tu oqo na noda vasu ena kena vakamalumalutaki na vei yavu vaka i Taukei ka vaka Lotu me ra mai rawata kina na noda i yaubula sai koya na qele.
Sa nodra i naki vuni nai lawalawa nei Khaiyum me serelaki keda na kawa i Taukei me rawa ni ra qaqa ena veidigidigi. Ena kena kau mai na misini kei ni walewale ni veidigidigi me vakadeitaka na nodratou qaqa ena 2014, ke mani yaco. Ni oti na veidigidigi ka qaqa nai lawalawa nei Khaiyum sana oti talega na vakayagataki nei Bainimarama. E ra na gole mai Sri Lanka, Niusiladi, Ositerilia mera mai cicivaki keda ena dua na gauna dredre. Ena 1987 e a liutaka tiko o Khaiyum nai lawalawa ni vakacabote bomu e lomai Suva me ra vakarusai kina na noda ni kua sa vakayagataki Bainimarama, na mataivalu kei na lawa me rawata kina na nodra i naki na vasu.
NAI LILIU DINA NI MATANITU ENA GAUNA OQO KO AIYAZ KHAIYUM. NA TOTOLO GA NI NONA KIDAVA O BAINIMARAMA KEI NA MATAIVALU NAI VEIKA OQO NA KENA VINAKA VEI KEDA NA LEWE I VITI.
VINAKA.
[NOTE: This is the Fijian version of the earlier posting, Will the Real Illegal Fiji Ruler Stand Up, 21 September]
Ni oti e lima na yabaki mai na gauna koya sa qai mai kune votu tiko ni sa liutaka tikoga na Matanitu veivakatotogani oqo ko Aiyaz Khaiyum.
E dua na qito vakadomobula e vakayacora o Khaiyum ena nona saga me cabeta nai tutu vakaveiliutaki ena nona vakaqumi na liga daulaba nei Bainimarama.
Tekivutaki na nodrau veiwekani ena nona soli koya vakarawarawa vei Bainimarama o Khaiyum ena vakacegui koya ena veigaunisala vaka politiki ka vakalawa talega me yacovi kina na nona maroroi na daulaba.
E mai rawai Bainimarama o Khaiyum me tauri vaka tikoga na Matanitu na yavu ni vakavulewa ni 1997 ni oti na vuaviri me kua ni vakacacani kina na nona sema vaka lewe ni vanua e Ositerilia kei na nona bubului vakalawa mai keya.
Ena kena mai taurivaki tikoga na yavu ni vakavulewa ni 1997, e kila vinaka tiko o Khaiyum ke mani kau vakaveilewai na Matanitu vaka i value na druka ga. Sa qai vakayagataka edua nai vadi duka o Khaiyum me vakagalalataki na vosavakadua o Justice Fatiaki, me rawa ni vakasaurarataki na nona kere vakacegu na Turaga ni lewa qo. Ena nona sa vakagalalataki o Justice Fatiaki sa mani laki rogoci kina na kisi e kauta cake mai nai liuliu ni Matanitu vakasivoi o Laisenia Qarase vei Anthony Gates ka sa yalataki oti koto kina nai tutu vaka vosavakadua me taura. E mani yaco kina na vakatulewa ni mataveilewai nei Gates ni donu vaka lawa na vuaviri ena kena vakayagataki na yavu vakalawa ni veika e dodonu me vakayacori se “Doctrine of Necessity.” E vinaka ga ni sega ni vakatara na yavu vaka lawa oqo ena kisi ni laba me rawa ni galala kina o Bainimarama. Sa mai vakayacora kina o Gates na nona i tavi ena kilavata oqo.
E mani bolea o Qarase na vakatulewa oqo ena mataveilewai e cake se “Appeals Court”. E na vakatulewa ni mataiveilewai e cake oqo e kaya kina na dau ni lewa ni cala vakalawa na vuaviri, na matanivakaivalu kei na veiveisau kece mai cakava o Bainimarama.
E rau mai veicudruvi kina o Bainimarama kei Khaiyum ena veika sav aka taulewa kina na mataveilewai e cake. Sa qai kauta cake mai o Khaiyum nai wali ni leqa nei Bainimarama me sa boko na yavu ni vakavulewa, tauri vakaukauwa na ulu ni veiliutaki vaka Peresitedi ka qai buli nai vakaro vaka lawa mai na kaukauwa vaka Peresitedi se “Decree.” Sa mani yaco kina na lewa me vakayacori sara na nanuma nei Khaiyum.
Ena nona sa kila rawa o Khaiyum ni sa rawai na vakatulewa nei Bainimarama sa qai tekivu me vakaukauwataki koya o na Turaga qo ena nona sa tekivu bulia cake na yavu ni nona veiliutaki. Kila vinaka o koya ni tiko e dakua Bainimarama na mataivalu ka sega vua, sa tekivu me vakayagataki ira na wekana mera dau ni vakasala ni Matanitu. E mai kerea na wekana o Nazat Shameem na nona vakacegu mai na mataveilewai me sa vakaduria edua na nona vale ni volavola. Vaka kina na tacina o Shaista Shameen e mai dolava talega edua na nona vale ni volavola. Vaka talega kina na nona nei o Nur Bano Ali kei na nona kabana ni dauni vika sa ratou duavata tiko ena soli vakasala. Sa mai vakabauta sara vakalevu o Bainimarama na veivakasala mai vei ira nai lawlawa oqo ka sa vakamalumalutaka vakalevu na lewa nei Bainimarama kei na mataivalu.
Toso na sasaga ni lawalawa oqo me vakamalumalutaki vakadua o Bainimarama kei na Mataivalu ena nodratou tosoya cake nai sau kei na kena vaka i lavo taki na veivakatorocake taki ni Matanitu. Sa qai mai kunati Bainimarama tu nai lawalawa oqo ena loma ni qito vaka i lavo sa rerevaka tu o koya me biuta tani, lakolako ena beitaki vua na veibutakoci oqo.
Sa qai vaka io taka talega o Bainimarama nai vakasala ni lawalawa oqo me soli vua na vei tabana ni Matanitu bibi ka kenai i naki me vakalailai taka na vakayagataki lavo ka sega tiko ni kila o Bainimarama ni sa vuaviritaka tiko o Khaiyum vakamalua na kaukauwa ni veiliutaki mai vua kei na mataivalu.
Sa vakadonuya tuga o Bainimarama na vei vakasala kei na veitosoyaki kece e nanuma o Khaiyum. E mataboko vakalevu o Bainimarama ena i naki vuni nei Khaiyum ka sega ni vuli vinaka li me bau kidava na veika e vakalialiai koya tiko kina na nona i tokani.
Sa qai mai toso vakamalua yani na lawalawa nei Khaiyum me ratou veisau taka na veika e kovuta na qele. E ratou kila vinaka nai lawalawa oqo ni ko Viti e vutuniyau duaduaga ena kena qele kani sai vurevure levu duadua ena noda vanua. Ni rauta e walusagavulu na pasede na bisinisi e Viti e nodra na idia, ka walusagavulu ka tolu na pasede na qele e noda nai Taukei. Sa nodra i naki makawa tiko na noda vasu mera rawata vakalawa na noda qele vaka i Taukei.
Taumada me ra rawata na nodra i naki na noda vasu eratou rawai Bainimarama rawa nai lawalawa oqo ena veiliutaki nei Khaiyum me boko na Bose Levu Vakaturaga kei na Bose O Viti ka ratou kila ni tatao levu ni nodratou sasaga ena veigauna sa oti ena kena dau maroroya toka na Lotu kei na Bose Levu Vakaturaga na bai ni vanua o Viti.
E sega sara tuga ni kidava o Bainimarama na sa boko tu na Bose Levu Vakaturaga me vaka na kena vakagalalataki na Palimedi ena 2006. Mai na nona na tuiraki Bainimarama tiko na vakayagataka sara o Khaiyum na matanivalu me vakatikitikitaka na veiliutaki e loma ni lotu Wesele Viti kei Rotuma. Mani sega ni yaco nai nodra i naki ena tikina koya.
Sa mani veisautaka tale o Khaiyum nai walewale ni nodratou i le na noda vasu ena kena vinakati me vakayagataki na qele ena veivakatorocaketaki levulevu ni Matanitu. Mai tauyavutaki kina na Matabose ni Baqe ni Qele se “Land Bank.” E vakatulewataka o Khaiyum na tabana oqo.
Sa Turaga vuku saraga o Khaiyum. E kila o koya ni sega ni rawa ni vakagalalataki i Bainimarama. E sega ni rawa ni liutaka na mataivalu o Khaiyum se rawa na kena vakatulewataki baleta ni vuni kaukauwa kei Viti e tiko ena mataivalu. Me rawata na nona i naki esa vesumona taki Bainimarama tuga o Khaiyum me vakatulewataka nai tutu vaka Komada. Sa vesu o Bainimarama, sa vesu vaka kina nai tutu vaka Komada, ni sa vesu nai tutu vaka Komada sa vesu kina na mataivalu ni noda vanua lomai o Viti.
SAI KOYA SARA TUGA KOYA NAI RAIRAI KEI VITI NI KUA.
Sa yacana wale tuga ni veiliutaki tiko o Bainimarama na kaukauwa sa tiko e ligai Khaiyum. Sa vakayagataki Bainimarama tiko o Khaiyum me vesuka tiko na mataivalu me rawa tiko kina na nona i naki ka lecava tiko na mataivalu na tikina oqo. E ra sa mai vesuki keda tu oqo na noda vasu ena kena vakamalumalutaki na vei yavu vaka i Taukei ka vaka Lotu me ra mai rawata kina na noda i yaubula sai koya na qele.
Sa nodra i naki vuni nai lawalawa nei Khaiyum me serelaki keda na kawa i Taukei me rawa ni ra qaqa ena veidigidigi. Ena kena kau mai na misini kei ni walewale ni veidigidigi me vakadeitaka na nodratou qaqa ena 2014, ke mani yaco. Ni oti na veidigidigi ka qaqa nai lawalawa nei Khaiyum sana oti talega na vakayagataki nei Bainimarama. E ra na gole mai Sri Lanka, Niusiladi, Ositerilia mera mai cicivaki keda ena dua na gauna dredre. Ena 1987 e a liutaka tiko o Khaiyum nai lawalawa ni vakacabote bomu e lomai Suva me ra vakarusai kina na noda ni kua sa vakayagataki Bainimarama, na mataivalu kei na lawa me rawata kina na nodra i naki na vasu.
NAI LILIU DINA NI MATANITU ENA GAUNA OQO KO AIYAZ KHAIYUM. NA TOTOLO GA NI NONA KIDAVA O BAINIMARAMA KEI NA MATAIVALU NAI VEIKA OQO NA KENA VINAKA VEI KEDA NA LEWE I VITI.
VINAKA.
[NOTE: This is the Fijian version of the earlier posting, Will the Real Illegal Fiji Ruler Stand Up, 21 September]
Nai naki ni kena biu e taudaku na vakarautaki ni veidigidigi
Nai tukutuku e mai kaburaka na vunilawa o Aiyaz Khaiyum ena i ka ruasagavulu ka dua ni Seviteba vei ira na veimata ni Matanitu era vaka vale ni volavola ena noda vanua ka kaya ne “ e vinaka me biu e taudaku ni Matanitu na kena vakarautaki na veidigidigi me rawa ni savasava” e dua nai tukutuku lasu, sega ni dodonu ka vakamaduwa.
Oqo edua nai vadi duka tale me ra dabui tu kina na veimata ni Matanitu e Viti ni na yaco na veidigidigi. E sega ni rawa ni vakatautauvata taka rawa o Khaiyum edua na Matanitu e vuravura e vakayacora tiko na tikina oqo. Na cava e sega ni Digitaki kina na United Nations, se Commonwealth, se European Union, se Peritania, Amerika, Ositerilia, Niusiladi se na Matanitu o Canada. E ra a rawa ni vaka i lavo taka. Ni soli vei dua na kabana ena rawa ni yaco kina na veivakaqumi kei na cakacaka vakailawaki. Me vaka na veika e yaco na kabani ni lawa ni Amerika ka vaka i lavo taka na Air Pacific na nona vola edua na dikiri se lawa i vakaro me vakamalumalumutaka na Unioni e Viti. E sega ni dua na dau veidigidigi e Viti e vakabauta na Matanitu vakaivalu oqo ena levu ni duka kei na cakacaka butobuto e yaco tiko kina.
E sega tiko mada ni kila o Khaiyum nai balebale ni vosa na “Transparency”. E kena i balebale ni laurai makare ka rawarawa ni kilai. E rawa vakacava me laki caka mai vavalagi na vola yaca ni veidigidigi ka sega ni da kila e Viti na veika ena yaco mai keya, sa dua na tawa savasava levu.
Na kena vakayagataki na misini ka sega ni dikevi mai vei ira na kena dau ena rawa ni veisautaki kina na macala ni veidigidigi. Ena moici na misini me qaqa nai soqosoqo ni politiki e ratou lewena tiko na Matanitu vaka i valu. Ena qaqa kina na pati nei Khaiyum. Ena sega ni dua na pepa ni veidigidigi se Ballot Slip ena vakarautaki mei vakadinadina.
Mai na gauna e tu vakai koya kina o Viti me yacova mai ni kua edau i tavi tuga ni vale ni volavola ni veidigidigi na kena qaravi vaka savasava, vakamatau ka vakamatata na veidigidigi levu. Na cakacaka kece oqo edau caka ga e Viti, ka ra dau veitalanoa taka na vei pati vaka politiki ka yaco kina na nodra veivakadonui. Na noda yavu ni vakavulewa kece mai na 1970, 1990 kei na 1997 e virikotori toka kina na tikna bibi oqo. Na cava e via mai vukica tiko kina o Khaiyum na veika oqo? Na vuna talega kina ya e mai bokoci kina na yavu ni vakavulewa me rawa ni moici kina na macala ni veidigidigi me ratou qaqa kina.
E sega talega ni rawa ni na savasava na veidigidigi ena 2014 ni sega ni vakatarai tiko na vakasosoqoni vata, galala ni vosa, bose vakapolitiki kei vei soqosoqo tale eso. E ra na cicivaka beka li na mataivalu na veidigidigi?
E sa dua na lawaki ca levu ni saga tikoga o Khaiyum me liutaki Viti.
E dodonu me saqati ka vakuwai vakadua na sasaga ni Matanitu vaka i valu na kena biu e taudaku ni Matanitu na cicivaki ni veidigidigi.
Vinaka.
