FIJILEAKS: A VOTE FOR RABUKA IS A VOTE FOR INSULT TO BAVADRA
FIP: Rabuka should form a political party with Bainimarama and contest election under the banner of FIJI IMMUNITY PARTY
Fijileaks: Indo-Fijians were scapegoated but the coup was to topple a native Fijian - Dr Timoci Bavarda - from the Western Division of Fiji
'In previous elections, the Alliance fear tactic [included] asking people whether they wanted an Indian Prime Minister; now, with the historic uniting of all races under the umbrella of the Coalition, the leader is a Fijian, so the question is whether a non-chief should be Prime Minister. One would thus imagine that if an equivalent chief from another province challenged Ratu Sir Kamisese, the Alliance question would be: 'Can we let a Prime Minister of Fiji come from any province but Lau?'.
Dr Timoci Bavadra during the 1987 election campaign
Fijileaks: It was the Fiji Labour Party of Dr Bavadra that highlighted the important proposal that all the citizens of Fiji to be known as Fijians in their manifesto of 1987. The party had also called for the establishment of a Land Bank or a Land Commission which would bring together some land and which could be made available in the light of the great need for farming land for the descendants of Girmitiyas who had opted to remain in Fiji after the initial contract term. Sitiveni Rabuka's coup sent Fiji into the dark ages and set us on the road to coup culture
"The penalty for TREASON in all Commonwealth countries is DEATH, and if this is to be my destiny I will accept it." Rabuka, 19 May 1987; not long afterwards he got himself IMMUNITY and promoted himself from a Third-Ranking army officer to MAJOR-GENERAL Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka
We say: SODELPA should stop presenting him as Major-General (Retired)
THE DEVIL'S AGENT CLOTHED AS GOD'S SERVANT IN FIJI
REMORSELESS RABUKA ON BAVADRA'S DEATH:
'On 3 November [1989] Dr Bavadra died after a long battle with cancer. Rabuka's reaction, he recalls, was to FEEL GOOD that his enemy was gone, for a major obstacle had been removed by his death. Bavadra's death confirmed for Rabuka the rightness of his action in May 1987' - |