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A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our Fijileaks READERS including those who have cut off all CONTACT with us because we REFUSED to endorse the RACIST COUPIST Sitiveni Rabuka who is still hiding behind Immunity

31/12/2022

14 MAY 1987: 'Sa Noda Na Qaqa' - Rest Assured We Have Won.
So screamed the Coupist from the balcony of the Suva Civic Centre, surrounded by the Great Council of Chiefs, Thieves, and Others.
Shortly afterwards began an orgy of BEATINGS, TORTURE, RAPE, LOOTING and FINAL SOLUTION: DISENFRANCHISEMENT of Indo-Fijians from 1987 to 1999.
SOUNBITE: Now, Rabuka has declared 14 May, GIRMIT DAY, and he is being cheered on by NFP leader BIMAN PRASAD, whose sole mission was to form a girmit Coalition government with Rabuka as Prime Minister. Prasad will be a prisoner to SODELPA as the party pushes to turn back Fiji into the 19th Century with its divisive policies.
For Prasad to enjoy the perks of Cabinet and power, he will not
SPEAK UP for Indo-Fijians.
On 11 October 2005, our Founding Editor-in-Chief had called on the Laisenia Qarase government to ditch the Queen's Holiday and replace it with Girmit or Leonidas Arrival Day but Qarase declined, for he was pushing for the Qoliqoli Bill and the Indigenous Lands Tribunal Bill, the two Bills that led Bainimarama to overthrow him on 5 December 2006.
In a cruel twist of irony, it was our Editor-in-Chief who fought for Qarase's legal and political rights through his then Opinion Column in the Fiji Sun* after the deposed Prime Minister passed onto our Editor hundreds of Cabinet papers relating to the stand-off between Bainimarama, the Military, and the Qarase government. He has published only 25 per cent of the papers, for the rest was for a book he was co-authoring with the late Russell Hunter titled TREASON IN PARADISE: The Inside Story About the 2006 Fiji Coup.
Having reflected on the 2005 Girmit Day call to the late Qarase, our Editor-in-Chief concluded some years ago that it was not appropriate anymore, for 14 May is inextricably linked to the 1987 Coup.
In any case, thousands upon thousands of Indo-Fijians were chased out of Fiji and those who remained became second class citizens. The cunning FOX Rabuka hopes that we will forget his COUP on 14 May, and Indo-Fijians will be running around Fiji celebrating 'GIRMIT DAY'.

Frankly, it is an insult to the memory of the descendants of the Girmitiyas* and their ancestors. Worst, it is also an insult to i-Taukeis in the western division of Fiji, whose illustrious SON, the late Dr Timoci Bavadra had become the first i-Taukei from the west to become the
PRIME MINISTER OF FIJI, only to be deposed by Rabuka on 14 May 1987
*Sadly, most Chiefs, Thieves, and Others came from the Central, Northern and Eastern divisions to support the 1987 COUPs against Bavadra. Now, Rabuka wants to bring back the GREAT COUNCIL OF CHIEFS.

14 MAY must NEVER be celebrated as GIRMIT DAY. It is COUP DAY when Rabuka chose that date and month, so it could coincide with the arrival of the first Indian coolies on board the Leonidas, on 14 May 1879.
*14 May is also a painful reminder to i-taukeis in the western division that their son, Dr Timoci Bavadra, was overthrown in that Rabuka coup.

FRANK BAINIMARAMA STRIPPED NAKED OF MILITARY PROTECTION 'Soldiers should just go back and do soldiering work, not bodyguards or carrying ministers' shoes, cleaning his car. That’s not their job. Get Lost'

30/12/2022

Coupist Rabuka's Home Affairs Minister Tikoduadua sends Bainimarama-Khaiyum BOOT BOYS, SHOE and CAR polishers back to the BARRACKS
Tikoduadua said the only minister eligible for a security detail was his Coalition Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
Fijileaks: The hasty decision to withdraw total security from Frank Bainimarama without proper consultation will be a big headache for Commander Jone Kalouniwai, and a fertile possibility of REVOLT.
Many die-hard Bainimarama loyalists will not readily return to planting CASSAVA when for too long they enjoyed all the perks from FFP.
Tikoduadua seems to forget that it was the disbanded CRWU soldiers, formed by Coupist Rabuka after the 1987 coups, who brought carnage, bloodshed and murder at the barracks on 2 November 2000, with the current Commander Kalouniwai held hostage throughout the mutiny.
*And Rabuka was accused of hiding under the table at the barracks and giving orders to the loyal soldiers to cease FIRE

FORMER prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama will not have any military security detail, neither will any former or current Cabinet ministers.

Home Affairs Minister Pio Tikoduadua revealed this in an interview yesterday, saying he has instructed the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) Commander Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai to recall all military officials back to camp.

“I have instructed the commander for the return to barracks of all soldiers that are out here in the public service, the only exception being the military liaison officers that are here at the Ministry of Home Affairs because this is part of our work,” Mr Tikoduadua said.

“But all bodyguards, all drivers, all personal assistants, executive assistants, I’ve asked the commander to return all of them to barracks.

“Soldiers should just go back and do soldiering work, not bodyguards or carrying ministers’ shoes or cleaning his car. That’s not their job.”

He said the only minister eligible for a security detail was the Prime Minister.

“The only person that is entitled to security is the Prime Minister.

“I don’t see why anyone should be running with security around this place until somebody can prove to me that you need personal protection.

“So there should not be anyone with Bainimarama, there should not be anyone with Khaiyum (former Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum) nor any of the ministers,” he said.

“They should all go to the camp and the commander will look after them.”

Mr Tikoduadua said if a Cabinet minister felt they needed protection, they would have to liaise with the Commissioner of Police Brigadier General Sitiveni Qiliho.

“What I’ve told the commissioner is that if a Cabinet minister feels that he needs some personal protection, then the request will be made to him (Mr Qiliho) to provide that security for that minister.

“It will be the police, not soldiers. We’re in Fiji and all the briefs that I’ve been getting is everything is OK and that’s from the police and the military too — all is good.

“Why does anyone need soldiers carrying guns following them? “It doesn’t make sense.

“So that’s part of the motivation why I’ve asked the commander that he should accept these soldiers back and I trust his good judgment.” Source: The Fiji Times, 29 December 2022

APPEASING PAP's RATU ISIRELI TUIWAILEVU: We notice Tuiwailevu, who was sworn in as Assistant to Ditoka at Rural and Maritime Ministry, turning up as Assistant Minister to Vasu in the Ministry of I-Taukei Affairs

30/12/2022

APPEASING ALLEGED JUDAS: Tuiwailevu is widely suspected of allegedly VOTING against Rabuka and for Bainimarama as Prime Minister. Did he request the i-Taukei Ministry as price for his VOTE but was appointed Assistant Minister to Ditoka at MRMDDM? If he is now assistant to Vasu, has Tuiwailevu taken a new oath of office?

TUIWAILEVU is widely suspected of allegedly voting against Coalition including the ONE VOTE cast against Rabuka as the new Prime Minister.
He created a stink inside PAP, arguing that he had obtained more votes than DITOKA and other PAP-SODELPA MPs.
We have not seen any explanation from the Coalition government about the reversal of assistant ministerial roles of Tuiwailevu and Jovesa Vocea, and as usual, the local journalists seem to be sleeping on the job, charmed by SITIVENI RABUKA.
We need explanation PLEASE, for the NFP sulk, Rabuka's new Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister BIMAN PRASAD, is NOT responding to Fijileaks* questions.
*He is still sulking that we had published his alleged text messages to the wife of one of his NFP provisional candidates HIROSHI TANIGUCHI. To date, Prasad has declined to admit or deny to us that he is the AUTHOR of those text messages to Mrs ARI TANIGUCHI, as alleged by POLICE

Fiji Government: Sakiasi Ditoka takes over the helm of leadership at the Ministry as the new Minister for Rural and Maritime Development and Disaster Management while Honourable JOVESA Vocea takes up the position of Assistant Minister for Rural and Maritime Development and Disaster Management.

WANTED: Fiji Police issue BORDER ALERT for AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM. CID say AIYAZ Khaiyum is a PERSON of interest and is currently under investigation regarding a case of alleged inciting communal antagonism

29/12/2022

A border alert has been issued by the Police Criminal Investigations Department for Opposition MP and former Attorney General and Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum.

The CID has said that Sayed-Khaiyum is a person of interest and is currently under investigation regarding a case of alleged inciting communal antagonism.

They say they are yet to deal with Sayed-Khaiyum who is believed to be currently in Australia.

The CID says according to the travel history, Sayed-Khaiyum departed Fiji on the 26th of December 2022.

It says the CID should be contacted upon the arrival of Sayed-Khaiyum.

The border alert seems to have been leaked and is being widely shared.

Police Commissioner, Brigadier General Sitiveni Qiliho says that is a normal monitoring mechanism of CID writing to the Border Police to inform them that if Sayed-Khaiyum returns, they should be notified in order to carry out investigations on a report against him.

We have also asked Police how this sensitive information has been leaked. Source: Fijivillage News

The People’s Alliance and the National Federation Party have this afternoon filed a Police complaint against FijiFirst General Secretary Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. PA General Secretary, Sakiasi Ditoka says the complaint is in relation to comments made by Sayed-Khaiyum in a press conference yesterday (21 December 2022).

He says Sayed-Khaiyum made comments about PA leader Sitiveni Rabuka creating racial division and disharmony, which the party is labelling as false. Ditoka says Police have informed them that the complaint will be submitted to the Criminal Investigation Department. He says they want the Police to investigate Sayed-Khaiyum for inciting communal antagonism contrary to sections 65(2)(a)(i) and 53(1) of the Crimes Act 2009.Ditoka further claims that the FijiFirst GS also committed sedition contrary to section 67(1)(c) read with sections 45 and 51 of the Crimes Act. PA Deputy Leader, Lynda Tabuya says they are supporting the rule of law and asking for proof of any complaints that have been made. Meanwhile, Police Commissioner Brigadier General Sitiveni Qiliho has confirmed receiving a complaint from Sakiasi Ditoka.

Prime Minister Rabuka's Minister for Home Affairs and Immigration:

BLAME THE COUPIST SITIVENI RABUKA for the RORT in the Fiji Police Force

SAVUA: Rabuka's
Police Commissioner

THE RORT in the Fiji POLICE Force began when Sitiveni Rabuka, the current Prime Minister hiding behind IMMUNITY for his crimes, brought ISIKIA SAVUA from the RFMF to become the Commissioner of Police after the 1987 COUPS. In fact, a week before the COUP, Rabuka had applied for the post of Police Commissioner, then held by the Indo-Fijian PRAMESH RAMAN. He chased Raman out of Fiji, and appointed his military crony as Police Commissioner. During the 2000 George Speight failed coup, the deposed President told Rabuka and Savua

Sitiveni Rabuka, 2000: "I supported every move to destabilise the Chaudhry government, but I was not part of the coup. I was not involved in any of the [pre-coup] marches. But I was going to be involved in the next one because it was [to be held at] the time of the signing of the successor to the Lome Convention this month.’

From Fijileaks Archive: Rabuka forced Indo-Fijian Police Commissioner Raman to RETIRE after 1987 so SAVUA could get the Police JOB

BESEECHING RABUKA FOR FAVOURS: It is shocking how his fervent supporters are calling for him to reverse policies, pardon convicts, and they forget the THUG is hiding behind IMMUNITY since the 1987 COUPS

28/12/2022

"The penalty for TREASON in all Commonwealth countries is DEATH, and if this is to be my destiny I will accept it"
Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka, 19 May 1987.
But on the same day he managed to extract a questionable pardon, or immunity, from his paramount chief and Governor-General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau who, on 23 May, confirmed that he had granted Rabuka an amnesty. Shortly afterwards he turned Fiji into a 'Banana Republic'- to escape from being charged for committing TREASON against the late Queen Elizabeth 11, as Fiji's HEAD OF STATE on 14 May 1987

INCITING RELIGIOUS GENOCIDE AGAINST INDO-FIJIANS IN 1987
"HINDUS and MUSLIMS are PAGANS who must be converted to CHRISTIANITY, otherwise we Fijians (i-Taukei) will all become PAGANS."

Fijilleaks:
"I will never forget the night of December 2006", cries SHAMIMA ALI in the Fiji Times, followed by others, as if the COUPIST turned Prime Minister is some sort of an ANGEL with untainted 'magic wand'.
We fear his supporters are trying to consign his RACIST CRIMES to the footnote in the HISTORY BOOKS.
Now, the COUPIST is claiming that his first priority is to bring back the Great Council of Chiefs, to appease his SODELPA junior partners.
NFP leader BIMAN PRASAD will be told to find the money to perpetuate further emasculation of the Indo-Fijians and other non-Itaukei races.
Rabuka has never governed in his own right. Between 1992 and 1999, he survived as Prime Minister due to the votes of Chaudhry and Reddy respectively. Now, its the votes of NFP and SODELPA.
*He is Prime Minister of a predominantly i-Taukei government
WHO IS SPEAKING UP FOR INDO-FIJIANS?
Section 131(2) must be dusted off the shelves

“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

“We survivors … have the duty of testimony. History and memory go hand-in-hand and are the common heritage of humanity. If memory evaporates like the fog, the world will be condemned, like Dante’s circle [of hell], to perpetuate horror.” - Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre, 92

An Italian senator who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp and this year found herself witnessing a far-right government take power again in Rome has said her “personal nightmare” is that the Holocaust will all but vanish from history books.

Liliana Segre, 92, was the only one of her relatives to survive the Holocaust, which killed six million Jews as part of Nazi Germany’s second world war campaign to obliterate the Jewish population in Europe.

“That the Holocaust could end up turning into just one line in the history books is my personal nightmare,” Segre said in an interview with the Guardian.

“It is not pessimism, but the fruit of observation. I look at certain facts with the spirit of the scientist – the experiment is tattooed on my skin. Something went wrong, and much remains to be done.”

Born in Milan, Segre was expelled from school in 1938 after Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator and Adolf Hitler ally, enacted anti-Jewish racial laws. Segre was 13 when, on 30 January 1944, she was arrested by Mussolini’s fascist police and deported, along with several other family members, to Auschwitz from Milan’s central train station.

She was separated from her father, who was killed the next day. Her mother had died when she was a baby. Only 25 of the 776 Italian children sent to the concentration camp survived.

Segre lived with her maternal grandparents in the Marche region after returning to Italy. She went public about her experience in Auschwitz only in the 1990s and since then has devoted much of her time to visiting schools and universities to teach students about the Holocaust.

“We survivors … have the duty of testimony,” she said. “History and memory go hand-in-hand and are the common heritage of humanity. If memory evaporates like the fog, the world will be condemned, like Dante’s circle [of hell], to perpetuate horror.”

In the footsteps of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. From 1990 to 1999, Rabuka and his extreme Fijian nationalists ruled Fiji under the racist 1990 Constitution, holding down the Indo-Fijians , contemptuously referred to as 'Brown Jews' of Fiji in the South Pacific

"The penalty for TREASON in all Commonwealth countries is DEATH, and if this is to be my destiny I will accept it"
Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka, 19 May 1987.
Sadistically, after having walked away from the HANGMAN's NOOSE, he did not hesitate to start "NOOSING" Indo-Fijians who dared to set fire to his racist, feudalistic, and unconstitutional 1990 Constitution of Fiji

USPGRANTGATE: As former USP academic and Finance Minister BIMAN Prasad outlines the payment of GRANTS to USP that was held back by the FFP, where is Khaiyum's UNCLE Mahmood Khan, author of REPORT

28/12/2022

COMING UP SOON: Five years ago, we REVEALED that the social psychology professor JAMES JOHNSON, hired by USP, had been fired from his old job for sexually molesting one of his students in the United States. The then interim Education Minister Aiyaz Khaiyum and former VC Rajesh Chandra ignored our claims. Now, Johnson has been FIRED by USP following a lengthy inquiry. Full details to follow in coming days.

Meanwhile, the GRANT saga that nearly destroyed USP, led by Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum and his UNCLE Mahmood Khan. Where is KHAN?

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Strategic Planning, National Development and Statistics, Professor Biman Prasad says grants to the University of the South Pacific will be released but when and how it will be done will be discussed with the Vice Chancellor, University Management and the Council. He highlighted this while responding to a question by fijivillage on whether the Government will release funds for the new USP semester during a press conference at the Ministry of Finance following his official welcome at the Ministry. Professor Prasad says they want to work out a timetable to not only pay back what was due, but also when they deliver the budget, the grant, based on the formula will be included in the budget and will be formalised. The Deputy Prime Minister further says paying grant to the USP is a commitment that all parties in the coalition government made and from now onwards, Fiji will be a real partner with the USP.

From Fijileaks Archive, 22 February 2021

DUAL CITIZENSHIP - A SAIL FROM ACROSS THE SEAS:
In July 2009, the Interim Bainimarama-Khaiyum regime approved dual citizenship, with Aiyaz Khaiyum claiming that several former Fiji citizens wanted to continue to have an attachment with their country of birth, and this new decree would give them the right. All one had to do was pay $3,000 in fee. One wonders whether the move had more sinister motives, to allow those who for decades had made new lives and fortunes overseas, to return to Fiji and become the illegal regime's spies, choir boys, and enforcers. One most high profile is Mahmood Khan, who on retirement, returned to Fiji in 2016. He is Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum's UNCLE. But instead of enjoying his retirement, he suddenly began popping up on various statutory boards.
In recent months he has shot to fame after he compiled a Report against USP VCP Professor Pal Ahluwalia, resulting in his nephew holding back Fiji's $37million grant to USP. Last week, before he "disappeared" from Fiji, Aiyaz Khaiyum stated in Parliament that the FFP government’s grant to USP will only be released once the USP Council accepts their request to have an independent investigation on the report made by the Chair of the USP Audit and Risk Committee Mahmood Khan. Khaiyum said they have requested for an independent body to look into the number of anomalies under Professor Pal Ahluwalia that were raised by Khan in his report but the request was not approved by the USP Council. BLACKMAIL? What are the 30 plus allegations in the "Khan Report?" Some were very cunningly put out by Fiji Sun, without the paper disclosing that they are in the 'Khan Report'. 'All these allegations have been gathered from well placed USP sources'. They were spiced up with photographs of the individuals by the Fiji Sun. Fijileaks will reveal Khan's 30 plus allegations that very closely mirror with the Fiji Sun revelations

www.fijileaks.com/home/uspgate-as-aiyaz-khaiyum-tries-to-hoodwink-fijian-taxpayers-on-why-he-is-holding-back-money-to-usp-we-reproduce-narseys-grant-analysis

THE ROADSHOW ROLLS ON. BREAKING NEWS: As one BIG BROTHER loses a fleet of security cars and over 25 Bociguards, another BROTHER orders a top range CAR for the 'Fiji Broadcasting Commission' from NZ

27/12/2022

Ain't no FEAR now he's GONE, Only Celebrations Every Day!

Khaiyum Brothers raid on the FDB to start FBC TV: Victor Lal

With the arrival of little brother Riyaz at the helm of FBC, FDB was instructed to make available a loan of $17,846,315 to the company for it to embark on the television project. The property mortgaged or charged was the company’s assets and undertakings including its uncalled and unpaid capital. The debenture of 26 August 2009 was the following: Crown Lease No 2748 being Lot 2 Section 12 (Pt of) Suva City, Rewa, Area: 1 Rood 19.2 Perches LD Ref 8/59.

By 11 May 2011, the Khaiyum brothers had obtained from the FDB a staggering $22,696,465.05 for the FBC to build a rival television station in post-coup Fiji.

It was only a matter of time before Fiji TV was going to be targeted by them, especially by Aiyaz with the recent infamous television amendment decree.

The freedom blog Fiji Democracy Now has spoken on behalf of the suffering majority regarding the Television (Amendment) Decree 52 of 2012:

“It’s nothing more than a blunt instrument designed to brutally suppress our broadcast media and it’s clearly tailor-made for application against Fiji TV. And the content and timing of the Decree have exposed Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum’s huge ego, vanity and contempt for Fijian values. He is sending out a clear message: “Look at me! I am the big man! Between us, my brother Riyaz and I can control what you see and hear on Fiji’s broadcast media. What I say is law and there’s nothing you inferior minions can do about it!”

What Fiji Democracy Now did not remind we are transcripts of television scripts? We may recall the fate of Fiji TV during the 2000 attempted coup, when it was smashed up by a mob while reporter Riyaz Sayed Khaiyum was chairing the Close UP programme. His guests were Jone Dakuvula and William Parkinson.

The mob was angered by Dakuvula’s courageous and forthright denunciation of the perpetrators of the 2000 coup. What Dakuvula, who later worked for the National Council for Building a Better Fiji Technical Secretariat, and had also served as Chief Assistant Secretary and Press Secretary to Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and later worked for the Citizens’ Constitutional Forum, noted is equally apt to describe the Khaiyum brothers.

When Riyaz had asked what naked interest, Dakuvula had answered: “The naked interest is, a bunch of people who want to get to power through unlawful means and they couldn't get it through the constitution, and therefore they want it through a coup and they want to impose a system of government here in the name of indigenous rights.”

The brothers, Aiyaz and Riyaz are where they are, not on merit but through the barrel of the gun and the abrogation of the 1997 Constitution – with Aiyaz doing the bidding for Riyaz’s FBC TV against Fiji TV.

Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum was recently lecturing his critics: “Fiji TV, like all other media organisations, needed to adhere to the Media Code of Ethics and Practice and be balanced and fair, not just in form but in substance,”

The 2000 slogan of indigenous rights has been replaced by “brotherly blood rights” in 2012.

“Good Morning, Fiji-Welcome to The Khaiyum Airwaves”:

What’s new: Fijiwood blockbuster featuring the Khaiyums, and directed by Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum.

Clip 52: Television (Amendment) Decree 52 of 2012.

