“My mother was assassinated because she stood between the rule of law and those who sought to violate it, like many strong journalists. But she was also targeted because she was the only person doing so. This is what happens when the institutions of the state are incapacitated: the last person left standing is often a journalist. Which makes her the first person left dead.” says son Mathew Caruana Galizia Daphne Caruana Galizia was a fearless reporter, taking on the rich and the powerful. A one-woman WikiLeaks, she led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta. Her last blog was characteristically trenchant, pithy and, unfortunately, more prescient for her than she could imagine. She had warned: “There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.” Less than half an hour later, a huge bomb ripped through the white Peugeot 108 rental car she had been driving, killing her instantly on a quiet country lane near her home in Malta. It is not special pleading to point out that journalists and journalism are facing extraordinary challenges: Galizia is the 10th journalist worldwide to die this year – and the second in Europe – in pursuit of finding the truth. The Guardian The Maltese Police said the journalist had just left her home and was on https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/the-situation-is-desperate-murdered-maltese-journalists-daphne-caruana-galizia-final-words “The right of a journalist to investigate, ask uncomfortable questions and report effectively is at the heart of our values and needs to be
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Rajend Naidu
18/10/2017 12:28:13 am
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Rajend Naidu
18/10/2017 12:40:26 am
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Chiku
18/10/2017 04:17:40 am
Yes, when the institutions of the state are incapacitated the last person left standing is often a journalist - but not the kind in the Fiji Sun who instead of standing up for the integrity of the open society throw their sycophantic support behind the powerful and the corrupt.
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Bahuki
18/10/2017 05:10:21 am
In Fiji's case, any journalist who tries to uncover the dirty trail that the current regime has left behind ever since 2006 is often prosecuted since public protesting could lead one to getting shot if extreme measures were taken.
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18/10/2017 06:56:41 am
Threats were reported: brave! When the Police are rogue and party to the destruction of the Rule of Law, their absence from assistance is an immediate symptom of the disintegration of state apparatus to protect bona fide citizens and residents. When threats are proven to have come from INSIDE prisons the seriousness is near terminal. Either we care and pay heed or the decline gains momentum apace. Who are the Gatekeepers of Fear orchestrating violence in a Commonwealth country on the edge of Europe and how far is their reach? Pray for Daphne Caruana Galizia: her legacy and her place in the history of the Struggle for Peace is assured. Her demons are our demons.
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Rajend Naidu
18/10/2017 09:04:38 pm
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Rajend Naidu
18/10/2017 09:54:03 pm
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Rajend Naidu
18/10/2017 10:42:54 pm
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Rajend Naidu
19/10/2017 04:00:29 am
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19/10/2017 10:44:10 am
'Abuse of Power'? Yes, most familiar with that under every guise imaginable and not only in Fiji. But Fiji provides the most recent and terrifying example. There are those who are prepared to kill to achieve their ends and they ensure their cowardly methods are masked, covert and not easily verifiable. Those who are party to criminal conduct of this nature span many areas of life, are of all ethnicities but are mostly deemed to be male. Their religious allegiance is irrelevant since murder or attempted murder is forbidden in the canon of most religions. In Malta this week, a mainly Catholic country, assassination has been successful: of a leading woman investigative journalist who was aware of egregious and widespread corruption. In Fiji, there are many who are complicit in similar, deeply entrenched corruption. Their abuse of power permits their benefitting from every form imaginable of pillage. "Rape and Pillage" - the methods used by the Roman Legions in difficult terrain well outside the ambit of Roman Law. There are 264 rape cases queuing for attention in the Fiji Courts currently Justice Temo remarked this week. The Duty to Inform and to Warn is fundamental in a Democracy. As essential as the Duty to Protect. Harvey Weinstein sad to say has many emulators in Fiji. The Fiji Courts prove so almost daily. Turning a blind eye or one's back to this home truth is a luxury that will prove profoundly costly in both the short and the long term.
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Chiku
20/10/2017 11:34:47 am
Did Faiyaaz the man who talks about high public office holders needing to display very high standard comment on this abhorrent conduct by the " most senior civil servant " in Vanua Levu ?
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24/10/2017 09:29:35 am
Slowly, very slowly the layers of impunity through immunity unravel. The power of piercing 'The Silence' is shaking: the lawyers' imposed Non-Disclosure Agreements for employees working in Miramax and Weinstein Companies: next the cabal of alleged corruption around Malta PM Joseph Muscat. Sexual Assaults, humiliation and abuse of power in the workplace are globally being exposed. This relentless pressure must continue until the thuggery and threats of physical and psychological harm are removed from daily life especially in the workplace and in the home. Think of an onion and of how its layers may be systematically and carefully eased and removed. Slowly those who facilitated and benefitted but chose silence are coming forward to reveal the crimes they have been subjected and witness to. They worked for monsters! Notice the physical attributes especially the eyes of these depraved satyrs: they know, many of them, what they have become and it shows especially in the eyes of the soul. Neither are they solely male for many have enticed their family members and their female assistants into their webs of greed, lust and deceit. The tide is turning and even actor Tom Hanks considers it a Sea Change for Hollywood. Dreamworks shot their production 'Castaway' in Fijiover two years from 2003.
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