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TRUSTING HER WITH PUBLIC TRUST CHAIR. The PAP's failed candidate Parmesh Chand, now PS for Public Enterprises, appoints Liliana WARID as Executive Chair of FPTC. She notoriously called Indo-Fijians 'Vulagis'

21/2/2024

*WARID is already chair of the Public Trustee Board. So, they're looking for somebody to take the CEO position full time. Knowing how corrupt Fiji functions, they're not going to find someone and she's going to keep getting an extension. The CEO of Public Trustee gets $100,000 in salary

Warid had posted a racist statement online where she described Indo-Fijians as “Visitors - Vulagis*” who “were not going back anytime soon” and she also claimed in the same statement that indigenous Fijians were being marginalized.

From Fijileaks Archive, 19 May 2022

"I stand here today on the shoulders of those who have gone before me. Those that sacrificed and worked hard so that you and I could have better lives so that we could be better people and achieve greater things. My grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, and many others have built the foundation that I stand on today."
PAP Candidate Liliana Pareti Warid's Acceptance Speech

Fijileaks: Our Founding Editor-in-Chief, who knew her late grandfather JONATI MAVOA from the Alliance Party days (he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, Civil Aviation and Tourism; died in June 1985), and her uncle, the late ERONI MAVOA (her mother Olivia and Eroni are the daughter and son of Jonati Mavoa), was surprised to hear Liliana Pareti Warid wax lyrical about her party leader Sitiveni Rabuka in her acceptance speech.
* Sadly, only four years ago, he tried to fleece thousands of dollars from her uncle's widow, EMMALINE BIU MAVOA, claiming that she must be held responsible for paying as executor of her late husband's estate the outstanding loan. As expected, the Fiji High Court threw out his claim.
* Rabuka, in cross-examination agreed that Emmaline Biu Mavoa was neither involved in the transaction nor personally responsible for the debts of Eroni Mavoa. The Fiji High Court ruled the claim against her was misconceived and was declined.
*All the time, Rabuka was pleading poverty, claiming he was collecting and selling bottles to make a living.

Opposition Leader Inia Seruiratu has voiced allegations against the Coalition government claiming that recent appointments across all levels of governance are heavily politicized.

According to Seruiratu, the government is accused of favoring fellow coalition party members for key positions bypassing established processes and procedures.

Seruiratu contends that the Coalition government in its bid to ensure political survival has been appointing political allies to top positions including Board members, Special Administrators and District Advisory Council members.

He criticizes Ministers for allegedly absorbing their political cronies into various ministries without adhering to Civil Service processes.

The Opposition Leader highlights the apparent politicization in the highest ranks of the Civil Service, Public Enterprise Boards and Diplomatic appointments.

He claims that these appointments involving party supporters, sympathizers, financiers and unsuccessful election candidates are conspicuous and indicative of the government’s attempt to exert control over governance structures.

Seruiratu expresses concern over the potential repercussions of these alleged actions.

He argues that such appointments discriminate against qualified individuals who lack political backing.

He predicts adverse effects on service delivery, institutional strength and anticipates an increase in brain drain as trust in existing systems and processes erodes.

The Opposition Leader accuses the government of losing sight of the needs of the Fijian people that internal coalition dynamics have taken precedence over governance for the greater good. Source: FBC News, 21/2/2024

Standing for Israel. 'Two outliers' among nations that have intervened in ICJ case on Israel's occupation are FIJI and the United States. Coalition's cheer leader Shamima Ali lashes out at treachery against PALESTINIANS

20/2/2024

INCITING COMMUNAL DISCORD: Shamima Ali should also condemn the NFP HINDU leader, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister BIMAN PRASAD for becoming the first foreign leader to visit the disputed Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, with all expenses paid by the Government of India.
It is becoming obvious that the Indian High Commissioner in Fiji had conspired with Prasad for him to visit Ayodhya, camouflaged as a working visit to other parts of India. The highly provocative visit was giving 'two-fingers up' to Indo-Fijian Christians and Muslims in Fiji.
We will be writing why Prasad might have compromised Fiji's national security by accepting India's all expenses paid trip to his Motherland.
The Indian High Commission in Fiji must be put on surveillance. In 1982, Ratu Mara had booted Indian High Commissioner Mrs Soonu Maneck Kochar out of Fiji for allegedly recruiting NFP parliamentarians to further the Indo-Soviet influence in Fiji and the South Pacific.
Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka once remarked to our Founding Editor-in-Chief that given that he had studied at the Madras defense academy in India, Mrs Kochar had wanted him to become RFMF commander and not Ratu Epeli Nailatikau. She thought Rabuka would be more accommodating to India's military, cultural and political designs in Fiji. Instead, he went on to execute two racially motivated coups, proclaiming 'Indians will never rule Fiji'.
**Shortly before Rabuka executed the coup against the Dr Timoci Bavadra government, he (Rabuka) joined hands with a bunch of so-called nationalists at his cousin, the Reverend Raikivi's house:
'Save us, and save our land. You saved the Israelites when their land was taken from them by foreigners. Dear God, please answer our prayer and do the same for us.'
*It is very clear, and it should be to Shamima Ali, that Fiji's support for Israel at the ICJ, is 1987 all over again. Wake UP, Fiji.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki is seated during the hearings on the advisory proceedings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legal consequences of Israel's practices in the Palestinian territories in The Hague, Netherlands, on February 19, 2024.

