Bainimarama’s refusal to stand Mahendra Chaudary down pending an investigation into tax evasion allegations clearly shows the modus operandi of the interim government, which is a total disregard of the rule of law and justice, when faulted.
This is further exacerbated by the fact Mahendra Chaudary not only continues in office but is permitted to appoint the new Chairman of FICAC, who is going to decide and/or oversee any investigation into the allegations made against him!
The deportation of Fiji Sun Publisher Russell Hunter and Cabinet’s endorsing the resurrection of the NSC and FIS are more ominous signs of further media & civil rights oppression and Fiji now becoming more and more a dictatorship. People who still have some moral integrity should be greatly alarmed with the modus operandi and should seriously review their support.
I congratulate Mrs. Siwatibau and Mr. Beddoes who as a matter of principle and conscience could no longer continue as members of the NCBBF because of certain interim cabinet decisions. I challenge those who still support the illegal interim government whether they have the moral fortitude to do the same?
It is disappointing to see that His Grace Arch Bishop Mataca continuing to wallow in the seas of illegality, yet still believing he can positively contribute to making Fiji a better place!
Arch Bishop’s recent statement at the NCBBF meeting that Fiji needs a new dream to shape the nation again is so insignificant, trivial and highly unbecoming of someone with his moral and spiritual stature.
It seems to me with the greatest respect, that whilst his flock has seen the light and continues to either resist the illegal interim regime or withdraw their support from the NCBBF, His Grace conveniently hides his head in the sand and dreams of a better Fiji.
His Grace, with the greatest respect seems to fit Rev. Billy Graham’s definition of an unproductive Christian as someone ’who is too heavenly minded of no earthly use.’
Tui Savu.Honiara.
SOLOMON ISLANDS.
March 3, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Tui…don’t you have anything better to do than to slander Arch Bishop Mataca. It’s ironic because His Grace is a more productive Christian by leading this road-map to democracy and prosperity. What have you done apart from gnashing your teeth in the darkness?
Come to the light my friend!
March 3, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Thank you Tui for the article. But I think you clearly miss out on the actual reality facing the Ig. The truth is that Bainimarama’s whole body have now totally disappeared with the Snake Chaudhry completely coiling himself over and above. That is the modus operandi. It was Chaudhry’s consent for political support that gave Bainimarama the initial confidence to takeover Qarase and his Govt. Bainimarama has to be bought and his army boys further corrupted. That is the plan according to Chaudhry.He has now managed to achieve that. Bainimarama is also now fully aware that the price of any attempt to dismiss Chaudhry will be life imprisonment for him and his cronies. Chaudhry has simply become the most powerful person with all the army’s support. That he knows and will further exploit to his advantage. Just watch as he uncoils himself from Bainimarama at a time suiting himself. Bainimarama will surely end up in Prison if not at the gallows. But its Chaudhry who will have the last laugh. That ppl is how Chaudhry is positioning himself . Bainimarama does not have the privilege of being an elected MP. That makes a big difference between him and Chaudhry’s exit plan. Thats if Bainimarama has an exit plan at all!. He is in an inescapable position totally locked in to Chaudhry’s business according to plan. That is Bainimarama’s unfortunate reality.. Vakarau raica qo na ca ni via murimuria e dua na qase ena politiki…
March 3, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Spot on Tui. Using the ‘right’ words doesn’t hide the real sneaky motive behind the NCBBF. That is to subjugate Fijians and let the perpetrators go scot-free.
March 3, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Excellent article and spot on Tui. I really like his intelligent and constructive posts. Clearly a thinking man.
Down with the NCBBF/PCP/TASS/IG and all crappy acronyms
March 3, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I thought this illegal govt. was up in arms when the methodist was involved with Qarase’s legal govt. now that the disgraced mataca is siding with this illegal govt. WHAT DOES THAT SAY OF THE HEAD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ??????
March 3, 2008 at 3:53 pm
What about our so called ”president”.Where the hell is the man who’s mandate is being implemented by this bunch of crooks.We are fed up of hearing new policies and appointments made in his name.
Where is the countrys Commander in Chief at this very crusual moment when the people are crying?How can he turn a blind eye to the injustice his people are suffering from the very regime he is legalising?