[NOTE: This is the Fijian version of the earlier posting, Outsourcing Elections a Hoax, 22 September]
Oqo edua nai vadi duka tale me ra dabui tu kina na veimata ni Matanitu e Viti ni na yaco na veidigidigi. E sega ni rawa ni vakatautauvata taka rawa o Khaiyum edua na Matanitu e vuravura e vakayacora tiko na tikina oqo. Na cava e sega ni Digitaki kina na United Nations, se Commonwealth, se European Union, se Peritania, Amerika, Ositerilia, Niusiladi se na Matanitu o Canada. E ra a rawa ni vaka i lavo taka. Ni soli vei dua na kabana ena rawa ni yaco kina na veivakaqumi kei na cakacaka vakailawaki. Me vaka na veika e yaco na kabani ni lawa ni Amerika ka vaka i lavo taka na Air Pacific na nona vola edua na dikiri se lawa i vakaro me vakamalumalumutaka na Unioni e Viti. E sega ni dua na dau veidigidigi e Viti e vakabauta na Matanitu vakaivalu oqo ena levu ni duka kei na cakacaka butobuto e yaco tiko kina.
E sega tiko mada ni kila o Khaiyum nai balebale ni vosa na “Transparency”. E kena i balebale ni laurai makare ka rawarawa ni kilai. E rawa vakacava me laki caka mai vavalagi na vola yaca ni veidigidigi ka sega ni da kila e Viti na veika ena yaco mai keya, sa dua na tawa savasava levu.
Na kena vakayagataki na misini ka sega ni dikevi mai vei ira na kena dau ena rawa ni veisautaki kina na macala ni veidigidigi. Ena moici na misini me qaqa nai soqosoqo ni politiki e ratou lewena tiko na Matanitu vaka i valu. Ena qaqa kina na pati nei Khaiyum. Ena sega ni dua na pepa ni veidigidigi se Ballot Slip ena vakarautaki mei vakadinadina.
Mai na gauna e tu vakai koya kina o Viti me yacova mai ni kua edau i tavi tuga ni vale ni volavola ni veidigidigi na kena qaravi vaka savasava, vakamatau ka vakamatata na veidigidigi levu. Na cakacaka kece oqo edau caka ga e Viti, ka ra dau veitalanoa taka na vei pati vaka politiki ka yaco kina na nodra veivakadonui. Na noda yavu ni vakavulewa kece mai na 1970, 1990 kei na 1997 e virikotori toka kina na tikna bibi oqo. Na cava e via mai vukica tiko kina o Khaiyum na veika oqo? Na vuna talega kina ya e mai bokoci kina na yavu ni vakavulewa me rawa ni moici kina na macala ni veidigidigi me ratou qaqa kina.
E sega talega ni rawa ni na savasava na veidigidigi ena 2014 ni sega ni vakatarai tiko na vakasosoqoni vata, galala ni vosa, bose vakapolitiki kei vei soqosoqo tale eso. E ra na cicivaka beka li na mataivalu na veidigidigi?
E sa dua na lawaki ca levu ni saga tikoga o Khaiyum me liutaki Viti.
E dodonu me saqati ka vakuwai vakadua na sasaga ni Matanitu vaka i valu na kena biu e taudaku ni Matanitu na cicivaki ni veidigidigi.
Vinaka.
[NOTE: This is the Fijian version of the earlier posting, Outsourcing Elections a Hoax, 22 September]
Outsourcing Elections A Hoax 22 September 2011
Fiji’s illegal Attorney-General Aiyaz Khaiyum’s statement (of September 21) to the Diplomatic Corps in Fiji that “it’s better to outsource (election voter registration) as it creates transparency” is another scam, dishonest and despicable.
To all intents and purposes, it is another subterfuge to con Diplomatic Representatives in Fiji that the 2014 elections will be free and fair. The illegal AG Khaiyum neglected to name one country in the world that outsources the arranging and conducting of its National Elections.
Why did the illegal AG not select the United Nations, the Commonwealth, the European Union, the British, American, Australian, New Zealand or Canadian Governments to handle the elections? They may even finance it. Private companies can be bribed or bought if the price is right, and, who knows, the price may be right just like the price paid to an American Law firm through a public owned Fiji company, to write the iniquitous anti-Trade Union Decree.
The only voters in Fiji who have faith in and trust the Military Junta belong to the families of the murderer Bainimarama and the illegal AG and their cohorts. Everyone else regards the regime as totally corrupt.
The illegal AG Khaiyum likes to use the word transparency but he and the junta do not practice it. The word transparency refers to the quality that makes something obvious or easy to understand. So how will outsourcing voter registration to a private company be easily seen, open to questions and be easily understood by the Fiji voters? The illegal AG Khaiyum’s whole idea and plan for outsourcing the voter registration, if it is done, is to prevent openness and transparency.
The use of voting machines, supplied by overseas companies, that are not inspected by any international and independent professional electronic engineers reeks of fixing. The machines can and will be rigged by the illegal AG’s preferred supplier to ensure the junta’s selected Political Party wins the election.
Since there will be no Ballot Slips to mark, will the voting machines print and issue a paper slip receipt to show the voter the accuracy of their vote? On the basis of transparency, fairness, openness and accountability, there must be a paper slip receipt issued by the machine to satisfy the voter. These paper slip receipts will also need to be signed by the voter and all collected and counted by an independent international body. The total count of the paper slip receipts should equal the total electronic count.
From our independence to today, the Office of the Supervisor of Elections was responsible for arranging and conducting all General Elections in Fiji. The Office of the Supervisor of Elections is also responsible to ensure fairness, honesty and independence. All this work was done in Fiji and subject to consultation with all Political Parties, discussions and inspection. In fact, the 1970 Constitution, the 1990 Constitution and the 1997 Constitution contained such requirements. Why then is the power-hungry Khaiyum changing the system. This also provides another reason why the 1997 Constitution was abrogated...to give the illegal AG the power he needs to “fix” the next elections.
There are also other important issues that must be considered. They include:
From this analysis we can safely conclude that there are far too many unanswered questions that suggest that the electoral system proposed by the illegal AG and Military Junta (to outsource the registration of Fiji voters and to use voting machines) is nothing more than another scam. It is also dishonest and a despicable attempt to deceive the people of Fiji and the world.
To all intents and purposes, it is another subterfuge to con Diplomatic Representatives in Fiji that the 2014 elections will be free and fair. The illegal AG Khaiyum neglected to name one country in the world that outsources the arranging and conducting of its National Elections.
Why did the illegal AG not select the United Nations, the Commonwealth, the European Union, the British, American, Australian, New Zealand or Canadian Governments to handle the elections? They may even finance it. Private companies can be bribed or bought if the price is right, and, who knows, the price may be right just like the price paid to an American Law firm through a public owned Fiji company, to write the iniquitous anti-Trade Union Decree.
The only voters in Fiji who have faith in and trust the Military Junta belong to the families of the murderer Bainimarama and the illegal AG and their cohorts. Everyone else regards the regime as totally corrupt.
The illegal AG Khaiyum likes to use the word transparency but he and the junta do not practice it. The word transparency refers to the quality that makes something obvious or easy to understand. So how will outsourcing voter registration to a private company be easily seen, open to questions and be easily understood by the Fiji voters? The illegal AG Khaiyum’s whole idea and plan for outsourcing the voter registration, if it is done, is to prevent openness and transparency.
The use of voting machines, supplied by overseas companies, that are not inspected by any international and independent professional electronic engineers reeks of fixing. The machines can and will be rigged by the illegal AG’s preferred supplier to ensure the junta’s selected Political Party wins the election.
Since there will be no Ballot Slips to mark, will the voting machines print and issue a paper slip receipt to show the voter the accuracy of their vote? On the basis of transparency, fairness, openness and accountability, there must be a paper slip receipt issued by the machine to satisfy the voter. These paper slip receipts will also need to be signed by the voter and all collected and counted by an independent international body. The total count of the paper slip receipts should equal the total electronic count.
From our independence to today, the Office of the Supervisor of Elections was responsible for arranging and conducting all General Elections in Fiji. The Office of the Supervisor of Elections is also responsible to ensure fairness, honesty and independence. All this work was done in Fiji and subject to consultation with all Political Parties, discussions and inspection. In fact, the 1970 Constitution, the 1990 Constitution and the 1997 Constitution contained such requirements. Why then is the power-hungry Khaiyum changing the system. This also provides another reason why the 1997 Constitution was abrogated...to give the illegal AG the power he needs to “fix” the next elections.
There are also other important issues that must be considered. They include:
- First, how can the promised elections be open, fair and honest with the existence of the Public Emergency Regulations, which prevents free speech, assembly, political meetings, media freedom and freedom of movement
- Second, will the presiding election officers and Poll Clerks be military officers or supporters of the ruthless, power drunk junta or bribed officials.
From this analysis we can safely conclude that there are far too many unanswered questions that suggest that the electoral system proposed by the illegal AG and Military Junta (to outsource the registration of Fiji voters and to use voting machines) is nothing more than another scam. It is also dishonest and a despicable attempt to deceive the people of Fiji and the world.
Will the Real Illegal Fiji Ruler Stand Up 21 September 2011
The murderer Bainimarama wants the world to think that he is the head of the ruling Fiji military junta. But this is not true. He is not Fiji's ruler.
After his Coup of 5 December 2006, the murderer Bainimarama recruited a lawyer Aiyaz Khaiyum as the illegal Fiji Attorney-General. Now, after nearly five years, the real Head of the illegal and repressive junta is Aiyaz Khaiyum. The sooner the murderer Bainimarama and the army leaders see it, the better it will be for them and for Fiji as a whole.
KHAIYUM’S CUNNING PLAN
Khaiyum played a dangerous game to ascend to the throne of power. He played the game of give and take with the murderer. Initially, he gave in to whatever Bainimarama desired and laid the political and legal strategy on how to achieve it.
Khaiyum convinced the murderer to retain the 1997 Constitution after the coup. He was really preserving his Australian status and his legal oath. Having retained the Constitution, he recognized that if the 2006 coup was taken to court, the illegal junta would lose. So he worked out a heinous plan to remove Chief Justice Fatiaki, by forcing him to resign.
Next was the case brought by the deposed PM Qarase. It was heard before a panel headed by the ubiquitous Anthony Gates who was promised the position of Chief Justice. The quid pro quo was to rule that the coup was legal. It was so ruled based on the theory of the Doctrine of Necessity. It’s a good thing the Doctrine does not apply to murder as well. Gates carried out his part of the deal.
Qarase appealed the decision and, after an interminable delay, the case was heard by an Apellate Court. The Court reversed Gates’ decision and ruled that the coup was illegal, the regime was illegal and all acts by it are illegal.
The murderer Baininarama took Khaiyum to task for what happened but the latter proffered Bainimarama a solution...abrogate the Constitution, assume full and total power and control over the country, and govern and rule by Decree. Bainimarama did as he was advised.
KHAIYUM’S LUST FOR POWER
Khaiyum, having savoured power, wanted more. To achieve it he had to accomplish several things. First, he had to create his own power base. Bainimarama had the Army and he had nothing. So Khaiyum roped in his family. Judge Nazat Shameem and her sister Shaista Shameem who resigned her Government post and joined the cabal. Khaiyum’s aunty Nur Bano Ali and her Accounting Firm did likewise. So did all members of their family. Soon, Khaiyum had a huge circle of people that had more power than Bainimarama and the Military.
To ensure control over the murderer Bainimarama, Khaiyum conceived a plan for massive salary payments, which his aunty’s Accounting Firm dispensed. Khaiyum then had a choke hold over Bainimarama with evidence of corruption and fraud.
Khaiyum moved to expand his power base in the regime’s administration. He influenced the murderer to endow him several Ministries to explain the high salary but really it was to expand his power outreach. Bainimarama went along with all of Khaiyum’s moves and countermoves believing that it was for his own good, while blind to Khaiyum’s real intentions. After all, Khaiyum has a university education whereas Bainimarama is an ignoramus.
THE LAND GRAB
Khaiyum’s power circle then went after what they sought the most, Fijian land. While nearly 80% of the businesses in Fiji are owned by Indians, 83% of the land is owned by the indigenous Fijians. To access this prize Khaiyum had to remove two key stumbling blocks, the Great Council of Chiefs and the Methodist Church.
The Great Council of Chiefs was dissolved through Khaiyum’s nurturing, for his own ends that Bainimarama had no clue about. Just like the 2006 Parliament of Fiji that remains non-existent. Khaiyum again used Bainimarama, while still staying in the background, by influencing the murderer to miniaturise the Methodist Church and to remove some of the more militant Fijian Church officials. The Church however held fast.
So Khaiyum went about it another way. He persuaded Bainimarama that land use is vital to Fiji’s economic development and that a Land Bank was the solution. Subsequently, a Land Bank was created. The greedy, avaricious culprit Khaiyum controls the Land Bank.
CONTROLING THE ARMY THROUGH ITS COMMANDER
But Khaiyum is cunning. He knows that he can’t get rid of Bainimarama because the murderer controls the army and the army is the source of power in Fiji. So Khaiyum has to control the army through its Commander, the murderer Bainimarama. If you control the Commander then you control the Army.
This is exactly the situation in Fiji today!
THE REAL JUNTA RULER
The murderer Bainimarama rules the military junta only in name. The main power and brains behind the throne is Khaiyum and his inner circle. Khaiyum effectively manipulates the murderer Bainimarama to get the Army to do what he wants done, while the murderer and the army are blissfully unaware of what is really taking place.
Bainimarama used the army to remove the Great Council of Chiefs, suppress the Methodist Church, marshal the Fijian people, take control of Fijian land and maintain total control of the country in the belief that it is for Fiji’s benefit. This is incorrect! It was for the benefit of Khaiyum and his inner circle. The murderer Bainimarama and the army have been puppets and Khaiyum and his inner circle are the puppeteers.
It is also Khaiyum and his inner circle who are devising the ingenious and insidious plan to privatise and use rigged voting machines for the 2014 elections, if it is held. After the illegal and fraudulent elections, Khaiyum will have no further use for Bainimarama and he and his inner circle will be the ruling elite in Fiji. Khaiyum will have a battery of Sri Lankan lawyers and highly-paid Australian and New Zealand opportunists who answer to him, to back him up. As a young political activist, Khaiyum tried to build bombs to destroy Fijian politicians and political parties. Today, he uses Bainimarama, the army and the decrees to achieve the same objective.
The real ruler of the illegal junta in Fiji is Aiyaz Khaiyum. The sooner the murderer Bainimarama and the army leaders see it, the better it will be for them and for Fiji
After his Coup of 5 December 2006, the murderer Bainimarama recruited a lawyer Aiyaz Khaiyum as the illegal Fiji Attorney-General. Now, after nearly five years, the real Head of the illegal and repressive junta is Aiyaz Khaiyum. The sooner the murderer Bainimarama and the army leaders see it, the better it will be for them and for Fiji as a whole.
KHAIYUM’S CUNNING PLAN
Khaiyum played a dangerous game to ascend to the throne of power. He played the game of give and take with the murderer. Initially, he gave in to whatever Bainimarama desired and laid the political and legal strategy on how to achieve it.
Khaiyum convinced the murderer to retain the 1997 Constitution after the coup. He was really preserving his Australian status and his legal oath. Having retained the Constitution, he recognized that if the 2006 coup was taken to court, the illegal junta would lose. So he worked out a heinous plan to remove Chief Justice Fatiaki, by forcing him to resign.
Next was the case brought by the deposed PM Qarase. It was heard before a panel headed by the ubiquitous Anthony Gates who was promised the position of Chief Justice. The quid pro quo was to rule that the coup was legal. It was so ruled based on the theory of the Doctrine of Necessity. It’s a good thing the Doctrine does not apply to murder as well. Gates carried out his part of the deal.
Qarase appealed the decision and, after an interminable delay, the case was heard by an Apellate Court. The Court reversed Gates’ decision and ruled that the coup was illegal, the regime was illegal and all acts by it are illegal.
The murderer Baininarama took Khaiyum to task for what happened but the latter proffered Bainimarama a solution...abrogate the Constitution, assume full and total power and control over the country, and govern and rule by Decree. Bainimarama did as he was advised.
KHAIYUM’S LUST FOR POWER
Khaiyum, having savoured power, wanted more. To achieve it he had to accomplish several things. First, he had to create his own power base. Bainimarama had the Army and he had nothing. So Khaiyum roped in his family. Judge Nazat Shameem and her sister Shaista Shameem who resigned her Government post and joined the cabal. Khaiyum’s aunty Nur Bano Ali and her Accounting Firm did likewise. So did all members of their family. Soon, Khaiyum had a huge circle of people that had more power than Bainimarama and the Military.
To ensure control over the murderer Bainimarama, Khaiyum conceived a plan for massive salary payments, which his aunty’s Accounting Firm dispensed. Khaiyum then had a choke hold over Bainimarama with evidence of corruption and fraud.
Khaiyum moved to expand his power base in the regime’s administration. He influenced the murderer to endow him several Ministries to explain the high salary but really it was to expand his power outreach. Bainimarama went along with all of Khaiyum’s moves and countermoves believing that it was for his own good, while blind to Khaiyum’s real intentions. After all, Khaiyum has a university education whereas Bainimarama is an ignoramus.
THE LAND GRAB
Khaiyum’s power circle then went after what they sought the most, Fijian land. While nearly 80% of the businesses in Fiji are owned by Indians, 83% of the land is owned by the indigenous Fijians. To access this prize Khaiyum had to remove two key stumbling blocks, the Great Council of Chiefs and the Methodist Church.
The Great Council of Chiefs was dissolved through Khaiyum’s nurturing, for his own ends that Bainimarama had no clue about. Just like the 2006 Parliament of Fiji that remains non-existent. Khaiyum again used Bainimarama, while still staying in the background, by influencing the murderer to miniaturise the Methodist Church and to remove some of the more militant Fijian Church officials. The Church however held fast.
So Khaiyum went about it another way. He persuaded Bainimarama that land use is vital to Fiji’s economic development and that a Land Bank was the solution. Subsequently, a Land Bank was created. The greedy, avaricious culprit Khaiyum controls the Land Bank.
CONTROLING THE ARMY THROUGH ITS COMMANDER
But Khaiyum is cunning. He knows that he can’t get rid of Bainimarama because the murderer controls the army and the army is the source of power in Fiji. So Khaiyum has to control the army through its Commander, the murderer Bainimarama. If you control the Commander then you control the Army.
This is exactly the situation in Fiji today!
THE REAL JUNTA RULER
The murderer Bainimarama rules the military junta only in name. The main power and brains behind the throne is Khaiyum and his inner circle. Khaiyum effectively manipulates the murderer Bainimarama to get the Army to do what he wants done, while the murderer and the army are blissfully unaware of what is really taking place.
Bainimarama used the army to remove the Great Council of Chiefs, suppress the Methodist Church, marshal the Fijian people, take control of Fijian land and maintain total control of the country in the belief that it is for Fiji’s benefit. This is incorrect! It was for the benefit of Khaiyum and his inner circle. The murderer Bainimarama and the army have been puppets and Khaiyum and his inner circle are the puppeteers.
It is also Khaiyum and his inner circle who are devising the ingenious and insidious plan to privatise and use rigged voting machines for the 2014 elections, if it is held. After the illegal and fraudulent elections, Khaiyum will have no further use for Bainimarama and he and his inner circle will be the ruling elite in Fiji. Khaiyum will have a battery of Sri Lankan lawyers and highly-paid Australian and New Zealand opportunists who answer to him, to back him up. As a young political activist, Khaiyum tried to build bombs to destroy Fijian politicians and political parties. Today, he uses Bainimarama, the army and the decrees to achieve the same objective.
The real ruler of the illegal junta in Fiji is Aiyaz Khaiyum. The sooner the murderer Bainimarama and the army leaders see it, the better it will be for them and for Fiji
Bainimarama’s Support Disappearing 21 September 2011
The murderer Bainimarama claimed that he had the support of regional leaders. This follows the “Engaging with the Pacific Leaders Meeting” that was held in Nadi, Fiji, 1-2 September 2011. However, the Official Communiqué from the Forty-Second Pacific Islands Forum meeting, which was held in Auckland, New Zealand, 7 - 8 September 2011, suggests otherwise. That Bainimarama’s support has disappeared.
The Forty-Second Pacific Islands Forum, Communiqué states that with regard to Fiji:
30. Leaders acknowledged the Forum’s ongoing work to encourage and support Fiji’s return to parliamentary democracy in accordance with the Leaders’ mandates and the Biketawa Declaration, cognisant of the Leaders’ decisions at Port Moresby and Cairns in 2009, and Port Vila in 2010.
31. Leaders welcomed the convening of the Ministerial Contact Group (MCG) meeting held in Port Vila on 14 February 2011 but expressed disappointment that a visit by the MCG to Fiji did not occur prior to the Forum Leaders’ meeting and called for a visit to take place as soon as possible, involving meetings with a range of stakeholders. Leaders tasked the MCG to continue dialogue and engagement with Fiji and report to the next Leaders’ meeting.
32. Leaders reiterated their call for commencement of genuine, inclusive political dialogue in Fiji between parties without preconditions or predetermined outcomes. In doing so, they also reaffirmed the underlying values of the Forum, namely respect for democracy, good governance and the rule of law, and expressed their continuing deep concern at the deteriorating human rights situation and serious political and economic challenges facing the people of Fiji.
33. Leaders reaffirmed the clear commitment of all Forum members to encourage and support Fiji’s early return to parliamentary democracy, including their standing offer of practical assistance in addressing the challenges faced by Fiji.
34. Leaders agreed to permit Fiji to participate in PACER Plus meetings at officials-level only, given Fiji’s important economic role and links to prospects for broader regional economic integration.
FORUM PARTICIPANTS
The Forty-Second Pacific Islands Forum was held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 7 to 8 September 2011 and was attended by Heads of State and Governments of Australia, the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu. The Republic of Vanuatu was represented by its Special Envoy. New Caledonia and French Polynesia attended the formal session as Associate Members. Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, the Asian Development Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the United Nations (UN), Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), and the World Bank attended as Observers.
The Forty-Second Pacific Islands Forum, Communiqué states that with regard to Fiji:
30. Leaders acknowledged the Forum’s ongoing work to encourage and support Fiji’s return to parliamentary democracy in accordance with the Leaders’ mandates and the Biketawa Declaration, cognisant of the Leaders’ decisions at Port Moresby and Cairns in 2009, and Port Vila in 2010.
31. Leaders welcomed the convening of the Ministerial Contact Group (MCG) meeting held in Port Vila on 14 February 2011 but expressed disappointment that a visit by the MCG to Fiji did not occur prior to the Forum Leaders’ meeting and called for a visit to take place as soon as possible, involving meetings with a range of stakeholders. Leaders tasked the MCG to continue dialogue and engagement with Fiji and report to the next Leaders’ meeting.
32. Leaders reiterated their call for commencement of genuine, inclusive political dialogue in Fiji between parties without preconditions or predetermined outcomes. In doing so, they also reaffirmed the underlying values of the Forum, namely respect for democracy, good governance and the rule of law, and expressed their continuing deep concern at the deteriorating human rights situation and serious political and economic challenges facing the people of Fiji.
33. Leaders reaffirmed the clear commitment of all Forum members to encourage and support Fiji’s early return to parliamentary democracy, including their standing offer of practical assistance in addressing the challenges faced by Fiji.
34. Leaders agreed to permit Fiji to participate in PACER Plus meetings at officials-level only, given Fiji’s important economic role and links to prospects for broader regional economic integration.
FORUM PARTICIPANTS
The Forty-Second Pacific Islands Forum was held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 7 to 8 September 2011 and was attended by Heads of State and Governments of Australia, the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu. The Republic of Vanuatu was represented by its Special Envoy. New Caledonia and French Polynesia attended the formal session as Associate Members. Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, the Asian Development Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the United Nations (UN), Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), and the World Bank attended as Observers.
The Fiji Judiciary: Perceptions and Reality 19 September 2011
To almost all military dictatorships, apart perhaps from North Korea and possibly Burma, perceptions, especially international perceptions, are of greater importance than reality. The current Fiji military junta is no exception.
From its very inception, after the murderer Bainimarama’s illegal coup in 2006, the regime has studiously slaved to present an image of international respectability. Chief proponent of this illusion is the alleged Attorney General and his think-tank. With studious care they in particular (amongst other illusions which they have fostered) have sought to create an image of an independent judiciary. Such an exertion on behalf of the alleged AG mirrors other efforts by the junta to give a false appearance of respectability. These are all false and do not reflect the truth.
The alleged Attorney General, articulate and apparently sincere, has sought to weave a web of deceit over the eyes of the international community. Notwithstanding the systematic campaign of torture and abuse of human rights orchestrated by the junta which gives him a living more lucrative than any he could have dreamed of in his previous career in the Australian law firm of Minter Ellison.
The alleged Attorney General has consistently asserted the continuing independence of the judiciary under his watch, nut the facts say otherwise. The alleged Attorney General has elaborately created alleged "independent" bodies for appointment purposes. He is the "voice of reason" of the military junta and more articulate and subtle than his puppet the murderer Bainimarama, whose paranoid ramblings he seeks to replace.
The real truth about Fiji’s judiciary is evident in the recent statements by both the New Zealand and Australian Law Societies condemning Fiji’s military junta and the enforced demise of the Fiji Law Society.
Fiji’s judiciary is not independent. To call the Fiji judiciary independent is an abuse of language, notwithstanding the fine garments, which the junta has given the judiciary to wear, and notwithstanding the appearance of normality of court proceedings that the alleged Attorney General works so feverishly to maintain -- The use of “smoke and mirrors” to hide the true picture from the people of Fiji, especially in the rural areas.
The alleged Attorney General was rightly stripped of his Australian Permanent Residence for his involvement in the latest coup. His activities will undoubtedly expose him to prosecution once the current military junta falls and a new democratic Government is elected. All those people currently masquerading as Judges will also suffer an equivalent fate.
Fate of Fiji’s Current Judges
All current purported Judges, including those garnered by a worldwide trawl by the alleged Chief Justice, took office knowing the full legal and Constitutional position. That legal and Constitutional position was established by the Fiji Court of Appeal ruling of 2009, which declared the coup of 2006 to be unlawful and all actions taken under it to be unlawful. No alleged Judge currently sitting can claim ignorance of this basic truth.
These purported Judges must have taken an oath of some sort or other, no doubt concocted by the alleged Attorney General. These are ALL False oaths. Taking any oath other than the proper oath to Fiji’s Constitution, which was endorsed by the Court of Appeal in 2009, is a false oath. The making of a false oath is a serious criminal offence. Such false oaths were the basis of charges laid against the leaders of the 2000 coup.
Any person who makes an oath swears allegiance, no matter what else that person may say or do. Any oath taken by the current purported Judges, other than the proper oath, reveals allegiance to the military dictatorship. Involvement of alleged "independent" commissions does not solve this problem.
A person who swears allegiance to the current military junta should be an outcast from the international legal community.
Further, all current purported Judges are fully aware or capable of being fully aware of the campaign of torture and abuse of human rights currently being waged across Fiji by the junta against any real or imagined opponents. Simply put, by their oaths and their actions they pledge themselves to accept the validity of the " decrees" created by the alleged Attorney General that purport to preclude them from dealing with human rights abuses by the junta. They must turn a blind eye to the systematic torture while gilding themselves in splendid robes to adjudicate in respect of anything, but such illegal matters.
Giving judgements, in certain cases, against the junta does not in any way falsify the above picture. The judges are not dealing with the one thing that matters most- the regimes campaign of torture.
Current purported Judges would do well to resign now to avoid the wrath to come. All will in fullness of time stand trial for their misdeeds as described above.
Long live Fiji.
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From its very inception, after the murderer Bainimarama’s illegal coup in 2006, the regime has studiously slaved to present an image of international respectability. Chief proponent of this illusion is the alleged Attorney General and his think-tank. With studious care they in particular (amongst other illusions which they have fostered) have sought to create an image of an independent judiciary. Such an exertion on behalf of the alleged AG mirrors other efforts by the junta to give a false appearance of respectability. These are all false and do not reflect the truth.
The alleged Attorney General, articulate and apparently sincere, has sought to weave a web of deceit over the eyes of the international community. Notwithstanding the systematic campaign of torture and abuse of human rights orchestrated by the junta which gives him a living more lucrative than any he could have dreamed of in his previous career in the Australian law firm of Minter Ellison.
The alleged Attorney General has consistently asserted the continuing independence of the judiciary under his watch, nut the facts say otherwise. The alleged Attorney General has elaborately created alleged "independent" bodies for appointment purposes. He is the "voice of reason" of the military junta and more articulate and subtle than his puppet the murderer Bainimarama, whose paranoid ramblings he seeks to replace.
