SITIVENI RABUKA: "I did not start the coup culture in Fiji". If so, who did, you bloody LIAR, Racist, Tribalist, and Political Opportunist who went into hiding after mutiny charges and have now surfaced to LICK POWER

16/5/2017

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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' -
John Sharpham, Rabuka of Fiji, The authorised biography of
Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka

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

1988 - 2018: When, and if, Fiji goes to election in 2018, let us not forget that what SODELPA and his new found coalition partner FLP are accusing FFP of, this man started it all with his two coups in 1987:

LONDON 1988: VICTOR LAL AND MOHAMMED RAFIQ KAHAN determined to end Rabuka's reign of terror and violence in Fiji

"I wanted you to test the guns that we are going to supply to our brothers (Indo-Fijians) here because Fiji is making a fool of itself in the world. There are traitors running this country...The [arms] were brought to Fiji for the protection of the Indian people during civil disturbances." Mohammed Rafiq Kahan, the principal gun runner, who later warded off an extradition bid by Rabuka and his coup conspirators

Rabuka started it all in 1987: From Banana [Republic] to Bainimarama

SODELPA wants Fiji to replace Frank Bainimarama with Sitiveni Rabuka

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Rajend Naidu

16/5/2017 09:54:51 pm

Editor,
Remembering The Horrors Of Our Past.
In his passionate speech remembering the horrors of the Holocaust Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull said the establishment of a permanent Holocaust Exhibition Museum in Sydney was " A reminder that we should not assume that the Holocaust was one break in reality, one act of insanity that could never be repeated again. The Holocaust revealed that the most advanced of us, the most sophisticated of us, the most technologically advanced of us can do the most horrendous things" ( Speech At The Launch Of The Holocaust Exhibition, Sydney Jewish Museum).
We know that only too well as victims of Rabuka's racist-fascist military coup of 1987.
Eddie Jaku aged 97, the sole survivor from his family from the Nazi death camp in Auswitz, speaking to visiting school children said " human beings must behave as human beings" ( 7.30 Report 16/5 ).
That's what makes the human animal qualitatively different . But time and again we have witnessed human beings not behaving as human beings. That human savagery lurks just beneath the skin of human civilisation.
We had the tragedy of witnessing that in Rabuka's scapegoating the Indians coup in 1987 and again in Speight's racist coup in 2000.
We must remember the Holocaust ( humanity's inhumanity abroad ) and We must remember our coups ( citizens persecution and abuse by fellow citizens at home ) to tell us we must never go down that path again.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Waqatabu

16/5/2017 10:00:37 pm

Victor, you need to make up your mind. It seems you want to get rid of Bainimarama, but not willing to accept that Rabuka is the 2nd preferred PM. So which one will it be? Rabuka has already apologized to the people of Fiji about what he did - has Bai done that? Rabuka is a human being and he made some very big mistakes - he is human after all, just like you and me. You need to make up your mind - otherwise, stand in the next election and see how far you go.

Victor Lal

16/5/2017 11:36:26 pm

Waqatabu, what if Bainimarama apologizes tomorrow - that is the problem with the likes of you.

You refuse to see the criminality in Rabuka's treason.

If we are to accept your suggestion, maybe empty Fiji's prisons of those criminals who are willing to apologize for their heinous crimes

Fiji will go to the DOGS if we remain silent and hail SODELPA for choosing Rabuka to lead them into the election.

I never heard of you. We have not fought for 30 years against dictatorship to see Rabuka back from the shadows.

Go VOTE for Rabuka, and live happily in your FIJI, if that is what you want - and don't complain if there is another COUP after the 2018 election

Chiku

16/5/2017 11:57:49 pm

Victor Bhai, I am one with every thing you say except that bit about Fiji going to the Dogs if we remain silent and hail SODELPA for selecting Rabuka to lead them into the next elections.
Fiji has already gone to the dogs!
How can we get our beloved country back from the dogs?
That's the critical question.
My own answer is there should be only ONE OPPOSITION PARTY challenging the DOGS IN POWER so that the people have a clear, unambiguous choice .

Waqatabu

17/5/2017 06:18:34 am

So what alternative do you have? Who is the person you think can go up against Bainimarama? You? Chaudary? Who? Rabuka is the only person right now in Fiji who can go toetoe with Bai. That is the reality on the ground in Fiji. And if yo think I am pro rabuka - you are sorely mistaken. As for your comments " I never heard of you - well since you want to go on a personal level - let me say this to you. I have heard of you - i have heard of you all right - living away from Fiji and passing remarks from wherever you are.

confused?

17/5/2017 09:21:58 am

Chiku, There has to be some incentives to accept a single opposition party stand.

So has SODELPA announced a policy that supports the Indians to join as a one opposition party with an attractive preposition penned in current manifesto?

And are they having a spin on Christian State and have they shown any policy how they will first clean current Christian's to be reborn Christians, as many acts by significant current Christians are anti-Christ and demonic acts?

Christ means God and so does Krishna means God.

GOAT

17/5/2017 02:10:31 am

The coup culture was started by the white settlers who in conjunction with the Ku Klux Klan installed one Epenisa Seru Cakobau as King of Viti on the shores of Levuka at 10am on the 5th June 1871.
They started the coup culture !!!

Waqatabu

17/5/2017 06:26:10 am

Chiku - it goes back to my initial question - who is going to lead Fiji to challenge the DOGS in Power? That is the question I asked Victor. That is the questions we need to answer.

Walker

17/5/2017 06:30:34 am

What if Rabuka promised to revoke the immunity provisions from the 2013 Constitution if it can legally be done; will you Victor accept that? There must be a way out for Fijians from their current dillema ......and at the moment that way out is looking more like Rabuka...what would make him acceptable to lead,not only SODELPA, but all Fiji's opposition parties into the polls?

Welcome Home

17/5/2017 08:46:14 am

Has Fiji truly Gone to the Dogs? A test might well be coming on 15 June 2017 when the former Director CID Luke Rawalai of the Fiji Police Force has his Plea taken in the High Court in Suva. Rawalai had been approached in Good Faith to assist not only on complaints of alleged corruption but also of the connections to Serious Organised Crime spanning the Western Division and other Divisions. The dates in the charges cover a period of high criminal activity. It is scarcely surprising that threats from within Corrections to persons outside reached an unprecedented peak in 2012 and 2013. The betrayal of trust exhibited by purportedly Rotten and Rogue Police Officers and complicit Public Officials must never be underestimated. An atmosphere of terror is created under the surface of daily life. The Suva rape trial now underway shows the depravity that is set loose. A 'Dog House' is used for repeated violations (evidence reported from the trial). There has never been a greater need of excellence in Court reporting in Fiji than now. Journalists are required to come forward fearlessly for training which must be equal to Hansard standard. Their safety and protection must be assured both in and outside the High Court. Your Country needs you!

Gulong

17/5/2017 08:57:57 am

I am with u on this one Victor. Where Waqatabu falls down is he fails to distinguish between a capital offence which is treason and punishable by death or a life sentence and a summary offence which is a relatively minor offence punishable by a fine or a prison term. A summary offence may be forgiven but a capital offence is so serious there is no discretion for forgiveness. Rabuka held a gun to our collective heads to extract a pardon from Parliament in return for his giving up power and returning to barracks. The granting of the pardon was done under duress and therefore invalid under international law. Like Pinochet, Rabuka needs to be arrested by a foreign power and tried for his treason and beatings done at the hand of his soldiers. Someone has to initiate action at the Geneva-based Human Rights tribunal against Rabuka and maybe Victor u r the man to write up the indictment for that case.

Waqatabu

17/5/2017 09:46:44 pm

Gulong - the fact of the matter remains. Who do you think has a better chance of facing off with Rabuka? Victor has not answered that? No other names have been suggested.

Tukana

17/5/2017 11:50:34 am

Interesting discussions gents/ladies. The question remains - who do we have that can gain the trust of the majority of our voters to topple Baiyarse juggernaut.

Victor's attacks against Rabuka whilst holding the moral high ground does not as Waqatabu alluded to reflect the reality on the ground.

Chaudhary is a dickhead and if he thinks that he can still hold sway with farmers pushing for a higher cane price for one cane pay or even two without coming up with a long term solution (as indicated by the Feds) , then he has another think coming. Cane farmers will no longer listen to his type of rhetoric. And, unfortunately, my friend Biman does not have the sway that is needed across the board to pull it all together.

So what is a possible solution? The way I look at it there has to be a coalition between the Feds and Sodelpa. The Feds need to get back the Indian vote and Sodelpa need to get back the young Fijian voters.
Unfortunately, for you Victor, holding the moral high ground will not win elections but, will, if people follow your reasoning perpetuate the Baiiyarse juggernaut. Politics as the well known cliche says, is the art of the impossible.
The world knows your position on coups, etc. What is your position on ousting the Baiiyarse juggernaut, their corrupt, institutions, their fawning chamchas, the kickbacks, etc, etc etc and all the wrong doings that you have been made aware of". Vinaka.

Welcome Home

17/5/2017 01:56:55 pm

"Politics is the art of the possible". The quote belongs to the German statesman Otto von Bismarck. And that IS the very point. It has often to be pragmatic or 'realpolitik' and deal with what is ACHIEVABLE (the 'A' in SMART). In 1996 that is what was done to achieve a measure of stability and a cessation of violence. Do not underestimate the toll it took on those involved. At close quarters one observed and the stress was ultimately too great for a number of those participating despite good intentions. Count Otto von Bismarck must have been sturdy and up to it a century earlier.

Welcome Home

17/5/2017 06:40:32 pm

At the risk of boringly having to again point out failures of editorial oversight too important to ignore: Fiji SUN online report of the Colaunidolu alleged abduction/rape/murder trial in Suva yesterday sets the date of one serious aggravated assault as "31 February 2013". This is nonsense and the reporter and Editor responsible should be reprimanded and retrained immediately. The same applies to the Online reporting FBC site. The standard of English grammar is unacceptable and comprehension lacking. Tighten Up! The outside world is watching.

Gulong

17/5/2017 07:05:56 pm

In answer to yr question Tukana the man to oust the Khaiyum and his puppet, Bainimarama kitchen stoves bandwagon is Pio Tikoduadua who is highly regarded not only in his home province in Tailevu but in other areas as well. Pio is a pious Roman catholic and an honourable man, brave enough to resign from Parluament and the Fiji First Party when he realised that his opinion did not matter, only that of Khaiyum and Bai.

splashViti

18/5/2017 11:50:05 am

Gulong

Your hero actively supported high treason "for almost a decade", before resigning from Parliament citing ill-health and NOT because he no longer had the ear of his criminal boss. Now that he wants a place in the political limelight, he conveniently sticks his "little blunt butter knife" (i.e. his lame excuse is not news to the nation) in the back of his fellow usurpers. No honour amongst thieves... and traitors.

A pious RC? Pffft. Even the late Archbishop Petero Mataca, to his credit, realised much sooner that he had been "used" by the usurpers to provide the much-needed moral legitimacy for the 2006 coup. He subsequently resigned as Archbishop.

Gulong

18/5/2017 02:34:52 pm

Splash Fiji. Arch Bishop Petero Mataca was indeed used by the regime but he never resigned as Arch Bishop as you claim. I was offering Pio's name forward as a better indigenous leader than Rabuka in answer to Wagatabu and Tukana's question as to who is good (and big) enough to stand up to Frank Bainimarama. I did not say he was without sin. Colonel Pio has the same military qualifications if not higher than Rabuka before the latter promoted himself to Brigadier General. He was at staff college in Canberra when Bainimarama carried out his coup. He could have sought political asylum in Australia but his love for Fiji, his sense of lotality as a public servant and in the true tradition of the public service to remain apolitical he returned to the service and was assigned his positions as all civil servants are by the Public Service Commission. He never committed treason, how can he as he was away studying abroad when the coup happened? Colonel Pio has principles where Rabuka has none. He and Biman are a far better and trustworthy option for Fiji than the alternatives, Bainimarama and Khaiyum and Situveni Rabuka and Dhaku Chaudhry. Open your eyes and your heart please.

Chiku

19/5/2017 02:13:36 am

Wow! So all those hand picked people ( military and civilian) installed in various high positions in the Fiji public service by coupist Bainimarama and Khaiyum are, in the true tradition of the public service, " apolitical "?
You joking right?

splashViti

19/5/2017 10:12:44 am

The late Archbishop Petero Mataca did tender his resignation.

Though I can't quite recall from the top of my head whether he did this in 2008 or 2009, it was certainly at least a clear year before he turned 75yrs old in 2010.

Q:The significance of dates?
A: All Bishops are required under Canon Law to tender their resignation upon turning 75yrs although the Holy See is at liberty to decide upon when (i.e.date) each resignation is to be accepted (cc.410, 411).
Note: That the late Archbishop Mataca submitted his resignation well before his 75th is quite telling... We still have sitting in office: Archbishop Hart of Melbourne and Bishop Bonivento of West Sepik PNG who have already turned 76years old and Bishop Hurley of Darwin who is already 77yrs old.

