*Meanwhile, USP Vice-Chancellor Pal Ahluwalia is yet to respond to us whether he was aware that RAJNI CHAND, the wife of former USP Professor and his buddy BIMAN PRASAD, and a paid employee of the USP, was a TRUSTEE of GGI, when USP hosted the two-day girmit conference. 
Fijileaks: We call for the suspension of Biman Prasad from Coalition Cabinet and the matter be referred to FICAC and Police for PROBE.

*BIMAN PRASAD is refusing to answer whether HIS WIFE was aware (via Pillow Talk) that the Coalition Cabinet was going to set aside $500,000 for Girmit Celebrations, hence Rajni and Ganesh Chand ran and re-registered the defunct Global Girmit Institute.
*The GGI was approved the next day, and it went on to organise the two-day international girmit conference at USP.
*Was Prasad aware that his wife was running around, registering the de-registered GGI, which had failed to submit its audited accounts.
*Ahluwalia, who was the Chief Speaker, is yet to answer questions (see below) regarding the famous Nixonian question: When did he know that Rajni was a GGI trustee, and what did he know about the GGI?
*Was USP paid to host the conference? How much?

Fijileaks to USP Vice-Chancellor PAL AHLUWALIA, 15 May 2023
Apologies dost.

1. Were you aware when you accepted the invitation from GGI that Biman's wife Rajni was one of three trustees who registered the de-registered GGI on 23 February 2023 shortly after Biman announced the $500,000 for the Girmit celebrations?

2. Did the USP charge the GGI to host the conference, and if so, how much will be billed to the GGI?

3. What is the explanation for such a magnanimous gesture if it was free?

4. What action will USP take against Rajni or will you launch your own separate inquiry into her association with the Global Girmit Institute?

Most people, especially Indo-Fijians, are appalled by my revelations, and more to follow later.

​Regards
Victor

Fijileaks Founding Editor-in-Chief: ​*We seriously doubt the Coalition government's claim that the Anglican Church priest, the Reverend Charles Freer Andrews, was approached to personally tutor Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna. *I have in my private collection, many letters and papers of Andrews, that I have used for my manuscript, The Indian Coolies: Gandhi's Outcastes Within the British Empire, 1834-1920. *From available documentary evidence, Andrews (with William Pearson) made his first visit to Fiji in 1915, at the request of Mahatma Gandhi, to study the plight of the Indian indentured labourers. *In 1917, Andrews made a second visit to Fiji. He was appalled at the moral degradation of the Indian coolies and called for an immediate end to indenture; and the Indian Indentured System was formally abolished in 1920. *In 1936, on his visit to Australia and New Zealand, Andrews stopped in Fiji *Unless, there was another 'Charles Andrews', our 'CFA' can't have tutored Ratu Sukuna for preparation to Oxford University. *Was there, indeed, a private tutor for Ratu Sukuna, and who was it? ​*Sadly, while i-Taukei commentators have been too polite (frightened) to upset the 'reconciliation' bandwagon, the Indo-Fijians have been cheerfully riding on it. ​Ratu Sukuna and NLTB: Fact and Fiction, Written August 2005 ​By Victor Lal It was one of the wisest of Fiji’s colonial governors, Sir Arthur Richards (later Lord Milverton), who first offered to Ratu Sukuna the seed of an idea that produced the Native Land Trust Board. But it was Ratu Sukuna who planted the seed, nourished it, and gave the resulting plant sturdy growth and permanent form. The preceding statement is how the NLTB has portrayed the great Lauan chief to us on its official website. In other words, if it had not been for Ratu Sukuna, the Fijians would have been a ‘people without a land’. Now, a row has broken out between Professor Ron Duncan of USP and NLTB general manager, Kalavati Bakani, on the role and function of the NLTB in Fijian society. Bakani’s robust response also smacks of ‘Hello, what do you know, Professor Duncan, about the NLTB and its role as a guardian of native lands in Fiji’. What is the truth about NLTB and Ratu Sukuna? The answer will not be found in what has been written and perpetuated by the historians, the NLTB, the Fiji Government, and Fijian nationalists on Ratu Sukuna but what has not been written on the NLTB and the Lauan chief. ​ It lies in the examination of the private papers of Milverton, the initial architect of the NLTB, which has been gathering dust in the University of Oxford’s Rhodes House Library, the former depositary library of colonial studies. Milverton’s private and family papers are off limits to researchers. I was however recently granted permission to revaluate his private papers, especially those pertaining to his governorship in Fiji nearly 70 years ago. Let us see how Ratu Sukuna came to be involved in the creation of the NLTB.. The NLTB was created in 1940 by the Native Land Trust Ordinance (also known as the NLTO). Governor Richards landed with his family in Suva on 28 November 1936.

Private Collections

"All rent revenue from the land so allocated was to be paid into a welfare fund for the benefit of the indigenous Fijian population."
Governor Lord Milverton and Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna

But just look at the 'Kana Loto' Chiefs short-changing their SUBJECTS

Fijileaks: We argue that to balance the re-establishment of the GCC after a hiatus of 16 years, and the re-introduction of Ratu Sukuna Day, the i-taukei in the Coalition government and the chiefs had to cynically announce GIRMIT DAY, which the Indo-Fijian leaders and their pom pom cheerleaders fell for it. 
*When the 'Leonidas' returns to the Fiji Museum to gather dust, nothing of material substance will change for the descendants of the Girmitiyas.
*We have already been shoved down our throats, the resolutions that was passed by the GCC at Bau:
*A final report by GCC Review Committee, headed by Dr Ratu Jone Baledrokadroka, to be presented at a Special Meeting by the end of July; 
*Setting up a special fund for development of iTaukei - including reinstating the old lease distribution policy;
*Strategic review of iTaukei institutions, including the iTaukei Land Trust Board, iTaukei Land and Fisheries Commission, and iTaukei administrations comprising of iTaukei Affairs Board, provincial, district and village councils
*Endorsed the outcome of the iTaukei Resource Owners forum in March 2023 Economic empowerment to be a priority for GCC and iTaukei institutions
*An economic empowerment framework for iTaukei implemented by iTaukei Affairs 
*Confirmed head of yavusas (tribes) to receive $200 monthly for carrying out their responsibilities
*Endorsed nominees for members of Ratu Sukuna Memorial School Board

WHAT DID THE DANCING INDO-FIJIAN GIRMITIYA DESCENDANTS ON BAU ISLAND AND THEIR LEADERS GET FROM GIRMIT DAY. ZILCH!
RIP: The last remaining matriach of the Lal family, our Founding Editor-in-Chiefs paternal AUNT passed away in Sydney last week at the age of 94, during the GIRMIT DAY CELEBRATIONS.
*There was NOTHING for her to celebrate. After 50 years on her Rakiraki sugarcane farm, she and her husband (died a week before his 100th birthday; both fluent in i-Taukei Ra dialect) were evicted after the expiry of their land lease, and the house and horses were all confiscated by the i-Taukei Land Trust Board. They were forced to join their children in Sydney, Australia, missing their farm, the mango trees they had planted, and their old farming friends.
​*They never received a single CENT IN COMPENSATION.
​*They were treated worse than those TURTLES and PIGS offered to the Great Council of Chiefs, Thieves and Others on Bau Island.
*After all, to quote MICK BEDDOES frequently used favourite propaganda phrase, they were NOT the FIRST INDIGENOUS PERSONS OF FIJI.
*So, Ratu Sukuna Day and the traitors BIMAN PRASAD and MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY's celebratory words about Ratu Sukuna and his land policies wrung hollow in her dying days.
​Her ashes will be scattered in Australia, and not RAKIRAKI.
CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY

The Great Council of Chiefs can never be modernized, says Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka. Since the establishment of the GCC in 1876, it has had its own values and traditions that cannot be altered or changed to date. Rabuka says the meeting has the paramount chief’s representatives from the vanua together with their traditional values and identities, which makes the Bose Levu Vakaturaga unique. “It cannot be, because this is the Council of Chiefs, it’s established by Geneology and all they can do is listen to the young people and women in their tribes and take that onboard.”