SACK Aiyaz Khaiyum's Buddy VISHNU MOHAN as chair, Public Service Commission. Banker Mohan is operating remotely from an 'Igloo TENT' in Canada after settling there - appointing lackey Ashwin RAJ as new PS

27/12/2022

"Upon my retirement from ANZ, I was asked by the Fiji Government to assume the Chairmanship of Fiji Sugar Corporation in August 2016 and in September 2016 I also joined the Executive Management Board of Vinod Patel Group as an advisor. I am also chair, Fiji Public Service Commission" - Vishnu Mohan

Functions of the Fiji Public Service Commission
In accordance with Section 126(1) of the 2013 Constitution, the Public Service Commission has the following functions:
a) To appoint permanent secretaries with the agreement of the Prime Minister
b) To remove permanent secretaries with the agreement of the Prime Minister
c) To institute the disciplinary action against permanent secretaries
d) To make such other appointments and perform such other duties, functions and responsibilities as may be prescribed by written law.
In addition to its constitutional functions, the Public Service Commission is responsible for setting consistent service standards across the Fijian Civil Service including issuing guidelines such as the Open Merit Based Recruitment and Selection Guideline and administering the Procedural Review Process and Performance Assessment Framework that encompasses the monitoring of the core deliverables of the permanent secretaries.
The Public Service Commission is supported by a secretariat based at the Ministry of Civil Service.

VISHNU MOHAN AND PSC HAD BEEN TAKEN FOR A RIDE
From Fijileaks Archives, 2017

From Fijileaks Archive: Rabuka's 'Money Man' had promised new mill.
In 2017, the NFP leader had promised to build a new mill in Rakiraki

A GOOD HARD SLAP IN THE POLICE COMMISSIONER QILIHO'S FACE: Coalition government lifts travel ban on the widow of late Professor Brij Lal for her to bring his ashes for BURIAL in his Tabia village in LABASA

26/12/2022

Fijileaks: Will the Rabuka coalition government SACK Sitiveni Qiliho as Police Commissioner and put him on trial for slapping and spitting in the late Professor Brij Lal's FACE in 2009? Our Founding-Editor-in-Chief and a TEAM of lawyers in London tried to arrest Qiliho on Brij Lal's behalf but he gave us the slip, mainly due to Covid restrictions in Fiji and the UK.
RABUKA BLUEPRINT: In a remarkable coincidence, the lead lawyer instructed to pursue Qiliho turned out to be the same lawyer who, in collaboration with the former DDP lawyer AMAN RAVINDRA SINGH, now in Australia, had prepared a lengthy legal case for the arrest of Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka under the Doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction, for the rape, beatings, and torture of his opponents following the 1987 Coups. It was established that IMMUNITY granted to Rabuka in the Brij Lal and Other Commissioners 1997 Constitution was invalid in UK law. The UK courts could try individuals for crimes committed in overseas jurisdictions.
We had jokingly remarked to Brij Lal: 'Bhai, just imagine if we had found out that there was no case against Qiliho because of the IMMUNITY you had granted to Rabuka in your 1997 Constitution of Fiji.'

Brij Lal's wife, DR PADMA LAL, was also banned from Fiji, until yesterday when the ban was lifted on her.
We had tried to arrest Qiliho in London but he gave us the slip. A prominent Suva lawyer, another of his victim, had declined to provide an affidavit to the London lawyers, saying he was 'blindfolded' so couldn't say with certainty that is was Qiliho who beat him up, and fired his infamous pistol over the lawyer's head.
Our lawyers merely wanted the affidavit from the lawyer to establish that he was taken to Rifle Range, Vatuwaqa, and assaulted, without claiming that it was Qiliho, for another 'Colonel' had confirmed Qiliho's identity.
Expectedly, the Rabuka government has also lifted the ban on the deported USP Vice-Chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia and he is welcome back into Fiji.

The late Brij Lal and Pal Ahluwalia deportations, from Fijileaks Archives

The late Professor Brij Lal's PETITION which he claims Rabuka ditched after he (Rabuka) was persuaded by the Speaker Nailatikau to ignore it

Petition to The Parliament of Fiji

"I wish to bring to the attention of the elected representatives of the people of Fiji the matter of life ban imposed on us, myself and my wife Padma, from returning to Fiji, the country of our birth. Life ban is the severest sanction a state can apply to any individual, and it is usually imposed for the most heinous of crimes against humanity. We have at all times been law abiding citizens with an unblemished record wherever we have lived. On the contrary, we both have been honoured in Fiji and the wider Pacific for our contributions to society, including to our respective fields of academia and public service. We would like the Parliament of Fiji to revoke the ban.

I (Brij V Lal) was deported from Fiji on 5 November 2009 and told to take the next available plane out of the country. I was not told then or subsequently the reason for the deportation and the imposition of the life ban on me. My wife, Padma, was refused entry into Fiji in January 2010 and similarly not informed why this treatment was meted out to her.

I have been a principled critic of all the coups in Fiji, including the 2006 military coup. I stood up for the values of representative democracy, the sanctity of the ballot box, the rule of law and unfettered free speech. I believe that democracy dies without the oxygen of free speech, and that dissent and debate are an integral part of a healthy democratic society. Nothing less would have been expected of me as a former member of the Fiji Constitution Review Commission, headed by Sir Paul Reeves, whose report formed the basis of Fiji’s once admired but now revoked 1997 Constitution. At all times, I dissented within the prescribed parameters of Fijian laws.

Padma has always been the consummate professional, widely respected throughout the Pacific region for her expertise in climate change, disaster risk management and more resource and environmental economics more generally. She has never once publicly expressed opinions on politics in Fiji or elsewhere, whatever her individual views may have been. We believe that she being victimized simply for being married to me.

We have both been recognized for our public service to Fiji and the Pacific region. Marking its 70th anniversary, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) selected Padma as one of 70 most Inspiring Women of the Pacific. Among numerous other awards, I have been honoured with an Officer of the Order of Fiji, and Member of the Order of Australia as well as Australia’s Centenary Medal. Significantly, I was chosen by the Fiji Millennium Committee as one of 75 people who helped shape Fiji’s 20th century history.