It was rather unfortunate that the late Archbishop had to remain in office until a replacement could be identified, vetted and confirmed by the Vatican. And this was eventually made in 2012 - the delay due to the incumbent who had been away abroad pursuing his doctoral studies.

I won't bother wasting my time dissecting Pio's treasonous conduct for now since its Friday night and I'd rather do something light and happy. I'll just end by saying that the same reasoning you advance for your hero could also be said of Mr. Chaudhary. In fact, more so for Mr. Chaudhary given that anyone in his position, having survived the two month ordeal as Speight's hostage, would have taken the donation from India and migrated to greener pastures with his entire family. That he stayed put in Fiji with his entire family except for RC, speaks volumes... Gaze with your heart please.

Compared to the alternatives, I do not for a second find your hero to be a more trustworthy option though NFP is quite clever in placing him in the front line to attract the indigenous vote before he expires.

Gulong

19/5/2017 10:51:44 pm

Chiku the short answer to yr question is, Yes. Public servants are required to be apolitical. The Public Service Commission and the Public Service Act are supposed to ensure that. The point is Colonel Pio did not commit treason as he was away studying in Australia when the coup took place. If u are a public servant in a similar position what would u do when yr studies ended, u would return to yr job, right?
As for you SplashViti I attended Petero Mataca's funeral and he was referred to as Archbishop. His gravestone says it too. You say you could list numerous sins of Colonel Pio, nobody is without sin but treason is not among Pio's sin as he was away studying in Australia when the coup occurred, Hello, So how can u say Pio engaged in a "treasonous conduct." Pio was a civil servant servant returning to his job. Chaudhry st the time of the Speight coup was a full time politician. There is no comparison. I do not worship Pio as u unfairly suggest. My central point in answer to questions by Tukana and Waqatabu is that in the integrity stakes Pio and Biman are a far better option than Rabuka and Chaudhry, and also of Bainimarama and Khaiyum.

Chiku

20/5/2017 08:39:45 am

Gulong, Yes public servants are required to be apolitical. And, we had that in reasonably good measure until the first military coup of 1987. Then the public service was blatantly politicised. It has largely remained that way, albeit, in more subtle form. That is until the Bainimarama coup which once again politicised the public service in a blatant manner. Being required to be apolitical does not mean that's what handpicked top dogs in the public service are. You must be naive to think they are.

Rajend Naidu

20/5/2017 11:16:00 pm

Editor,
Unforgivable
Australian founding editor of Wikileaks Julian Assange reacting to the Swedish State's decision to drop the rape case against him said the
" terrible injustices" his situation inflicted on both himself and his family was something he will not forgive or forget ( Julian Assange Will Not ' Forgive Or Forget' As Swedish Rape Investigation Dropped. HuffPost 20/5).
His situation was the forced detention and deprivation of his freedom for 7 years .
It's not surprising that many Fiji people ( mostly but not exclusively Fiji Indians ) will not forgive or forget the terrible injustices inflicted on them by Rabuka when he carried out his Fiji For The Fijians military coup in 1987 and gave rise to the coup culture, under which Fiji is still languishing 3 decades later, with another military man Frank Bainimarama maintaining that turd tradition.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

peter virtue australia 06/06/2017 link

6/6/2017 03:19:56 pm

There are many emotional sides of the actions taken by S Rabuka in 1987 with the coup.I remember it very clearly To those that carry on about the coup- culture obviously have just hopped onto the band wagon to promote themselves
In my experience Fijians no matter where they are are a very proud
and honourable people and I have the honour to have known a few...

I understand S. Rabuka in undertaking the stand he did, whether i agree with it or not is not the point.He has done what other nations have done and going through with their identity only more publically.
The only thing to be remembered. is the generation of Indians who are Fijians.If there is a disatisfaction there and are wanting to be known as Indians only then i question their loyalty to FIJI....if they or any other race don;t like living in fiji and complain all the time it is
Simple LEAVE or change the attitude and be part of the FIJIAN WAY.

Before you take your pens out to attempt to shout me down for my comments I will let you know I was born in Fiji and it has always been part of me and always will. BEfore you start laying the blame on Rabuka and others.... what would/could that Fiji is in as you see it you have done Better?? take some responsibility for the situation yourself as you see it

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