Fijileaks: BELIEVE us, as long as some native Fijians play the RACE CARD, the likes of BAINIMARAMA will play the COUNTER RACE CARD, to hold onto POWER. Many of those attacking the FFP Government from inside or outside Fiji have been beneficiaries of the present and past Fiji governments. CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY. We have never learnt to rise Phoneix like from the Ashes as one UNITED PEOPLE. "The President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has approved decrees that formally de-establish the Great Council of the Chiefs, an institution created by the British during colonialism, and one that in modern times has become politicized to the detriment of Fiji’s pursuit of a common and equal citizenry...Over the last 20 years the GCC, including its secretariat, became highly politicised, with its members having political affiliations and membership in political parties. Unfortunately, this resulted in the GCC and its members unduly involving themselves in national politics and/or taking advantage of the GCC’s traditional role to assert personal or political agenda. Fiji’s iTaukei heritage is a distinct and fundamental aspect of Fiji—this cannot be denied. However, as an institution the Great Council of Chiefs perpetuated elitism and fed into the divisive politics which plagued our country. We must now look to our commonalities as citizens of the same nation, not to what separates us as individuals or groups. In recent years, my government has done much to ensure that many of the challenges facing the iTaukei have been addressed—including equal distribution of land lease monies." - COME SUN OR RAIN, WE WERE HAPPY TO CARRY THE WHITEMAN ON OUR SHOULDERS IN COLONIAL FIJI. Now, Aiyaz Khaiyum is King of VITI The Final Conclusion of Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum's thesis Cultural Autonomy submitted to the University of Hong Kong. THE TAMING OF THE CHIEFLY GREAT COUNCIL OF CHIEFS https://www.fijileaks.com/home/fiji-muslim-league-what-student-aiyaz-sayed-khaiyum-thought-of-the-league-in-2000-certain-officials-treat-the-league-and-its-branches-as-their-own-little-fiefdoms-to-acquire-access-to-power-and-to-rake-money
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Bahuki
2/11/2020 01:47:42 am
Tribalism is something that has troubled the ITaukei ever since the precolonial era/olden days, no wonder there is this false sense of paranoia of so-called "sovereignty" being threatened by the Indo-Fijians whose ancestors were brought to Fiji by the British indentured system.
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