We would like the Parliament of Fiji to review and, if possible, revoke the life ban on us. Failing that, we would at least like to know precisely why this severest of sanctions has been applied to us. Contrary to the government’s assertion to the Fiji Parliament, we are not, and never have been, a danger to the peace and security of Fiji and its people. We deeply regret the global opprobrium the ban has brought on Fiji, and hope that this taint on Fiji’s reputation will be removed in due course."

Brij Vilash Lal, AM, BA (USP) MA (Brit. Col), PhD (ANU), FAHA
Padma Narsey Lal BSc, MSc (USP), MREnSc (ANU), PhD (Hawaii)

Fijileaks: We had agreed, without disclosing personal reasons, that I was at liberty to reveal the late Professor Brij Lal's collaboration in our pursuit to arrest Sitiveni Qiliho in London

20 July 2020
To Whom It May Concern

Bhai, I plan to move against him.
Looks like this Academy has turned a blind eye but the coward kept everything in utter secrecy
I need a proper statement on a separate document as an attachment from you to pass it to Amnesty and others, explaining your background involvement in Fiji Constitution, arrival in Fiji, arrest, beating and spitting at barrack etc
And explain why you are coming forward now
Maybe state you were still busy with academic stuff
Also mention how Australia denied him visa etc
Look forward to your cooperation
He can’t get away just like this
I will be approaching my constituency MP to write to the Home Secretary Priti Patel and Foreign Secretary and also Defence Minister now he is definitely arriving in London
Regards

22 April 2021

Bula Brij

I m having a zoom meeting with the lawyers on Friday and they have sent me a few questions. There are some I can fill in but others are for you.
Loloma

Witness evidence
2.1 Brij Vilash Lal:
• How long was Brij in detention and subjected to this treatment?
• Were there any injuries sustained as a result of the slapping? If so:
(a) were any photos taken?
(b) is there any medical evidence available from this time?
• What is Brij’s immigration history? Did he claim asylum in Australia? If so, are the papers relating to this claim/decision available?
• Can we be provided with a copy of the account given to the UNHRC. What was the outcome of this submission?
• Does Brij have any previous convictions?

Brij Lal, 23 April 2021

Bula,
Have been under the weather a bit with winter approaching. To your questions:
Interrogation lasted 3-4 hours.
Slapping and spitting in my face, breaking my glasses in the provess.
No photos taken though I have my broken glasses.
I am an Australian citizen and had proper visa to do research in Fiji
I have no previous convictions anywhere.
I wrote to UNHRC both to Nazhat Shameem Khan as well as to the Australian ambassador to Geneva but did not receive even an acknowledgement of my letters.

After a series of further e-mails, Brij Lal sent to us his "Torture Affidavit".
"Here it is. It will be great if Qiliho is prevented from returning to Fiji
and becoming commander RFMF."

Dear Victor
"By separate email from my computer, I will send you something I have cobbled together. I am not used to this sort of writing so please make any changes to it you see fit. There may be some extraneous matter in it that may have to go. I am very grateful to you for your interest in this case and for bringing this fellow's
vile and vicious behaviour into the public domain. But I also have a deep sense of foreboding that other concerns might drown out our call for justice. I have had a few enquiries from friends from Fiji, but a feeling of fatigue is palpable there,
the spirit to fight injustice quashed...Thanks. I had not seen this news item [Qiliho going up to the Royal Defence Academy in London]. It is shocking. When he was slated to come to Australia, I wrote to Julie Bishop and he was refuseed a visa to study here. Qiliho was a Bainimarama protege who was groomed to succeed him. He was his chief enforcer, assisted by Ben Naliva and Asaeri [Aseri] Rokoura, both viciious thugs.Qiliho interrogated me at QEB. He covered my face with his spitting and slapped me around to the point of breaking my gkasses, He told me that if I did not leave by the first flight the next day, my family would have to fetch my body from the morgue.
He led a group of arsonists to burn down Justice Gordon Ward's Deuba villa. There are stories around of him stomping on the bodies of women taken to the camp for their various protests. It is deeply saddening to see him being welcomed in London. After the Canberra hiccup, he will now realize his ambition. Such are the ways of the world. Keep safe in these strange times, my friend."

"Nothing lasts forever except words. I will re-double my efforts to bear witness to our time and place so that future generations will know what we and our country have gone through, to understand the motivation and the modus operandi of a couple of people at the helm of Fiji’s political leadership in the early years of the 21st century. The government’s victory is a pyrrhic one, hollow, morally compromised. You may keep us out of Fiji but you will never be able to keep Fiji out of our hearts. Someday, you folks will realize the fundamental unjustness of a decision in which you have acquiesced."

From: Brij Lal
Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2015 9:30 AM
To: 'Edward Brown'
Cc: Osea Cawaru; Merewai T. Volavola; Karalaini Umu
Subject: RE: Hello
Dear Edward
Thank you for this. Since this will be my last correspondence with you on this or any other matter, I wish to put some things on the record, to get things off my chest.

When Minister Natuva said we could re-apply to have the travel ban on us lifted, I genuinely believed that we would be given a fair hearing. We are disappointed that we were not accorded that basic consideration. I am more than convinced now that Minister Natuva was genuinely open-minded at the beginning but the decision not to rescind the ban was foisted upon him by a couple of individuals in government –we all know who they are -- who don’t have the courage to own up to the decision but prefer to hide behind his sulu instead. Why such cowardice, such lack of openness? Because they can’t justify their decision in public?