If he had the last bit of conscience feft in him ,I ask him to step down and let these pigs squirm in their own filth.
March 3, 2008 at 3:59 pm
A friend here with me suggested that the pressie is in an induced coma and hooked up to a life support system.
Only when he is required to appear in public,does his doctors pump him full of drugs to enable to mumble through his speech.
Hmmmm,could be true.
March 3, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Chodoman sue’s Fiji Times.I might have heard wrong,but the sum I think I heard was $ 1 billion.Will confirm at the next news break.
March 3, 2008 at 5:03 pm
NP – yea that would figure re the pressie. When they want him in “active mode”, in goes a bit of the crystal meth that’s busy frying Frank’s brain and immediately he springs to life.
I guess he and his family doesn’t mind leaving a very undignified legacy……dribble dribble dribble but none of them had better squawk when people can’t take them seriously.
March 3, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Me kau mai vei na $1billion …. kau mai muna ..?? Luveni vutulaki … tsk tsk … !!
March 3, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I reckon Praveen and many others including the iIG and all those hangers-on, and any other opportunists are missing a really fundamental point:
That is that if one is to “coup” a duly elected government (pardon the elevation of the word coup to a verb), then one is actually “couping” ALL the institutions of state that the (duly ELECTED) government represents.
They are fucking over sovereignty
The “will of the people”
The judiciary
The adinistrative arm
AND ALL.
As such, they have no right to expect ANY of the benefits those institutions might produce, NOR do they have any right to assume they should continue to exist OTHER THAN at the point of a gun. The person pointing the gun usually has an expectation he or she will be paid too.
If I were to use Shaisata/iI-Arse logic, that Shaista/iI-Arse logic is fucked (kind of like it would disappear up its own iI-Arse), and any coup monger cannot reasonably expect any sort of organised cooperation that accrues from those instututions of state (other than by force or threat of force).
Well…… we already know the Judiciary has been comprimised but for one or two that appreciate what they stand for – the others shivver at the possibility their hidden skeletons won’t be found out and have basically bet on an illegal junta to preserve their secrets – we know where Gates has hung up his wig and its somewhere in the blue light district.
But…the rest is simply an assumption that other institutions should continue AND that they should comply with the will of an illegal usurper.
If they were as commited as they should be, they would actually have recognised that in doing so, they are denigrating and corrupting the institutions they represent.
FIRCA FIRCA FIRCA.
What gives this junta the right to expect tax collection?
What gives this junta the right to expect the cooperation from foreign institutions the ELECTED government chose to invest in automatically? – the deal has changed!
What gives the coupsters the right to expect cooperation from foreign institutions (UN,EU,etc. etc. etc. etc…………….) who made arrangements with the ELECTED government and the state institutions it represents? – the deal has changed!
I think this band of “coupsters” and its hangers-on should be giving some explanations.
Please define your concept of sovereignty
Please define your concept of the citizen
Please define your concept of taxpayer
Please define ………. you get the picture.
Perhaps Shaista or the i-I-Arse might care to take another step further back and comment. They seem, in their willingness to affirm the legitimacy of the IG, that they havn’t taken a step backwards far enough.
Shaista simply wants to fire a few pot shots in the expectation that one or two ricochets might coincide with an idea that has some legitimacy.
Better still, Shaista, i-I-Arse, and each and every hanger-on should state what it is they are actually FOR (minus platitudes, buzz words and rhetoric – cos I could “move Fiji forward” on my own for half the price those assholes are charging).
Shame she (Shaista) hasn’t put the “peace-pipe” down long enough to breath a little oxygen and realise her illogic might equally be used to fuck over her concept of reality.
March 3, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Tui Savu ..U the Man ..!
March 3, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Actually I should put it more simply. Frank et al have actually rendered the entire concept of LEGITIMACY defunct. As such, they have no claim to anything other than anarchy.
March 3, 2008 at 6:09 pm
AMEN Tim …Preach it brother… but sorry to say they cant define their various concepts but I will have a go at it for U … LOL ..!!
IGs concepts …
On sovereignty – This is our newfound acquisiton .. land, sea, wealth and people.. We silence any critics with our outdated heavily polished guns carried by our either malnourished or obese soldiers.
Citizens – Silenced at all time. We will track down those that are making noises and resist conforming to our rule. We choose what job you have and can take you away from your civil job at any time demoting and even sending you home for good. We dont answer to any queries. We are the BE all and End All. We choose the CEO of govt posting and partly govt shared comp. If you can wipe our azz nicely and properly you could lend a top job. If you give blow jobs you are guaranteed top spot.
Taxpayers – Ordinary citizens ( our slaves) pay tax and file for tax return. Please refer to last paragraph ( i;e if you can wipe azz well and blow the boys away) You will be exempt from disclosing any shonty dealings. Take note of Sahib Chodo… hes got money stuffed up his azz he doesnt have to tell Fiji. Now that Fiji is aware, Chodo still goes about his financial business.
IG Vision Statement on Fiji … ‘Fiji the Way the world should Be ‘
March 3, 2008 at 6:26 pm
“Freedom Bloggers”
Hey fisherman! Hey soldier! Hey farmer!
Your all victims of Bainimarama
You don’t believe what he thinks
His meglomania just stinks
But say nothing cos you know he can harm ya!
But you must be brave & you must be stout
& you must find the guts to really shout out
About the wrongness of one-man rule
Then all Viti will know
You might be a loud so-and-so
But at least your nobody’s fool!
So get on your Mac
& send out the word
Cos if we all hit back
& really get on the attack
Then the world will see his absurd
March 3, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Yes Berenaliva
I can feel your rising fever!!!
It’s time to accelerate our writing
and send messages to our allies
This idiots gotta go
and his cronies too galore…
lets not forget their wives
and their intelligence impaired childs.
March 3, 2008 at 8:46 pm
They never fail to amaze and disgust me, these idiots in the ig. For instance the Police will be investigating comment by Tui Namosi that the bipolar is wrong in taking up the post of chair of GCC as being inciteful. Inciteful???? Nothing could be more childish and absurd. The vore must have real thin skin that any little remark gets him worked up and distressed and like a spoilt brat that he is throws up a tantrum and becomes a cry baby.. The complaint about Tui Namosi was lodged by the vore himself. And his remark about press freedom – “there is freedom of the press but there is a limit” So what kind of “freedom” is he talking about. Limiting freedom can have a vague and blurry line.
March 3, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Now lets see how they argue themselves out of this one…I mean the coup apologist and coup supporters like Praveen.
The 2006 coup was planned since 2000 coup, planned by the FLP and executed by their new student in the Pig and his piglets.
Choro’s word ….bring it on….for the investigation of his tax evasion is like a mother fox telling his boyfried fox to investigate who stole and ate the neighbours sheep.
The boyfriend fox got everything to loose if investigating.
In typical Choro fashion he will call everybody a liar even if we caught him red handed and the sueing is to cover his backside and to give him some face saving.
March 3, 2008 at 10:01 pm
@Tui Savu – Read your piece with great interest and wanted to commend to your attention John Samy’s latest press release stating the allocated budget of $2.4M (fact check?) for the NCBBF Secretariat will not be sufficient. Nah – yah think? After reading that bit I must admit to having a fuck-me-dead moment.
Who in Fiji, in their right mind, does NOT know the NCBBF is a gravy train for coup supporters?
Have not heard from Cassandra lately but I for one would be very interested in the current budget allocation for the NCBBF as opposed to the forward expenditure projections already stated in the budget document.
If the IG is pleading poor, not paying acting allowances to civil servants etc., where will they get the money to continue funding their pet project?
A part of Samy’s press release I would have found funny if it wasn’t so pathetic is his exhortation for all of us in Fiji to dig deep in our hearts and get behind the reconciliation effort. What part of the Siwatibau/Beddoes statement did he not understand?
Am not very familliar with kinship ties in Lau, but is there any truth to the rumour that Jiko Luveni, new Minister for Health is sister to Jokapeci Koroi and the new Agro Marketing CEO Ilaisa Cavu (appointed over the serving Brown guy) is the son of Jokapeci Koroi’s brother? Just a little nepotism if it were true!!!
March 3, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Oh about the Arch Bishop Mataca, a high position in the Church does not mean he is clean, he is being paid by the devil himself… Choro.
