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2 November 2000 Mutiny: Waqavonovono to cassava patch dasher Frank Bainimarama: "Honor the loyalists but answer for your alleged crimes" 

2/11/2015

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 Briefinfg Paper - CRW Murder Investigation conclusions to former Police Commissioner Andrew Hughes; Bainimarama and other officers were facing murder charges so what did they do - carried out 2006 coup! With blood on their hands, and guns at their disposal, they are ruling Fiji through ballot box after rigging election results in the 2014 election!

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The soldier they were brutally beating up on Bainimarama's orders and later killed him was Selesitino Kalounivale
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HONOUR THE LOYALISTS BUT ANSWER FOR YOUR ALLEGED CRIMES

"I pass on this opinion piece as a reminder of the inequalities and unfair standards applied to the families and victims of the 2000 Mutiny because they were members of the CRW Unit. This is not on behalf of any political party but as a citizen of Fiji who is concerned."

02/11/15

The Republic of Fiji Military Forces this morning held a memorial service for loyalist soldiers who died in the attempted mutiny of November 2nd, 2000.

They were Private Temo Veilewai, Private Osea Rokosinavosa and Private Simione Rawaileba.

In attendance were Prime Minister and the then military commander Voreqe Bainimarama and current Acting Commander, Commodore Viliame Naupoto.

After an intense highly published process, on November 15, 2000, a court martial in Fiji found 15 soldiers, including an army captain, guilty of involvement in a mutiny at Queen Elizabeth Barracks in November 2000. The three soldiers who were remembered today deserve the highest of honors for standing their ground and defending the Queen Elizabeth Barracks.

I also want to take the time to remember the lives of the CRW Soldiers who also lost their lives in the power struggle that engulfed Fiji 2000. I especially hope that we as a nation can discuss what happened to CRW Men, especially those that were not part of the mutiny but ended up been beaten and dead.

One such story that should be told is that of, Salasitino Kalounivale. While awarding his widow $24,000 under the Workers Compensation Act against the Fiji Military Forces in April 2006, the then Resident Magistrate Ajmal Gulab Khan outlined the following undisputed basic facts. Kalounivale died on 3rd of November 2000 from injuries received to his body.

In Kalounivale hearing, the court was told that after he was picked up, Selesitino had a 30-minute meeting with Bainimarama and was then taken to the local police station on the Commander's orders. After 4pm that day Kalounivale was seen taken out of CPS along Pratt Street in an army van by 4-5 soldiers. He was on floor of the van and the bystanders (witness 1 and 2) could hear swearing,

hitting with rifle butts and kicking at the back of the tray. Around midnight on 2/11/000 he was taken to the mortuary at CWM Hospital.

Frank Bainimarama has repeatedly denied any responsibility for the deaths of Selesitano Kalounivale, Jone Davui, Epineri Bainimoli and Lagani Rokowaqa. "I never gave any orders to kill," he said in 2003. However, in the weeks before the coup Bainimarama was under increasing pressure over the murders. Police probes and court actions by victims' families and surviving soldiers could have seen him suspended, forced to give evidence about the killings, and potentially facing charges.

Among Bainimarama's increasingly peremptory demands to the Qarase government in 2006 was the shutting down of the police investigation into the CRW murders and the removal of Fiji's Police Commissioner, Andrew Hughes. The day after the coup, Dec. 7, Bainimarama sacked Hughes. On the Dec. 8, his soldiers took in for questioning six former CRW soldiers, alleging that they could foment civil unrest.

Before the 2000 Coup, Bainimarama and the military had been fighting four separate legal actions. Three were lodged by former CRW soldiers who survived beatings in 2000. The fourth was a compensation claim by Ana Kalounivale, who successfully sued the Commander and the government for worker's compensation over her husband's death.

Now that we are purported to be in a Democracy under the so-called fairest of all constitutions, I wonder if the time is right to ask some pertinent questions of the Bainimarama regime:

1. What has happened to the cases of these CRW men?
2. Can they re-open the police files and start investigations into the supposed involvement of the Prime Minister in the orders to torture and murder members of his Military Forces?
3. Was self-preservation the reason for the 2000 Coup?
4. Can a Truth Peace and Reconciliation Commission be instituted to hear the experiences and concerns of torture victims and families and possible remedies sought as described in Section 5 of the Immunity Decree 2010.