An Extract from VICTOR LAL, CHIEFTAINCY versus DEMOCRACY
Before the 1992 general election, Rabuka stood for the presidency of the SVT, beating Mara’s wife, Adi Lady Lala Mara to the post. Was that where things went from bad to worse in his relationship with the Maras. Rabuka replied as follows: ‘It shouldn’t have been because my selection was done the proper way. Hers was only thought of at the meeting. Yes! My candidacy was lobbied for by Cakaudrove. We went to Bua and Macuata and asked Lau for support and some other provinces. At the meeting, someone realised what was going to happen (that Rabuka was going to win) and Tomasi Vakatora stood up and nominated Adi Lala.’

SHUT UP, COOLIE: In 2005, when our Founding Editor-in-Chief called for the ditching of Queens Birthday as public holiday, and the holiday be replaced by 'Leonidas or Girmit Day' the racists in the Qarase government told our Editor to 'JUST SHUT UP AND GO BACK TO INDIA'

GCC HYPOCRISCY: ​"Economic empowerment to be a priority for GCC and iTaukei institutions." Go, LEARN from Dr Mere Samisoni  

THE BURNING HOT QUESTION WHO WAS BEHIND HER EXCLUSION? Ratu Epenisa Cakobau or Sitiveni Rabuka? Fijileaks: Our sources claim that her success in the business world is a threat to the CHIEFS Patriarchal POWER BASE. The chiefly system will not survive the 21st Century.

Information Economy, which is about EQUITY based on REDUCING POVERTY AND PROMOTING EDUCATION, HEALTH, DEMOCRACY, GOOD GOVERNANCE, the RULE OF LAW, AND JUSTICE, WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN THE 17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (2030) AND THE BLUE PACIFIC (CLIMATE CHANGE, 2050)

DRITI

Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara

KALOUNIWAI

Brigadier-General (Retired) Mohammed Aziz

The Third Officer 'walking around a free man' is the former Deputy Commander Brigadier-General MOHAMMED AZIZ

*Our Founding Editor-in-Chief had provided bulk of the documents linking AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM to corruption and which formed basis of calls by Pita Driti, Ratu Ului Mara, Mohammed Aziz, and Jone Kalouniwai for the removal of Khaiyum from the interim military government.

*I vividly recall receiving a phone call one Saturday morning from Khaiyum's former BUDDY and now Coalition Cabinet Minister *******, asking me what evidence I had regarding Khaiyum. His BUDDY was with him, it later turned out, gracing the party.
*I had incontrovertible evidence and scores of leaked files on me.
*Aziz spearheaded the plan to remove Khaiyum but Bainimarama chased them away, saying all the allegations were 'hearsay' nonsense.
*When Driti, Mara, and Aziz were arrested, Aziz began crying at the Togotogo Police Station, and later through Khaiyum's interference he was released without charge, and is 'still walking around a free person'.
*KALOUNIWAI became a State Witness in the Driti Trial, prompting that infamous cartoon by TruthforFiji, mocking the alleged treachery on Kalouniwai's part.
*As for Aziz, Bainimarama owed him a favour, for it was Aziz who had intervened and stopped the interview when a soldier accused Frank Bainimarama of murdering the CWR mutinous soldiers.
CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY
Sadly, unlike Driti and Mara, the Great Council of Chiefs, Thieves, and Others went into HIDING for SIXTEEN YEARS (Yes, for 16 Years) and would have been hiding for another four years from Bainimarama and Khaiyum if the Coalition had not formed the government.
We cannot help LAUGHING at these COWARDS talking TOUGH in BAU, and their supporters basking in glory and thanking GOD-KALOU'.