It reminds me of the Bible text John 12:1-6, where Judas was so distressed when he saw Mary pour a very expensive perfumed oil on Jesus feet and wiped it with her hair.
His word was…”Why was this fragrant oil not sold for 300 denaril and given to the poor”…sounds so Christian and full of love for the poor.
Like us in Fiji for those who are not familiar with Choro’s cunningness, we would fall for his Clean up Corruption campaign (oops exposed!!), good governance (oopps exposed!!), democracy (oopps that has been exposed!!!!), Businesses pay your tax (oopps that has also being exposed!!!), non racism (oopps that has also being exposed!!!), united Fiji the way the world should (NOT) be.
Judas MOTIVES is similar to Choros MOTIVES, they both want the money for themselves. Judas was the treasurer of the disciples, he keeps the money box and his finger is always in the till emptying it. He wanted the oil to be sold and given to the poor…meaning it will go into their money box first and before it reaches the poor it will be in his pocket.
Similarly all Choros motives has been exposed by his own actions, his last FACE SAVING STRAW is to try and sue for $1 million.
March 3, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I can’t hold any respect for a man who has gone along with an illegal regime , the same thing happened in Italy in world war 11 . Haven’t the Catholic church learnt from their past , and I’m a Catholic myself ! This regime is headed by an evil , opportunistic bully and is supported by like minded people , male and female , Christian , Moslem and Hindu . Anyone who supports this regime , deserves no reverence from me nor anyone else !
March 3, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Totally agree with Tui on this and hats off to the principled ones for stepping down from the NCBBF.
How can anyone support anything this I.G. does or says when just about everything they say or do is a LIE.
Even some of their positive achievements will forever be masked by this.
Reconciliation cannot be forced on people and while the NCBBF is structured on its current precepts, it will never be a win win situation and only serve to advance the interests of the coup makers.
March 4, 2008 at 7:18 am
E dua na ivola totoka nei Graham Davis ena times nikua SV . E tunaki shitster kei ‘chips on both shoulders’ anthony vinaka!
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Wrong man for wrong job
Graham Davis
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
A police riot squad moves in to break up a procession of strikers at the corner of Princes and Margaret Streets. James Anthony was one of the key figures behind the oil workers strike in 1959+ Enlarge this image
A police riot squad moves in to break up a procession of strikers at the corner of Princes and Margaret Streets. James Anthony was one of the key figures behind the oil workers strike in 1959
There’s a new joke doing the rounds about the man at the centre of the storm over his report on the state of the Fiji media.
“You know, Shaista’s right, James Anthony is balanced”, the gag goes. “He’s got a chip on both shoulders!”
As they say, many a true word spoken in jest.
Because anyone who reads the report James Anthony has done for the Fiji Human Rights Commission can see the chips on both shoulders glaring from far too many pages for comfort.
One is an obsession with race, notably his evident distaste for the “white man” who he blames for many of the Fiji media’s shortcomings.
The other is his perverse desire to throttle whatever independence the nation’s media still has and give the present interim government even more control over the information ordinary people get from their radio, television and newspapers.
How odd that a man who presumably defends the principle of academic freedom should be so opposed to media freedom.
And how scandalous that such a document should emerge from the one public body specifically charged with the defence of the rights of all Fiji citizens.
For its passivity in the face of repeated human rights abuses, many people already regard the Fiji Human Rights Commission as an oxymoronic, Orwellian joke.
Now it’s compounded the offence by officially endorsing a report that reeks of racism and would, if implemented by the regime, see journalists charged with sedition for defending the public’s right to know.
For that endorsement a day after the shameful deportation, in defiance of a court order, of Fiji Sun publisher Russell Hunter, the Commission’s director, Shaista Shameem, deserves the strongest condemnation. She claimed the two events were purely coincidental.
But the fact remains that Dr Shameem showed an appalling lack of judgement when she appointed James Anthony to conduct his inquiry in the first place.
Never mind his glaring lack of media experience, which would have disqualified him from conducting such a sensitive exercise anywhere else.
Even a cursory review of Anthony’s career should have sounded alarm bells about his appropriateness for the task.
This is a man with a long history of injudicious behaviour and even more injudicious pronouncements, as those who’ve witnessed his colourful invective on Fiji Times blogs can easily attest.
As a youthful trade union activist, he was a prime instigator, with Apisai Tora, of an oil workers strike that boiled over into riots in Suva in December, 1959.
The anger was directed at Europeans, with passing cars stoned and businesses like Burns Philp, Morris Hedstrom’s and Carpenters attacked and looted.
Those riots were the most violent incidents in Suva’s history until the anti Indian violence and street rioting that accompanied the coups of 1987 and 2000.
In 1987, when the deposed Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra held a news conference in Washington, it was reportedly hijacked by James Anthony.
To the embarrassment of Dr Bavadra, Anthony made an extraordinary claim that the American Central Intelligence Agency was behind the 1987 coup.
He even claimed that Americans were with Sitiveni Rabuka when he stormed the parliamentary chamber, a huge surprise to Rabuka himself let alone the many others present on that fateful May day.
He also claimed the Taukei Movement had been given $US 200,000 by an official in the US embassy in Suva, Bill Paupe, for its campaign of agitation against the Bavadra Government.
Anthony’s old comrade, Apisai Tora, described this as an “outrageous lie” but it didn’t stop James Anthony from branding the respected Paupe a “barefoot Ollie North” after the bagman in the Iran contra scandal of the 1980s.
It emerged later that Anthony was biting the hand he’d once hoped would feed him.
The late Sir Len Usher, in his book Letters from Fiji, details how Bill Paupe had turned down Anthony’s application for an American Development Aid grant.
Now, surely if you’re going to do an official report into the media financed by the long suffering taxpayer, a history of getting the facts right yourself ought to be the minimum requirement.
Isn’t this one of the repeated failings of local journalists the good doctor rails against in his report?
Unfortunately, practicing what he preaches doesn’t seem to be James Anthony’s strongest point.
But his real crime is far more serious and goes to the heart of his suitability for conducting a supposedly “independent” inquiry of any kind in Fiji.
This is his blatant obsession with race.
It’s an issue that’s always just below the surface in Fiji but one that Dr Anthony and Shameem have jointly summoned from the murky depths, cloaked in the respectability their positions give them.
Make no mistake.
Whatever the many other failings of this report, the un-attributed claims and allegations, its basic ignorance or misunderstanding of normal media practice, its James Anthony’s racial bias that’s most notable and disturbing.
The existing Media Council is a “white man’s club”, eight or nine “white men” control Fiji’s media, distort media coverage to suit their business and political agendas and thwart the ambitions of local journalists.
The Fiji media, Anthony concludes, is no place for white men and their work permits should be cancelled.
Anthony is particularly harsh on the Media Council’s chairman, Daryl Tarte, whose lifetime of service to the industry and the country is trashed.
But as well as his pejorative references to the “white man”, Anthony vents his disdain for anyone or anything associated with foreign business interests.
Never mind the interdependence of the global economy and the fact that foreign investment is vital to Fiji’s success.
No, for James Anthony, white men are invariably exploiters who essentially belong elsewhere and should be tolerated in the Pacific only under the most stringent conditions.
Surely a strange view for a non-indigenous Pacific islander to hold.
The anti-capitalist part of the tirade can be expected from someone with a lifetime of trade union activism behind him and the cosy sinecure of academia to help him pay his bills.
But where did James Anthony learn to hate the white man so much?
With his background as a part Indo- Fijian, you might think he’d be more understanding of a minority position.
But Anthony seems to share a strong anti European streak with many leftist, trade union aligned Indo-Fijians currently enjoying the indulgence of the interim government.
Understandably, some of this can be traced back to the independence struggle against the British in India, the spirit of which took root in those agitating for Fiji independence in the 1950s and 60s.
One of these, of course, was James Anthony.
Yet having got what he wanted, he continues, nearly 40 years on, to blame the country’s problems on neo-colonialism and the white man.
We’ve all seen the furore that erupts when Fijian nationalist extremists say Indo-Fijians really belong back in India.
Yet in a monumental case of double standards, Fiji Europeans are seemingly regarded as fair game.
Suddenly, many Fiji Europeans are feeling uncomfortable, even threatened.