Peter Waqavonovono

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/bloody-2-november-2000-the-day-bainimarama-wanted-mutinous-soldiers-punished-some-innocent-thirteen-years-ago-kicked-to-death-police-wanted-to-question-him-before-coup

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Land force Commander Colonel Sitiveni Qiliho says the RFMF will never forget the three soldiers who were shot at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks: “Every year since 2000 on November 2nd, we come together and remember our fallen comrades, our loyal soldiers, who fell as a result of greedy people which unfortunately had Chiefs and failed politicians who influenced the way things went on that fateful morning on November 2nd.”

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From Fijileaks Archives:

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Fijileaks: Aiyaz Khaiyum and Frank Bainimarama's CORRUPTION in Motion - Naupoto stands as FFP election candidate, gets 611 VOTES under D'Hondt Election System, and on losing returns to lead RFMF as acting commander, and now says he will apply for the JOB; oh, yeah, the JOB is waiting for him, for he has two choices - to lead RFMF or enter Parliament in case one of FFP MP drops dead or resigns. He will take the JOB to escape the Board of Inquiry recommendation that he be charged for ordering the violent beatings of George Speight and his associates on their way to Nukulau Island. WELCOME TO CORRUPT FIJI!

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CRW soldier Selesitino Kalounivale was taken to Bainimarama at the Naval Base (where Bainimarama had fled during the mutiny; it had fallen on Pita Driti to ask his soldiers to wash up Bainimarama who had defecated in his pants while making the dash through the cassava patch when the firings had started at the barracks) who instructed his soldiers to take Kalounivale to Central Police Station. He was later taken out of CPS by soldiers and battered to death; Kalounivale had taken no part in the mutiny; he was home attending to his sick child on mutiny day

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14 Comments
Dekho
2/11/2015 10:05:51 am

Thank you Fijileaks for the reminder of the crimes of Frank Bainimarama the brutal dictator of Fiji and his henchmen, lest we forget.
That we must not do whatever the lapse of time.

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Welcome Home
2/11/2015 11:18:43 am

It is most important today of all days - "All Souls Day 2015" that it be widely understood that we had written to former Police Commissioner Andrew Hughes by email asking that PM Laisenia Qarase arrange a Truth and Reonciliation Commission to permit Fijians the freedom to air grievances with regard to the events of 2000 Attempted coup and mutiny. A reply was subsequently received from Mr Hughes that his written approach had not received the courtesy of a reply. 'We' refers to a nominated and appointed member of the then SWG9 Government Planning Committee for Justice, Law and Order of two years' standing (entirely unremunerated including no per diems), and chairperson of Crimestoppers Western Division (also entirely unremunerated during ten years). Thus a deduction is made: pro bono service is of little benefit to the public interest in Fiji. Indeed, it is counter-productive. Make of this what you will.

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Charlie Charlie
2/11/2015 12:26:33 pm

I have no sympathy for the CRW soldiers or any other screw heads like pita waqavonovono who changes color and tune at every whimp. If bainimarama is a demon, these CRW solders were the king of demons. All those that want to bring misery on other peoples lives are disgusting and deserve no sympathy nor any support. It's good for the well being of the majority of the Fijian people that these CRW soldiers were stopped. It would have otherwise been a havoc and myhem for many people in Fiji.

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Widow
2/11/2015 12:40:51 pm

Charlie Charlie

You should be the one to be stopped in your tracks

My husband was killed for being a member of CWR, which was an arm of the military.

As Police Investigations had found, these CWR killed on Bainimarama's orders were not part of the mutiny at the barracks

Its like rounding up every FFP voter and beating or killing them just because a few like Aiyaz Khaiyum have been lying, cheating and robbing Fiji.

Please get that into your head!

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Charlie Charlie
2/11/2015 10:24:37 pm

@widow, sorry but if Shane Stevens is to be believed, then every CRW soldier was part of the mutiny plan and the secondary plan of killing indo-Fijians. As I said before, every person that brings misery for another is disgusting and I have no sympathy or apologies for them. That includes bainimarama and his henchmen. Rabuka, speight, bainimarama, CRW and all coup supporters are all demons and filth of this world. Evil deserves no sympathy and justice. It only needs condemnation and punishment. Period

Vili
3/11/2015 09:05:09 pm

The CRW who were killed may not have been part of the mutiny at the barracks. But they were very much of an equally destructive action in the takeover of Fiji Government and the trashing of parliament which they left strewn with used condoms and other disgusting rubbish.

They behaved like pests and the 'loyalists' soldiers who defeated them treated them as such.

King Rat
4/11/2015 08:41:17 pm

Oi...Widow...how can you equate the actions of those thugs in the CRW who raped and murdered, with those innocent law-abiding citizens who exercised their democratic right by voting for the party they believed in?

You cannot compare the two. Voters of the FFP are not criminals like those vermin in the CRW who ultimately got what they deserved.

Please get that into your head!

Maibeka Vuramaibulu link
3/11/2015 12:22:21 am

Charlie Charlie.

You are as evil as the dictator. Masi polo type I suppose. Sa rauta mada.

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Rustum
3/11/2015 06:36:05 am

Cool it guys. Charlie Charlie has a POINT. Let's not be too emotive about it. It is not Charlie Charlie's fault about widow's widowness.

Ordinary people like me don't even know what CRW stands for? Why was it made?, Who made it? For what purpose? - Why were and on whose orders were CRW at Parliament in 2000, doing a COUP?? Was it Bainimarama's Order? Was not Bainimarama aware of CRW's existence? Is there something similar to CRW now? And if the purpose of CRW was, as Charlie Charlie says, was to ultimately to kill Indians - then that is EVIL - no doubt.

Secondly, as the Widow rightly points out, those who were NOT at the barracks during mutiny and brought in and KILLED later - were MURDERED - in any manner of analysis. So we are all in the same page, aren't we?

Welcome Home
2/11/2015 01:43:55 pm

It has often been said that widows have no standing nor respect in Fiji. We should therefore be little surprised that shameful comment is exhibited concerning such deadly events and their far reaching consequences. Never underestimate the strength of widows nor their moral courage in seeking redress.

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Deeds of Mutiny
2/11/2015 09:21:18 pm

Mutiny should never be condoned, not than and not know. It would have been catastrophic had it succeeded,they would have trampled the nation in a similar fashion Suva was burnt.

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rajend naidu
2/11/2015 09:26:11 pm

Editor,
What Dr Tony Stewart says in his letter ' Australia cannot work outside law when dealing with asylum seekers ' ( Canberra Times 2/11 ) has relevance for the Fijian State and the way it has conducted itself against CWR renegade soldiers and others including pro- democracy activists .
Dr Stewart write :
" As an ex-policeman Peter Dutton ( now Immigration minister ) should be aware of the rule of law.The law is the law is the law: it is what makes our democracy a democracy. In theory, no one is above the law,that includes the government. ( the same is true for Fiji ).
The Amnesty report By Hook and By Crook : Australia's Abuse of Asylum Seekers At Sea is an evidence based analysis of a crime. It is not bullying advocacy. Amnesty has an excellent worldwide reputation for honest research and telling the truth as a means of combating repressive regimes. ( Fijileaks does the same and that is why the Fijian State finds it unpalatable and attempts to discredit it ).
Australia can have a policy to deter asylum seekers but IT MUST WORK WITHIN THE RULE OF LAW ( my emphasis ). The problem with secrecy over transparency is that things do leak ( Fijileaks ! ), pressure builds up and eventuLly the scandal explodes in a way that is much worse than it it were not covered up. It appears to me that the Australian government, in one way or another, is guilty of a crime at sea under international law. The Australian government is also complicit in covering up rape,murder and the abuse of children in facilities under its charge.THE SECRECY MUST GO AND THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS ACTIONS ( my emphasis ).
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu
Sydney

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Saamjha
2/11/2015 11:16:46 pm

The Bainimarama coup of 2006 had one motive and one motive alone: to save Bainimarama's backside, his " paachu" as the Indians would call it. The rogue military commander was headed for Naboro Maximum security prison when he did the coup with the support of his fellow military thugs. Every other motive he advanced to justify the coup is bullshit. The one thing that is not bullshit is the torture, murder and abuse of the Bainimarama regime which has been documented by Fijileaks and Amnesty International.

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rajend naidu
5/11/2015 06:42:36 am

Editor,
We learn from the article ' Activists protest against Sisi visit to London ' ( albawaba 4/11/15 ) that " Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El- Sisi's visit to London this week has caused activists to question Britain's self-professed commitment to human rights.
The UK government said that it needed to work with Egypt to combat terrorism and extremism, and described the visit as an " opportunity to hold open and Frank dialogue ".
But activists say Sisi is the leader of a regime ( installed after a military coup ) with countless human rights infringements to its name and should never have been invited.
One protest posture with Sisi's photo read Wanted War Criminal. One protestor said if this same protest was held in Sisi's Egypt they'd be thrown in jail.
This British invitation to a military coup leader is a reminder that it is political expediency and self interest that dictates political behaviour rather than an abiding commitment to human rights and democracy.
Remember the British treatment of Dr Timoci Bavadra who was ousted in a military coup in Fiji in 1987. It was not politically expedient for the British State to receive this ousted democratic leader with the dignity he deserved.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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