14 MAY will remain carved on the granite face of Fiji. On 14 May 1879, the British brought Indian indentured labourers to slavishly toil on Fiji's sugar, cotton and tea plantations. On 14 May 1987, Sitiveni Rabuka and Inoke Kubuabola executed Fiji's first coup, ending the Indo-Fijians march from plantation to politics to parliament. Professor Brij Vilash Lal has chronicled our painful coolie history and was part of the team that gave Fiji the 1997 Constitution of Fiji. The 1987 coups threw up a host of characters, among them AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM - The Master Bomb Maker of "Bakshi Street". While he is hiding behind IMMUNITY, which he does not have under the 1988 Immunity Decree (for he had fled to Australia), Professor Brij Lal has not only been indefinitely banned from his native Fiji but the current Police Commissioner SITIVENI QILIHO, then Fiji military strongman, beat him up, smashed up his glasses, and opened Professor Lal's mouth wide-open and despicably spat deep inside the throat as a form of humiliation, and told Professor Brij Lal that if he (Lal) did not take the next flight back to Australia, his (Lal's) family will come and collect his dead body from a morgue
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INOKE KUBUABOLA: Still hiding behind the 1987 COUP MASK:
