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Pot calling kettle black: Peters who refused to sanction Bainimarama's arrest in NZ lambasts Shaista Shameem's attack on his migrant speech

25/2/2014

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"It is extraordinary that someone who defended the 2006 Fijian military coup is even allowed to live in New Zealand let alone work here at a university with the ambitious title of ‘migrants director’." Winston Peters

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"Track Record Renders Academic's Criticism Absurd":  Winston Peters Press Statement

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says it is absurd that a Fijian academic with a poor human rights record has launched an attack on him.

Fijian Shaista Shameem, now working as Massey University’s migrants director, responded to Mr Peters’s speech in Auckland on Friday saying he was encouraging racism against migrants.

“It is extraordinary that someone who defended the 2006 Fijian military coup is even allowed to live in New Zealand let alone work here at a university with the ambitious title of ‘migrants director’.

“She has the audacity to comment on our political discussions and make criticisms that are completely wrong. Has she read the speech?  If so, she clearly did not take in any of the main points.

“Her statement is a rant and rave to justify and enhance her new position and get as much publicity for herself as she can.

“What is truly disappointing is the fact that a New Zealand university has now become a second branch of the Immigration Service.  Is it now an employment agency for migrants?

“It beggars belief that a university is employing someone with such a poor track record.

“From her position as Fiji Humans Rights Commission director she supported the 2006 Bainimarama coup, and was appointed Ombudsman - an appointment considered unlawful by an international human rights group.

“She is well known for failing to investigate human rights abuses during and following the coup.

“As commission director she condemned the advice of the New Zealand High Commissioner and strongly criticised Prime Minister Helen Clark. She also came out swinging against many well-known people in Fiji who were later dismissed from their positions.

“She even sought to interfere in the New Zealand Government by attempting to have the High Commissioner to Fiji replaced by a more ‘understanding’ commissioner.

“When the well-named Shaista Shameem gets involved in accusations of racism she doesn’t know what thin ice she is skating on.”

Press Release by New Zealand First at  2:42PM, 24 Feb 2014; Click HERE to read Professor Shameem's statement

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Peters (left) and Shameem (right). Professor Shameem: "Mr Peters does not realise just how much distress he is causing the new migrant communities in New Zealand when he takes to the podium to make the kinds of remarks he made in his state of the nation address in Auckland." NZ First Parrty leader Peters: "“Her statement is a rant and rave to justify and enhance her new position and get as much publicity for herself as she can. “What is truly disappointing is the fact that a New Zealand university has now become a second branch of the Immigration Service. Is it now an employment agency for migrants? “It beggars belief that a university is employing someone with such a poor track record."
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The late former New Zealand High Commissioner to Fiji, Michael Green, in his memoir Persona Non Grata, cites a “Muslim Coup” aspect of 2006 in which, he claimed, Nazhat Shameem, a high court judge, and her sister Shaista of the Fiji Human Rights Commission, advised Bainimarama’s secretive military council. Another Muslim lawyer Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum was also involved. “In due course all three were to be beneficiaries of the coup.” Winston Peters on Professor Shameem: “She even sought to interfere in the New Zealand Government by attempting to have the High Commissioner to Fiji replaced by a more ‘understanding’ commissioner."


BUT Peters is silent on his own role in letting 2006 coup happen

By November 2006 Green heard from credible sources that the Fiji Police were planning to arrest Bainimarama for sedition and disobeying lawful orders. Bainimarama instead made a series of demands and threatened a coup. He went to New Zealand on a private visit for the first communion of a grand child but “got it into his head” that New Zealand would arrest him. “He phoned (Defence Attache) Al MacKinnon to him that that, if he should be arrested, his ‘boys’ would be sent over the fence into the Residence to ‘get me’. The threats were taken seriously and mission families were sent home.Then Foreign Minister Winston Peters told Bainimarama would not be arrested in Wellington." - Michael Green in his Memoir

See also Russell Hunter and Victor Lal: Fiji police chief tried to get Bainimarama arrested in NZ
13 Comments
Rajesh
25/2/2014 11:06:28 am

Elite Muslim advisors for Frank/Army .Some have fallen from grace.
Khaiyum and Aziz been using army and frank for eleite muslim gain.
I agree with Peters for telling Shammems off.
Why didnt she stand up for human right abuse of Crw/Sakuisa Rabaka,Nimilote/others.
Why she is in NZ now.?

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Ramesh Singh
25/2/2014 11:32:27 am

Rajesh, what is your problem with Muslims.

Not long ago you were willing to do business with the regime, sending your Momi Bay project to Aiyaz Khaiyum!

