"BACK TO DEMOCRACY FOR FIJI"

You are invited to share and pen your ideas, views or opinions that will facilitate/assist our country back to democracy. All positive and/or negative ideas and comments to steer us back to the road of democracy are welcome.

Whichever way one looks at our current situation back home, democracy has been completely raped. The rape of democracy in Fiji is a virtual degradation of the populus of Fiji. Their human rights are being deprived:

1. the right to decide their government;
2. who they want to represent them;
3. their right to free assembly;
4. free protest;
5. free to organise into groups so that they can talk about what is pertinent to their daily lives;
6. protest on issues they do not agree with....with no fear of intimidation from anybody.

With this military regime in place, the concept of freedom per the Constitution is a total myth!

And, we, the people of Fiji need to come together and be vehement about our total disagreement with the military regime. So give us liberty or death! The reality of the issue is that democracy in Fiji has been raped...from top to bottom...left to right....inside and out and vice versa!

Here we have a military regime that talks about freedom to the people and yet the very same military regime randomly arrest people, torture them, inflict unnecessary harrassment and emotional stress to those that seem a threat to them. The military regime talks about racial unity.......the communal concept of togetherness and yet Fiji is far more racially divided today than it ever was.

The so-called advisors, viz-a-viz, John Samy, these are rejects from their adopted countries and yet they are being rewarded with exuberant amount(s) of money by these rogue military regime who have no idea what they are doing. Lying to the international community does not augur well with this interim government and yet the interim Prime Minister continuously talks with a forked tongue when addressing international issues. The ministers talk about internal securities as if Fiji is going to be invaded.

All around it is clearly seen that the economy is in tatters and the Constitution is just a useless piece of paper. The rule of law is as what the military regime wants it to be.

The above are just some of my views (from a pro-democracy viewpoint). But, do not let that deter you from penning your comments if you share otherwise.

So, let us come together and voice our views/comments, whether they be for or against the military regime and have a very healthy discussion here so that in the end we can factually understand what our role is, what we need to do and how we can come up with ideas to help restore democracy back in our beloved Fiji!

Please feel free to write what you like or dislike about the military regime. Be sincere and honest about your thoughts, without getting personal or spiteful.

Kindly note, this "topic" will expire as soon as we have an election.

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Permalink Reply by Kasanita Kamakorewa Lindell on January 20, 2010 at 2:26am: Vinaka Mr.Dugdale for your clarification on Anna wilson's post!

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Permalink Reply by Suliasi Daunitutu on January 20, 2010 at 2:52am: Marama Naita,

I am not quite sure that Mr. Dugdale is who he says he is, English lords are very particular with their writings. This one could not spell correctly to explain himself, it might be one of those make belief "Lords" in the Int. Cell at FMF Hq.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kasanita Kamakorewa Lindell on January 20, 2010 at 3:02am: Be that as it may turaga naita Suli, I am just responding accordingly in all honesty! :)

Oh boy, I sure hope you are correct in saying that because it would not be good if otherwise. I am now assuming you know this Anna Wilson enough to trust her sources, feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

Anyway, I do sincerely wish Mr.Dugdale and his family all the best and God's love and blessings upon them.

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Permalink Reply by Harry Dugdale on January 22, 2010 at 1:55am: Suliasi,
As you say in your first sentence I am Mr Dugdale, so possibly, as I am not an English Lord you can excuse the odd spelling mistake in a swiftly written response to a really silly post.

I am who I say I am if you are in doubt you can always ask me the name of first dog or some such question.

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Permalink Reply by Loruama Tawawili on January 12, 2010 at 3:15pm: Then who is going to provide mercy in its highest quality not quantity Sorby.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by WAX on January 12, 2010 at 2:15pm: @ suli..au sa via loloma toka vei kemudou..baleta ni o kemudou ga qo na sotia luva i sulu..dou lewe vica tikoga qo..dou sa mai form tiko me dou mai veivakacacani tale tiko..valoloma sara ga..isa o Loru..valoloma dou veiraici mada dou qai raica na ka dou mai cakava tiko..cava tale dou se via tukuna tiko ni sa tu mai na i benubenu na lawa makawa koya dou mai via vakaotia tale tiko kina nomudou i cegu..oileiii...kemuni na lewe ni vanua ni kakua ni lialia na veimurimuri..ni sega mada ni raica ni sa curumi ira tu mada ga na noda talatala na bula veilwakitaki..sa qai vakacava koya tiko ena mata i lawalawa qo..kerekere au vakamamasu dou yalo malumalumu mada..; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Suliasi Daunitutu on January 12, 2010 at 3:16pm: WAX.....WAX......WAX.... Keimami sega tiko ni yalo kaukauwa, keimami tukuna tiko yani eso na ka dina, na ka e vulici me rawa ni vinaka kina na noda vanua. Ke vakasama ga o nomu boso, me rogoca eso na ka e tukuni tiko ena blog qo me rawa ni bau vulica kina eso na ka.

E vica vei ira na nomudou turaga ni valu era vosa tiko era sa vakaraitaka sara tu ga na lecaika ni veiliutaki ka tu vei ratou. O Teleni, tekivu ga nona komisina, sa tekivu vata nona varogorogo ca taka na mataivalu. O Pio, sa vakaloloma na ka e tukuna tu ena pepa ena macawa sa oti.

O nomu boso, e vakasavi ira na mata ni NZ kei Australia, qo sa vaqara lesu tale toka mai, raica mada na vagonegonea e caka tu ya. O Ganilau, eda sa kila kece tu na veika e yalataka me baleti ira na dautei dovu e lasutaki, baleta ni sega ni kila na cava me cakava.

O vinakata me keimami yalomalumalumu me keimami qai liutaki tu mai vei ira eso na i liuliou va qo ?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Loruama Tawawili on January 12, 2010 at 3:22pm: The Fiji example – what lessons for Somare?
BY PAUL OATES
THE REAL issue concerning Australia and New Zealand over Fiji is one of legitimacy.

Without being freely elected in a transparent election process, any leader who assumes political power sets an example for the future and therefore a potential threat to other leaders.

Frank Bainimarama has not been elected, yet he is being accorded legitimacy by people like Michael Somare on the claimed rationale of Melanesian brotherhood.

Yet if Somare really thought about it, he might see that he could be supporting the seeds of his own undoing. What if the PNGDF decided that if it’s OK for Fiji, why not us? A scenario that’s almost surfaced a couple of times in the past.

The issues that led to the current impasse in Fiji should not be overlooked.

When the Colonial Sugar Refinery wanted workers to cut sugar cane, the local Fiji people weren't all that enthusiastic. Why should they be? They were perfectly happy before the sugar industry arrived and they owned their land.

The sugar industry then imported foreign workers from the Indian sub continent. Over the last century, Indian workers settled and raised their families as Indian Fijians. When the number of Indian Fijians reached numerical parity with ethnic Fijians, problems emerged.

The Indians were accused of dominating business. When an Indian Fijian was elected Prime Minister, the issue boiled over and Fiji has not been politically stable since.

In the neighbouring Solomon Islands, a similar situation existed. During World War II, the US imported labourers from the neighbouring island of Malaita to work on Guadalcanal. After the US juggernaut moved on, the Malaitans settled and eventually population pressures threatened the original Guadalcanal people.

To make matters more intense, expatriate Chinese business owners were seen as excluding the local people from business opportunities and the result is the uneasy situation that still prevails.

At the start of the civil unrest, the Chinese government paid for planeloads of Chinese expatriates to be airlifted out of the Solomons.

In Timor Leste, the Portuguese threw their hands in the air and allowed the Indonesians to take over what had never been Indonesian territory before. Suddenly the people were confronted with a culture and language they had not had to cope with and after 30 years of oppression, were offered a chance to form their own country, which they grasped with open hands.

The fact that Australia, as part of the UN initiative, allowed the Portuguese émigrés to take over and become the new task masters was a travesty of ignorance.

West Papua is another example where the UN, along with the US in its infinite wisdom, allowed the ethnic Papuan people to be taken over by a totally different culture. The resulting civil unrest has continued for 40 years.

Vanuatu has had an insurrection and, although short lived, it required the interference of foreign troops.

So can any democratically elected government and leader stand back and meekly accept a military takeover of a nearby country? At their own peril one might think, yet it doesn't seem to worry Michael Somare in the least.

Should he be concerned if illegal foreign workers pour into PNG and start small businesses?

One can't help wondering why a few hundred kiaps were such a problem for Somare at independence? But those kiaps simply obeyed their PNG masters and packed up and left when asked to.

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Permalink Reply by Loruama Tawawili on January 12, 2010 at 3:24pm: Methodist Church surpised with revelations
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Methodist Church Acting General Secretary Reverend Tevita Nawadra says he is surprised with the news that some Methodist Church Ministers have been spying for government.

Nawadra was reacting to Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama’s revelations yesterday that some church ministers are being paid by the Police Special Branch to act as informers for the Police and the Military

Reverend Nawadra told FBC news the church will be looking into the issue.

“We have being trying to talk with the Prime Minister and we have our system, we have our chaplains and we could have used that in order to talk about this issue. We have our own system in the church, ways of dealing with such issues when some of our ministers do happen to do such things.”

Commodore Bainimarama also told FBC News yesterday that there will be no Methodist Church Conference until 2014 as politics was still very much alive within the Methodists Church.

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Permalink Reply by Suliasi Daunitutu on January 12, 2010 at 3:51pm: Like I said Bro, he has condemned the SDL party, the other political parties, the pensioners, the diplomatic corp, the people, the church except his soldiers and the IIG.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Loruama Tawawili on January 12, 2010 at 3:18pm: Franks cruel vindictive money grab by decree. This is their lifetime savings.
January 13, 2010 at 7:13 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Fiji’s Pensioners Denied Benefits For Criticizing Government
1/(RTTNews) - Fiji’s pensioners who criticized the government are no more privileged to receive their retirement benefits.

He said the punitive measure may “change their mind to support the government in its endeavor to take Fiji forward.”Bainimarama, who is the country’s Prime Minister and armed forces chief, insists that elections can only be reinstated in 2014, as part of his “road-map.”

Since last April, Fiji is under emergency rule.

by RTT Staff Writer

Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who heads the tiny pacific nation’s interim military government, said Tuesday that it passed a decree to stop from this week all benefit payments to pensioners who criticized his junta.

Bainimarama, who seized power in a 2006 December coup, told the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation that he had hoped that all citizens would “work together to take the country to a new Fiji – unfortunately, many, including some pensioners, were still speaking against the government.”

Bainimarama said payments to dissenting pensioners were stopped as soon as the decree was issued.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by LOne rAnger aka StRYka on January 12, 2010 at 10:41pm: WAX na dina ena sega ni tabonaka rawa o voreqe kei ira nona i lawalawa. It will catchup with you in this life or next.; ▶ Reply to This