RABUKA'S proxy TIKODUADUA must be sacked and told to GO and read Military's role in Constitution. His boss Rabuka has a history of using his proxies to achieve his racial, military, political ambitions. Its in his DNA.

Like the way Sitiveni Rabuka was hiding himself under the snooker table when the 3rd FIR Battallion stormed the Officers’ Mess during the November mutiny in 2000. The Battalion Commander, Colonel Seruvakula, while the current Commander Ratu Jone Kalouniwai was held hostage and blood was flowing through the barracks, marched right onto the spot where Rabuka was hiding under the table, saluted and shouted “Sir, come out from there now, go into your vehicle and drive straight out of the camp". As he surfaced, Col Seruvakula again saluted and motioned him to his vehicle parked outside with his old Commander’s uniform still hanging from the rear seat  window.

*During the recent general election, Rabuka wanted Commander Kalouniwai to exercise his powers under Section 131 (2) of the 2013 Constitution and stop the counting of votes, claiming serious irregularities in the counting process that had put the legitimacy of the polls in doubt.
​Sitiveni Rabuka was backed by other political leaders.

Army Commander, Major General Jone Kalouniwai says the Republic of Fiji Military Forces is raising its concerns with regards to the sweeping changes of the current government to establish a firm transition of power and democratic control as the government of the day.

Major General Kalouniwai says the RFMF has quietly observed with growing concern over the last few days, the ambition and speed of the government in implementing these sweeping changes are creating shortcuts that circumvent the relevant processes and procedures that protect the integrity of the law and the Constitution.

The Army Commander says whilst the RFMF recognizes the justifications by the current government to establish these changes, the RFMF believes that trying and failing to democratize in adverse circumstances has the potential to bring about fateful, long-term national security consequences.

He says the RFMF is concerned, whether these rapid changes are being pursued without a full understanding of the process and procedures or intentionally done to challenge the integrity of the Law and the Constitution of this land.

Major General Kalouniwai says whatever the reasons may be, the RFMF feels that such actions and decisions is putting at risk the very nature of the Law and the separation of powers that clearly demarcate the independence of the three arms of government.

He says given that Fiji is a very new democracy and given our unfortunate past experience of governments exceeding or attempting to exceed its powers, section 131 of the Constitution ensures that the RFMF plays a guardian role where the excesses of the past are not repeated and any new assaults on our emerging democracy are not tolerated.

The Commander says this provision is also in place to ensure that the values and principles of democracy including the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution are not undermined.

The RFMF firmly believes that the separation of powers between the executive and the judicial arms of the state must be respected.

He says it must be important to understand and appreciate that a strong rule of law is built on respect for and adherence to a clear separation of powers between the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. Source: Fijivllage

GET OUT OF 2006. Fijileaks to Pio Tikoduadua. White-washing the 1987 coups started by your BOOT BOY Sitiveni Rabuka is the root of all COUPs in Fiji. Its rank hypocrisy to lecture Commander Kalouniwai, for Rabuka is still hiding behind the IMMUNITY he obtained by the GUN.
The Coalition is hell-bent on changing the 2013 Constitution and REMOVE the role of the MILITARY in that Constitution but it must follow the process as stipulated in the Constitution.

From Fijileaks Archive, 12 January 2023

From Fijileaks Archive, 14 February 2022

STARTING SHOT: Rabuka and his PROXIES (Tikoduadua) must read between the lines Commander Jone Kalouniwai's statement.
​Fiji has a history of COUPS, started by SITIVENI RABUKA

​Founder of the journalist fellowship programme has died

The founder of the fellowship programme which has brought hundreds of journalists from around the world to the University of Oxford has died at the age of 93. Neville Maxwell oversaw the programme for its first 10 years, initially awarding two fellowships to journalists in 1983 through the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. 
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Fijileaks: Our Founding Editor-in-Chief and former Senior Sub-Editor cum Investigative Reporter on the original Fiji Sun was one of the two first journalists from throughout the Third World to be selected for the prestigious Reuters News Agency study scholarship to Oxford. His book, in which he foresaw the 1987 coups, was with the publishers, waiting to be released when Rabuka seized power on 14 May 1987. The book had to be re-written with additional chapters and re-titled Fiji: Coups in Paradise. Race, Politics and Military Intervention.

The book was written under the academic supervision of Dr (later Sir) David Butler at Nuffield College, Oxford. Sir David, who died in Oxford last October at the age of 98, was the principal adviser to the late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the Allaince Party, and on the drafting of the 1970 Constitution of Fiji that Rabuka abrogated in 1970 to fulfil the aims of his two racially motivated coups in 1987.

The late Neville Maxwell (1926 – 23 September 2019) RIP>

Neville Maxwell, was author of the well-researched and widely read book,
India’s China War, 1970. 
 He had an academically fulfilling career.  In 1971, his controversial book played a key role in bringing about a historic meeting between US President Richard Nixon and China’s Chairman Mao.

​In 1959, Maxwell  was posted to New Delhi as the South Asia correspondent. In the next eight years, he traveled from Kabul to East Pakistan and Kathmandu to Ceylon, reporting on the end of the Nehru era in India and the post-Nehru developments. During the 1962 Sino-Indian War, Maxwell wrote for The Times from New Delhi and was the only reporter there who did not uncritically accept the official Indian account of events. 

​This eventually led to his "virtual expulsion" from India.[

'I felt that the 1970 Constitution was right and I had consulted a constitutional expert, David Butler by name, and his opinion was that the Constitution is right and [if] the Fijians stay united, we should still have power for a long time.'
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara on the abrogation of the 1970 Constitution shortly after the Rabuka coups.
50 YEARS AGO, Fijileaks Editor: "One of these days I will reveal all the correspondence made available to me between the late President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and my former academic supervisor at Oxford, Sir David Butler, on race, ethnicity, chiefs, party politics, and constitutionalism in Fiji."

Sir David Butler, pioneering election analyst, dies aged 98
And he developed a theory: that the number of seats a party won in a general election was proportional to the cube of the votes it received. It wasn't exactly a page turner, but he got the Economist to publish it. Out of the blue, he was summoned by Churchill. Butler hastened to Chartwell - where the great man emerged, glowing pink from his bath.
Sir Winston had read the article - but swiftly tired of discussing its complexities. Instead, he delivered a long, private masterclass on the art of wartime leadership. "You're 25? You'd better hurry up, young man," he told an awed Butler. "Napoleon was 26 when he crossed the bridge at Lodi." See Obituary below:
Sir David Butler, pioneering election analyst, dies aged 98 - BBC News