SHAMIMA ALI: Who drafted the submissions on behalf of Fiji and why such position was taken?
*We know that Justice Isikeli Mataitoga and Fine Ditoka are closely linked to the International Christian Embassy of Jerusalem (ICEJ, Fiji) branch (Fly Now, Pay Later Fiji Airways scandal). Mataitoga was once in charge of the Fiji Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ms Ditoka worked for him.

The Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights has condemned the Fijian Government's decision to submit a written statement in support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, including East Jerusalem and is calling on the government to reconsider its position and for the Prime Minister to declare to the Fijian public as to who drafted the submissions on behalf of Fiji and why such position was taken.

The International Court of Justice will begin hearings on Monday in a case against Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories where Fiji and the United States are the only two countries endorsing such a stance.

In his opening remarks, Palestinian counsel, Paul Reichler says of all the States that submitted the written statement to the court, only Fiji attempted to defend the occupation as lawful.

NGO Coalition Chair, Shamima Ali says this position is profoundly troubling and starkly contrasts the values of justice, freedom, and international law that the Fijian people hold dear.

She says it is imperative that the Fijian Government demonstrates accountability and transparency in its decision-making.

Ali says the public has a right to understand how such positions, which significantly impact Fiji's standing on the global stage and its moral compass, are determined.

She says they are calling upon the government to disclose the rationale and any consultations or analyses that led to this stance. Ali says this call for clarity is not just about ensuring governmental transparency; it's about reaffirming Fiji's dedication to principles that respect human dignity and international law.

She says without this openness, the trust between the Fijian people and their government risks being eroded, especially on matters of international significance that reflect on the entire nation.

The Chair says the NGO Coalition is also urging the Fijian Government to demonstrate its commitment to human rights and justice by advocating for the rights of all people, including the Palestinian people, to live in peace, security, and dignity.

She says Fiji is due to make its oral statement at the International Court of Justice hearing on Monday at the Hague.

Ali is also calling on the Fijian public, regional partners, and the international community to join them in urging the Fijian Government to withdraw its support for the occupation and to work towards a just and lasting peace in Palestine.

Questions have been sent to the Office of the Prime Minister and the Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs. They are yet to respond. Source: Fijivillage News, 20 February 2024.

FLY NOW, PAY LATER flight organiser to Jerusalem, MICHAEL MAUSIO

RATUS, ROTUMAN AND PRESIDENCY (Woman and Ro Teimumu Kepa). President of Fiji position is not monopoly of Chiefs (or Burebasaga and Ro Kepa, for she is WOMAN). Fiji, its time for 'Chino-Fijian' or Indo-Fijian

19/2/2024

In the racist 1990 Constitution it was clearly stipulated that the position of the President and Prime Minister MUST be reserved for i-Taukeis, and the Constitution allocated 37 of the 70 parliamentary seats to them.
As we have argued previously, the CHIEFS should return to their respective villages to govern their subjects, not collecting FAT CHEQUES while their people are living in abject poverty.
As for Ro Kepa, she failed to be elected to Parliament in the last election. Her own subjects REJECTED her as a parliamentarian.
For 16 years, we had Bainimarama-Khaiyum dictatorship, for the CHIEFS took to drinking 'homebrew'. We never saw them on the streets of Fiji, protesting against dictatorship. Neither did we see Sitiveni Rabuka or President Katonivere. In fact, he was up there, with the FijiFIRST Party.
We presume the Fiji Sun* meant DUEL and not DUAL?

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is adamant Ratu Wiliame Katonivere will serve another term as President after his term expires in November this year.

This, despite the strong push from the Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA), for Rewa’s paramount chief, Ro Teimumu Kepa, to be appointed President when Ratu Wiliame’s term ends.

SODELPA general secretary Viliame Takayawa said it was time for a woman to be appointed as President of Fiji.

“We have had President’s from the Kubuna and Tovata confederacies, but not from the Burebasaga Confederacy. So, it’s time to make it happen,” Mr Takayawa said.

SODELPA has been advocating for Ro Teimumu to become the first female President of Fiji. However, this is not stipulated in the Coalition Agreement.

Mr Rabuka said no one had served the presidency role for only one term.

“We have not come to that issue yet. It will be dependent on the arrangements with the current president,” Mr Rabuka said.

“He can be appointed for another term.”

According to Section 85 of the 2013 Constitution, the President holds office for three years and is eligible for re-appointment for one further term of three years, but is not eligible for re-appointment after that.

Mr Rabuka said Ratu Wiliame had served in the role well and was capable to go again for another term.

From Fijileaks Archive, 22 October 2021

SODELPA's then Opposition Whip Lynda Tabuya had nominated Ro Kepa

ITS ME, LYNDA TABUYA, Minister for Women, Children, Social Protection In a bizarre twist to the sex romp and drug taking text messages, Tabuya for the first time informs Aussie eSafety Commissioner 'It is her in photo'

18/2/2024

The Australian eSafety Commissioner to Grubsheet, 14 February 2024

SCORING OWN GOAL with eSafety Commissioner. Meanwhile, isn't there a Conflict of Interest as Cabinet Minister and as President of the Kadavu Rugby Union. We accused the Bainimarama clan of abusing their political power to meddle in the affairs of the Fiji Rugby Union.

While claiming that the text messages revealed by Fijileaks* were FAKE, now it has emerged that Lynda Tabuya admits to the eSafety Commissioner that one of the screenshots used by Grubsheet contains a photo of her that the website used without her permission, showing her ample cleavage in regards to allegations of drug-taking.
*For the first time eSafety Commissioner names her as the complainant.