The real truth about Fiji’s judiciary is evident in the recent statements by both the New Zealand and Australian Law Societies condemning Fiji’s military junta and the enforced demise of the Fiji Law Society.
Fiji’s judiciary is not independent. To call the Fiji judiciary independent is an abuse of language, notwithstanding the fine garments, which the junta has given the judiciary to wear, and notwithstanding the appearance of normality of court proceedings that the alleged Attorney General works so feverishly to maintain -- The use of “smoke and mirrors” to hide the true picture from the people of Fiji, especially in the rural areas.
The alleged Attorney General was rightly stripped of his Australian Permanent Residence for his involvement in the latest coup. His activities will undoubtedly expose him to prosecution once the current military junta falls and a new democratic Government is elected. All those people currently masquerading as Judges will also suffer an equivalent fate.
Fate of Fiji’s Current Judges
All current purported Judges, including those garnered by a worldwide trawl by the alleged Chief Justice, took office knowing the full legal and Constitutional position. That legal and Constitutional position was established by the Fiji Court of Appeal ruling of 2009, which declared the coup of 2006 to be unlawful and all actions taken under it to be unlawful. No alleged Judge currently sitting can claim ignorance of this basic truth.
These purported Judges must have taken an oath of some sort or other, no doubt concocted by the alleged Attorney General. These are ALL False oaths. Taking any oath other than the proper oath to Fiji’s Constitution, which was endorsed by the Court of Appeal in 2009, is a false oath. The making of a false oath is a serious criminal offence. Such false oaths were the basis of charges laid against the leaders of the 2000 coup.
Any person who makes an oath swears allegiance, no matter what else that person may say or do. Any oath taken by the current purported Judges, other than the proper oath, reveals allegiance to the military dictatorship. Involvement of alleged "independent" commissions does not solve this problem.
A person who swears allegiance to the current military junta should be an outcast from the international legal community.
Further, all current purported Judges are fully aware or capable of being fully aware of the campaign of torture and abuse of human rights currently being waged across Fiji by the junta against any real or imagined opponents. Simply put, by their oaths and their actions they pledge themselves to accept the validity of the " decrees" created by the alleged Attorney General that purport to preclude them from dealing with human rights abuses by the junta. They must turn a blind eye to the systematic torture while gilding themselves in splendid robes to adjudicate in respect of anything, but such illegal matters.
Giving judgements, in certain cases, against the junta does not in any way falsify the above picture. The judges are not dealing with the one thing that matters most- the regimes campaign of torture.
Current purported Judges would do well to resign now to avoid the wrath to come. All will in fullness of time stand trial for their misdeeds as described above.
Long live Fiji.
END RELEASE
Japanese tourist found dead in Fiji 15 September 2011
The Japan Times - A 27-year-old Japanese woman has become the fourth foreigner since July to die in unexplained circumstances in Fiji's tourist belt, New Zealand's online news site Stuff and local media reported. Read full story
End the Terrorism in Fiji 12 September 2011
On Sunday, September 11, the United States of America observed the Tenth Anniversary of the Terrorist Attack on its territory. 2,973 innocent lives were lost. It was a day of infamy. It was a day of terror. It was a dreadful day that will long be remembered by the United States and the world over.
On behalf of the Fiji Freedom and Democracy Movements in Australia and New Zealand, and on my own behalf, I wish to convey to the American Government and to the American people and especially to the families and friends of all those who died that horrible day, that we share your grief and sad memories. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
For Fiji, we are approaching the Fifth Anniversary of our fourth Coup, when the murderer and illegal Commander RFMF Voreqe Bainimarama, in a terrorist act, over threw the legally elected SDL Government on 5 December 2006.
On that fateful day in December, Fiji and its citizens lost, not lives, but freedom, democracy, the rule of law, parliamentary government and the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual and freedom of the media. Innocent people were later killed with Bainimarama’s blessings.
This terrorist act by the murderer and terrorist Bainimarama has left the lives of the people of Fiji in ruins. It destroyed Freedom, Democracy and the Rule of Law and led to other acts of terrorism that include the military's illegal seizures of innocent citizens, men and women, who were beaten, tortured, raped and murdered. Bainimarama also beat two unarmed and defenseless women. Bainimarama’s terrorism that raised its horrible head in Fiji, on that terrible day in December, continues unabated.
On behalf of the oppressed people of Fiji, and those that are unable to speak out for fear of being tortured, I humbly ask the nations of the world, and especially those in the South Pacific, to condemn the terrorist attack by the murderer, and the illegal Commander RFMF, Bainimarama and to join together with me and the Fiji Freedom and Democracy Movements in Australia and New Zealand to bring an end to Fiji’s continued terrorist nightmare.
On behalf of the Fiji Freedom and Democracy Movements in Australia and New Zealand, and on my own behalf, I wish to convey to the American Government and to the American people and especially to the families and friends of all those who died that horrible day, that we share your grief and sad memories. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
For Fiji, we are approaching the Fifth Anniversary of our fourth Coup, when the murderer and illegal Commander RFMF Voreqe Bainimarama, in a terrorist act, over threw the legally elected SDL Government on 5 December 2006.
On that fateful day in December, Fiji and its citizens lost, not lives, but freedom, democracy, the rule of law, parliamentary government and the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual and freedom of the media. Innocent people were later killed with Bainimarama’s blessings.
This terrorist act by the murderer and terrorist Bainimarama has left the lives of the people of Fiji in ruins. It destroyed Freedom, Democracy and the Rule of Law and led to other acts of terrorism that include the military's illegal seizures of innocent citizens, men and women, who were beaten, tortured, raped and murdered. Bainimarama also beat two unarmed and defenseless women. Bainimarama’s terrorism that raised its horrible head in Fiji, on that terrible day in December, continues unabated.
On behalf of the oppressed people of Fiji, and those that are unable to speak out for fear of being tortured, I humbly ask the nations of the world, and especially those in the South Pacific, to condemn the terrorist attack by the murderer, and the illegal Commander RFMF, Bainimarama and to join together with me and the Fiji Freedom and Democracy Movements in Australia and New Zealand to bring an end to Fiji’s continued terrorist nightmare.
The Murderer 11 September 2011
Bainimarama was part of the Coup of 2000. Bainimarama had also ordered the CRW into parliament in May 2000, then he betrayed them and Speight. Bainimarama was also under a secret police investigation for having a direct role in the coup.
In November 2000, the CRW mutinied and tried to kill Bainimarama for betraying them. At the very start of the attack, Bainimarama abandoned his soldiers and ran like "grease lightning" down the steep bank behind Queen Elizabeth Barracks -- Setting a new world record for the Casava-Patch dash. A Colonel was quoted saying, " it was raining that day, but there was dust in the air." The Colonel was removed for saying it.
Bainimarama was not capable of leading his men or ending the mutiny. Fortunately, there were other more experienced officers who saved the day. These officers have also been removed.
Bainimarama, a true example of a "lamusona", while hiding in the Navy Base, learnt that Captain Shane Stevens had led the mutiny against him. Shane had been shot and was in hospital wounded. Bainimarama went to the hospital where, he said – before witnesses – that he intended to kill Stevens. His men had to talk him out of it. However, Five of the rebels were tortured to death.
In November 2000, the CRW mutinied and tried to kill Bainimarama for betraying them. At the very start of the attack, Bainimarama abandoned his soldiers and ran like "grease lightning" down the steep bank behind Queen Elizabeth Barracks -- Setting a new world record for the Casava-Patch dash. A Colonel was quoted saying, " it was raining that day, but there was dust in the air." The Colonel was removed for saying it.
Bainimarama was not capable of leading his men or ending the mutiny. Fortunately, there were other more experienced officers who saved the day. These officers have also been removed.
Bainimarama, a true example of a "lamusona", while hiding in the Navy Base, learnt that Captain Shane Stevens had led the mutiny against him. Shane had been shot and was in hospital wounded. Bainimarama went to the hospital where, he said – before witnesses – that he intended to kill Stevens. His men had to talk him out of it. However, Five of the rebels were tortured to death.
Bainimarama is a psychopath, clearly exhibiting the key traits of this mental illness. He also threatened the PM Qarase to renew his contract as Commander RFMF and manipulated the RFMF to achieve his goals. Bainimarama lives a predatory lifestyle so characteristic of the psychopath and he seldom learns from experience of earlier mistakes. What he has been doing is to set up ways in which he can move forward and not get caught........
Meanwhile, the people of Fiji are paying for his mental illness...... |
Views shift for outcast Fiji 08 September 2011
Dan Oakes, at the Pacific Islands Forum in Auckland, reported yesterday that FIJI'S stint as a pariah nation could be drawing to a close, as the New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, hinted at a softening of the hard line Australia and New Zealand have taken against the island's military regime.
However, a spokesman for the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, contradicted Mr Key and said: ''Australia's view is clear: there must be a return to democracy in Fiji as soon as possible.''We see no softening of the approach to Fiji at this forum. Leaders have made clear that Fiji remains a great concern.''
Read full story at The Sydney Morning Herald
However, a spokesman for the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, contradicted Mr Key and said: ''Australia's view is clear: there must be a return to democracy in Fiji as soon as possible.''We see no softening of the approach to Fiji at this forum. Leaders have made clear that Fiji remains a great concern.''
Read full story at The Sydney Morning Herald
Bainimarama Guilty of Treason 07 September 2011
GUILTY of TREASON
The following statements and documents from former Senior RFMF officers and the CEO for Home Affairs clearly shows the murderer Bainimarama's premeditated intentions to commit the illegal and treasonous removal of the elected SDL Government for his personal benefit and gain.
The murderer Bainimarama threatened PM Qarase to renew his contract as Commander RFMF or Government would be removed. The murderer then ordered his senior RFMF officers to plan for the removal of the Government. When the Senior officers, except Natuva, advised him against it, because his intentions were illegal and treasonous, Bainimarama had them all re-assigned or sent on leave. Effectively, these Senior Oficers were all booted out of the army for doing their jobs and standing up for the integrity of the RFMF. See Fiji Times article dated 24 February 2004, titled - Military Advises Officers to Quit. This article outlines the TRUE reasons why Bainimarama wanted these Senior Officers to Quit.
The murderer Bainimarama threatened PM Qarase to renew his contract as Commander RFMF or Government would be removed. The murderer then ordered his senior RFMF officers to plan for the removal of the Government. When the Senior officers, except Natuva, advised him against it, because his intentions were illegal and treasonous, Bainimarama had them all re-assigned or sent on leave. Effectively, these Senior Oficers were all booted out of the army for doing their jobs and standing up for the integrity of the RFMF. See Fiji Times article dated 24 February 2004, titled - Military Advises Officers to Quit. This article outlines the TRUE reasons why Bainimarama wanted these Senior Officers to Quit.
Col Alfred Tuatoko's statement clearly outlines Bainimarama's orders on 16 December 2003 for the Senior RFMF officers to plan for the removal of the Government. The murderer had threatened the SDL PM, Qarase, to renew Bainimarama's contract or his SDL Government would be removed. The Senior, and highly qualified, RFMF officers advised the murderer Bainimarama against removing the Government because his intentions were illegal and treasonous. So Bainimarama had the Senior Officers removed.....
Read Col Tuatoko's statement |
Col G Kadavulevu (05 January 2004) formally advised Bainimarama against removing the SDL Government, and says "There is no malice thought or meanness envisaged in this advice but rather the advice represents a professional, legal and moral stand that the RFMF has been supporting all along". Bainimarama had Col Kadavulevu removed.....
Read Col G Kadavulevu's advice
Read Col G Kadavulevu's advice
On 12 January 2004, the CEO, Ministry of Home Affairs, statement on Bainimarama's conduct clearly states that as the Commander RFMF, Bainimarama was willing to personally lead the Fiji Military to town to finish what they had started....This is a clear abuse of office by Bainimarama and seditious. Read the CEO's Statement
Lt Col SV Raduva advised (19 January 2004) the CEO, Ministry of Home Affairs about Bainimarama's threat to remove the SDL Goverment,....saying "it is the duty of every officer and solider of the RFMF, in accordance with RFMF Standing Orders Vol 1, Part XXI, para 21.4, to notice and report any negligence or impropriety of conduct on the part of officers and soliders".......Read Lt Col SV Raduva's report
These Senior Officers who stood their professional and moral ground and questioned the murderer Bainimarama's intentions and motives to remove the then Goverment of the day were all removed. Read the Posting List
So where are these Senior qualified, professional and loyal officers today. Where are Tarakinikini, Seruvakula, Baledrokadroka, Saubulinayau, and Driti. These were Senior Officers who stood by their oath of allegiance through the mayhem and confusion of 2000. They were in fact the Senior Officers who saved the country and the RFMF in the chaos of 2000. Bainimarama did not save the country in 2000.
So the question to Bainimarama is why did he have them removed after they gave him sound advice. My theory, and given the documentary evidence, is that the murderer Bainimarama wanted a clear and unhindered path to achieving his goal from, instigating the removal of the Labour Govt in 2000, and removing senior professional officers who stood in his way of achieving his mission and goal in life, which is to rule Fiji and to prevent the police from arresting him. Bainimarama is ruling the the country now and his next step, is to become President of Fiji.
The coup of 2000 and 2006 was never about Politics or about Race. It was solely for the benefit of Bainimarama and his lust for power and to save himself from being arrested. Bainimarama used the RFMF to achieve his mission! Please Note.....more revealing facts to follow:
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Fijian rights activist says Bainimarama denying basic human rights 07 September 2011
Shamima Ali is executive director of the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre. She says the Lowy poll is not a reliable indicator of support for Commodore Frank Bainimarama. Read Full ABC News Story
Or Listen to the interview here.. [Picture: Head of Fiji Women’s Crisis Center, Shamima Ali] |
Fiji and its China Connection 06 September 2011
The Fiji problem is being viewed by all as purely a political matter. From my perspective however, as a former Fiji Senior Military Officer, it also has pertinent security and defence implications and applications for the South Pacific Region, and particularly for Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America.
The Cuban Relevance
If we look at history and to what happened in Cuba then we should be able to benefit from its lessons. Cuba’s situation is very similar to what is happening in Fiji.
Like Fiji, it began with a revolution. In January 1959 Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban Government of President Fulgencia Batista. Today, some 52 years later, Castro has stepped aside because of health reasons, and his brother Raul is now President.
Fidel, in the early years, like the murderer Bainimarama, also spoke of elections to return the country to democracy. It did not happen, it has not happened and it will not happen. Cuba was expelled from the regional Organisation of American States and the United States severed relations with it. Too late, way too late, there was a US sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion but it failed. In the meantime, the vacuum created by the US’s stand-off, led to the then Soviet Union moving in to Cuba and controlling it.
Cuba then began to reach out to the countries in the Caribbean and Latin America, the same as Fiji is going with the MSG countries and some Polynesian countries. It led to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union. As other Caribbean countries fell under the influence of Cuba, the US invaded Grenada and removed the pro-Cuba government. We can avoid a similar situation if we act now.
China
But history has a nasty habit of repeating itself. China, recognizing an opportunity from the coup in Fiji to expand its power of influence and to make the Pacific Island Countries geo-political, and a possible Sphere of Influence, acted quickly. It expanded its influence over Fiji with speed. So why didn’t Australia, New Zealand or the US do the same?.........this is for another statement.
No criticism is being levelled against China. The PRC is acting in pursuit of its national interests, which dictates its foreign policy.
The murderer and military Junta ruler Voreqe Bainimarama became a close friend, ally and collaborator of China. The PRC lavished attention, huge financial grants, excessive loans, private sector investments, and most important and relevant, Military Training and the supply of military material. Fiji is now a “satellite” of China. This situation is a carbon copy of the Soviet Union and Cuba.
China, with Fiji’s illegal Chairmanship of the MSG, expanded its relations with MSG countries. In July 2010, China participated in the MSG Summit post-dialogue at the Fiji Inter-Continental Hotel in Nadi. It also participates in the Donors’ Conference at Pacific Island Forum Meetings. China also engages with some Polynesian countries and is also one of the most influential countries in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Under the influence of China, Fiji joined NAM.
This situation is certainly not in the national interest of Australia and New Zealand and its regional foreign policy. Both South Pacific powers need to act condignly, purposefully and effectively to bring an early end to the Fiji military Junta led by the murderer Bainimarama. The Fiji problem does not inhere with China. China saw an opportunity and grasped it with both hands. The problem lies with the Fiji military Junta and Fiji’s true enemy, the murderer Bainimarama.
The ANZAC powers should not only be concerned but must also act to bring about the collapse of the Fiji Military Junta, as soon as possible. They should be informed by the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Castro Communist 52-year rule and its similarities to Fiji... with a Dictator Bainimarama, no rule of law, no fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens, total military control, no media freedom, no freedom of speech, no right to dissent, no right of assembly, no trade union movement, restriction on Churches and NO FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS.
The United States
It is also, in the interests of security and defence, that the United States collaborate with Australia and New Zealand to bring an early end to both the Military Dictatorship in Fiji.
The Pacific Island Countries geo-political region is becoming a Sphere of Influence for China and this is not in the interests of the United States, Australia or New Zealand. The South Pacific ocean lanes are vital to the defence and security of the United States.
Australia and New Zealand, close allies, have always been and should also remain the major powers in the South Pacific. With China’s growing presence in the South Pacific and its location in the North Pacific, its relations with North Korea and influence in the Pacific far east, it would have control of the Pacific seaboard of the United States.
China also has an influential presence in the Caribbean and Latin America and the southern flank of the United States. With its massive Official Development Assistance (ODA), private sector investments and technical assistance, China is being called the new Super Power by military and political analysts.
Conclusion
It is not in the national, defence and security interests of Australia, New Zealand and the United States for the Pacific Island Countries South Pacific geo-political area to become a Sphere of Influence of China. It is not in the interest of Australia and New Zealand to allow Fiji to become the Cuba of the South Pacific. Australia, New Zealand and the United States must act in concert with alacrity to bring an end to Bainimarama’s military junta in Fiji.
The hold off in the belief that the illegal Fiji regime will hold elections in 2014 is ill-advised. Castro promised elections in Cuba in 1959 and today, 52 years later, there have been no elections. Elections in Fiji in 2014 will never happen. Australia and New Zealand must review its role in the Forum and, especially, their decreasing influence in the Pacific. The Fiji problem is not solely political, it also has defence and security implications for Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Action now, rather than later, will be of benefit to the region as a whole and free the oppressed people of Fiji.
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The Cuban Relevance
If we look at history and to what happened in Cuba then we should be able to benefit from its lessons. Cuba’s situation is very similar to what is happening in Fiji.
Like Fiji, it began with a revolution. In January 1959 Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban Government of President Fulgencia Batista. Today, some 52 years later, Castro has stepped aside because of health reasons, and his brother Raul is now President.
Fidel, in the early years, like the murderer Bainimarama, also spoke of elections to return the country to democracy. It did not happen, it has not happened and it will not happen. Cuba was expelled from the regional Organisation of American States and the United States severed relations with it. Too late, way too late, there was a US sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion but it failed. In the meantime, the vacuum created by the US’s stand-off, led to the then Soviet Union moving in to Cuba and controlling it.
Cuba then began to reach out to the countries in the Caribbean and Latin America, the same as Fiji is going with the MSG countries and some Polynesian countries. It led to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union. As other Caribbean countries fell under the influence of Cuba, the US invaded Grenada and removed the pro-Cuba government. We can avoid a similar situation if we act now.
China
But history has a nasty habit of repeating itself. China, recognizing an opportunity from the coup in Fiji to expand its power of influence and to make the Pacific Island Countries geo-political, and a possible Sphere of Influence, acted quickly. It expanded its influence over Fiji with speed. So why didn’t Australia, New Zealand or the US do the same?.........this is for another statement.
No criticism is being levelled against China. The PRC is acting in pursuit of its national interests, which dictates its foreign policy.
The murderer and military Junta ruler Voreqe Bainimarama became a close friend, ally and collaborator of China. The PRC lavished attention, huge financial grants, excessive loans, private sector investments, and most important and relevant, Military Training and the supply of military material. Fiji is now a “satellite” of China. This situation is a carbon copy of the Soviet Union and Cuba.
China, with Fiji’s illegal Chairmanship of the MSG, expanded its relations with MSG countries. In July 2010, China participated in the MSG Summit post-dialogue at the Fiji Inter-Continental Hotel in Nadi. It also participates in the Donors’ Conference at Pacific Island Forum Meetings. China also engages with some Polynesian countries and is also one of the most influential countries in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Under the influence of China, Fiji joined NAM.
This situation is certainly not in the national interest of Australia and New Zealand and its regional foreign policy. Both South Pacific powers need to act condignly, purposefully and effectively to bring an early end to the Fiji military Junta led by the murderer Bainimarama. The Fiji problem does not inhere with China. China saw an opportunity and grasped it with both hands. The problem lies with the Fiji military Junta and Fiji’s true enemy, the murderer Bainimarama.
The ANZAC powers should not only be concerned but must also act to bring about the collapse of the Fiji Military Junta, as soon as possible. They should be informed by the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Castro Communist 52-year rule and its similarities to Fiji... with a Dictator Bainimarama, no rule of law, no fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens, total military control, no media freedom, no freedom of speech, no right to dissent, no right of assembly, no trade union movement, restriction on Churches and NO FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS.
The United States
It is also, in the interests of security and defence, that the United States collaborate with Australia and New Zealand to bring an early end to both the Military Dictatorship in Fiji.
The Pacific Island Countries geo-political region is becoming a Sphere of Influence for China and this is not in the interests of the United States, Australia or New Zealand. The South Pacific ocean lanes are vital to the defence and security of the United States.
Australia and New Zealand, close allies, have always been and should also remain the major powers in the South Pacific. With China’s growing presence in the South Pacific and its location in the North Pacific, its relations with North Korea and influence in the Pacific far east, it would have control of the Pacific seaboard of the United States.
China also has an influential presence in the Caribbean and Latin America and the southern flank of the United States. With its massive Official Development Assistance (ODA), private sector investments and technical assistance, China is being called the new Super Power by military and political analysts.
Conclusion
It is not in the national, defence and security interests of Australia, New Zealand and the United States for the Pacific Island Countries South Pacific geo-political area to become a Sphere of Influence of China. It is not in the interest of Australia and New Zealand to allow Fiji to become the Cuba of the South Pacific. Australia, New Zealand and the United States must act in concert with alacrity to bring an end to Bainimarama’s military junta in Fiji.
The hold off in the belief that the illegal Fiji regime will hold elections in 2014 is ill-advised. Castro promised elections in Cuba in 1959 and today, 52 years later, there have been no elections. Elections in Fiji in 2014 will never happen. Australia and New Zealand must review its role in the Forum and, especially, their decreasing influence in the Pacific. The Fiji problem is not solely political, it also has defence and security implications for Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Action now, rather than later, will be of benefit to the region as a whole and free the oppressed people of Fiji.
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04 September 2011
The Second Pacific Engagement of Pacific Islands Developing States (PIDS), not all included, was held at the Inter- Continental in Nadi last week in surroundings that may be best described as “splendid isolation.”
It was sponsored by the illegal, corrupt and repressive Fiji Military Junta deliberately and solely for the purpose of exercising due political influence over PIDS Representatives to achieve its insidious and evil objectives.
Recognizing that the Pacific Island Forum meeting will be held in New Zealand from September 6-9, and no doubt having conspiratorially obtained a Classified Copy of the Agenda, the Junta set about its con-artist policy to miss-inform the representatives at the meeting about their evil deeds and to win support for the junta’s illegal and pernicious acts.
To win over the Representatives to their evil cause and to convince them that all is bright and beautiful in Fiji, the PIDS meeting was held at the Inter-Continental, far away from the capital, in a sparsely populated area. The PIDS delegates were told that the RFMF soldiers and Fiji Police surrounding the hotel were there for security. The reality was that the junta wanted to ensure no opposition elements and/or disaffected people could speak to the delegates. This also meant sealing the delegates in the hotel.
The only words, explanations and plans Delegates heard were from the illegal junta. Without recognizing it, Delegates were really in splendid isolation. Even the advertising, puff and propaganda video shown to Representatives were shown to Delegates only and the Fiji journalists were excluded. The Junta achieved its first aim...splendidly isolating the delegates and making them willing or unwilling partners to the junta’s evil and illegal plans.
The Junta, via their infamous coupster, con-man and fraudster, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, who is also Fiji’s illegal Foreign Minister, then proceeded on with the next objective. It was to convince Delegates that Australia and New Zealand are imperialists, and were out to colonize Pacific Island Countries. This is totally incorrect, however, it was used in an attempt to unite the Pacific Islands against Australia and New Zealand. Ratu Inoke went on to advise the delegates that the one way to do it was to support the Junta, oppose Australia and New Zealand and take control of the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat. The acme of the aim was to seek the removal of the current Secretary-General Neroni Slade from Samoa, and replace him with a Fiji citizen but, as I mentioned in an earlier statement, it was a classic case of the blind leading the blind. More appropriately, it is the evil crooks trying to scam the righteous.
What the coupster cleverly and deliberately failed to inform the PIDS meeting, or maybe tricked them into believing otherwise, was that Australia and New Zealand contribute some 70% of the Budget of the Secretariat and both make significant foreign aid contributions for national development to PIDS. In other words, the con-man Ratu Inoke sought to convince the Delegates to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. I know better sense will prevail in the Governments of PIDS.
The PIDS Meeting and its splendid isolation was also another perfidious tactic to pursue the Junta’s regional policy concocted by the fraudster Ratu Inoke and that is to divide and rule... separate first the MSG countries, which it has done, then unite them with Polynesia, rule them and then use them to form a political bulwark against Australia and New Zealand.
Recognizing also that the junta cannot attend or participate in the Pacific Island Forum Summit in Auckland, the splendid isolation PIDS Meeting was a means to influence individual Representatives, and particularly MSG countries, to speak on behalf of Fiji at the Summit and to oppose Australia and New Zealand. What was said and agreed to at the Inter-Continental will not reach fruition at the Summit. However, the infamous coupster Ratu Inoke has achieved one regional policy, he has split the region’s unity and solidarity and placed in jeopardy, its regional trade and economic arrangements. PIDS should examine the level of its exports to Australia and New Zealand and the countries of origin of its tourists. Their national political and economic interests are bound up with Australia and New Zealand and not the Military Junta. By its support of Fiji, PIDS are failing to realize that they are hurting themselves, which is another policy of the Junta...if we cannot receive benefits from Australia and New Zealand, then let us all be in the same boat.
Actually, the Fiji situation should have been nipped in the bud. When the murderer Bainimarama promised to hold elections in 2009, Australia and New Zealand should have insisted on it being held. By adopting a laissez-faire policy towards Fiji, the Junta was given time and space to create anarchy in the country and split regional relations. It is time that Australia and New Zealand and all like-thinking States unite in a common effort and devise a common plan to move Fiji to elections, within one year, and restore freedom, democracy, the rule of law, human rights and Parliamentary Government. Know the whole truth and the truth will help you set Fiji free.
The Second Pacific Engagement of Pacific Islands Developing States (PIDS), not all included, was held at the Inter- Continental in Nadi last week in surroundings that may be best described as “splendid isolation.”
It was sponsored by the illegal, corrupt and repressive Fiji Military Junta deliberately and solely for the purpose of exercising due political influence over PIDS Representatives to achieve its insidious and evil objectives.
Recognizing that the Pacific Island Forum meeting will be held in New Zealand from September 6-9, and no doubt having conspiratorially obtained a Classified Copy of the Agenda, the Junta set about its con-artist policy to miss-inform the representatives at the meeting about their evil deeds and to win support for the junta’s illegal and pernicious acts.
To win over the Representatives to their evil cause and to convince them that all is bright and beautiful in Fiji, the PIDS meeting was held at the Inter-Continental, far away from the capital, in a sparsely populated area. The PIDS delegates were told that the RFMF soldiers and Fiji Police surrounding the hotel were there for security. The reality was that the junta wanted to ensure no opposition elements and/or disaffected people could speak to the delegates. This also meant sealing the delegates in the hotel.
The only words, explanations and plans Delegates heard were from the illegal junta. Without recognizing it, Delegates were really in splendid isolation. Even the advertising, puff and propaganda video shown to Representatives were shown to Delegates only and the Fiji journalists were excluded. The Junta achieved its first aim...splendidly isolating the delegates and making them willing or unwilling partners to the junta’s evil and illegal plans.
The Junta, via their infamous coupster, con-man and fraudster, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, who is also Fiji’s illegal Foreign Minister, then proceeded on with the next objective. It was to convince Delegates that Australia and New Zealand are imperialists, and were out to colonize Pacific Island Countries. This is totally incorrect, however, it was used in an attempt to unite the Pacific Islands against Australia and New Zealand. Ratu Inoke went on to advise the delegates that the one way to do it was to support the Junta, oppose Australia and New Zealand and take control of the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat. The acme of the aim was to seek the removal of the current Secretary-General Neroni Slade from Samoa, and replace him with a Fiji citizen but, as I mentioned in an earlier statement, it was a classic case of the blind leading the blind. More appropriately, it is the evil crooks trying to scam the righteous.
What the coupster cleverly and deliberately failed to inform the PIDS meeting, or maybe tricked them into believing otherwise, was that Australia and New Zealand contribute some 70% of the Budget of the Secretariat and both make significant foreign aid contributions for national development to PIDS. In other words, the con-man Ratu Inoke sought to convince the Delegates to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. I know better sense will prevail in the Governments of PIDS.
The PIDS Meeting and its splendid isolation was also another perfidious tactic to pursue the Junta’s regional policy concocted by the fraudster Ratu Inoke and that is to divide and rule... separate first the MSG countries, which it has done, then unite them with Polynesia, rule them and then use them to form a political bulwark against Australia and New Zealand.
Recognizing also that the junta cannot attend or participate in the Pacific Island Forum Summit in Auckland, the splendid isolation PIDS Meeting was a means to influence individual Representatives, and particularly MSG countries, to speak on behalf of Fiji at the Summit and to oppose Australia and New Zealand. What was said and agreed to at the Inter-Continental will not reach fruition at the Summit. However, the infamous coupster Ratu Inoke has achieved one regional policy, he has split the region’s unity and solidarity and placed in jeopardy, its regional trade and economic arrangements. PIDS should examine the level of its exports to Australia and New Zealand and the countries of origin of its tourists. Their national political and economic interests are bound up with Australia and New Zealand and not the Military Junta. By its support of Fiji, PIDS are failing to realize that they are hurting themselves, which is another policy of the Junta...if we cannot receive benefits from Australia and New Zealand, then let us all be in the same boat.
Actually, the Fiji situation should have been nipped in the bud. When the murderer Bainimarama promised to hold elections in 2009, Australia and New Zealand should have insisted on it being held. By adopting a laissez-faire policy towards Fiji, the Junta was given time and space to create anarchy in the country and split regional relations. It is time that Australia and New Zealand and all like-thinking States unite in a common effort and devise a common plan to move Fiji to elections, within one year, and restore freedom, democracy, the rule of law, human rights and Parliamentary Government. Know the whole truth and the truth will help you set Fiji free.
The Lies never end....04 September 2011
A media report [by Michael Field] says that Pacific leaders will be handed evidence [and no doubt manipulated] of overwhelming multi-racial public support in Fiji for the murderer Bainimarama and his martial law decrees which are seen as keeping order in the coup-prone nation. The illegal regime will also present data, seen by the
Sunday Star-Times [Michael Field], that reveals strong support for Bainimarama and the mounting
public anger in Fiji toward New Zealand. It states that the data will show that over two-thirds of both races support the murderer Bainimarama,
according to the data. The data also states that there is overwhelming support for the murderer's moves against
the indigenous dominated Methodist Church.........
..........Are we still talking about Fiji! Where the "Methodist Church" re-elected the same people to President and Secretary General. But True to form the data will not be made public for the people of Fiji to verify it and give their version of the truth.
All educated people know that data can be "re-arranged" to justify any statement. And that the data only matters when the same data is also made available to the public to verify its accuracy, which the murderer Bainimarama will never do. So we are back to the the murderer Bainimarama's M.O. (Modus Operandi or method of operation) where he and his dedicated bakewas are trying to manipulate the Forum leaders, like what the murderer succesfully did with the RFMF to support his 2006 Coup and save him from being arrested for his part in the 2000 coup and the murder of the CRW.
The murderer forgets that the Pacific Island way is to not openly show disrespect. The leaders know the truth but out of respect they will not openly disagree, even when they know that the murderer Bainimarama is an idiot.
The Regime DATA wont tell the truth, that :
1. fundamental rights and freedoms of the people have been removed by the Public Emergency Regulations
2. the Rule of Law no longer exists
3. mass media is muzzled and censored
4. many citizens, men and women, have been taken to Military Headquarters and beaten, tortured and the women raped
5. there is a Decree and Order emasculating the Trade Union Movement
6. the Methodist Church is being repressed
7. their acts to destroy the Indigenous Rights of the Fijian People through scrapping the Great Council of Chiefs and creating a Land Bank to steal ancestral Fijian Land.
What the DATA also wont tell you is that there is now a popular movement internationally, in the region, and in Fiji itself, to remove the Fiji military junta and to restore democracy, parliamentary government, human rights and the rule of law.
..........Are we still talking about Fiji! Where the "Methodist Church" re-elected the same people to President and Secretary General. But True to form the data will not be made public for the people of Fiji to verify it and give their version of the truth.
All educated people know that data can be "re-arranged" to justify any statement. And that the data only matters when the same data is also made available to the public to verify its accuracy, which the murderer Bainimarama will never do. So we are back to the the murderer Bainimarama's M.O. (Modus Operandi or method of operation) where he and his dedicated bakewas are trying to manipulate the Forum leaders, like what the murderer succesfully did with the RFMF to support his 2006 Coup and save him from being arrested for his part in the 2000 coup and the murder of the CRW.
The murderer forgets that the Pacific Island way is to not openly show disrespect. The leaders know the truth but out of respect they will not openly disagree, even when they know that the murderer Bainimarama is an idiot.
The Regime DATA wont tell the truth, that :
1. fundamental rights and freedoms of the people have been removed by the Public Emergency Regulations
2. the Rule of Law no longer exists
3. mass media is muzzled and censored
4. many citizens, men and women, have been taken to Military Headquarters and beaten, tortured and the women raped
5. there is a Decree and Order emasculating the Trade Union Movement
6. the Methodist Church is being repressed
7. their acts to destroy the Indigenous Rights of the Fijian People through scrapping the Great Council of Chiefs and creating a Land Bank to steal ancestral Fijian Land.
What the DATA also wont tell you is that there is now a popular movement internationally, in the region, and in Fiji itself, to remove the Fiji military junta and to restore democracy, parliamentary government, human rights and the rule of law.
News Flash! 03 September 2011
New Zealand's show-piece Pacific Forum could plunge into an embarrassing stand-off on Tuesday when two purported prime ministers of Papua New Guinea show up at Auckland airport...[READ FULL STORY]
Credible IMF sources advised today that Fiji's latest request to obtain $1.5 billion in loans was very recently declined. Apparently, other sources and countries have also refused loans to Fiji. So will the junta now look to printing its own money or raid the Reserve Bank vaults.......
Credible IMF sources advised today that Fiji's latest request to obtain $1.5 billion in loans was very recently declined. Apparently, other sources and countries have also refused loans to Fiji. So will the junta now look to printing its own money or raid the Reserve Bank vaults.......
Adelaide FDFM Launched 02 September 2011
Adelaide, South Australia – this new Chapter of FDFM, that is joining the global campaign to seek the removal of the illegal Fiji military junta and the return of democracy, freedom and the rule of law to Fiji, was launched today by Ratu Tevita Mara.
The small group of enthusiastic people of Fiji and Friends of Fiji, will use media campaigns, community conversations, youth mobilization, and lobbying with a wide range of civil society partners to promote a return of democracy and the rule of law to Fiji, across South Australia.
You can click here to read Ratu Tevita's speech.
The small group of enthusiastic people of Fiji and Friends of Fiji, will use media campaigns, community conversations, youth mobilization, and lobbying with a wide range of civil society partners to promote a return of democracy and the rule of law to Fiji, across South Australia.
You can click here to read Ratu Tevita's speech.
Diplomacy of Deceit 02 September 2011
Oh what a tangled web they weave when they set out to deceive, to coin a line from the Marmion (1808).
And that is exactly what the Military Junta did, through a propagandist when he spun a make-believe fairy tale to the Representatives of the Pacific Islands Developing States (PIDS) at their Meeting in Nadi on August 31.
According to the Fiji Sun, the propagandist, a Junta mouthpiece (with tooth decay), told the PIDS representatives that the illegal and repressive regime “will lift the living standards of all Fijians.” The junta has a peculiar way of showing it since, under its power and control, living standards are not being lifted but are spiralling downwards. Some 45% of the Fiji people now live in poverty. Hunger and starvation stalk the land.
The propagandist continued to spin more lies and deceit when he spoke of sustained economic growth. The truth is that the national economy has had annual declines since the illegal Military Coup of 2006. Not only that, but unemployment has skyrocketed, the cost of living has increased by 20%, and the National Debt is unsustainable. The economy is going down the drain, and so is Fiji. “
More lies presented to the PIDS representatives include:
· the illegal regime’s stand against systemic corruption in the country. This is perhaps the biggest lie of all. The murderer commander Voreqe Bainimarama who, with his illegal Attorney-General, Aiyaz Khaiyum, pay themselves some $700,000 each annually. They keep their money in offshore bank accounts and refuse to disclose the amount to the people of Fiji.
· Corruption in the Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF), by the murderer Bainimarama and Khaiyum regime, has left it in a state of collapse. The future of 10,000 pensioners is now questionable.
· Public Enterprises, including Air Pacific, administered by the junta and their incompetent Permanent Secretary, are collapsing. The motto in Fiji now is: join the illegal regime, fill your pockets, and open offshore bank accounts.
· Another big lie spun is the junta’s intention to create fundamental principles in a new Constitution. It was the junta who, when Bainimarama’s coup took place, publicly announced that it fully supported the 1997 Constitution and that the Constitution would remain in force. They lied. Bainimarama abrogated the Constitution as soon as the Fiji Court of Appeal ruled, in 2009, that Bainimarama’s coup was illegal, the regime was illegal, and all acts by it are illegal.
This means that the Peoples Charter is illegal, the decrees are illegal, any new Constitution will be illegal, and the 2014 Elections will be illegal, pursuant to the ruling of the Court of Appeal. So how can anyone believe that free and fair elections will take place in 2014.
What the military junta did not tell you:
1. fundamental rights and freedoms of the people have been removed by the Public Emergency Regulations
2. the Rule of Law no longer exists
3. mass media is muzzled and censored
4. many citizens, men and women, have been taken to Military Headquarters and beaten, tortured and the women raped
5. there is a Decree and Order emasculating the Trade Union Movement
6. the Methodist Church is being repressed
7. their acts to destroy the Indigenous Rights of the Fijian People through scrapping the Great Council of Chiefs and creating a Land Bank to steal ancestral Fijian Land.
What the illegal regime also failed to tell you is that there is now a popular movement internationally, in the region, and in Fiji itself, to remove the Fiji military junta and to restore democracy, parliamentary government, human rights and the rule of law.
In Australia and New Zealand, Freedom and Democracy Movements are operating. In Fiji, a policy of passive resistance by the people, the Methodist Church, the Trade Union Movement and the Viti Revolutionary Force has begun. The murderer Bainimarama and his illegal junta will fall and we, as a region, will need to work together.
So through this statement, I humbly request that the learned PIDS representatives take the time to analyse and assess the accuracy of ALL statements presented to them by the Fiji military junta and its representatives. The oppressed people of Fiji need you to know the truth, and the “truth” will help set them free!
And that is exactly what the Military Junta did, through a propagandist when he spun a make-believe fairy tale to the Representatives of the Pacific Islands Developing States (PIDS) at their Meeting in Nadi on August 31.
According to the Fiji Sun, the propagandist, a Junta mouthpiece (with tooth decay), told the PIDS representatives that the illegal and repressive regime “will lift the living standards of all Fijians.” The junta has a peculiar way of showing it since, under its power and control, living standards are not being lifted but are spiralling downwards. Some 45% of the Fiji people now live in poverty. Hunger and starvation stalk the land.
The propagandist continued to spin more lies and deceit when he spoke of sustained economic growth. The truth is that the national economy has had annual declines since the illegal Military Coup of 2006. Not only that, but unemployment has skyrocketed, the cost of living has increased by 20%, and the National Debt is unsustainable. The economy is going down the drain, and so is Fiji. “
More lies presented to the PIDS representatives include:
· the illegal regime’s stand against systemic corruption in the country. This is perhaps the biggest lie of all. The murderer commander Voreqe Bainimarama who, with his illegal Attorney-General, Aiyaz Khaiyum, pay themselves some $700,000 each annually. They keep their money in offshore bank accounts and refuse to disclose the amount to the people of Fiji.
· Corruption in the Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF), by the murderer Bainimarama and Khaiyum regime, has left it in a state of collapse. The future of 10,000 pensioners is now questionable.
· Public Enterprises, including Air Pacific, administered by the junta and their incompetent Permanent Secretary, are collapsing. The motto in Fiji now is: join the illegal regime, fill your pockets, and open offshore bank accounts.
· Another big lie spun is the junta’s intention to create fundamental principles in a new Constitution. It was the junta who, when Bainimarama’s coup took place, publicly announced that it fully supported the 1997 Constitution and that the Constitution would remain in force. They lied. Bainimarama abrogated the Constitution as soon as the Fiji Court of Appeal ruled, in 2009, that Bainimarama’s coup was illegal, the regime was illegal, and all acts by it are illegal.
This means that the Peoples Charter is illegal, the decrees are illegal, any new Constitution will be illegal, and the 2014 Elections will be illegal, pursuant to the ruling of the Court of Appeal. So how can anyone believe that free and fair elections will take place in 2014.
What the military junta did not tell you:
1. fundamental rights and freedoms of the people have been removed by the Public Emergency Regulations
2. the Rule of Law no longer exists
3. mass media is muzzled and censored
4. many citizens, men and women, have been taken to Military Headquarters and beaten, tortured and the women raped
5. there is a Decree and Order emasculating the Trade Union Movement
6. the Methodist Church is being repressed
7. their acts to destroy the Indigenous Rights of the Fijian People through scrapping the Great Council of Chiefs and creating a Land Bank to steal ancestral Fijian Land.
What the illegal regime also failed to tell you is that there is now a popular movement internationally, in the region, and in Fiji itself, to remove the Fiji military junta and to restore democracy, parliamentary government, human rights and the rule of law.
In Australia and New Zealand, Freedom and Democracy Movements are operating. In Fiji, a policy of passive resistance by the people, the Methodist Church, the Trade Union Movement and the Viti Revolutionary Force has begun. The murderer Bainimarama and his illegal junta will fall and we, as a region, will need to work together.
So through this statement, I humbly request that the learned PIDS representatives take the time to analyse and assess the accuracy of ALL statements presented to them by the Fiji military junta and its representatives. The oppressed people of Fiji need you to know the truth, and the “truth” will help set them free!
Blind Leading the BlindBY RATU TEVITA MARA, 01 September 2011
The recent decision by the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) of countries to nominate Mr Kaliopate Tavola of Fiji to replace Mr Neroni Slade as Secretary-General of the South Pacific Forum Secretariat is a case of the blind, Fiji’s infamous coupster Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, leading the blind. Or should it be “the conman” leading the blind........ |
The MSG held its meeting in Nadi, August 31, and, according to a Fiji Sun news report, made a decision to support Ratu Inoke’s initiative to replace Mr Slade. This decision is to be pursued at the upcoming South Pacific Forum Summit in New Zealand, from September 6-9.
What Ratu Inoke failed to advise the other MSG Foreign Ministers, is that there is an established International Protocol which says that no citizen of a country, in which a Regional or International Secretariat is geographically located, can be appointed as Secretary-General. They will not be able to be granted any diplomatic immunity and privileges, which are critical, inter alia, to the performance of the Secretary-General’s functions and duties. This is why an American has never been the Secretary-General of the United Nations or the Organisation of American States since both are geographically located in the United States. It’s amazing that the infamous coupster Ratu Kubuabola would recommend to the other MSG Foreign Ministers to also ignore this key point. Hence, the blind leading the blind, or are the MSG Foreign Ministers deliberately being tricked with lies..…
As Fiji already knows, the infamous coupster Ratu Inoke will do anything to keep his government job. And, as the old saying goes “birds of a feather flock together.”
Yes, the murdering Dictator Bainimarama is well aware that when the coupster Ratu Inoke Kubuabola was Fiji’s Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Ratu Inoke, it is alleged, took a financial advance from the Fiji Embassy in Port Moresby and never repaid it. Ratu Inoke has a strong motive for not returning democracy and the rule of law to Fiji, for he too will be prosecuted.
What Ratu Inoke failed to advise the other MSG Foreign Ministers, is that there is an established International Protocol which says that no citizen of a country, in which a Regional or International Secretariat is geographically located, can be appointed as Secretary-General. They will not be able to be granted any diplomatic immunity and privileges, which are critical, inter alia, to the performance of the Secretary-General’s functions and duties. This is why an American has never been the Secretary-General of the United Nations or the Organisation of American States since both are geographically located in the United States. It’s amazing that the infamous coupster Ratu Kubuabola would recommend to the other MSG Foreign Ministers to also ignore this key point. Hence, the blind leading the blind, or are the MSG Foreign Ministers deliberately being tricked with lies..…
As Fiji already knows, the infamous coupster Ratu Inoke will do anything to keep his government job. And, as the old saying goes “birds of a feather flock together.”
Yes, the murdering Dictator Bainimarama is well aware that when the coupster Ratu Inoke Kubuabola was Fiji’s Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Ratu Inoke, it is alleged, took a financial advance from the Fiji Embassy in Port Moresby and never repaid it. Ratu Inoke has a strong motive for not returning democracy and the rule of law to Fiji, for he too will be prosecuted.
Interview by Catholic Newspaper, Taumu'a Lelei, Tonga
August 2011 Issue
Ratu Mara Challenges Bainimarama
TAUMU'A LELEI: What led you to speak out against Commodore Bainimarama?
RATU TEVITA MARA: I have been charged for making seditious comment against Commodore Bainimarama and his Military Regime. But I don't ever recall saying seditious remarks to the Officer who made the allegations against me. It is allegedly said that I said it in South Korea. It seems my removal was pre-planned.
TAUMU'A LELEI: Why do you say that?
MARA: We have to take ourselves back to 2000 coup till the coup of 2006. A number of key senior officers were removed from the military. They were removed not for plotting against Bainimarama but for trying to keep Bainimarama on the safe legal side which was beneficial not only to the country as a whole but also protected the military as an institution. Commodore has been trying to remove the SDL Government of Qarase since 2001 when it was first voted in despite the army starting the SDL itself. The concept of the SDL Party came from the military council after the 2000 coup. The Commodore knows how to manipulate people and uses them when it suits and dumps them when he no longer needs them.
TAUMU'A LELEI: So you began to doubt Commodore Bainimarama's leadership?
MARA: Bainimarama's leadership was already in doubt in the events of 2000. That's why those senior officers had left. I questioned him why he deviated from the road map in 2007 which was suppose to lead us to election in 2010. In 2006 the Senior Officers who were still in the army gave him the benefit of the doubt. He claimed that were a lot of corruption in the SDL Government but so far nothing significant being revealed. That benefit of the doubt came back to haunt us. It clearly reveals now the main purpose of the 2006 coup was to cover what he had done in 2000, supporting the civilian coup and using part of the military for the coup of 2000 and also plotting to remove the SDL Government from 2003 until it took place in 2006.
TAUMU'A LELEI: So Bainimarama led the military to believe that the way to stop the SDL corruption as he claimed was to remove the Government?
MARA: It was not only Commodore Bainimarama who wanted me to go on leave in 2010 but also the Attorney-General, Aiyaz Saiyed-Khaiyum. The Attormey-General has been removing people who are close to Bainimarama. He has removed the whole military council since 2006 and the only one left now is Colonel Aziz. Teleni, former Police Commisioner and Navy Officer, has gone to China, and Brigadier Driti and me were charged and removed last year.
TAUMU'A LELEI: With dueʻ respect to late President Iloilo, how active was he in his office especially between 2003 and 2006? Some said Bainimarama used the office of the President for his own advantage because the then President's health was deteriorating.
MARA: Ratu Iloilo played a prominent role in 2000 when Ratu Mara the then President was removed by Bainimarama from Office. Commodore Bainimarama was deceitfully using the president, the late President Iloilo. In 2003 he wanted senior officers to draw up a coup plan to remove the SDL Government and in 2005 he threatened the Prime Minister Qarase to renew his contract. Legally the Commodore should have been tried for treason but he used the President, who is also the Commander in Chief, to save himself. He was deceitfully manipulating the President's office then for his own favours and to keep him afloat until he conducted the coup in 2006. The military takeover was not for the benefit of the country but for the benefit of one person to cover up himself from what he had done.
TAUMU'A LELEI: You were in the Fiji Army and part of the Military Regime since 2006 and now you are outside of Fiji looking inside. How do you see the military regime from an objective point of view now?
MARA: This is eleven years since the millennium and to be having a Military Junta in the South Pacific in this modern times and age is totally uncalled for. I think Fiji has been going through three Constitutions since independence from the British in 1970 and the fourth is on the making. On the other hand this is our fourth coup. Since independence we have been having a coup every 10 years and if we go from the first coup in 1987 we have been having a coup every five years. Four Constitutions and four coups since independence. It's unbelievable. Now who gave Bainimarama and Khaiyum the mandate to make changes in Fiji?
TAUMU'A LELEI: From information coming to you from some members of the Fiji milittary, I am sure, what is the current situation in the army like?
MARA: In the Fiji military all is not well within the military, there is divided loyalty. Soldiers who are loyal to Bainimarama and soldiers who are loyal to Fiji, loyal to the Constitution, loyal to the people of Fiji. People who are loyal to Bainimarama are loyal to his dictatorship and the dictator uses it for his own benefit. Let us wait and see what will happen.
TAUMU'A LELEI: The Unions are challenging the new Decrees which remove the workers' rights. What do you think of that?
MARA: The Unions are now calling for discussions in Fiji for the removal of illegal Decrees that call for the removal of all Unions in Fiji. The Decrees remove and control institutions and no one can say what one wants to say, no freedom of expression. I can see there will be no election in 2014. He has no intention of going back to elected government. He abrogated the Constitution in 2009 for he knows if he goes back to election he will be prosecuted and investigated for all his doing since 2000.
TAUMU'A LELEI: What do you hope to achieve by visiting Pacific countries and meeting their respective leaders?
MARA: I am hoping to visit countries before the Forum in Auckland next month. Since I have left Fiji the support have growing especially in returning Fiji to democracy, even if it means removing Bainimarama and if that happens he should accept it. The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) are supporting Bainimarama's Military Junta. I think they should not support dictatorship nor military junta for they are telling others that it is acceptable in the South Pacific. I call upon MSG countries to withdraw their support so as to give a strong message to South Pacific countries that such actions are unacceptable.
TAUMU'A LELEI: How do you see the Church's role in returning Fiji to democracy?
MARA : The Church has always play a major role in Fiji and in many other countries throughout the world. Look at what happened in the Philippines, and Poland in the past. It is true the Church should stand for its Christian principles but the Church also stands against oppression and injustice. Many have been detained illegally, tortured and murdered since the 2000 coup by the military. Yet the Church is more silent than vocal. The Church should not be over cautious and trying to be politically correct but proactive to stop oppressive regimes. It is part of preaching of the Gospel.
TAUMU'A LELEI: Is there anything else you want to add?
MARA: I want to thank the Royal Family of Tonga, the Tongan Government, the Church Leaders of the Catholic Church and the Free Wesleyan Church in TongaI have spoken to and asked to pray for Fiji's return to democracy. I also want to thank the international community, and leaders of Pacific countries I have visited including Australia and New Zealand, and people within Fiji and outside of Fijii who have joined with me in support of taking Fiji back to democracy. It is my hope that I will be back to our beloved Fiji for Christmas.
ENDS-
Ratu Mara Challenges Bainimarama
TAUMU'A LELEI: What led you to speak out against Commodore Bainimarama?
RATU TEVITA MARA: I have been charged for making seditious comment against Commodore Bainimarama and his Military Regime. But I don't ever recall saying seditious remarks to the Officer who made the allegations against me. It is allegedly said that I said it in South Korea. It seems my removal was pre-planned.
TAUMU'A LELEI: Why do you say that?
MARA: We have to take ourselves back to 2000 coup till the coup of 2006. A number of key senior officers were removed from the military. They were removed not for plotting against Bainimarama but for trying to keep Bainimarama on the safe legal side which was beneficial not only to the country as a whole but also protected the military as an institution. Commodore has been trying to remove the SDL Government of Qarase since 2001 when it was first voted in despite the army starting the SDL itself. The concept of the SDL Party came from the military council after the 2000 coup. The Commodore knows how to manipulate people and uses them when it suits and dumps them when he no longer needs them.
TAUMU'A LELEI: So you began to doubt Commodore Bainimarama's leadership?
MARA: Bainimarama's leadership was already in doubt in the events of 2000. That's why those senior officers had left. I questioned him why he deviated from the road map in 2007 which was suppose to lead us to election in 2010. In 2006 the Senior Officers who were still in the army gave him the benefit of the doubt. He claimed that were a lot of corruption in the SDL Government but so far nothing significant being revealed. That benefit of the doubt came back to haunt us. It clearly reveals now the main purpose of the 2006 coup was to cover what he had done in 2000, supporting the civilian coup and using part of the military for the coup of 2000 and also plotting to remove the SDL Government from 2003 until it took place in 2006.
TAUMU'A LELEI: So Bainimarama led the military to believe that the way to stop the SDL corruption as he claimed was to remove the Government?
MARA: It was not only Commodore Bainimarama who wanted me to go on leave in 2010 but also the Attorney-General, Aiyaz Saiyed-Khaiyum. The Attormey-General has been removing people who are close to Bainimarama. He has removed the whole military council since 2006 and the only one left now is Colonel Aziz. Teleni, former Police Commisioner and Navy Officer, has gone to China, and Brigadier Driti and me were charged and removed last year.
TAUMU'A LELEI: With dueʻ respect to late President Iloilo, how active was he in his office especially between 2003 and 2006? Some said Bainimarama used the office of the President for his own advantage because the then President's health was deteriorating.
MARA: Ratu Iloilo played a prominent role in 2000 when Ratu Mara the then President was removed by Bainimarama from Office. Commodore Bainimarama was deceitfully using the president, the late President Iloilo. In 2003 he wanted senior officers to draw up a coup plan to remove the SDL Government and in 2005 he threatened the Prime Minister Qarase to renew his contract. Legally the Commodore should have been tried for treason but he used the President, who is also the Commander in Chief, to save himself. He was deceitfully manipulating the President's office then for his own favours and to keep him afloat until he conducted the coup in 2006. The military takeover was not for the benefit of the country but for the benefit of one person to cover up himself from what he had done.
TAUMU'A LELEI: You were in the Fiji Army and part of the Military Regime since 2006 and now you are outside of Fiji looking inside. How do you see the military regime from an objective point of view now?
MARA: This is eleven years since the millennium and to be having a Military Junta in the South Pacific in this modern times and age is totally uncalled for. I think Fiji has been going through three Constitutions since independence from the British in 1970 and the fourth is on the making. On the other hand this is our fourth coup. Since independence we have been having a coup every 10 years and if we go from the first coup in 1987 we have been having a coup every five years. Four Constitutions and four coups since independence. It's unbelievable. Now who gave Bainimarama and Khaiyum the mandate to make changes in Fiji?
TAUMU'A LELEI: From information coming to you from some members of the Fiji milittary, I am sure, what is the current situation in the army like?
MARA: In the Fiji military all is not well within the military, there is divided loyalty. Soldiers who are loyal to Bainimarama and soldiers who are loyal to Fiji, loyal to the Constitution, loyal to the people of Fiji. People who are loyal to Bainimarama are loyal to his dictatorship and the dictator uses it for his own benefit. Let us wait and see what will happen.
TAUMU'A LELEI: The Unions are challenging the new Decrees which remove the workers' rights. What do you think of that?
MARA: The Unions are now calling for discussions in Fiji for the removal of illegal Decrees that call for the removal of all Unions in Fiji. The Decrees remove and control institutions and no one can say what one wants to say, no freedom of expression. I can see there will be no election in 2014. He has no intention of going back to elected government. He abrogated the Constitution in 2009 for he knows if he goes back to election he will be prosecuted and investigated for all his doing since 2000.
TAUMU'A LELEI: What do you hope to achieve by visiting Pacific countries and meeting their respective leaders?
MARA: I am hoping to visit countries before the Forum in Auckland next month. Since I have left Fiji the support have growing especially in returning Fiji to democracy, even if it means removing Bainimarama and if that happens he should accept it. The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) are supporting Bainimarama's Military Junta. I think they should not support dictatorship nor military junta for they are telling others that it is acceptable in the South Pacific. I call upon MSG countries to withdraw their support so as to give a strong message to South Pacific countries that such actions are unacceptable.
TAUMU'A LELEI: How do you see the Church's role in returning Fiji to democracy?
