Those accusing Fijileaks of being pro FFP should hold SODELPA accountable for appointing this Godfather of Coups to lead their party. For too long, we have fought coupists, only to wake up and see others embracing them. No wonder Fiji has not been able to get rid of COUPS. There was no internet and social media when Rabuka executed his two coups (kuttus). As a result, the new generation are not aware of this man's crimes. He destroyed the Great Council of Chiefs by becoming the chairman of the august chiefly body, and brought disrepute to the military with his two coups, blaming "Kalou" - GOD - for pinching him in his sleep to execute the coups. He bankrupted the National Bank of Fiji. He destroyed press freedom. He exploited ordinary native Fijian sentiments to turn Fiji into a HELL HOLE, and has now re-emerged to play 'saviour' of Fiji. NEVER AGAIN MUST WE DROP OUR GUARD AGAINST HIM. This posting is not about Indo-Fijians versus native Fijians. It is all about HIM - Sitiveni Rabuka - and his ultra-nationalist followers who beat up anyone who dared to stand up to him in 1987
Amnesty International reports from 1987 in Victor Lal's possession
The following photos speak volume. Just look at them. We were urged to stand up to the coupists - RABUKA, SPEIGHT, BAINIMARAMA, - only to wake up and find the same politicians sleeping in bed with them. We paid a heavy price while these politicians are still up there: taking us for a ride
After 1987 Rabuka coup:
 Victor Lal (right) with Mohammed Rafiq Kahan, the man who shipped two tons of weapons to Fiji to overthrow the racist Rabuka regime |  Deposed NFP parliamentarian in wheelchair protesting against Rabuka coup |
ON 14 May 1987 Victor Lal spoke out against the Rabuka coups on British television, radio, and in international newspapers. He also spoke out in public and private meetings, and has never stopped speaking out against coups in Fiji, paying a very heavy personal price but only to see that many who set out with him cut deals with Rabuka and other coupists that followed him.
 Jai Ram Reddy (with Tupeni Baba) arrive in London after being overthrown by Rabuka. Victor Lal and others launched "FIGHT FOR FIJI". While Victor Lal continued his fight, Reddy and others cut deals with Rabuka |  SHAKING hands with the Coupists is all too familiar sight in Fiji. Reddy with Rabuka. If so, one wonders why ordinary mortals even bother to stand up for them? |
After 2000 Speight coup:
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2000 George Speight Coup (Failed) - Victor Lal's public and behind-the-scene role in bringing George Speight's TREASON to an end! Bainimarama had signed the Muanikau Accord, freeing Speight
Deposed PM Chaudhry with Victor Lal and other Movement for Democracy in Fiji members at Heathrow Airport, 2001
After 2006 Bainimarama coup:
 During the height of the stand-off between the military and the Qarase government, VICTOR LAL had called for Bainimarama's arrest to avert the 2006 coup |  After 2006 coup Chaudhry walking side by side with Bainimarama as his Interim Finance Minister and Minister for Sugar |
SHOCKINGLY, when Mahendra Chaudhry flew into London from India and was met by VICTOR LAL and other members of the Movement for Democracy in Fiji in 2001, he did not have the courtesy to inform them that "Mother India" was going to secretly transfer millions into his Sydney bank account. Who says RACISM in Fiji does not pay? Speight coup made Chaudhry multi-millionaire, as Victor Lal found out seven years later, in 2008:
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FIJILEAKS WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD POWER TO ACCOUNT WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR:
"CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY"
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The following poem by Nikhat Shameem, published in 1995, captures the plight of the Indo-Fijians in Rabuka's Fiji:ANOME I leave this land where I was born this sunny warm May morning History has been unkind to take no note of this bond between me and this land of mine Misted porthole I look out, I leave my soul I cry my farewell to home and friends and a life well-known For what? I think with fear Yes, I am scared and angry too How can I start afresh? In a country not seen before what little choice I have Your home is not your home, they said Repatriate them! they called Ten more minutes to touch down Is that you my heart that pounds? I wait at the airport, clutching my suitcase and struggle with tears No job, no work permit, what do I do? Where will I go? No home No place to hide How do I heal my wounds? Head high I remember the Syria Through my veins flows girmitiya blood If they could do it so will I Do your damnedest I will survive in this new land New Zealand |   Fijileaks has extracted Nikhat Shameem's poem from the above book  "The Syria" in the poem refers to this girmitiya ship Syria which wrecked in Fiji in 1884; many survivors were saved by Nasilai villagers |
And an extract from Victor Lal's autobiography on the plight of "Exiles"
“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
V.S. Naipaul,
The Indo-Trinidadnian writer and Nobel laureate, in
A Bend in the River
GEORGE SPEIGHT: The fall guy who was hoodwinked to carry out his failed coup; now in prison
SODELPA leader Sitiveni Rabuka makes his way out of the Totogo Police Station after being released from police custody last September, 2016; Rabuka and other Opposition leaders were accused of holding meeting without police permit
The 1987 FLP-NFP Coalition government, led by the late Dr Timoci Bavadra which ended political chiefly rule in Fiji
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