Minister Natuva’s defence in parliament of the original decision to ban us from entering Fiji was based on a false premise, based on a lie. He said that we were banned because I was opposed to the return of democracy in Fiji after the coup of 2006.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact the claim is a travesty of the truth and of the historical record. I was among thousands in Fiji who wanted a timely return to parliamentary democracy. The claim that we were banned because we were a threat to peace, security and good order in Fiji is, quite simply, laughable. It was widely and justifiably ridiculed at the time it was made.

I stood up for the values of democracy, the rule of law and a strict observance of the protocols of constitutionalism. This is never a crime in a civilised democracy. For all its claims to the contrary, Fiji has a long way to go in this regard. But 2006 is moot now. The coup makers succeeded, I failed. So why ban us now, when other critics of the coup are free to enter Fiji?. Why are we singled out? Is it because the pen is mightier than the sword?

The situation is very curious. Fijian diplomats, government ministers, members of parliamentary delegations fraternise with me in Canberra but their government keeps us out. People with coup-tainted pasts grab every opportunity to visit Australia where they were once unceremoniously banned, and do so without embarrassment or shame, but do not allow us to enter Fiji. Doesn’t this double standard trouble people, including those in government?

I can understand the Fijian regime having a gripe with me over my stance, but what crime did my wife commit that she is permanently banned from Fiji? Padma has never uttered a comment of political nature in the public. The government’s reaction is pure petty vindictiveness, nothing less.

We hold our heads high. We will never kowtow before unjust power and authority. There comes a time in everyone’s life when you draw a line in the sand and say: this far and no further.
We have been advised by people close to the government, well connected to the powers-that-be, that if we apologized to the Prime Minister and his unctuous Attorney General, that our case would stand a very good chance of speedy resolution.

But apologize for what? On the contrary, we feel we are owed apology by those whose decision keeps us from visiting the land of our birth.

Nothing lasts forever except words. I will re-double my efforts to bear witness to our time and place so that future generations will know what we and our country have gone through, to understand the motivation and the modus operandi of a couple of people at the helm of Fiji’s political leadership in the early years of the 21st century.

The government’s victory is a pyrrhic one, hollow, morally compromised. You may keep us out of Fiji but you will never be able to keep Fiji out of our hearts. Someday, you folks will realize the fundamental unjustness of a decision in which you have acquiesced.

In the end we all have to live with ourselves. And we all know that all that tyranny needs to triumph is for good men and women to remain silent.
Sincerely
Brij V LAL
Canberra.

By PROFESSOR WADAN NARSEY (re Fijileaks, 27 December 2021

jFiji’s Animal Farm Continues
Letter to the Editor
20 March 2015

Dear Sir,
With the passing of Professor Brij Lal on 25 December 2021, there has been an outpouring of tributes to him. Many had already protested against the ban, such as those who signed a letter in 2015:

Professor Vijay Naidu
Tessa MacKenzie
Rev. Akuila Yabaki
Shamima Ali
Dr Tupeni Baba
Dr Morgan Tui
Dr Claire Slatter
Dr Ganesh Chand
Professor Satish Chand
Professor Croz Walsh
That letter can be read here:

But equally many influential persons speaking today, were silent.

Fiji Times bravely fought draconian sanctions from the Bainimarama/Khaiyum Government, with publishers being expelled, some (Publisher like Hank Arts and Editor Fred Wesley being charged for spurious crimes and facing suspended jail sentences. Eventually they began publishing critical articles from me but only after serious vetting by lawyers Munro Leys (see some of the links below).

But my censored Letter to the Editor in 2015 explains much.

“Fiji’s Animal Farm continues” (Letter to Editor 20 March 2015 (censored)) had the following:

“Dear Sir,

The Minister for Immigration and Defense (Colonel Timoci Natuva) has “explained” the Fiji Government’s ban of Professor Brij Lal and Dr Padma Lal on the grounds that Brij Lal “has been very vocal and opposed the move towards democracy after the events of 2006” and that “his actions were viewed by the Government of the day as prejudicial to the peace, defence, public safety, public order, security of the Government of Fiji.” (Fiji Times, 19 March 2015).

Minister Natuva’s response suggests that not only does he not have to worry about over-taxing his brain cells, but that Fiji’s Animal Farm is alive and well under the elected government of Bainimarama and Khaiyum.

(a) Given that Brij Lal opposed the illegal removal of a lawful democratically elected government of Qarase, only in Animal Farm can Minister Natuva claim this was “opposing the move towards democracy”.

(b) Only in Animal Farm can Minister Natuva “forget” that his “Government of the Day” was the illegal treasonous government of Voreqe Bainimarama who had to write into the 2013 Constitution, complete immunity for unspecified actions for himself and his collaborators, between 2000 and September 2014?

(c) only in Animal Farm can a peaceful law-abiding pen-wielding Australian academic, a former Fiji citizen and recipient of Fiji’s highest Honors, be considered by Minister Natuva (on the orders of Bainimarama and Khaiyum) to be “prejudicial to the peace defence, public safety, public order, security of the Government of Fiji”, which is backed by the might of only 3000 fierce Fijian soldiers and 3000 policemen. Heaven forbid, is brave soldier Natuva admitting that “one pen is mightier than the sword”?

(d) Only in Animal Farm, can Minister Natuva give no justification whatsoever (and not be asked by the media either) for banning Dr Padma Lal, an environmental economist and an expert on the sugar industry who has not been politically vocal at all, whose only “crime” is that she is married to Brij Lal, and perhaps the double misfortune of being my sister.

(e) Only in Animal Farm will great “women’s champions” like Madam Nazhat Shameem and Minister Rosy Akbar remain conveniently silent about the denial of the basic human rights of Dr Padma Lal to enter Fiji, because of her “crime” of being the wife of Dr Brij Lal.

