Fijileaks: We have called for Sitiveni Rabuka's Immunity to be stripped (or he should volunteer to do so) so we can try him and the present thugs! PICTURES of Fijian suspects beaten by security forces were taken during a drug raid in 2009 and suppressed under censorship laws enforced by the interim government. Relatives of the men from the western provinces of Nadroga and Navosa have identified the police officer responsible for the beating as a national rugby player. "We are thankful that the pictures have been made public - it's about time people know what went on," a relative of one of three the men in the pictures said this hour. "Police threatened to kill us at the time. If the Police Commissioner wants to talk we will talk to him. "The truth must be told." Pictures released to Islands Business show that one of the men was scalded with boiling water by a policeman during the raid. Police Commissioner, Brigadier Sitiveni Qiliho, has promised to investigate allegations of police brutality. "It was in May or June 2009. I had hot water poured on my back. It was still boiling. You know how one is tortured; it was with knives and sticks. I think there were about 20 of them. I still have scars on my back. Sometimes I have flashbacks of what happened, when people experience these things they sometimes have flashbacks of the incident. I was admitted for three weeks in hospital after the incident. Our case was then dismissed and we reconciled" - Vilimoni Mateiwai, of Nakoro Village in Navosa This soldier who took part in the 2009 beatings is serving overseas!
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King Rat
13/7/2016 09:07:48 am
What about the welfare of the victims of these drug cultivators and pushers?
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Vili
13/7/2016 10:14:55 am
Yes, indeed.
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Socho
13/7/2016 11:43:09 am
Silly Vili what about the criminals in power who were prepared to exploit others for their own ends?
Samjha
13/7/2016 10:16:36 am
And we have been told democracy has returned to Fiji. Is this the" true democracy" the thugs in power promised?
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Pita
13/7/2016 10:38:17 am
King Rat I despair for you. Under our justice system a person is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in s Court of law.
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Dekho
14/7/2016 10:44:15 pm
The presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a competent, impartial and independent court of law is what you have in a genuine democracy. Fiji does not have that. What Fiji has is a dictatorship masquerading as a democracy with all the accompanying paraphernalia. In a genuine democracy the Police Commissioner whose men were engaged in torture would have had to relinquish his position. Nothing like that will happen in Fiji. A dictatorship is not governed by democratic processes and conventions.
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splashViti
13/7/2016 01:29:17 pm
There is no justification, or excuse, for torture. Period.
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Rajend Naidu
13/7/2016 09:34:26 pm
In the 1980s when no coup had happened in Fiji and the then Chief Magistrate Gordon Ward came to hear the cases scheduled at the Taveuni Court he took the ferry from Waiyevo to Buca Bay and then a lift in my government ( social welfare )vehicle to Savusavu .Contrast that with the way the political elite conduct themselves at public expense in post coup Fiji.
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splashViti
13/7/2016 02:53:17 pm
King Rat,
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Escobar
13/7/2016 05:04:06 pm
Old and stale news. Nothing new in this kakase column.
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Brig
14/7/2016 10:38:25 pm
Escobar, boci... There's no kakase going on. Read and learn from the learned participants comments!
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