Goodbye, America. We wonder what Tabuya declared in her US visa applications when asked if she ever took drugs when she allegedly admits in her text messages to her former Cabinet colleague from Room 233 that she has 'plenty of weed in her room'.
Anyone applying for a visa to America has to answer 'Yes' or 'No' to the question: 'Are you or have you ever been a drug abuser or addict?'

According to the Australian eSafety Commissioner, one cannot publish a person in a state of undress, using the toilet, showering, having a bath, engaged in a sexual act of a kind not ordinarily done in public, or engaged in any other activity.
In a telephone call, a staff member of the Commissioner clarified that they had no objection to Grubsheet continuing to publish the text messages.
From the text messages, we know that the two Cabinet Ministers, in breach of the Code of Conduct, and in abuse of the Victorian Parliament's generosity in hosting the Whips Conference in Melbourne, were engaged in 'brutal sex romp' in Room 233, Windsor Hotel, that Tabuya could not allegedly walk properly the next day.
Moreover, although no photos were published of her 'showering', there is evidence that she was allegedly inviting Aseri Radrodro to join her.

PUTIN is entitled to presumption of innocence over DEATH of KREMLIN critic ALEXEI NAVALNY. As Australian Prime Minister, Ministers lash out, one wonders why Fiji 'Putin's' torturer Naliva is NOT guilty of TORTURES

17/2/2024

RIP, ALEXEI NAVALNY
“My message if I am killed is very simple: don’t give up.”

What role, if any, PIO TIKODUADUA played in Naliva's appointment?
Naliva was acting on the orders of Fiji's then 'Putin' - Bainimarama

From Fijileaks Archive

Fiji's PUTINS. We kept (keep) voting in Sitiveni Rabuka and Frank Bainimarama - the 'PUTINS' who committed indictable human rights abuses but are hiding behind Rabuka's IMMUNITY

“My message for the situation if I am killed is very simple: don’t give up.”

In his last court hearing on Thursday, Alexei Navalny looked frail. Appearing via video link, close-shaven and face gaunt, his deteriorating appearance reflected years in jail that were plagued by allegations of systematic abuse.

But his mind was defiant. Infused with a heavy touch of irony and humour, a distinctive hallmark of the opposition leader, Navalny joked with journalists and scolded the authorities.

He ironically asked the judge for part of his “enormous salary”. “Because I am running out of money thanks to your decisions,” Navalny said, referring to numerous fines imposed on him.

The next day, Russian authorities said he had died in a maximum-security prison in the country’s far north. His demise, if confirmed, will be widely seen as the final chapter in what looks like the Kremlin’s systematic effort to silence the most vocal and prominent thorn in the side of the Russian government.

For years, Navalny was harassed, intimidated and jailed as his prominence in Russia grew. In 2017, a doctor told him he had lost 80% of the sight in one eye after suffering a chemical burn when an assailant threw a green liquid in his face. But those attacks looked like child’s play when in 2020 he survived an elaborate FSB plot to poison him with Soviet-era novichok. Navalny soon became unwell after getting on a plane in the Siberian city of Tomsk for a flight back to Moscow.

The change in his condition was sudden and violent. Navalny went to the toilet at the back of the plane. He did not re-emerge, instead collapsing. Video footage shows the crew scurrying towards him. Passengers described grim, animal-like howls of pain. An unauthorised, on the spot decision by the pilot to divert the plane to a nearby city, where he received emergency treatment, appeared to have saved his life.

A long and uncertain road to recovery in Europe followed the poisoning. Step by step Navalny grew stronger. He started to walk and recognise people. German doctors soon confirmed he had been poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent from the novichok family.

Navalny later duped his attackers into admitting to putting poison in underwear in Tomsk. Asked why he survived, the FSB office told Navalny it was probably because his plane had made an emergency landing. If he had continued to Moscow – a journey of another three hours or so – he would probably have died, the officer said. The agent stressed his superiors had got the poison dose right.

But while Navalny survived the first attempt on his life it would mark the start of a grim series of repressions that would eventually lead to his death on Thursday.

Five months after falling victim to the FSB operation, he decided to go home, risking his own freedom to issue a direct challenge to the Kremlin. It was apparent from the start that his return would not be appreciated by the Kremlin.

Navalny’s plane landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, diverted from its original destination of Vnukovo airport where hundreds of supporters and media had been waiting. But he was in good spirits. “What bad things can happen to me inside Russia?” he quipped on the plane, telling reporters: “We won’t be able to take off unless you sit down.”

Navalny kissed his wife, Yulia, goodbye as he was arrested upon arrival in Moscow. It would be the last time the two would hold each other. A court soon handed him a three-and-a-half-year prison term, which would be followed by more and more sentences. At the time of his death, Navalny was due to serve a cumulative three decades in prison. It was made clear he would remain in jail as long as Putin remained in power.

In jail, Russia’s most famous opposition leader faced some of the worst excesses of the Russian prison system. He said the Kremlin wanted to break him, as a punishment for staying alive.

His team feared worse.

Navalny went on hunger strike after being denied urgent medical treatment in prison. He said the authorities subjected him to psychological pressure and sleep deprivation, detailing a fellow inmate to wake him every hour on the pretext of making sure he had not escaped.

He halted the hunger strike on the advice of his doctors but his torment continued. Navalny complained of numbness in one leg so severe that he could not put weight on it. Defying personal risks, hundreds of Russian doctors signed open letters asking Putin to “stop abusing” Navalny in jail.

Much of his time in jail would be spent alone, in the notorious punitive isolation cell, or ShIzo, for minor infringements of prison rules or without any explanation at all.

Last April worries grew when Navalny started grappling with severe stomach pain that his allies said could be the result of slow-acting poison. “His situation is critical, we are all very concerned,” his close ally Ruslan Shaveddinov told the Guardian at the time, foreshadowing events to come. “We believe that they are gradually killing him, using slow-acting poison which is applied through food.”

Shaveddinov called the withholding of care a slow-motion assassination attempt by the Russian government.

In December, Navalny disappeared from view, triggering new fears over his wellbeing. His whereabouts was unknown for almost three weeks before his allies located him in a remote penal colony in Russia’s far north.

Navalny’s final destination would be the Kharp high-security prison. Even by Russian standards, the Gulag-era “Polar Wolf” colony was rough.

Surrounded by mountains and tundra, with freezing dark winters making way for short, mosquito-infested summers, Navalny was virtually cut off from the outside world. But he remained positive, making light of his grim ordeal. “I’m still in a good mood, as befits a Santa Claus,” he said, referring to his winter clothing of sheepskin coat and fur hat and the beard he grew during his transportation.

But his allies expressed grave concern about the harsh conditions his already frail body would face. “This prison will be much worse than the one that was before,” warned his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh.

Navalny appeared to persevere. His last letter, passed to his lawyers on Valentine’s Day, was dedicated to Yulia. “Baby, between us there are cities, takeoff lights of airfields, blue snowstorms and thousands of kilometres. But I feel that you are near every second, and I love you with all my strength.”

Navalny prepared a message in case of the worst-case scenario. Shortly before flying out to Moscow in January 2021, he was asked what he would say to the Russian people if he was killed.

“My message for the situation if I am killed is very simple: don’t give up.” Source: The Guardian.

From the Ends of the Earth to Jerusalem, FLY NOW with Fiji Airways and PAY LATER. As Gavoka and Rabuka issue conflicting responses, ICEJ video and story from June 2022 visit to Fiji sheds light on Gavoka's role

15/2/2024

"During the ICEJ’s Envision pastors’ conference in late January, ICEJ-Fiji national director Pastor Mikaele Mudreilagi proudly announced at a gathering in the Knesset that his nation’s new government has decided to open an embassy in Jerusalem.

The new government of Fiji, led by Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, made this decision as part of a coalition agreement reached to form a government following the close national elections in December 2022. He needed a small Christian party to join the coalition to gain a majority in parliament, and they made just one demand – to open an Embassy of Fiji in Jerusalem. Rabuka readily agreed, as he has been a supporter of Israel and the ICEJ for many years."

THE LAST SUPPER: Gavoka had dinner with the ICEJ delegation that included ISIKELI MATAITOGA, a Judge in the Fiji Court of Appeal who was Fine Ditoka's boss at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She was dismissed by Bainimarama government after the 2006 Coup. Mataitoga was appointed Bainimarama's ambassador to Japan, and after the Coalition formed government in December 2022, he popped up as a Judge in the Fiji Court of Appeal. He was on the Flight to Jerusalem but he paid his airfare from the record submitted to Fiji Airways.

Isikeli Mataitoga standing second from right in suit and tie, next to the seated ICEF president

After the racially motivated 1987 coups, Sitiveni Rabuka had appointed the military lackey ISIKELI MATAITOGA as his DPP who later travelled to London to extradite the gun runner Mohammed Rafiq Kahan and other members of the Movement for Democracy in Fiji. Mataitoga failed in his bid to extradite the pro-democracy activists. Later, he resurfaced as Coupist Bainimarama's ambassador to Japan and other countries.
Our Founding Editor-in-Chief and Mataitoga, who donned RFMF military uniform shortly after Rabuka's coup, appeared on British television, and the two exchanged sharp words regarding the coup. Basically, he was shamelessly defending Coupist Rabuka and his twisted nationalist claim, and that of the violent i-Taukei Movement, that Fiji was only for
'I-Taukei Fijians'.
Shortly before Rabuka executed the coup against the Dr Timoci Bavadra government, he (Rabuka) joined hands with a bunch of so-called nationalists at his cousin, the Reverend Raikivi's house:
'Save us, and save our land. You saved the Israelites when their land was taken from them by foreigners. Dear God, please answer our prayer and do the same for us.'*
For the next several years, with the support of the NFP, Indo-Fijians were treated as second-class citizens in the racist 1990 Constitution.
We had campaigned for the stripping of Mataitoga's IMMUNITY and for him to be put on trial for gross violation of Indo-Fijian human rights after the 1987 coups. While thousands upon thousands of his victims fled Fiji, his career took off and now he is back as a Judge in the Appeals Court.
*In 2023, Mataitoga was on the Fiji Airways 'Pilgrim Flight to Jerusalem'.

1987: Mataitoga

1987: Lal

A Fruitful Visit to Fiji

Published on: 1.6.2023

By: Laurina Driesse

ICEJ President Dr. Jürgen Bühler and ICEJ-Finland national director Jani Salokangas were recently invited by ICEJ-Fiji to pay an official visit to the Pacific Island nation. During their time in the Fijian capital of Suva, Dr. Bühler was received by President Ratu Wiliame Maivalili Katonivere, as well as the deputy prime minister [Bill Gavoka] and several other cabinet ministers and senior government officials.

The discussions focused on ways to deepen the diplomatic and economic ties between Israel and Fiji, including the new government’s interest in opening an embassy of Fiji in Jerusalem. Bühler and Salokangas also spoke and ministered at churches and youth conferences while in the island nation.

Recently, the two joined an ICEJ weekly webinar to share about the incredible changes taking place in this Pacific island chain, and how the faithful prayers of believers are changing the destiny of Fiji.

What began as a Christmas holiday break for Fine Dikota, an ICEJ staff member from Fiji, turned into a divine mission. On Christmas Eve, Fiji saw a new government sworn in and the joyful elations rippled across the cluster of islands!

Fine told the webinar audience how the change in government brought a huge sense of relief and of freedom for everyone, as during the previous government many things particularly pertinent to Christians had diminished.

“I would say that they limited a lot of our Christian involvement in various segments of society, but with this new government, they just open things up again”, said Fine. “The new government that came into power as a coalition government, made possible through one Christian party who insisted they would only join the government if Fiji established a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem. That was really the best Christmas gift that God gave us as a nation. The whole nation came to a place of thanksgiving, because the whole dynamic in the nation changed. For those of us in the Church, especially, it was the time to celebrate the new beginnings, the new journey of prophetic things.”

Fine shared how the lead up to the change in government was through the persistent prayers of the saints and the dedication of not only intercessors but church leaders and churches around Fiji. People were desperately crying out to God for years.

“When the nation comes together to humble itself, pray and cry out to the Lord, God does something. And that’s exactly what happened. It also helped to mobilize Fijian Christians to join the ICEJ’s prayer events over the years through Rosh Chodesh and the Global Prayer Gathering, as there was an increased awareness of the need to be connected with Israel. Because when you bless Israel, God blesses you. That was a key”, assured Fine.

While the political parties held coalition talks during December, Fijian Christians gathered not only online to pray, but also physically came together for a week-long ‘Jericho march’ around parliament, ending on the seventh day by circling the building seven times followed with mighty shouts to God. Fine saw a breakthrough when young people joined the prayers as well.

When Dr. Bühler heard the news of the change in government in Fiji, he called Fine out of a sense more was needed to seal this important juncture in the country’s history.

“It sounded like the battle was won in Fiji, but I sensed in my heart that this was just the beginning of the battle”, said Bühler. “I asked her about coming to Fiji and if she could arrange some meetings with pastors and leaders to keep the momentum of pray going. It was like you read in the story of Joshua conquering the land. Jericho was just one battle that was won, but it’s not the full victory and we needed to keep praying. So, I went there in April and was surprised how well this word was received and resonated with many pastors.”

Dr. Bühler’s meeting with President Katonivere was a momentous occasion. It was the first time that prominent tribal chiefs and the heads of the different provinces came together as a delegation. Because there was a “man from Jerusalem” visiting the President, they saw a great need to be part of the meeting.

Bühler was touched to hear the President’s profession of faith.

“He declared something which I honestly have never heard from any other head of state. He said, ‘I pray every morning in this office that it might be the footstool of God here on this island. I’m here to do the will of God, I want to reign over our people in God’s will and do His will.’ There was an amazing presence of the Lord there”, recalled Bühler.

“The President had to make some very difficult decisions”, Bühler added. “He even defied his own political party by approving the new government.”

In the most exciting development, the President also suggested that Dr. Bühler’s visit might even expedite the opening of a Fijian embassy in Jerusalem.

The following Sunday, the President made a surprise visit to the largest Pentecostal church in Fiji, where he gave a short testimony and informed the congregation of his visitor from Jerusalem. He also repeated publicly in the church his prayers each day that his office would be the footstool of God, that he would have wisdom for governing this island.

For ICEJ-Finland national director Jani Salokangas, this latest visit to Fiji filled him with a sense of hope in knowing there are leaders in nations who fear the Lord and want to serve Him.

“The words of the President of Fiji were shocking in a good way,” remarked Jani. “It seems like some of these smaller nations, that at times may be overlooked, have something in their national leadership which we have completed lost in Europe.”

The ICEJ delegation also was part of a youth rally where around 1000 young people gathered in an arena. There, Jani shared a powerful message that reached the hearts of the youth. During an altar call, around 200 people came forward to dedicate their lives anew to Jesus.

Fine believes this visit was a catalyst for bringing government, church and tribal leaders together in recognizing a call on their island nation to stand with Israel from the ends of the earth.

Dr. Bühler concluded the webinar report on his visit to Fiji by encouraging Christians from other countries to believe that prayer can also bring incredible changes to their nations.

“The Bible is full of stories where people who put their faith in the Lord, who started praying, who started trusting God and didn’t look at the negative things. And I want to encourage everyone on this webinar to take this as an example”, Bühler stated.

“Even after the first victory, keep on praying. I want to encourage everybody also to apply these lessons to your own country.”

Watch the full Webinar here:

HANDCUFFING HIMSELF TO FFP. According to reliable party sources the great manipulator is trying to force party to replace INIA Seruiratu with his SIDE-KICK Faiyaz Koya as Leader of Bainimarama's FijiFIRST PARTY

15/2/2024

The End is Nigh for the Khaiyum BROTHERS?

From Fijileaks Archives

GENERAL ANGUS CAMPBELL, 'Were you aware of the 2011 UN Report when you appointed Colonel Ben Naliva as Deputy Commander of 3,000 Australian troops, of his alleged beating of businessman BEN Padarath?

15/2/2024

'NO, SIR', General Campbell to Australian Senate hearing. What a humiliating day for the General and the Australian army because the RFMF Commander Kalouniwai and Coalition government hid Naliva's alleged torture and beatings of opponents after the 2006 Coup.

“Every time we shrug when we hear of another midnight raid, the cries of terrorized women and children, then somewhere in Fiji another potential [Klaus] Barbie [The Nazi Butcher of Lyon in France] is getting a start in life,” said the former Methodist communications secretary in 1987, the Reverend Akuila Yabaki, now head of the Citizens Constitutional Forum.

He was speaking out against the reign of terror and torture practised mostly against the Indo-Fijian community by Sitiveni Rabuka, his military henchmen, prominent chiefs, and the dreaded and racist Fijian taukei foot soldiers following the 1987 coups.

Now, nearly twenty years later, we are beginning to hear the first ripples of ‘torture tactics’ by the military against the pro-democracy supporters. But let us hope and pray that Commodore Frank Bainimarama’s military will not go down the road that Mr Rabuka took his troops, chiefs, and taukeists like Apisai Tora to achieve his objective of ‘Fiji for the taukei Fijians’.

The first casualty was the media when Mr Rabuka launched his coup on 14 May 1987. In an editorial on 15 May, the old Fiji Sun asked: “What right has a third-ranking officer to attack the scared institutions of Parliament? To presume he knows how best this country shall be governed for the good of all? The answer is: NONE. The people must decide their own future: not self-promoting dictators and not a Council appointed by and presided over by Lieutenant-Colonel Rabuka. But was he encouraged by others to act? And if so, who were they?”

We now know who they were, and many of those are still around, in positions of influence and authority. Most of them were prominent paramount chiefs, civil servants, church leaders, lawyers, magistrates, judges, and fallen politicians. They were indigenous Fijians, some of whom, and their offspring, are today hiding from the military in a great game of hide and seek following the 5 December coup. The former governor-general and Mr Rabuka’s paramount chief Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, made it easier for Mr Rabuka to crush civil disobedience by warning that the civilian-cum military regime would not hesitate to use emergency powers it had under martial law.

On 15 May 1987, shortly after the Fiji Sun editorial, the Ministry of Information directed the Fiji Times and Fiji Sun to cease publication. The RFMF occupied Radio Fiji. The same day armed soldiers’ ejected staff of both the two newspapers from their offices, and foreign journalists were questioned by the RFMF. In a sickening spectacle, the raid on the Times office was led by one of its own reporters and army reservist E.T. Volavola in full combat gear carrying a rifle and backed up by a squad of troops.

Mr Rabuka announced a Council of Ministers (COM), which was dominated by ex-Alliance Party Ministers (including Ratu Mara who had lost the election to Dr Timoci Bavadra). Mr Rabuka said his military regime was in full control and the people had accepted the coup, and called on the international community to recognize his regime. He said he had abrogated the Constitution and the regime would govern Fiji by decree. He brushed aside the demands of the Council of Churches “in the name of Christianity” to release the MPs he had kidnapped and was holding as hostages, and “surrender to the sovereign authority of the land”, and restore “our duly elected government”.

He instead moved into deposed Prime Minister Dr Bavadra’s office. But when the Fiji Sun questioned Mr Rabuka’s right to occupy high office, he threw the general manager and one of the directors, who was also President of the Fiji Law Society, in the same prison cell as that occupied by Dr Bavadra. The Sun was singled out for severe maltreatment. Sadly, most of the harassment and intimidation was carried out against the Indo-Fijian journalists, for after all, Mr Rabuka had executed the coup to give Fijians the control of Fiji.

Some Fijian journalists, therefore, switched sides, and became Mr Rabuka’s propagandists, reporting on their Indo-Fijian colleagues and their families. In the end, the Fiji Times agreed to operate under partial military censorship, while the old Fiji Sun was forced to cease operations in the country after it published allegations that Mr Rabuka had bought a house in Suva favoured by wealthy Indo-Fijians and expatriates, on a 100% mortgage from a prominent Alliance politician. In the end, some of Fiji’s best Indo-Fijian journalists were forced to emigrate or seek political asylum abroad. Some of us were not only on Mr Rabuka’s hit list but even had our passports confiscated, ending up overnight from being citizens to wandering international refugees.

The next group that Mr Rabuka and his cronies targeted were his political opponents. Shortly before the coup the taukeists firebombed the law offices of Jai Ram Reddy, now an International Criminal Court judge. The late Sir Vijay Singh was detained and his passport seized, prompting him to ask: “What kind of normalcy is [Ganilau] thinking about when things like this happen.”

Dr Bavadra’s spokesman and current Suva lawyer Richard Naidu was arrested and detained on different occasions. He was chased and beaten up by Taukeists, and finally had his Fiji nationality revoked, and ordered to leave the country for New Zealand. Another legal adviser of Dr Bavadra, John Cameron, had his work permit withdrawn after he filed civil suit against dissolution of Parliament, and had also filed claim with the Supreme Court on behalf of a client harassed by the RFMF, seeking a declaration that State of Emergency and 1987 Emergency Regulations were unconstitutional.

Among judges arrested included Justices Kishore Govind and Rooney, including Chief Magistrate Howard Morrison. Even the Police Commissioner, an Indo-Fijian Pramesh Raman, whose job Mr Rabuka had applied a week before the coup, was taken into custody. Several Indo-Fijian lawyers and academics were also taken into custody, mostly on legal advice of some Fijian lawyers.

Although the vast majority of victims were Indo-Fijians, some prominent Fijians like Amelia Rokotuivanua and Dr Steven Ratuva came in for rough treatment. The two were “lectured” by Lieutenant Pio Wong on how to be “true Fijians” and Dr Ratuva had spells in detention, and at one point the military allegedly tried to poison him with the prepared food it had brought to his house. In 1986 he had claimed in a paper that the RFMF’s only function lay in internal repression or as a conduit for chiefly advancement. He had also suggested that “intermarriages between the sons and daughters of chiefs (including the chiefly officers in the army) helps to consolidate the chiefly comprador clique which ensures the perpetuation of nepotism and inequality in Fijian society”.

On 25 September Mr Rabuka carried out his second coup. Violence and intimidation was encouraged, and a group of escaped prisoners were escorted by the military to march to the Government House to demand pardons. When the GCC refused to recognise Mr Rabuka as president, he declared Fiji a republic, declared himself the head of state and no longer recognised the GCC as such. However, on 5 December he agreed to hand over power to the new President Ratu Penaia and the Prime Minister Ratu Mara. Mr Rabuka took charge of Home Affairs, the CJ returned to the bench, Sailosi Kepa was recalled as High Commissioner from London to take over as Minister for Justice and A-G, and Berenado Vunibobo became Minister of Trade and Commerce. Dr Bavadra retorted: “It is a military government in a civilian cloak.”

The international community resumed trade and diplomatic links with Fiji. Australia conferred Mr Rabuka legitimacy by announcing that it was recognizing Fiji as a state rather than the government of Fiji. Ratu Penaia granted Mr Rabuka and his close circle of oppressors, questionable amnesty, and the Fijians introduced apartheid against the Indo-Fijians. Ratu Penaia also formally signed new Internal Security Decree, giving army power to shoot to kill anyone found with illegal arms that resisted arrests.

As Minister for Internal Security, Mr Rabuka had extraordinary range of powers, which violated international standards of human rights, including the detention of any person for two years; order restriction of movement, freedom of expression, employment, residence or activity; prohibit the printing, publication, sale, issue, circulation or possession of any written material, and prohibit its communication through worth of mouth etc.

And yet Mr Rabuka was free to publish his book “No Other Way”. But no criticism of his book was permitted, and one USP Indo-Fijian lecturer who dared to criticise it, was detained and severely beaten up. My own critical counter-book Fiji: Coups in Paradise was banished from the bookshelves of Fiji. As Mr Rabuka plunged the economy into a decline, he was offered $50,000 from an Australian publishing company as a retainer for his book and a TV documentary. The RFMF, commenting on brief detentions and harassment said, “Due to the current conditions everyone is suspect until proven innocent”. Mr Rabuka went on to become the Prime Minister and chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs on the bandwagon of nationalist and racist ideology, an ideology which Commodore Bainimarama claims he wants to stamp out once and for all.

If that is so, let us hope that he will not follow in the footsteps of Mr Rabuka, for many of my own family members still bear the scars of Mr Rabuka’s storm troopers on their chests, and so do many other citizens from the 1987 and 2000 coups.

The Indo-Fijians, in 1987, were beaten, forced to stand in sewage pools, and subjected to other forms of humiliating punishments. The vast majority of Fijians remained silent to the oppression and racism in their midst. In fact, many joined in its continuation for the next ten years. But freedom, as former military strongman Mr Rabuka found out only very recently (after he was successfully defended by the President of the Fiji Law Society, Mr Sharma, on inciting mutiny), is a cherished and inviolable right.

ADDENDUM (Additional Note) on BEN NALIVA. We wonder if Kalouniwai or his line manager Pio Tikoduadua added a note when the RFMF and Fiji Coalition government signed off Naliva's appointment to the 7th Brigade

14/2/2024

'We would like to add that since the 2006 Frank Bainimarama coup, Ben Naliva has been accused of gross human rights violations and torture, although there are NO Police reports to date because the VICTIMS were warned that if they went to Police, there would be dire consequences for them and their respective family members.'
Fijileaks: We call on the three-legged Coalition government to set up its own independent Commission of Inquiry, led by a retired overseas Judge, to establish how and who sanctioned the appointment of BEN NALIVA as the Deputy Commander of Australian army's 7th Brigade.

OUCH: Most of the torture of victims were planned around KAVA bowls

TAKING UP THE CASE: Australian Green Party Senator David Shoebridge

Our Founding Editor-in-Chief had been chronicling Naliva's catalogue of human rights abuses since 2006, first in the now defunct Coupfourpointfive (C4/5) blog and later in Fijileaks, the online news and investigative website.
On hearing of Naliva's appointment as Deputy Commander of the Australian army's 7th Brigade, we re-produced reports and testimonials of the victims and collaborated with the mainstream Australian media to expose Naliva, resulting in yesterday's Australian Senate hearing.
And to the eternal shame of Fiji media, their journalists deep asleep.