MARA : The Church has always play a major role in Fiji and in many other countries throughout the world. Look at what happened in the Philippines, and Poland in the past. It is true the Church should stand for its Christian principles but the Church also stands against oppression and injustice. Many have been detained illegally, tortured and murdered since the 2000 coup by the military. Yet the Church is more silent than vocal. The Church should not be over cautious and trying to be politically correct but proactive to stop oppressive regimes. It is part of preaching of the Gospel.
TAUMU'A LELEI: Is there anything else you want to add?
MARA: I want to thank the Royal Family of Tonga, the Tongan Government, the Church Leaders of the Catholic Church and the Free Wesleyan Church in TongaI have spoken to and asked to pray for Fiji's return to democracy. I also want to thank the international community, and leaders of Pacific countries I have visited including Australia and New Zealand, and people within Fiji and outside of Fijii who have joined with me in support of taking Fiji back to democracy. It is my hope that I will be back to our beloved Fiji for Christmas.
ENDS-
Message to the Fiji Security Forces BY RATU MARA, 29 August 2011
The murderer Bainimarama and Khaiyum’s brutal dictatorship and tyranny on our own people has reached a critical moment.
The oppression, corruption, poverty and brutality is rising, a 12 year old boy had his fingers broken under Bainimarama’s orders, but so is the level of anger and frustration. Protesters in the form of the new VRF group have taken it upon themselves to take action following the disrespectful treatment of the Methodist Church leaders and the cancellation of the Methodist Conference. Fiji is passing the point where brutality and threats by the military junta will no longer silence the people. The oppressive situation needs to end before it gets out of hand and there is violence and/or loss of life. We must not reach this point.
Therefore, I call upon all members of both the Fiji Police Force and the Fiji Military Forces, loyal to Fiji, to remember your sworn oaths to protect the citizens and people of Fiji. As the sworn guardians you must take back control of your once proud institutions from the murdering Bainimarama and his tiny group of dedicated power hungry cronies. You must restore respect for the Rule of law and restore the peoples trust in the security forces.
Under the murderer Bainimarama you are regularly being instructed to turn a blind eye to breaches of the law, corruption and to the brutality on our own people. This is not what you joined up for. Our people are suffering, you and your families are suffering, and so is Fiji.
To help end this you need to turn your focus on to Fiji’s real enemy: the murderer Bainimarama. With his laughable promises of free and fair elections in 2014, his continued theft of public funds, lies to the international community and the continued torture of our own people, the murderer Bainimarama has lost all credibility. Bainimarama betrayed the loyal CRW soldiers and had them silenced to cover his involvement in the 2000 Coup. The murderer Bainimarama again manipulated the military and staged the 2006 Coup to protect himself from being arrested for his involvement in the 2000 Coup and the deaths of the soldiers. This evil all needs to end now.
We all need to unite and say enough is enough! Please support the Methodist Church and the Unions, and start passive resistance now. Together we shall rebuild our beloved Fiji -- A democratic, prosperous and peaceful Fiji for us and our children, and our children’s children.
LONG LIVE FREEDOM
LONG LIVE DEMOCRACY
LONG LIVE FIJI.
The oppression, corruption, poverty and brutality is rising, a 12 year old boy had his fingers broken under Bainimarama’s orders, but so is the level of anger and frustration. Protesters in the form of the new VRF group have taken it upon themselves to take action following the disrespectful treatment of the Methodist Church leaders and the cancellation of the Methodist Conference. Fiji is passing the point where brutality and threats by the military junta will no longer silence the people. The oppressive situation needs to end before it gets out of hand and there is violence and/or loss of life. We must not reach this point.
Therefore, I call upon all members of both the Fiji Police Force and the Fiji Military Forces, loyal to Fiji, to remember your sworn oaths to protect the citizens and people of Fiji. As the sworn guardians you must take back control of your once proud institutions from the murdering Bainimarama and his tiny group of dedicated power hungry cronies. You must restore respect for the Rule of law and restore the peoples trust in the security forces.
Under the murderer Bainimarama you are regularly being instructed to turn a blind eye to breaches of the law, corruption and to the brutality on our own people. This is not what you joined up for. Our people are suffering, you and your families are suffering, and so is Fiji.
To help end this you need to turn your focus on to Fiji’s real enemy: the murderer Bainimarama. With his laughable promises of free and fair elections in 2014, his continued theft of public funds, lies to the international community and the continued torture of our own people, the murderer Bainimarama has lost all credibility. Bainimarama betrayed the loyal CRW soldiers and had them silenced to cover his involvement in the 2000 Coup. The murderer Bainimarama again manipulated the military and staged the 2006 Coup to protect himself from being arrested for his involvement in the 2000 Coup and the deaths of the soldiers. This evil all needs to end now.
We all need to unite and say enough is enough! Please support the Methodist Church and the Unions, and start passive resistance now. Together we shall rebuild our beloved Fiji -- A democratic, prosperous and peaceful Fiji for us and our children, and our children’s children.
LONG LIVE FREEDOM
LONG LIVE DEMOCRACY
LONG LIVE FIJI.
The Truth about Bainimarama BY RATU TEVITA MARA, 27 AUGUST 2011
U.S. Embassy cables from Suva have confirmed what I have been saying all along to the Governments and people of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Island Countries, including the people of Fiji ― Beatings and intimidation of innocent Fiji citizens is the current strategy being used by the murderer Voreqe Bainimarama and his Junta to control Fiji.
The cables have also confirmed that Bainimarama himself handed out some of the beatings. We know he has done this to unarmed and defenceless women, which explains why he so easily abandoned his men to save himself and set a new world record for the casava-patch dash!
In fact the murderer himself told European diplomats that anyone who speaks out against his brutal rule, “we must have them taken to barracks and beaten up.”
I sincerely hope that the Governments and people of New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Island Countries, especially the member countries of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, sit up and take notice of Bainimarama’s evil and brutal rule and the oppressed people of Fiji.
People of Fiji, in the villages and fields, in the factories, in the security services, and in our beloved Fiji, we must act now to take back our country from the murderer Bainimarama and his tiny group of dedicated parasites (bakewas).
We need to end this nightmare in Fiji now and restore freedom, democracy, the rule of law, economic and social development and prosperity to Fiji.
We can achieve this if we unite our efforts and work together to remove the murderer Bainimarama and rebuild our Fiji. Therefore, I urge the Methodist Church and the Unions to continue to resist the illegal repressive regime and I call on all other Churches in Fiji and people in Fiji to render their support to the Methodist Church and to the Unions.
I welcome the Viti Revolutionary Forces and congratulate them for having the courage to stand-up against the murderer Bainimarama and his dedicated bakewas.
We can apply passive resistance now. This can include going-slow at work, not going to work, distributing confidential regime documents and disrupting services.
The Freedom and Democracy Movements in Australia and New Zealand are also playing their part to help bring about the downfall of the Bainimarama regime. They are also canvassing their governments to apply tougher sanctions on the regime and, in particular, tough sanctions on all businesses and individuals based in Australia and New Zealand that support the murderer Bainimarama and his junta ― Solidarity Forever.
Together, and with God's blessings, we will topple the murderer Bainimarama, the Military Junta and his dedicated bakewas.
The cables have also confirmed that Bainimarama himself handed out some of the beatings. We know he has done this to unarmed and defenceless women, which explains why he so easily abandoned his men to save himself and set a new world record for the casava-patch dash!
In fact the murderer himself told European diplomats that anyone who speaks out against his brutal rule, “we must have them taken to barracks and beaten up.”
I sincerely hope that the Governments and people of New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Island Countries, especially the member countries of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, sit up and take notice of Bainimarama’s evil and brutal rule and the oppressed people of Fiji.
People of Fiji, in the villages and fields, in the factories, in the security services, and in our beloved Fiji, we must act now to take back our country from the murderer Bainimarama and his tiny group of dedicated parasites (bakewas).
We need to end this nightmare in Fiji now and restore freedom, democracy, the rule of law, economic and social development and prosperity to Fiji.
We can achieve this if we unite our efforts and work together to remove the murderer Bainimarama and rebuild our Fiji. Therefore, I urge the Methodist Church and the Unions to continue to resist the illegal repressive regime and I call on all other Churches in Fiji and people in Fiji to render their support to the Methodist Church and to the Unions.
I welcome the Viti Revolutionary Forces and congratulate them for having the courage to stand-up against the murderer Bainimarama and his dedicated bakewas.
We can apply passive resistance now. This can include going-slow at work, not going to work, distributing confidential regime documents and disrupting services.
The Freedom and Democracy Movements in Australia and New Zealand are also playing their part to help bring about the downfall of the Bainimarama regime. They are also canvassing their governments to apply tougher sanctions on the regime and, in particular, tough sanctions on all businesses and individuals based in Australia and New Zealand that support the murderer Bainimarama and his junta ― Solidarity Forever.
Together, and with God's blessings, we will topple the murderer Bainimarama, the Military Junta and his dedicated bakewas.
US cables reveal brutality of Fijian regime [27 August 2011]
The military is unsparing in its use of violence and intimidation - but there are signs of dissenting voices, writes Philip Dorling [The Sydney Morning Herald ]
Some quiet acts of defiance against Fiji's military regime occurred this week. A large number of spray-painted anti-government slogans appeared overnight on walls around the capital, Suva.
The outbreak of political graffiti, sufficiently unusual to be reported in the international media, followed the decision of the interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama's military government to ban the annual conference of the influential Methodist Church.
The military is unsparing in its use of violence and intimidation - but there are signs of dissenting voices, writes Philip Dorling [The Sydney Morning Herald ]
Some quiet acts of defiance against Fiji's military regime occurred this week. A large number of spray-painted anti-government slogans appeared overnight on walls around the capital, Suva.
The outbreak of political graffiti, sufficiently unusual to be reported in the international media, followed the decision of the interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama's military government to ban the annual conference of the influential Methodist Church.
Ratu Mara has NOT requested any Tongan Military Support [25 August 2011]
International Year of Youth - Overthrowing Dictatorships [24 August 2011]
Bainimarama's Unprofessional Conduct [21 August 2011]
Sri Lankan Lawyer’s Claim True and Correct [19 August 2011]
Message to Catholic Church in Fiji
Ratu Tevita’s message to the Leaders of the Catholic Church, "now is the hour to support the Methodist Church against the tyranny and evil of the Fiji military junta. What the evil military junta is doing to the Methodist Church and to Fiji is not right and we can not just stand aside and watch.
Please lend your support to the Methodist Church and withdraw your support for the Peoples Charter."
Please lend your support to the Methodist Church and withdraw your support for the Peoples Charter."
Methodist Church must not bow down to FIJI Junta [19 August 2011]
Message to the People of Fiji [18 Aug 2011]
FBCL's lack of accountability & transparency [17 Aug 2011]
Samoa's PM tells Ratu Tevita to "stay the course" [14 August 2011]
Message to MSG Countries, [12 August 2011]
Ratu Inoke Kubuabola is infamously known throughout Fiji as an opportunist, a man who would do anything to get a top Government job and is a coupster......an insidious person who is in the background of Fiji coups and enjoys the benefits from them. Read Ratu Tevita's message to MSG countries.
Ratu Inoke Kubuabola is infamously known throughout Fiji as an opportunist, a man who would do anything to get a top Government job and is a coupster......an insidious person who is in the background of Fiji coups and enjoys the benefits from them. Read Ratu Tevita's message to MSG countries.
Bainimarama's 2000 Coup
This is a six part video series of Ratu Tevita Mara speaking with Father Akauola SM about Father’s experience and knowledge of events of the Fiji Coup of 2000.
Listen to Father talk about the tortured CRW soldiers and prisoners and his analysis of events. Also hear how Bainimarama manipulated the RFMF to cover his involvement in the 2000 Coup.
Fr. Seluini Akauola is a Tongan Marist Priest and a specialist Moral Theologian and Counselor. He lectured on Moral Theology at the Pacific Regional Seminary (PRS) in Suva, Fiji (1996 – 2004).
Listen to Father talk about the tortured CRW soldiers and prisoners and his analysis of events. Also hear how Bainimarama manipulated the RFMF to cover his involvement in the 2000 Coup.
Fr. Seluini Akauola is a Tongan Marist Priest and a specialist Moral Theologian and Counselor. He lectured on Moral Theology at the Pacific Regional Seminary (PRS) in Suva, Fiji (1996 – 2004).
RFMF Board of Inquiry
This is the report that Bainimarama didn't want you to see. He ordered it destroyed, with one copy remaining with his pet (lap dancer) Aziz. But we also have a copy with our lawyers and we will reveal it to you. It looked into the involvement of the First Meridian Squadron (1MS or more commonly know as CRW) in the May 2000 Coup.
Findings show that Bainimarama was involved in the 2000 Coup. He (Bainimarama) ordered the CRW boys into Parliament. Then he (Bainimarama) betrayed them as if he was innocent.
Findings show that Bainimarama was involved in the 2000 Coup. He (Bainimarama) ordered the CRW boys into Parliament. Then he (Bainimarama) betrayed them as if he was innocent.
Bainimarama's Poor Leadership
Read Father Akauola's 2003 assessment of Commodore Bainimarama's performance as Commander RFMF. It was requested by a senior Bainimarama military aid and done in consultation with RFMF soldiers and officers.
Read Father Akauola's 2003 assessment of Commodore Bainimarama's performance as Commander RFMF. It was requested by a senior Bainimarama military aid and done in consultation with RFMF soldiers and officers.
CRW Betrayed by Bainimarama
The next document is a letter from Silatolu, while in prison, which clearly reveals Bainimarama's prior knowledge and involvement in the planning of the removal of the Chaudry Government and his continued involvement throughout the 2000 Coup. It also reveals Bainimarama's betrayal of the civilian coup plotters and soldiers involved, particularly the CRW who mutinied as a result. Silatolu refers to them as the sacrificial lambs.
The next document is a letter from Silatolu, while in prison, which clearly reveals Bainimarama's prior knowledge and involvement in the planning of the removal of the Chaudry Government and his continued involvement throughout the 2000 Coup. It also reveals Bainimarama's betrayal of the civilian coup plotters and soldiers involved, particularly the CRW who mutinied as a result. Silatolu refers to them as the sacrificial lambs.
Failure as a Commander RFMF
The next article from Col.Tarakinikini outlines Bainimarama's failure as a Commander RFMF during the crisis and Bainimarama's involvement in the 2000 Coup.
The next article from Col.Tarakinikini outlines Bainimarama's failure as a Commander RFMF during the crisis and Bainimarama's involvement in the 2000 Coup.
Unprofessional Conduct [+ 21 August 2011]
Read about Bainimarama's unprofessional conduct and disrespect for the President, Ratu Iloilo.
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