Fijileaks on 75% of I-Taukei Living in POVERTY: The i-Taukei are living in poverty because their CHIEFS, at the neglect of their provinces, are either sitting in PRESIDENTIAL PALACE, PARLIAMENT or are in PRISON.
*As we have pointed out before, they looted and bankrupted the National Bank of Fiji to the tune of $450million, including the Methodist Church, which borrowed over $200,000. The Ordinary i- Taukei (Tomasi and Seini) barely saw a cent of the NFB Loans in whose name affirmative programs were launched after the 1987 racially motivated COUPS.

WOLVES IN TAPA CLOTHINGS? It is too early to rush to judgment about the Great Council of Chiefs. It could all be a ploy - already lease money is being snatched from the ordinary i-taukei. And we won't put it past the emboldened GCC to revert to their old bad habits. Therefore, the RFMF must remain vigilant, for it is the last bastion of law and order in Fiji

Fijileaks: When we read a glowing article on Jone Baledrokadroka in the Fiji Times (12 February 2023) that extolled his life in the military, and later at the Australian National University, we told a friend: 'Bro, you bet our bottom dollar, the gullible Fijian public are being prepared for some position for him by Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka and his henchmen.'

*​Lo, and behold, we were right. Baledrokadroka was announced to chair the GCC Review Team. 
​*We have nothing personal against Baledrokadroka. He is among many who have flooded into Fiji, tasked with righting the wrongs of the Bainimarama government.
*However, as we pointed out recently, we do not hold our breath, for when you shut out Indo-Fijians from the GCC Review Team, you will end up with a skewed REPORT.
*We will continue to publish our own perspective on why the i-taukei are victims of their own Chiefs, Thieves and Others. 
​*In his 2012 thesis, 'Sacred King and Warrior Child: The Role of the Military in Fiji Politics', Baledrokadroka states that, 'I had served on the Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) for the Province of Naitasiri and witnessed the workings of the neo-traditional politics at the elite level'.
*We look forward to Baledrokadroka's GCC Review Report.

Meanwhile, our reply to the Professor on Baledrokadroka's PhD Thesis.
"Bula Bhai, In that book Russell and I were working re 2000 mutiny chapter, we had put to him several questions but he became agitated with us. We had interviewed high-ranking military officers who had freely spoken to us of their own roles and that of Baledrokadroka. His version of events contradicted those who had participated in quelling the 2 November mutiny. It was Pita Driti and his men who finally brought the mutiny to an end. From our interviews it also emerged that if he had consulted senior military officers before he confronted Frank, he would have succeeded in removing Frank as Commander. 
Our people have grog dope memory so as you notice, I always remind the readers about dark secrets as you have put it. I have nothing personal against Baledrokadroka but had put to him questions." Loloma

*The Ra Provincial Council and the Great Council of Chiefs in 1982, through two racist resolutions in Bau, tried to reassure the i-Taukei Fijians of their determination that they should, and always would, rule Fiji. 
*But they were happy to carry the WHITE MAN (WOMAN) on their shoulders.
​*Until Bainimarama disbanded them, and told them to 'Go Drink Homebrew Under the Tree', they were behaving like the Supreme Religious Rulers of Iran, terrorising dissident commoner i-Taukei Fijians, Indo-Fijians, and Others who dared to hold them to account.
*Most who looted and bankrupted the National Bank of Fiji were chiefs, who had borrowed millions to run their so-called i-Taukei businesses, claiming Indo-Fijians dominated the Fijian economy.
*They have NEVER suggested that an Indo-Fijian be nominated as President of Fiji. Instead, they are fighting to designate one of their own provincial tribal chief to replace the current President Katonivere.
*The GCC Review Team (mostly from Tailevu, where my maternal family have deep roots) consists of i-Taukei Fijians and a Chinese, GRAHAM LEUNG, even though a re-constituted GGC will also impact Indo-Fijians.

'The Great Council of Chiefs has passed an incredible resolution calling for a constitutional change which, if it occurred, would change Fiji overnight from a democracy to an autocracy, or even a dictatorship. It is a horrendous thought. For many years Fiji has been held up to the world as a multi-racial society which works-where two races with widely disparate religions, culture and ethnic backgrounds have lived and worked harmoniously for a hundred years. ​Now, with a stroke of a pen, a group of our most respected elders and statesmen are prepared to throw all that away and march backwards into the 19th Century and beyond.’ The Fiji Sun Editorial on Bau meeting resolution, 1982

Fijileaks Founding Editor-in-Chief: "I will never forget returning to the original Fiji Sun office in Lami (shut down by Rabuka after the 1987 Coups) from Bau in October 1982, angry, upset, and with a sense of betrayal by the paramount chiefs, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau and Ratu Sir George Cakobau following the Ra Provincial Council's obnoxious resolution at the GGC meeting at Bau that political leadership of Fiji must remain in the hands of i-Taukei Fijian leaders. *After all, my father was President of the Tailevu North Alliance Party, and our paternal family were all blue-blooded Alliance Party stalwarts. My uncle had stood against NFP Deputy Leader Mrs Irene Jai Narayan in the 1972 and 1977 elections, and was also the Alliance Party's Lord Mayor of Suva. ​*As a youngster, I had actively campaigned for Ratu George Cakobau and Ratu Penaia Ganilau for the Tailevu communal and open seats in elections. How could these chiefs BETRAY our family? ​And disenfranchised them from 1990 to 1999, and treated them as second-class citizens.

*Hence, when I sat down to write my book on Fiji, I began by condemning the late Brij Lal's thesis that 'Fiji was a success story in race relations that other bi-racial and multi-ethnic societies should emulate'. His book was Politics in Fiji. A prickly soul (RIP), he never saw eye to eye with me afterwards, and shied away from quoting my own writings in any of his voluminous works. As one of the architects of the 1997 Constitution, Brij Lal and the late Jai Ram Reddy gave Sitiveni Rabuka IMMUNITY from prosecution, still in existence in the 2013 Constitution.
*Reddy also appeared before the GCC and accorded the GCC unwarranted mandate to be 'Chiefs of all RACES in Fiji'. 
*In 1986, I had ended my manuscript by predicting that if the Alliance Party, led by paramount chiefs, lost the forthcoming general in 1987, the predominantly i-taukei military would intervene and overthrow the Bavadra government. As predicted, Rabuka executed the two coups.
*The publishers had caught cold feet and were holding onto the manuscript until the 1987 elections was over. I had to re-write the book and it was published as Fiji: Coups in Paradise - Race, Politics and Military Intervention.
*In the concluding chapter, I had made an impassioned plea to the Chiefs, Thieves and Others: 
​"The chiefs determined to imprison themselves in the racist garb of supremacy and tradition, and their antagonists, the Fijian Indians (Indo-Fijians), threatening violence and vengeance, both sides must be urged to re-examine the findings of the Royal Commission that investigated Fiji's electoral system in 1975. This Commission had strongly advocated extending national seats in order to defeat the politics of communalism. The chiefs, prejudiced by lack of vision, must, on the other hand, in the months and years to come, realize that 'tradition is a guide, not a jailer', in order to save the country from the calamity that confronts them; the Fiji Indians with a history of rebellion on the sugar plantations and burning political ambitions in their hearts are repeating the lines of Richard Lovelace: Stone walls do not a prison make - Nor iron bars a cage."
​*I pointed out that i-Taukei Fijians do not realise that what they passionately believe to be their ancient heritage is, in fact, a colonial legacy. As for the future, they have reached that, 'Tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life, Is bound in shallows and in miseries.'
*It is to be sincerely hoped, I pointed out, that the i-Taukei will wake up to the fact that although they were given a garden of Eden, living on Fiji Islands, that isolation is bad for the individual; it is infinitely worse for a community or a country.
*In conclusion, the Chiefs, I warned, still have a choice today - to borrow the late Martin Luther King Jnr's warning - non-violent co-existence or violent co-annihilation.