You are renting your shop from a Muslim gentleman?

What are you doing in New Zealand? Hiding from the regime or Fiji is too hot for your pants - its Cyclone season, so go back to Fiji - is cold!

Shaista is talking about migrant issues, for which she has been appointed, you fool - Winston Peters, who took up your NSI case in Parliament to extract political mileage, was not making a speech on Fiji - he was talking about you and your children and other migrants

Shaista, STAND UP for our migrant rights in New Zealand - Vinaka

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Rajesh
25/2/2014 11:41:22 am

Ramesh you are like shameem .
I will do business that will help fijians get a job and stop fnpf for abusing its funds on momi/other hotel project.
So Shaista is queen and migrant fighter .
why she didnt fight for fijians rights ?.
My muslim landlord is a crook .

Rajendra Singh
25/2/2014 11:56:39 am

If your landlord is alleged crook, why are you still renting from him?

Broke migrant in New Zealand - read what Winston Peters said: "We welcome people who bring money into New Zealand etc..."

Come back to Fiji, its cold, and bring your money and start something else which will create jobs here

Keep up the fight Shaista!

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Carol
25/2/2014 12:11:09 pm

Hey Shaista, how come your request to replace Khaiyum as AG was thrown out of window by Frank?

You and Khaiyum were good buddies then why you wanted him to step down and you be appointed AG?

You have not come clean regrading your love hate relationship with this Franky government.

Come on this is the time, lets hear it from the horse's mouth

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Caroline
25/2/2014 12:22:55 pm

Carol

Why don't to focus on what Winston Peters said about migrants which has sparked the spat between the two!

Fiji and her role has nothing to do with the present spat

Keep it up Shaista

BTW - Khaiyum was on the verge of getting the sack from Colonial as a lawyer, so he jumped on the chance to become IG - anyway, his office is run by Kiwis and White lawyers from Hong Kong

Keep it up Shaista. There is no place for Qarase-type racism in New Zealand

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Carol
25/2/2014 01:05:19 pm

Oh Really, everything starts from home. When she was unsuccessful in Fiji, how can one expect her to be correct in NZ?

Let Peters and his NZ government deal with this woman - a classless woman

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Aunty Besty
25/2/2014 12:31:14 pm

Carol, stop attacking your Aunty Shaista on your mum's behalf!

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Carol
25/2/2014 01:52:20 pm

Hey Aunty Besty, Shaista is of the age of my grandmum. Cant call her aunty and my mum died few years back so she cant tell me whom to write about.
You waisting your time and energy Besty, take a nap

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tualeita
25/2/2014 02:27:03 pm

I think, Mr. Peters is right. Shaista violated human rights protocol when she was in Fiji. She was supposed to be an advocate but she was not. And for her to lambast Mr. Peters on the issue of migrants into New Zealand is ironical.
But, understandably, Shaista has to be a yes-woman to her employers and kowtow to their whims despite her own volition. She cannot be depended upon.

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huh??
25/2/2014 06:08:58 pm

nice name ...toiletia ...hahahahahaha

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tualeita
26/2/2014 12:13:03 pm

The name is of the range of mountains beginning from Vuda hills crossing the interior of Vitilevu to the Nakauvadra hills to Naitasiri, Namosi and to the eastern side. It means in the true Fijian language - the "mountain range of our fathers".
For those needing and "purporting" to call themselves Fijians when they are not indigegnous would perhaps, at least, try to understand and respect the Fijian language.

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Tee! Hee!
2/3/2014 02:09:15 am

Yes, big joke. People like blondy, want to be called Fijians but can't even speak the language or understand the 'collectivist culture of Indigenous Fijians (IF) to share and care'. In fact their superiority is even showing up in the distribution of scholarship on merit, now. Approximately over 80% of scholarships are now awarded to Indo Fijians and less than 20%, awarded to (IF). IF, have a special needs and required, special measures to "catch up". Nothing wrong with this, in a democracy. But we have to be humiliated, killed of, human rights abused by the Military and debated subjectively 'on line' rather than in a Parliament where we know who is saying what, why in mature fashion.
If we can play Rugby 7s rules at world class level, we can perform in any sector. We just need a "hand up". But we are treated now like convicts in our own country of birth where our leaders are being jailed for what??? For being backward and people like "Shyster" and all her degrees think she can bring peace through supporting a treasonous act in the events of December 5th 2006.
"Shyster's" tongue is forked, just like the English meaning of her name - unethical. If you have no love in your heart for human diversity, peace will never come. Now NZ and the Maoris can have a taste of Shyster and her Left to left politics. God Bless NZ

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