(f) Only in Animal Farm will Indo-Fijian civil society organizations (the Arya Samaj, the Sanatan Dharam, the Sangam, the Gujarat Society) and the great girmitiya descendants and supporters of the Bainimarama Government (like Satendra Nandan, Subramani, Rajesh Chandra, Ganesh Chand, Mahendra Reddy, Rajendra Prasad, Thakur Ranjit Singh,etc.) keep totally quiet about the banning of one of the most peaceful and valued girmitiya “sons of Fiji” who has contributed his entire academic life to the written history of the Indo-Fijians (Dr Brij Lal) and the banning of their former USP academic colleague, luminary and Gold Medalist, Dr Padma Lal.

(g) Only in Animal Farm can an “elected government” ban decent law-abiding people like Brij and Padma Lal, while welcoming and rewarding foreigners who came to support the violent 2006 treason and the illegal Bainimarama Government, like John Samy, Shaista Shameem, John Prasad, Francis Narayan, Robin Nair, Peter Thompson, Sharon Smith-Johns, Graham Davis, etc.

Given Minister Natuva’s statement, a few members of the Fiji public might lose some sleep trying to identify which animals in George Orwell’s Animal Farm might accurately represent Natuva, Bainimarama and Khaiyum.
But the majority of Fiji citizens can always help themselves go to sleep by counting their own numbers (no prizes for guessing which animals they represent in Animal Farm).

Those who wish to read Animal Farm may easily do so at this link:

Click to access animal_farm.pdf
https://narseyonfiji.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/fijis-animal-farm-continues-letter-to-the-editor-20-march-2015/
https://narseyonfiji.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/then-they-came-for-me-no-voice-for-padma-edited-article-in-fiji-times-12-dec-2015/
https://narseyonfiji.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/bainimarama-ignores-senior-citizens-request-for-lifting-of-ban-on-professor-brij-lal-and-dr-padma-narsey-lal-24-oct-2016/
https://narseyonfiji.wordpress.com/2016/12/10/human-rights-are-not-for-begging-ed-in-ft-10122016/
https://narseyonfiji.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/when-the-line-is-not-drawn-ft-13-2-2021/

USP Vice-Chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia says he and his wife Sandra Price are profoundly humbled and grateful at the news that they are free to return to Fiji. While responding to the news, Professor Ahluwalia says they are grateful to the Lord, and to Rabuka. He says their students and staff have relentlessly fought for USP. The Vice-Chancellor adds they will continue to serve and ensure that the work of shaping Pacific futures endures.

Ashwin Raj, the former Director of the Fiji Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission has taken up a new role within Government. He has been appointed as Permanent Secretary for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, effective from December 12th, 2022. Raj was among five new Permanent Secretary appointments announced by Public Service Commission Chair, Vishnu Mohan.

LIU MURIED: PAP candidate Ratu Isikeli Tuiwailevu who polled the sixth highest VOTE for party ends up as Assistant Minister ONLY. WITCH-Hunt continues for the MP who voted against the PAP leader Sitiveni RABUKA

25/12/2022

LIU MURIED:
PAP candidate Ratu Isikeli Tuiwailevu who polled the sixth highest VOTE for party ends up as Assistant Minister ONLY

3061 v 1833: Ratu Tuiwailevu is now Assistant Minister to Sakiasi Ditoka, the PAP general secretary, who has been appointed the new Minister for Rural, Maritime Development and Disaster Management

RATU ISIKELI TUIWAILEVU, the newly appointed Assistant Minister for Rural, Maritime Development and Disaster Management (RMDDM), secured more votes (3061) than PAP Attorney-General Siromi Turaga and PAP Cabinet Minister Sakiasi Ditoka (PAP general secretary, 1833 votes; Ratu Tuiwailevu is Assistant Minister to Ditoka who is Minister, RMDDM).
He also beat the votes of SODELPA defector Ro Filipe Tuisawau, Dr Antonio Lalabalavu, Jese Saukuru, Maciu Katamotu, Vatimi Rayalu, and Kalaveti Vodo Ravu (all now Rabuka's Cabinet Ministers).
In fact, Ratu Tuiwailevu even obtained more votes than SODELPA's IFEREMI VASU (1,427 votes) who is Rabuka's Minister for iTaukei Affairs, Culture, Heritage and Arts.
Ratu Tuiwailevu also obtained more votes than SODELPA's ASERI RADRODRO (1,239 Votes) who is new Minister for Education.
Moreover, Ratu Tuiwailevu also had more votes than those from NFP who are now Cabinet Ministers in Rabuka's government.
While Tuiwailevu secured 3061 votes, NFP's PIO TIKODUADUA got 2,222 votes and Agni Deo Singh 2308 votes. The TWO are Cabinet Ministers, along with Biman Prasad in PAP-NFP-SODELPA government.
Tuiwailevu was 680 votes behind NFP's Deputy Speaker Lenora Qereqeretabua and 732 behind SODELPA leader Viliame Gavoka (3,061 to 3,793 Votes).
We don't need go to school to accept Ratu Tuiwailevu beat them all, including the new Minister for Education and Schools, Radrodro.
Its also clear that for Rabuka to become Prime Minister (13-12 SODELPA Votes), he had to LIU MURI Ratu Tuiwailevu and hand Cabinet portfolios to NFP-SODELPA candidates who polled lower votes than Ratu Tuiwailevu. Worst, Rabuka liu muried* him by rewarding other PAP winning candidates who sat far lower in the ranking order than Ratu Tuiwailevu. Of course, many of them in PAP could be deserving of positions.
BUT, Ho, Ho, Ho, and A BOTTLE OF CHILLED FIJI BITTER!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR, RATU!

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