From Fijileaks Archive, 27 January 2024

Listen to Green Party senator grilling head of Aussie army on NALIVA

Fijileaks SPOT ON. In 2021 we had asserted that Rusiate Tudravu had resigned over drug bust involving Meli Bainimarama. Now Qiliho and Bainimarama charged over unlawful termination of two police officers

13/2/2024

From Fijileaks Archive, 23 August 2021

**Fijileaks:* On 9 August, Police reported that there was a break-in at Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama's Kiuva residence. Police spokeswoman Ana Naisoro said nothing was stolen as the intruder was disturbed by a caretaker who was inside the house.
We have been informed by our reliable police sources that the INTRUDER was allegedly MELI BAINIMARAMA who was staying at the house, and Police allegedly found DRUGS
Apparently, Police were investigating Meli Bainimarama's alleged involvement in drugs
They had two Policemen assigned to the case when Frank Bainimarama directly intervened and instructed the then acting Police Commissioner to drop the case and dismiss the two police officers.
Tudravu refused to dismiss his two officers as the drug case was already under investigation.
On 11 August Tudravu was forced to tender his resignation, ending 39 years of his illustrious police career, and his application for the Police Commissioner's job was consigned to the dustbin.
We believe Meli Bainimarama, on the orders of his father, has been forced to remain at the house, guarded by soldiers in plain clothes

Following the sanctioning of charges by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, former Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama and suspended Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho have been charged with offences relating to alleged abuse of office, regarding the unlawful termination of two police officers in 2021.

Former Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama has been charged with one count of Unwarranted Demands Made By A Public Official contrary to Section 355 (a)(b)(i) and (c) (ii) of the Crimes Act 2009.

Mr Bainimarama is alleged to have between the 21st day of May 2021 to the 18th day of August, 2021, whilst being employed as a public official made an unwarranted demand with menaces of a former senior Police officer to allegedly terminate the employment of other police officers.

It is alleged that he used his official capacity as Prime Minister of the Republic of Fiji and was done with the intention of influencing the former senior official.

Suspended Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho has been charged with one count of Abuse of Office, contrary to Section 139 of the Crimes Act 2009, as he is alleged to have between the 5th to the 18th day of August 2021, being employed in the civil service as the Commissioner of Police reviewed the disciplinary decision made by the senior officer, and terminated the employment of a police officer, in abuse of the authority of his office, an arbitrary act prejudicial to the rights of the officer.

Mr Qiliho faces an additional charge of Abuse of Office, contrary to Section 139 of the Crimes Act 2009, as it is alleged that during the same period, he also reviewed the disciplinary decision of another officer and terminated his employment which was an arbitrary act prejudicial to the rights of the officer.

Both Mr Bainimarama and Mr Qiliho will be kept in custody at the Totogo Police Station tonight, and will be produced at the Suva Magistrates Court tomorrow.

MESAKE WAQA
ASSISTANT COMMISSONER OF POLICE - CRIME

From Fijileaks Archive

“I have already applied for Commissioner of Police job. It is a dream of every officer to take that post but we have done our part and we will wait for those that will make the decision in regards to the post.”

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*WARID is already chair of the Public Trustee Board. So, they're looking for somebody to take the CEO position full time. Knowing how corrupt Fiji functions, they're not going to find someone and she's going to keep getting an extension. The CEO of Public Trustee gets $100,000 in salary

*Warid had posted a racist statement online where she described Indo-Fijians as “Visitors - Vulagis” who “were not going back anytime soon” and she also claimed in the same statement that indigenous Fijians were being marginalized.

From Fijileaks Archive, 19 May 2022

FLY NOW, PAY LATER flight organiser to Jerusalem, MICHAEL MAUSIO

From Fijileaks Archive, 22 October 2021

SODELPA's then Opposition Whip Lynda Tabuya had nominated Ro Kepa

The Australian eSafety Commissioner to Grubsheet, 14 February 2024

SCORING OWN GOAL with eSafety Commissioner. Meanwhile, isn't there a Conflict of Interest as Cabinet Minister and as President of the Kadavu Rugby Union. We accused the Bainimarama clan of abusing their political power to meddle in the affairs of the Fiji Rugby Union.

RIP, ALEXEI NAVALNY “My message if I am killed is very simple: don’t give up.”

What role, if any, PIO TIKODUADUA played in Naliva's appointment?Naliva was acting on the orders of Fiji's then 'Putin' - Bainimarama

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Fiji's PUTINS. We kept (keep) voting in Sitiveni Rabuka and Frank Bainimarama - the 'PUTINS' who committed indictable human rights abuses but are hiding behind Rabuka's IMMUNITY

“My message for the situation if I am killed is very simple: don’t give up.”

"During the ICEJ’s Envision pastors’ conference in late January, ICEJ-Fiji national director Pastor Mikaele Mudreilagi proudly announced at a gathering in the Knesset that his nation’s new government has decided to open an embassy in Jerusalem.

The End is Nigh for the Khaiyum BROTHERS?

From Fijileaks Archives

'NO, SIR', General Campbell to Australian Senate hearing. What a humiliating day for the General and the Australian army because the RFMF Commander Kalouniwai and Coalition government hid Naliva's alleged torture and beatings of opponents after the 2006 Coup.

OUCH: Most of the torture of victims were planned around KAVA bowls

TAKING UP THE CASE: Australian Green Party Senator David Shoebridge

From Fijileaks Archive, 27 January 2024

Listen to Green Party senator grilling head of Aussie army on NALIVA

From Fijileaks Archive, 23 August 2021

From Fijileaks Archive

“I have already applied for Commissioner of Police job. It is a dream of every officer to take that post but we have done our part and we will wait for those that will make the decision in regards to the post.”

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Warid had posted a racist statement online where she described Indo-Fijians as “Visitors - Vulagis*” who “were not going back anytime soon” and she also claimed in the same statement that indigenous Fijians were being marginalized.

RIP, ALEXEI NAVALNY
“My message if I am killed is very simple: don’t give up.”

What role, if any, PIO TIKODUADUA played in Naliva's appointment?
Naliva was acting on the orders of Fiji's then 'Putin' - Bainimarama