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PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE: No split in Cabinet and don't read and believe blogs (Fijileaks) says Tikoduadua; We say he is trying to discredit our promised disclosure of him misusing provincial funds on his own farm

13/3/2015

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So Tikoduadua, Government Ministers and Permanent Secretaries are reading Fijileaks like thousands of other Fijians inside Fiji and outside the country?

State puts claim to rest

Friday, March 13, 2015

HEAD of Government in Parliament Pio Tikoduadua and acting permanent secretary at the Prime Minister's Office Naipote Katonitabua have urged members of the public not to rely on information concerning Government on blog sites and social media.

Their comments came in the wake of claims published on those sites of a split in Cabinet - forcing a possible reshuffle. "The best thing is not to get your news from the blogs," Mr Tikoduadua told this newspaper. Mr Katonitabua said there had been no discussion of a Cabinet reshuffle. "Right now, there is nothing of discussion. Nothing has been discussed on that matter," he said. "I think we just need to wait. If some reshuffle needs to be made, it will be done by the Honourable Prime Minister himself." He said the issue of reshuffle was just rumours. "If there is anything, you await the opening of Parliament next week but everything is normal as it is - nothing of that (Cabinet reshuffle) incident." Source: Fiji Times

From Fijileaks Archives:
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What next coup beneficiary ('No Military Men Will Benefit From the Coup') and car loan defaulter Tikodudua: 'Don't believe Victor Lal's 2012 revelation of the contents of the Board of Enquiry Report on Assault of State Prisoners on Board Fiji Naval Vessel ‘KIRO’; Last week, Opposition Whip Ratu Isoa Tikoca tabled a copy to the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs & Defence Standing Committee.
From Fijileaks Archive, 2012:

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And here is Viliame Naupoto, election loser and human rights abuser who led the vicious and brutal assault on George Speight and other State prisoners on their way to Nukulau; now Naupoto back with the RFMF

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PictureRatu Isoa Tikoca
13 March 2015:
Opposition Whip Ratu Isoa Tikoca tabled copies of the Board of Enquiry Reports on the 'Alleged Hostage taking Incident at the Nabua Police Station' in June 2000 as well as the Alleged assault on state prisoners on board the 'Kiro' while being transported to Nukulau Island to the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs & Defence Standing Committee last week
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Some aspects of these reports have been online before however they remain 'unofficial' and Ratu Isoa felt that this document should be tabled during the Standing Committee on torture as it was relevant.

Ratu Isoa said the copies of these documents are on their way to the Chairman of the Human Rights Commission who was widely reported in the local media as saying they would use Fiji as an example to the world for our Human Rights record. Obviously Ratu Isoa said he was surprised that a Chairman of such a high office like the Human Rights Commission should be so badly informed or totally ignorant of the facts to have praised Fiji Human Rights record as he did.

If the news reports were a 'spin' from the Ministry of Information, as I understand they might be, Ratu Isoa said,  but since there has not been any retraction or correction to the statements attributed to the Human Rights Commission Chair, it does not auger well for countries like us who experience abuse and torture, when a body that should know better allows itself to get caught up in such an orchestrated QORVIS style promotion of Human Rights that is just not true. 

Opposition Chambers
Parliament House
Suva

THE COUP IS A FORM OF TORTURE:
Ratu Isoa Tikoca

Coup d’état is an action that tortures the mind, it offends the soul and the whole value system of a person and so much so, it is enough to create an instability of the mind and emotions that it even kills its victims. This type of torture which afflicts the realm of the mind and soul has been be referred to as psychological torture

A physical enforcement to remove someone from his position or post and to deny him all the benefits associated with such post through a coup, can lead to death;  is is a form of torture  in itself!

The devastating physical and mental affects of such treatment of form of torture touches and impacts the immediate family members.

The extension of the impact of this torture extends widely and destabilises the family, and relatives of affected workers of all those who are dismissed from senior Government positions without cause or compensation; this happens in most coup d’états in Fiji.

They usually target  Permanent Secretaries, Executives of   Departments  not to mention Members of Parliament ,Judges and even Ministers and Prime Ministers and Chief Justices. The targeted victims, are expected to just take these unwarranted actions quietly and without a whimper. This is happening to our most senior and respected citizens who have risen to their positions through education, merit and hard work, and I believe with God’s blessings, and these people command the respect of their communities, Vanua  and Churches.

Given our small communities and as mall nation of under a million population in Fiji,  the element of surprise  and  shock treatment, and  public humiliation that follows  have   taken a heavy toll on our country in terms early deaths and all forms of mental illnesses. We now have in Fiji, one of the highest rates of suicide in the region and in the world not to mention the cases of attempted suicides. These figures will be denied by many especially the perpetrators of the coups but I am advised that it can be independently verified.

Many of former politicians and senior public servants who have been simply cast aside have died and no attempt has been made to investigate these early deaths. No attempt has been given to the study of their illnesses even given the huge problems faced by our health system. We have not got sufficient expertise to attend to the study these illnesses resulting from the coups and miss- treatment of various forms of mental and social dislocation. Our universities have limited number of specialists or expertise to be devoted to the study illnesses falling within this category.

Therefore, this type of torture affects many  ‘legions people  I believe  and given the many coups we had have including the unsuccessful one( of 2000),we have people who have been affected  over  generations:   from the first Coup in  1987 to the most recent coup in 2006 and to the present .

I believe those who have suffered from the type of torture that have highlighted have suffered more than or just as much as those who have suffered through physical torture. In fact those suffering mentally, emotionally and psychologically, suffer in silence, they are humiliated, their dignity is offended and their spirit is broken. In fact, they are our ‘walking dead’ and they are in our midst and yet they are voices and are seeking redress through this Standing Committee.

This is why I am seeking the views of this Committee to discuss this matter in detail as the destructive ramification of the impact of the coups continues to haunt victims for a lifetime especially when perpetrators of the Coup enjoy the benefits of their actions.

It is envisaged that the long arm of the Law will one day eventually catches up with all those who are guilty but the timeline varies and the damages incurred to the Nation as well to the individuals, communities and   families may become   irreparable.

Even if UNCAT is amended and ratified by the World, and another Military Leaders wishes to take power in a coup, we will be back to where we were.

 So we should also target the provisions of giving a wider power to the Military as is the case in the 2013 Constitution. After all the Coup of 2006 was justified under the provisions of the 1990 Constitution which was another imposed Military Constitution which gave such wide powers to the Military.   

Our experience in Fiji on this has been well documented in books and historical texts and it points to this is a crucial issue: that we must remove all likely possibilities of provisions in the Constitution that could be exploited by another Military leader to bring about another coup. This must be stopped and discouraged if we are really serious about stopping all acts of torture and other related illegal activities.

In hindsight Fiji is one of the many Nations in the world who has seen various styles of coups and our academics and writers have documented fully the many negative consequences of coups in our country. 

We have enough experiences of the past   are founded well with experiences of the past and we can share those experiences to others and of cause we are happy to contribute to international conventions and local actions necessary to change domestic laws to nullify this atrocious act and set up conditions to compensate victims of past coups and bring those responsible to the courts as a deterrent.

The compensation I feel we should work on should be three fold and this should to be agreed to locally and internationally as follows:

1.           Compensation for forced removals

2.           A life pension for all those peoples that are

     affected directly by the coups.

3.           All perpetrators FNPF [Superannuation Scheme]  

     funds to be cut by 50%   and these monies be

    directed to a special fund to be administered by

     the Justice Department in support of the 

     families  of coup victims.

The Law must continue to be pursued to charge the perpetrators and extensive search be conducted as well in relation to those people and their relations who have illegally  financially benefitted from the coups

The property of these perpetrators should be confiscated and sold and the proceeds returned to the public purse for the benefit of the country.

I seek the Committees indulgence to assess and deliberate on the proposal and act on it.

Hon. I.D.Tikoca CM, MSD

Deputy Chair
Foreign Affairs and Defence Standing Committee

Attachments:            
(1) Board of Enquiry Report on Assault of State Prisoners on
Board Fiji Naval Vessel ‘KIRO’
(2) Board of Inquiry Report into Alleged Hostage taking incident The Nabua Police Station Monday 19th June 2000            


13 Comments
Yep
13/3/2015 02:41:38 am

Yep, keeping what they do - abuse their positions as state officials - from public scrutiny is what the Bainimarama regime gang have been about from day one. And this is why they don't want the people to read the blogs like Fijileaks because it exposes what they do . Misuse their position and power. And this lot came to give us good governance!
What a farce. What a shameless lot!,

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HowSo?
13/3/2015 04:16:26 am

"No Military Personnel will benefit from the coup"

And yet military men like Tikoduadua (and too many to name) have infested the government and bureaucracy and all are 'jeeb bharo' full speed, every, every where.

Expose them Fijileaks!

And why all the fuss about the PM's position when Bai becomes the President ? Isn't Khaiyum the most obvious, probable and capable candidate?

Why Not?

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Rationalist
13/3/2015 05:08:58 pm

Why not?

He is already a highly polarizing figure and has too much talent to sit up there at Government House in Draiba spending all of his productive hours watching Fox Sports! Isn't that what Presidents do?

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rationalist
13/3/2015 05:20:40 pm

Its all very well for Tikoca to regale against the human rights abuses following the coup of 2006. But he has conveniently avoided his own role as one of Rabuka's lapdogs in the human rights abuses following the coup of May 1987. Tikoca is guilty of 'selective recall'. So much hypocrisy flying around.

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So
13/3/2015 05:59:49 am

Tikoduadua is right .don't read the blogs ( Fijileaks). Read the Fiji Sun to get to know all the great things the Fiji First Theft Party government has been doing since stealing government in 2006.

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Sa Sivia Na Butako
13/3/2015 05:26:40 pm

Atamata butako duadua !!

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Fear your Fate
13/3/2015 08:57:52 pm

The man can't even keep payments for his car! You kidding me,and they preach about prudent financial management to the nation! kidding me!

And you made us lose our jobs and houses..and in a financial ruin ,, remember guy 'as iam today so will you be tomorrow ' you bunch of uncouth thugs.

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And
13/3/2015 10:51:26 pm

Tikoduadua is the permanent secretary in the PM's office. He is accused of misusing public funds for his private project. That should come as no big surprise. The PM we recall missappropriated public funds to the tune of $184,000 for a dubious leave back pay. These guys have no qualms about dipping into the public money box.

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Fiji First Party
14/3/2015 07:29:52 am

Ratu Isoa Tikoca would do well to include in his list of human rights abused victims those who took refuge (from violence) at the Girmit Center in Lautoka, from June 2000 to Nov 2001.

These were the Indo-Fijian victim families (55 families, 355 humans, children and elderly included) of rural villages of the Naitasiri Province, Fiji, subjected to some extreme and severe human rights abuse. Victims of racist and hate inspired violence, beatings, looting's committed by the thugs –rebels who backed Qarase IG and later members of the SDL party.

These are the very victims whose promised (by the present President) compensation money was used for the “agriculture scam” for the ‘vote buying’ purposes by a racist Qarase led SDL. The plight of these victims was ignored by the SDL for 6 long years and then Bai/Kai for 8 more years. The very victims who’s “Girmit Heritage Party”, which was later named ‘Fiji First Party’ was STOLEN by Bainimarama and Aiyaz.
These victims- who suffered like thus:

“””…This time, however, the ‘attacks’ were more merciless and violent. Also more ‘rebels’ were involved, armed with cane-knives and crowbars. There were forcefully breaking and entering houses. The victims; farming families with children and elderly, had no choice than to flee from their homes - left to be ransacked at will by the thugs. Anyone who resisted was beaten-up. At times there were simultaneous attacks on three or four houses. Some ‘rebels’ rode a red ‘Twin-Cab Toyota 4X4’ which was loaded with all the ‘loot’. Three houses were also razed in fire on this night.
The women, often with tears, described to me the state of their houses when they went back -when things went quiet again. Every drawer, boxes and bags, in every room were rummaged through and valuables; jewelry, money, clocks, camera, radios, ornaments, music and video tapes, batteries, cooking utensils, cooking oil and gallons of kerosene– stolen. Stolen also from outside tool-sheds were the farming implements; forks, spades, knifes, files, spray pumps, hose-pipes, water-pumps, electric generators and yaqona, cigarettes and liquor.
The worst were the damages the thugs had left behind; some recalled their beddings, pillows and mattresses were ripped and torn, so were their curtains, any ornaments not stolen were broken.
One woman showed me a framed black & white photo of her deceased parents which was damaged by being ‘crow-bared’ in the middle. The partitioning walls were also often damaged by hammers or crow-bars. In many kitchens, glassware, chinaware, porcelain plates were senselessly smashed and thrown about the floor together with flour, rice, dhal and spices and bottles of achaar (pickles) – all messed-up and stepped on.

The children who spoke, mostly mentioned, their injured pet dogs with names like ‘ranger / rover / and doggy’.

Two days later, a truckload of Fijian youths arrived accompanied by a police carrier van and helped them-selves to harvest at random farmed produce; ‘tero’, bele, tomatoes, paw-paws, bananas from around the farms in the village. A few farm animals (bulls / calves) were savagely slaughtered, on their farms, in broad daylight, and loaded into “police” vehicles and taken away. The Police and the thugs seemed one and the same.

Fear was written on the faces of people - intense, real and spine-chilling fear. A group of families, with children and elderly, fearing random repeat attacks started taking shelter in bushes, at nights, not far from their homes.…”””
[Extracts: Anit Singh - Report to Fiji Human Rights Commission – The Reason for Fiji’s First “Refugee Camp” June 2000].

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Rationalist
14/3/2015 04:46:09 pm

Indeed, Tikoca should include these people that you highlight above. Thats what I meant by him being hypocritical and engaging in 'selective recall' by suggesting compensation only to those who were affected by events of December 2006. We all know who Tikoca is referring to here. Such a narrow focus.

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And
14/3/2015 05:00:39 pm

I know what Anit Singh is saying is true. I went to Muaweni with a SDA church man and a university teacher to provide some very basic relief provisions to the victims and heard the stories of the violence and thuggery they were subjected to by the Speight " civilian" coup perpetrators and supporters.
This racism was a repeat - more overt and blatant - that was given a launching platform by the Rabuka military coup of 1987 of which Bainimarama was a part.
The seeds of racism was sown by the Rabuka coup and it continued to flourish because none of the scoundrels faced justice for their crimes. With time it reared its ugly head again with the active engagement of elements of the Fiji military, police and the judicial system.

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FREE GEORGE SPEIGHT - TOO
14/3/2015 09:53:37 pm

Launching platform for coups were Rabuka, and bona-fide RFMF and launching platform 'suppor for coups' were members of GCC and GCC's decision as a whole.

Then why is George Speight and a few others serving life sentence, WHEN, senior RFMF offices REJECTED a command to plan a coup in 2003 when Bainimarama INSTRUCTED them to, sighting that would be treason?

What this means by definition is there was a failed attempt by military commander towards overthrow of govt in and around 2003.

So with failed attempt by George Speight's team should be equal to that failed attemt of 2003 having similar and not one that he should serve life sentence that goes past 15 years.

Notwithstanding George Speight DID NOT apply for waiver of death penalty, but it was the Government that applied to save FIJIANS an embarrasement to KILL an idiot Speight who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.... where the same GCC agreed for overthrow of Government as their desires but not as the means by military/Speight intervention, which once again SPEAKS VOLUMES of PERCEPTIONS is what is guilty of treason and not Speight..

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WHAT A FARCE - FREE SPEIGHT
14/3/2015 10:22:17 pm

When all evidence from within RFMF Enquiry CONFIRM command for coup was THROUGHOUT in Bainimarama's hands instructing from NORWAY to his senior officers, while others making claims it was Savua who was the actual leader to emerge, then recently it was revealed it was the sitting President Nailatikau was to emerge as the coup leader; then how are you claiming this 2000 coup was a "civilian" coup?

Then was Speighjt FOOLED by the authorities to accept guilty plea for getting a small sentence BUT Judge had no mercy to go on to take that away to rule maximum sentence, as these coup plotters wanted Speight to take the brunt so to save them?

What sort of HUMAN RIGHTS did Law Fiji had that no one seemed to have defended George Speight for coup was based on "PERCEPTION" to REWARD those who did a coup was planted by GCC by promoting Rabuka to a life time member of GCC?

AFTERALL, RFMF'S affidavit to Court of Appeal in Chandrika Preasad Case did confirm it was the "PERCEPTION" that the Commander was so satisfied to having abbrogated the 1997 Constitution and that was all that he needed to justify his decision at the time.

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