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SPEAKING UP for violent husbands: Speaker Jiko Luveni says women should know when to shut up to avoid getting violently whacked at home

18/5/2016

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‘We know exactly what our husbands don’t like, yet we do it. Sometimes we women aggravate the situation; sometimes we know exactly what our husbands don’t like and then we do it; what do you expect? So we women we really need to also be aware that our husbands also have a temper” - Speaker of Parliament and former FFP president Jiko Luveni, speaking on the issue of violence against women and children during the Rishkul Sanatan College Professional Development Programme in Nasinu, reported in The Fiji Sun, 18 May 2016

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Fijileaks to Luveni:
What should women do if their husbands don't like being told not to come home DRUNK, Not to BEAT THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN UP, or to stop SLEEPING with other women?

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RETRACTION AND APOLOGY DEMAND from Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre's Shamima Ali: "We are appalled and alarmed at the statements made by Dr Jiko Luveni at a session at Rishikul Sanatan College yesterday. The women of the country who have died and those who struggle daily to survive domestic violence deserve an apology from the Speaker of Parliament for blaming them for the violence inflicted upon them and demeaning the experiences of survivors and victims. Dr Luveni’s remarks also downplays the 2013 Constitution which demands non‑discrimination and equal citizenry. We call for a retraction and an apology from the Speaker for what we term as insensitive and dangerous statements about the problem of violence against women."

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Ali on what constitutes domestic violence
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REMEMBER what this FFP Fool Of A Speaker said about RAPE in Fiji:

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"Young women and girls in Fiji experience terrible violence, from rape and beatings to sexual harassment. This is never their fault." - FWRM Executive Director, Tara Chetty, reacting to Luveni's latest outburst

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Justice Bain, Fiji High Court, while upholding sex pervert and Fiji Sun Managing Editor/News Maika Bolatiki's conviction, 3 September 1997:

"The complainant was a 14 year old school girl at the time of the incident. She was one of 18 students in a classroom sitting an examination. The appellant [Maika Bolatiki] was supervising the examination. The complainant was sitting at a desk in the front row. She said that the appellant came and stood beside her on her left. She looked up and the appellant touched her breast with his left hand. She sat up and the accused slid his left hand down her stomach and right to her private part. He then rubbed her private part. He denied touching her breast or private parts. However, the actions of the appellant as described by the complainant in her evidence were something that would not necessarily have created attention. The other pupils in the room were writing their examination papers. The Appellant was standing alongside the complainant in the front row and such conduct would be expected to have been done as surreptitiously as possible...The learned Magistrate made a clear finding that he accepted the evidence of the complainant as truthful. An appellant Court would need very compelling and cogent reasons to interfere with that finding. There are no grounds to do so in this case...The appeal against conviction is dismissed"
Justice Pain, Fiji High Court, 3 September 1997


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Dr Luveni stresses that she does not condone violence against women

Speaker of Parliament, Doctor Jiko Luveni stressed that she does not condone violence against women and is also not blaming women for domestic violence cases.

Doctor Luveni has made this clear to Fijivillage after calls made by some women’s NGOs for the Speaker to apologize to the women in Fiji for saying that women should not aggravate the situation at home when they deal with their partners.

Doctor Luveni said she would never say that it is right for men to beat up women or children. Doctor Luveni said the full context of her presentation needs to be understood. She said that she was focusing on how everyone can prevent domestic violence. Doctor Luveni said the realities need to be understood and she is not blaming women for domestic violence. Source: Fijivillage News

FFP PERVERT chairs the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee, appointed by the Attorney-General and Justice Minister Aiyaz Khaiyum:

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'Haha...you know Nehaji...when I was posting that [below photo of b***s]
I thot of you and what u would say...'
FFP candidate Ashneel Sudhakar on Facebook

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15 Comments
Samjha
18/5/2016 08:54:34 am

A progressive, modern day democratic government will not have such an empty head as its Speaker . But that's the point. The Bainimarama -Khaiyum regime is not a progressive modern day democratic government. It's a collection of sycophants gathered around the twin dictators of Fiji. That's how this speaker person is there.

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We are dumb not to understand BainiKaiyum strategy link
18/5/2016 09:47:01 am

Have a look at the list of FF ministers and MPs. Not a single one has guts to question BainiKaiyum on any thing. Not one is smart and brave enough to stand their ground. Principle, consciousness, morality and ethics went out of window when they stood for FF in election. One just needs to look at the number of votes they collected and what they doing since
Mahen has made a mess of Ed. