Rabuka tells FBC television audience he will NEVER reveal the names of all those who were behind his 1987 racially motivated coups - and yet wants his MPs to tell TRUTH
Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, now FFP Foreign Minister, tells FBC's 4 the Record that Sitiveni Rabuka was fully aware of the CRW Unit soldiers training on his (Rabuka's) farm to prepare for the bloody 2000 mutiny
at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks
* "New Party Leader of the Social Democratic Liberal Party Major General (Retired) Sitiveni Rabuka advised the party’s Members of Parliament to never tire of telling the truth" - SODELPA MP Salote Radrodro
* Rabuka claims that he had no foreknowledge that the CRW Unit soldiers (which he had founded after the 1987 coups) were training on his land before mounting the bloody 2 November 2000 mutiny to murder Frank Bainimarama, the then Commander of the RFMF
* BUT his 1987 coup co-conspirator Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, now FFP Foreign Minister, has told FBC's 4theRecord that Sitiveni Rabuka was fully aware of the CRW Unit soldiers training on his (Rabuka's) land to prepare for the bloody 2000 mutiny at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks
Which of the two coupists are to be believed?
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Fijileaks: The 4 the Record Sitiveni Rabuka interview [below] reveal that he is still a shifty and untrustworthy coupster - hiding behind his own IMMUNITY and refusing to reveal the names of all those who turned Fiji into a Satan's Paradise. WE REPEAT, SITIVENI RABUKA MUST GO NOT ONLY AS LEADER BUT ALSO HE MUST BE BOOTED OUT AS MEMBER OF SODELPA PARTY. He has become a liability to the party and to all those fighting dictatorship in Fiji
Watch the full interview with unapologetic SODELPA leader Rabuka:
Excerpt from Victor Lal: Fiji: Coups in Paradise - Race, Politics and Military Intervention:
"Ratu Inoke Kubuabola told Islands Business magazine of May 1988 that for more than six hours on April 19 he and Rabuka, later joined by Jone Veisamasama, 'talked about different options'.
It was on 19 April that the groundwork for the coup was laid and according to Kubuabola, 11 May was the day his co-conspirators decided to proceed with its execution. He also claims that when it was learnt that Parliament would not sit on Friday they had agreed to bring forward the coup to Thursday.
Another crucial intermediary between the Taukei Movement and the military, the Rev Tomasi Raikivi, provided his house in Suva as a centre for overall planning. Thus it was there that Rabuka met the other conspirators on Easter Monday, nine days after the defeat of the Alliance Party. We will let Rabuka explain the rest, as he did to Eddie Dean and Stan Ritova in his infamous autobiography No Other Way.
He went to Rev Raikivi's for, ' … What he understood was an ordinary 'grog' party. It was early evening, and he just walked in, as he normally would, throwing his 'sevusevu' of yagona towards the bowl where the 'grog' was being mixed. 'I saw all these people sitting down, and realised it was some kind of a meeting. Some of the people greeted me, although I could not see everyone clearly because it was fairly dark in the lounge-room. Nobody asked me to leave.' When his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he discovered the gathering was 'quite a formidable group'. He says it included Ratu Finau Mara, Ratu George Kadavulevu, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Ratu Keni Viuyasawa, the brother of Brigadier Epeli Nailatikau, Filipe Bole, Ratu Jo Ritova of Labasa, Ratu Jale Ratum, 'Big Dan' Veitata, and the host Raikivi. Another leading light at this meeting was Apisai Tora.''
"Ratu Inoke Kubuabola told Islands Business magazine of May 1988 that for more than six hours on April 19 he and Rabuka, later joined by Jone Veisamasama, 'talked about different options'.
It was on 19 April that the groundwork for the coup was laid and according to Kubuabola, 11 May was the day his co-conspirators decided to proceed with its execution. He also claims that when it was learnt that Parliament would not sit on Friday they had agreed to bring forward the coup to Thursday.
Another crucial intermediary between the Taukei Movement and the military, the Rev Tomasi Raikivi, provided his house in Suva as a centre for overall planning. Thus it was there that Rabuka met the other conspirators on Easter Monday, nine days after the defeat of the Alliance Party. We will let Rabuka explain the rest, as he did to Eddie Dean and Stan Ritova in his infamous autobiography No Other Way.
He went to Rev Raikivi's for, ' … What he understood was an ordinary 'grog' party. It was early evening, and he just walked in, as he normally would, throwing his 'sevusevu' of yagona towards the bowl where the 'grog' was being mixed. 'I saw all these people sitting down, and realised it was some kind of a meeting. Some of the people greeted me, although I could not see everyone clearly because it was fairly dark in the lounge-room. Nobody asked me to leave.' When his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he discovered the gathering was 'quite a formidable group'. He says it included Ratu Finau Mara, Ratu George Kadavulevu, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Ratu Keni Viuyasawa, the brother of Brigadier Epeli Nailatikau, Filipe Bole, Ratu Jo Ritova of Labasa, Ratu Jale Ratum, 'Big Dan' Veitata, and the host Raikivi. Another leading light at this meeting was Apisai Tora.''
Fijileaks: Sitiveni Rabuka has NEVER privately apologized to his victims
In his FBC interview Rabuka kept demanding to move on for he did not want to dwell on the 1987 coups but here is what Wiesel says to us:
President Barak Obama said: 'Elie Wiesel was one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world. Like millions of admirers, I first came to know Elie through his account of the horror he endured during the Holocaust simply because he was Jewish.'
The Indo-Fijians (contemptuously referred to as the 'Brown Jews of Fiji') and others MUST stand up against Sitiveni Rabuka and never forget the message of Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel who recently passed away. Wiesel was born in Romania in 1928. At age 15, while pursuing Jewish studies, he and his family were taken by the Nazi's to Auschwitz, where his mother and younger sister died. Wiesel survived Auschwitz, but was later transferred to Buchenwald, where his father perished. Wiesel's experiences in the concentration camps became the basis for his book 'Night', which won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Wiesel was liberated from the camp in 1945 and went on to study at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1948 until 1951. He became a journalist and learned French, which became the primary language he wrote in for Israeli and French publications.
In 2009, Obama traveled with Wiesel and German chancellor Angela Merkel to the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald. “After we walked together among the barbed wire and guard towers of Buchenwald where he was held as a teenager and where his father perished,” Obama said,
“Elie spoke words I’ve never forgotten:
‘Memory has become a sacred duty of all people of goodwill.’ “Upholding that sacred duty was the purpose of Elie’s life.”