In his formal response to the Anthony report, William Parkinson, the head of Communications Fiji Limited, summed up a general view when he accused James Anthony of displaying “naked, racist hatred”.
“As a member of a minority community in Fiji, I am very concerned at the manner in which the European community has been referred to in this report and the way in which senior members of our community have been maligned in a racist and vicious manner. I find it incredible that the FHRC would put their name to a document that exhibits this racist tone particularly at a time when the FHRC and the interim government is vigorously promoting multiculturalism and an end to racial division in public life”.
Driving such sentiment is an uncomfortable suspicion.
In 21st century Fiji, is it now to be a case of Fiji for the Taukei, the Indians, the Chinese, the Kailoma, the Rotumans, the Banabans and the Kaisolomoni, but not the Kaivalagi? That’s the implication, at least, of the Human Rights Commission’s official endorsement of such a racially charged document.
James Anthony’s attitudes are all the more puzzling considering his own European background.
He’s a direct descendent of one of the pillars of British colonial rule, the lawyer, Legislative Councillor and former mayor of Suva, Sir Henry Scott.
Anthony owes his lineage to a “liaison” between Sir Henry Scott and James Anthony’s grandmother, an Indian domestic staff member named Minnie employed in the rambling Scott mansion at Flagstaff.
The product of that relationship, while yet to be confirmed by DNA testing, was Anthony’s mother, Angelina.
So as things stand, Sir Henry Scott was James Anthony’s grandfather, making him also closely related to all the other Scotts who’ve been prominent in Fiji’s national life.
They include Sir Henry’s equally famous son, Sir Maurice Scott, plus the next generation, the murdered Fiji Red Cross director John Scott and his bother, Owen, the New Zealand resident author who’s recorded the family’s colourful history in his book Deep Beyond the Reef.
The pity is that whatever bugs him, he should never have been given an official platform by Shaista Shameem to vent his prejudices when so much is at stake for Fiji.
And the tragedy is that his flawed recommendations should now be before a military government more eager than ever to shoot the messenger rather than address its own shortcomings.
Yes, the Fiji media could unquestionably be improved and local journalists be given better training.
But forget about the tevoro unmasked with great fanfare in the Anthony Report, the ” white men” who allegedly control what we all see and read in Fiji.
The real threat to freedom of information comes from the ideas of James Anthony contained in his report and endorsed by Shaista Shameem.
- Graham Davis is a Fiji born journalist who’s a principal in the Australian company Grubstreet Media.
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March 4, 2008 at 7:56 am
Tui wrote, Bainimarama’s refusal to stand Mahendra Chaudary down pending an investigation into tax evasion…..”
Tui, there is no investigation, Victor Lal & company would like to see one, and Chaud has requested FB to start a investigation if if so chooses, FIRCA does nto have a investigation going, that file is closed.
On the deportation of the Russell – maybe there should be some discussion on the allegation that the media had its own agenda on Chaudary. We all know what Victor Lal’s relationship was is Chaudary, Russell also had a run with the Chaudary government when they refused him his work permit, and the reason behind that refusal.
So you see, there is always more than one side to the story.
Mataca and the Catholic church – they have their ties to the Mara clan and they are also close to the FLP. Generally, we should keep the church out of politics, but we already have the precedent in the Methodist Church.
March 4, 2008 at 10:21 am
Yeah but everytime they were harping on the separation of church and state whenever a Methodist minister does as much as make a political comment but now Mataca and Yabaki are in the thick of things and there is hardly a whimper.
That’s what I can’t stand about this IG. The hyprocrisy! Whatever is wrong with others becomes right when they do it.
March 4, 2008 at 12:05 pm
From a reliable source, one of the beneficiaries of this coup, The University of Fiji, is not officially recognised. The Uni. was registered under a company, so it did not follow the proper procedure, where it has to have a charter like the USP. So how can govt. allocate $1.76m to this Uni.????
Well it’s a plan among the Chaudry, the Pathik (pathetic), Chandra, Lala’s to push for this Uni. of India !!!! This is what is done in India & Sri Lanka….countries full of corruption & shit!!!
March 4, 2008 at 12:08 pm
You’re spot on IslandBoy, the connection between Jiko, Jokapeci & Ilaisa.
