*Over 100,000 people (all races, including Jews) have taken to the streets of London and other cities in the UK (and around the world) every weekend to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and to 'Free Palestine'.
*In fact, these marches have been on-going for several decades, and in no way means the protestors are supporting the Hamas atrocities that took place on 7 October against Israeli citizens.
*In the case of Israeli casualties, mainly among citizens, questions are raging whether thousands of Israelis who served their compulsory military service and returned to civilian life, should be considered civilians. Recently, over 100,000 gave up their civilian lifestyles around the world and returned to Israel and are waiting to invade Gaza.
*Since when the i-Taukei Christians have the monopoly on who should or should not be granted permit to march. In this case, against those calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
*Fiji was threatened that if Shamima Ali and others took to the street, rival i-Taukei Christians would confront them, and plunge Fiji into a religious civil war.
*We say the Police (and military) should have been deployed to WHACK THE BUTTOCKS of these Christian fanatics if they had tried to disrupt any peaceful march calling for a 'Free Palestine'.
*Sorry, its the fanatical Christians and bogus i-Taukei nationalists who have always ended up causing bloodshed and mayhem in Fiji - after taking to the streets in 1987, 2000.
*It is time this religious Christian TERROR lot are put in their place.
Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator Shamima Ali has slammed the decision made by Home Affairs Minister Pio Tikoduadua and the Police to revoke a permit for a group of students to march peacefully to call for an end to the genocide being conducted in Gaza.
Ms Ali said Mr Tikoduadua’s decision to deny the students a permit was totally unacceptable and disgraceful.
On Tuesday, Minister Tikoduadua announced that this could lead to multiple marches, each with its own set of challenges, potentially escalating tensions within communities.
Mr Tikoduadua said his primary concern remained the safety and well-being of the Fijian community.
“While I understand and respect your right to voice your concerns and stand in solidarity, it is important that we remain united as a nation while also acknowledging the suffering faced by those in Israel and Palestine,” Mr Tikoduadua said.
“First, let me say that your voices, your concerns, and your passions are all valid and acknowledged,” he said.
“It’s essential for us to recognise the pain and suffering of all individuals involved in any conflict, including the ongoing strife in Israel and Palestine.”
In her response, Ms Ali said the students were not marching for HAMAS, and the minister should stop misleading the people.
“This is a violation of people’s rights to freedom of expression, assembly, and participation in global movements. Globally, folks are marching, including Israelis and Jews, for a ceasefire, humanitarian response and peace talks,” she said.
“The question also is: shouldn’t the Police be investigating violence-inciting posts and hate speech rather than stopping people from calling publicly for a ceasefire?”
She added that the Government must put an end to the fundamentalist rhetoric and fear mongering. “Let us remind ourselves that Fiji is a secular state and has had a long history of religious freedom despite attempts to derail this sometimes,” she said.
First, let me say that your voices, your concerns, and your passions are all valid and acknowledged. Shamima Ali Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator
Ms Ali said Mr Tikoduadua’s decision to deny the students a permit was totally unacceptable and disgraceful.
On Tuesday, Minister Tikoduadua announced that this could lead to multiple marches, each with its own set of challenges, potentially escalating tensions within communities.
Mr Tikoduadua said his primary concern remained the safety and well-being of the Fijian community.
“While I understand and respect your right to voice your concerns and stand in solidarity, it is important that we remain united as a nation while also acknowledging the suffering faced by those in Israel and Palestine,” Mr Tikoduadua said.
“First, let me say that your voices, your concerns, and your passions are all valid and acknowledged,” he said.
“It’s essential for us to recognise the pain and suffering of all individuals involved in any conflict, including the ongoing strife in Israel and Palestine.”
In her response, Ms Ali said the students were not marching for HAMAS, and the minister should stop misleading the people.
“This is a violation of people’s rights to freedom of expression, assembly, and participation in global movements. Globally, folks are marching, including Israelis and Jews, for a ceasefire, humanitarian response and peace talks,” she said.
“The question also is: shouldn’t the Police be investigating violence-inciting posts and hate speech rather than stopping people from calling publicly for a ceasefire?”
She added that the Government must put an end to the fundamentalist rhetoric and fear mongering. “Let us remind ourselves that Fiji is a secular state and has had a long history of religious freedom despite attempts to derail this sometimes,” she said.
First, let me say that your voices, your concerns, and your passions are all valid and acknowledged. Shamima Ali Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator
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Fijileaks Founding Editor-in-Chief: As the second-in-command who was tasked (along with the late Rewa high chief Ratu Mosese Tuisawau) to deliver over 20 tons of arms into Fiji to 'blow the racist Rabuka and his 'Hamas' i-Taukei Movement fanatics' buttocks' in 1988, we will respond in detail to former Major-General PITA DRITI's Facebook posting below. Despite Driti's claim, we didn't belong to any 'Islamic Group'.
*We will also reveal what role a prominent lawyer played in the parallel bombings of Suva in 1987, and expose NFP Indo-Fijian TRAITORS who were part of our movement but who later betrayed and joined Sitiveni Rabuka. Chaprasi Biman Prasad was hiding under the bed at USP, and another current Indo-Fijian Cabinet Minister was busy buying properties cheaply from Indo-Fijians fleeing Fiji, and is today a MILLIONAIRE.
 To the Nation’s Youth and USP Student Groups who are Planning a Pro-Palestinian Protest march in Suva, I would like to take this chance to humbly ask you to refrain from carrying out your protest march scheduled for 4th Nov 23. This is because of the following reasons: 1. Think of the safety and lives of our minority Muslim Community should a backlash by Pro-Israeli Christians and Hindus (who make up approx. 9O%+ of the population), happen. The violent reactions from anti protest members, can be overwhelming and tragic, given that it is a sensitive period, at hand. 2. You should think twice about carrying out a protest that is religiously sensitive in this part of the region, because it is tantamount to violent outcomes turning Fiji into a sea of turmoil of ethnic violence. |   |
3. Some of you perhaps were still young then in 1987, or weren’t even born, to know how FIJI was put in a state of shock when 2 large shipping containers of weapons (AK47s), Rocket propelled Grenades (RPGs) and its launchers, plus Heavy machine guns and Anti-aircraft guns, with ammo were discovered in the Western Division. Eighteen tonnes of the arsenal were in the manifest but only 12 tonnes were recovered. Those weapons etc. were smuggled in by an Islamic group.
The point is, you the protesters are too young to know how far Fiji had gotten so close or to a brink of civil war back then, because there was a planned armed insurrection by those dissidents. Do you want it to happen out of carrying out senseless protests which borders on grave religious indifferences? The irony is most of the youth protests including the bombing incidents in 1987 involved USP students. History seems to be on the verge of repeating itself.
4. Trying to carry out a Po-Palestinian protest march in a predominantly Christian nation like Fiji is not a sensible thing to do - at all. Moreover, the Hindu population as well is also significant, as it makes up 30% (+) of Fiji’s population.
5. You must also know our international standing in that, if we allow such a protest to occur, then we would be perceived to be supporting HAMAS in their killing of unarmed civilians and slaughtering babies before resorting to using their own people as human shields when Israel retaliated.
6. If a protest is to be done, then let it be against the WAR that is taking place there, and the killing of innocent lives on both sides. A “STOP THE WAR IN GAZA” theme would be more suitable for the protest, especially in this sensitive period where religious tension is almost felt like a knife cutting the air. However even that STOP THE WAR IN GAZA theme would still be regarded as sensitive with a high risk of civil disturbance.
7. Let us maintain our peaceful co-existence and our cultural and religious cohesiveness.
8. Please let sleeping dogs lie or rather, put it this way: do not temper with a hornet’s nest.
God bless FIJI. Share this with your friends.
PD.
The point is, you the protesters are too young to know how far Fiji had gotten so close or to a brink of civil war back then, because there was a planned armed insurrection by those dissidents. Do you want it to happen out of carrying out senseless protests which borders on grave religious indifferences? The irony is most of the youth protests including the bombing incidents in 1987 involved USP students. History seems to be on the verge of repeating itself.
4. Trying to carry out a Po-Palestinian protest march in a predominantly Christian nation like Fiji is not a sensible thing to do - at all. Moreover, the Hindu population as well is also significant, as it makes up 30% (+) of Fiji’s population.
5. You must also know our international standing in that, if we allow such a protest to occur, then we would be perceived to be supporting HAMAS in their killing of unarmed civilians and slaughtering babies before resorting to using their own people as human shields when Israel retaliated.
6. If a protest is to be done, then let it be against the WAR that is taking place there, and the killing of innocent lives on both sides. A “STOP THE WAR IN GAZA” theme would be more suitable for the protest, especially in this sensitive period where religious tension is almost felt like a knife cutting the air. However even that STOP THE WAR IN GAZA theme would still be regarded as sensitive with a high risk of civil disturbance.
7. Let us maintain our peaceful co-existence and our cultural and religious cohesiveness.
8. Please let sleeping dogs lie or rather, put it this way: do not temper with a hornet’s nest.
God bless FIJI. Share this with your friends.
PD.
Dr Moshmi Bhin, who is a lecturer at USP, says she commented on Pita Driti’s post on Facebook which was inflammatory and basically incited people to take action on the march. Bhin says she received a lot of threats from that comment but it did not deter her from continuing to push for the ceasefire in Gaza.
FREE PALESTINE MARCHES: In a predominantly Christian country whose missionaries from London introduced Christianity into Fiji and hence linked the i-Taukei to the Holy Land in Palestine, people are free to march, with POLICE keeping a distance but present to ensure the rights of the protestors