*As it was widely reported, I was accused of being the second-in-command to the mastermind arms shipper Mohammed Rafiq Kahan in London, tasked with delivering the 60 tons of deadly weapons, and to kill or capture the then RACIST COUPIST SITIVENI RABUKA, to end our sufferings in Fiji. ​ ​*In our mission, we were assisted on the ground by the late Rewa chief Ratu Mosese Tuisawau, who was charged with instigating armed invasion.

*Refusing extraditions, the British courts ruled that Kahan and Others would never get free and fair trials, and the acts were political in nature.
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*Sadly, the i-Taukei Chiefs, Thieves, and Others never thought that one of their very own - Frank Bainimarama - will disband the Great Council of Chiefs, and tell them to 'Go, Drink Homebrew Under the Tree'.
​*We hope the Chiefs meeting on Bau Island have sobered up in the last 16 years and will NEVER again embark on their self-destructive journey, dragging their commoner subjects and Fiji down the abyss.

The RFMF told the Yash Ghai Commission it wanted GCC Abolished

The background to the Ra Resolutions at Bau in October 1982

UPDATE: DPP concludes No charges to be laid against Ratu Mara

DPP and Nolle Prosequi: No Charges Against Ratu Uluilakeba MARA

*In Latin, nolle prosequi means unwilling to pursue the matter. As the matter stands, the Lauan chief is NOT a fugitive from law because in 2014 Pryde had decided to enter a nolle prosequi in the case.​
*A nolle prosequi is not an acquittal, so the double jeopardy clause does not apply, and a defendant may later be reindicted on the same charges.
*Mara can be re-charged by the DPP but since he is yet to be arrested and re-charged, he is NOT a FUGITIVE from the law. He is a FREE MAN.​
*It has emerged that it was suspended DPP Christopher Pryde who had asked Police on 15 March 2023 to inform the Fiji Immigration Department that Mara was 'Person of Interest'.

*On 3 October 2014, the former Director of Public Prosecutions Christopher Pryde had entered a nolle prosequi in the Suva Magistrates Court against Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara who was charged with swearing about dictator and coupist Frank Bainimarama and his group in another country (South Korea). 
*As we had revealed, Ratu Ului was charged after the sour grape MANASA TAGICAKIBAU (a major rank officer), to whom Ratu Ului had expressed his feelings, had reported Ratu Ului to Bainimarama.
​*Tagicakibau was promoted as Ambassador to China. Ratu Ului fled to Tonga because he was NOT going to be accorded a FAIR TRIAL
​*We would like to point out that Ratu Ului was charged with making seditious comments (to Tagicakibau) whereas Brigadier-General PITA DRITI was charged with Inciting Mutiny and was jailed for Four Years.

STRAIGHT TALK: Our Founding Editor-in-Chief has never shied away in the last four decades from holding the Great Council of Chiefs to account, for many ordinary i-Taukei commoners are caught between Chiefocracy, Democracy, and Tradition. 
*While there are rumblings in Cakaudrove that the chiefly Father-Son are lording it up in Parliament at the expense of their subjects, many in Namosi are claiming that their CHIEF Ratu Suliano Matanitobua brought disgrace to the PROVINCE by entering Politics and Parliament. 
*We found a calendar from 1940 (see below) where Namosi was selected by the Fiji Colonial Government as the perfect POSTER VILLAGE.
*Today, its reputation lies in ruins, with the province declining to participate in the upcoming GCC meeting, and its paramount chief behind the prison bars, all because he wanted to be Chief and Politician.
*Matanitobua was charged with falsely stating that his permanent place of residence was in Namosi Village, Namosi and obtained $38,378.22 between August 2019 and April 2020.