March 4, 2008 at 9:36 pm
@ Lau Lass – so much for the clean up. I was wondering what J.Koroi got for all her support to MPC, apart from the Board appointments and NCBBF allowances. The FLP’s good governance and accountability policies – just a truckload of fresh air!
March 4, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Budhau wants an investigation on Victor Lal’s relationship with Chaudhry – this chap was a great trumpeeter of Mahend for several years – his book about the 1987 coups Fiji: Coups in Paradise – Race, Politics and Military Intervention is supportive of Chaudhry and hi struggle for Indo-Fijian rights. His columns from 1999 to 2005 are all favourable to Mahen in the Fiji Sun and Fiji Daliy Post. It was only when he turned his pen to Mahen and began asking about money and tax issues that Victor Lal suddenly has been portrayed as anti-Indian. Budhau – or Budhoo – which you sound- ask yourself why Victor Lal who was a member of the Movement for Decocracy in Fiji going around campaigning for Mahend’s right to be re-appointed PM after the 2000 coup has gone against him – it was when Victor Lal found out that Mahen had been hiding all the mones in his private bank accounts in Australia which were collected for the Indo-Fijian families after the coup. I am sure Victor Lal is yet to ask about the mones they must have given to Mahen from the London collections – it must have run into thousands of dollars – one British pound is nearly four Fijian dollars – why are we not asking Mahen to come out with the truth – why do people like Victor Lal and others have to come out with the truth – Budhau – wake up – Mahen will be gone soon – Victor Lal cant have made those revelations without having solid evidence on a man who runs to court demanding for $1billion – Budhau ask Mahen to tell us where, how, and who gave him $2million in India – he had been hiding that money for the last eight years until Victor Lal found out
March 5, 2008 at 7:04 am
FijiIntelligence,
I agree with some of what you wrote. This Victor Lal was a Chaudary fan for most of this time. It wasn’t becuase of the discovery of money discrepancy that made Victor Lal turn on Chaudary.
If you look at the history of these Indian who have left FLP, those who supported Chaudary and had a falling apart and those int he Labour movement who could nto work with Chaudary. They are all very intense in their feelings towards Chaudary – and all of them would do almost anything to bring down Chaudary.
Victor Lal is one of them – he had a falling apart with Chaudary – maybe Chaudary did not make Lal an advisor or something with the “international” reputation that Lal has. So Victor Lal, former journalist with a good ability to write, got these FIRCA paper, very likely from some other inndo in FIRCA that had the same feeling for Chaudary – and there he went.
BTW – may other point was that this Lal guy, has not written much about the IG and the coup – his goal is to bring down Chaudary – I won’t be surprised if support most of the goals of this IG and the coup.
You wrote, “Victor Lal suddenly has been portrayed” – I do not think Lal is anti-Indian. That is why I was trying to tell you guys that the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend – you guys should watch out for this guy.
March 5, 2008 at 8:41 am
..hey can anyone vaqaqai Vore on the money paid 2 him in 99 by mara..i think its abt 000′nd of $’s …isa ca gona ni kubu tiko vei Batibasaga ya…relating 2 the past..tevoro….rebuke U..
March 5, 2008 at 9:14 am
Nakoro,
your tag name is very true of your upbringing, your background, your selfishness and your state of mind. Unfortunately I have seen many Fijians (including Indo-Fijians) throughout this blog who use profanity to get attention; its only a pity that a mind will bring about nothing much. If you have a question to ask this Vore’ then why dont you confront him?…In PERSON? I have spoken to him on a number of occassions disagreing with him on many things, why dont you do the same. You might be suprised at the response.
March 5, 2008 at 1:27 pm
As we have individuals of principles such as beddoes and Mrs. Siwatibau getting off the band-wagon which to some was a light at the end of the tunnel, the illegal foreiugn Afairs Minister is talking about sending people as our representatives in the UK, US and Malaysia.
As Tim says above; That is that if one is to “coup” a duly elected government (pardon the elevation of the word coup to a verb), then one is actually “couping” ALL the institutions of state that the (duly ELECTED) government represents.
They are fucking over sovereignty
The “will of the people”
The judiciary
The adinistrative arm
AND ALL.
