“Vulagi” in i-Taukei colloquial means special guests or visitors on a short visit. Otherwise vulagi is used euphemistically to describe foreigners like Indo-Fijians were referred to by the i Taukei movement in 1987, led by Coupist Sitiven Rabuka, Co-Coupist Ratu Inoke Kubuabola and Apisai Tora & Co
Fijileaks: We will write in greater detail about Rabuka's 'bullsh*t spin on the word Vulagi. The word is as common as dalo to all of us who were born and grew up in Fiji. Whenever our Indo-Fijian relatives visited us for weddings or funerals, we always referred to them to our i-taukei neighbours and friends as 'oh, our vulagi families from Rakiraki, Levuka, Lautoka etc'. In other words, they were our guests or visitors.
*In the late 1970s, whenever our Founding Editor-in-Chief and his i-taukei classmates went past i-taukei villages on their way from RKS to QVS, or from RKS to Korovou Town, his i-taukei classmates used to beg him to approach the i-taukei elders for water or to use the toilet facilities: 'Sega, Karua, we dare not go into the village. We are Vulagi to them. We have no right or authority to enter their village.'
So Rabuka and his racist mob should cut the bullshit on Vulagi meaning.
When in Opposition, Prasad was very quick to condemn the current Speaker and former SODELPA president Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu for calling NFP an Indo-Fijian VULAGI PARTY.
"It is not only insulting but its racist. The word Vulagi was used in 1987 and it brings back painful memories."
Today, he is quite as a Church Mouse against his Coalition Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka for branding Indo-Fijians "Vulagis".
STRAIGHT FACED BAIMAAN: Just look at the face of this Indo-Fijian TRAITOR who is yet to condemn Rabuka for describing him as VULAGI.
Why should Prasad? After all, it was NFP and its late leader Jai Ram Reddy who gave NFP's votes for Rabuka to become prime minister in 1994, and Reddy with another NFP side-kick the late Brij Lal, gave Rabuka IMMUNITY in the 1997 Constitution.
*The party also formed coalition with Rabuka's SVT to fight the 1999 election, and now in Coalition with Rabuka after the 2022 election.
*FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry is equally silent on 'Vulagi' furore.
*We can understand Chaudhry's deafening silence, for he exploited his 'Indian ancestral links' to pocket $2million from India after he was overthrown in the 2000 COUP, for as George Speight claimed, 'Indo-Fijians smell different', and as Rabuka wanted, should just pack and go, for never again after 1987, 'the Indians Will Rule Fiji'
RACIST RABUKA'S MIGRATION VISION: 'I hope Indians (Indo-Fijians) will bugger-off from Fiji. They should increase their emigration rate out of Fiji'
"In the next five to ten years there was potential for an increase [in] the racial divide in the sense that the rural areas will be Fijian dominated, the urban areas will be Indian dominated. Fijians will be 'agra-based' [sic], more Indians will go into manufacturing, light industry and the import-export trade. We (Fijians) will be the retail outlet, the supermarket shoppers. This is a concern for me but I think we will have to live through it. My other hope is that the Indians will migrate. We tighten the controls, then Fiji is no longer attractive to the Indian settler as it has been over the last 120 years. Maybe they will slow down their immigration rate, probably increase their emigration rate, thereby having a natural decline in their numbers, to a level that would be manageable.
When I talk about a manageable level I am talking about the tolerance thresh- old of the Fijians. Now it is beyond their tolerance level and that is why they are reacting, not because of the numbers but what the Indians can do with the num- bers. If they can gain control of the professional life, the economic life, and the political life of this country with the numbers they have, then the tolerance level, the numbers level will have to be greatly reduced. And we won't do that by the Butadroka-kind of policy, forced migration, but by circumstances-driven migration'
Rabuka had made the above comments in the last chapter of his authorized biography on the future of Indo-Fijians in Fiji. His book was released two months before 19 May 2000, when George Speight seized power and held Chaudhry and his MPs hostage for 56 days.
REALLY, CHAUDHRY? We wonder if Chaudhry was taken for a ride at the national reconciliation ceremony by Rabuka and his nationalist mob?
TAKEN FOR A FREE RIDE?
