 COUPIST Rabuka |  |  Anand Singh in later years |
In 1987, ANAND SINGH found himself at the receiving end of the Father of Coups, SITIVENI RABUKA, whose fanatical racist Tonton Macoutes, and the security forces, were leaning hard on him. Based in Lautoka, he had been briefed to defend a fellow Lautoka lawyer Haroon Ali Shah who was being held without charge apparently in connection with the arms that had been shipped into Fiji. He was also liasing with New Zealand lawyer Christopher Harder who had been hired to defend a group of Rotumans who had threatened to breakaway from Fiji rather than accept Rabuka's treasonous coup. There was also Rabuka's Internal Security Decree under which he was rounding up his opponents and throwing them into military prisons because GOD had whispered into his ears. As Harder records, 'Anand Singh was having a rough time. The security forces were leaning hard on him, his office and home had been broken into twice in the preceding week. Never before had it been broken into. He was representing six of those charged with the gun affair and needed a hand'. The harassment and threats continued until the racist Rabuka got his way but in a sweet irony he was defeated in 1999, and the same Singh went on to become Chaudhry's Attorney-General, only to be cruelly cut short by Rabuka's copycat George Speight. That is why we find it SICKENING when we see or hear Rabuka's 'B*ll greasers' pushing him to lead SODELPA into the 2022 election. This racist destroyed so many lives and has inflicted untold suffering on the likes of Singh and Others. To quote Harder again, 'Anand was nervous as we entered the Natabua Prison. He was a sensitive fellow struggling to survive where there was real oppression...' May Anand Singh's soul rest in peace. As for SITIVENI RABUKA, he can rot in political hell. He does not deserve our sympathy nor our support. Rabuka lit the racial fire for Singh and others to be held hostage by George Speight - he had unleased Coup Culture in Fiji. Only really DEMENTED people will advocate Sitiveni Rabuka for Prime Minister in 2022. What kind of a society are we trying to create - that it is normal to recycle DICTATORS to rule Fiji. Might as well, have another four years of Bainimarama-Khaiyum Dictatorship until a new crop of leaders emerge to consign dictatorship into the dustbin