I do not understand when the british HC says that UK does not recognise the interim regime, understandably due to the way they got into power, while at the same time recognising individuals that are selelected by the IG as representatives of the people of Fiji.
How can that be? The people of Fiji would like to elect a gvernment who will act on their behalf and in their best interest to identify people who will speak on their behlaf while in foreign land.
I believe we, as a people, write to the governments of the above country and let them know of our positions because the seection are bveing made by people who “couped” our democratically elected government.
March 5, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Praveen must be a victim of the Catholic sex/molestation scandal…one of the few who enjoyed it……..
March 5, 2008 at 6:48 pm
The tunes they are a’changin (apologies to Bob Dylan)
I couldn’t help but take delight in the article by Graham Davis yesterday in the Fiji Times. It seems he can turn the other way when he sees democracy raped but the threat that the media will be muzzled is too much for him.
Some of us arrived at the point where he is now on 6 December 2006, but it’s good to see that he has finally started to see the light, I don’t want to seem a bitch but I have to drag out some of his words from the past and replay them now.
“many would prefer Bainimarama to seize power and return it to civilian hands when the country is stabilised. Jerry Rawlings did it in
Ghana, Olusegun Obasanjo did it in Nigeria: both were military men who subsequently became popularly elected civilian leaders.”
In saying this, Davis seems to have forgotten that Qarase was a twice popularly elected leader. He is also ignoring the obvious reality that Qarase would be re-elected if he stood again now. King Bai has said
as much himself. He has also forgotten the fact that Qarase honoured the spirit as well as the letter of the constitution after winning in 2006 by inviting the Fiji Labour Party to join the cabinet in a serious sharing of power.
Davis attributed Dictator Bai’s threats of a coup to his commitment to multiracialism. “Bainimarama is a committed multiracialist who subscribes to the vision of Fiji’s founding father, Ratu Kamisese
Mara.” Somehow Davis has put out of his mind the issue of the murder rap hanging over the Commodore’s head. While Davis is incensed over the participation in the Qarase government of people said to be ‘implicated’ in the Speight putsch, he ignored the fact that Frank was more than implicated in the deaths of the CRW soldiers beaten to death in 2000.
The legitimacy he attributed to King Bai is truly amazing: “he’ll only be taking back what he gave Qarase when he invited him to form a government after locking up Speight in 2000″. Clearly he has
forgotten two elections held since then. But he is right in one respect, Qarase did not choose himself as Interim PM in 2000.
if it has taken until now for the scales to fall from his eyes, that’s alright. Better late than never. But Graham Davis should reflect on the fact that others got there ahead of him. In an article headed ‘Flirt with the rule of law at your peril”, Imrana Jalal (November 30, 2006)
gave her view of the article by Davis. In her view it is
“unsophisticated, is an irresponsible piece of journalism, particularly at this time of crisis, is deeply flawed from a legal perspective and is extremely dangerous for those of us trying to buiid a democracy
based on the rule of law.”
March 5, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Budhau is another person who cannot see Choro as doing anything wrong even when it slaps him/her on the face.
We only respect one type or kind of person Budhau, i.e. any person who does not change like shifting shadows, today one thing tomorrow change spots and does the opposite.
For a very long time Choro has been the champion of democracy…now he is the trodder of the same democracy. Only people who defended democracy from 1987, 2000 and still defending democracy, human rights etc… till today are the true champion and thats the kind of people we in this blog site loves and will support.
And one of that is Victor Lal and not any FLP supporter or member.
To Robert Grace…we have seen and heard enough of crap from your Hero the PUAKA to make our own conclusion. From reporters who asked him questions and the shit that comes out is very supprising initially BUT not anymore, we expect only shit and stench to come out from his mouth, it is unbelievable.
March 7, 2008 at 1:57 pm
the truth is .whatever support the likes of MC & IGhad with foreign correspondence , minus Nikhil Singh & Jim Anthony, went packing on the same flight as Russell Hunter, thats the reality…They had far better chances of negative publicity by just biting the Fiji Sun bullet rather then face the onslaught from the Sydney Morning Herald & the foreign media…talk about about out of the frying pan into the fire…Vinaka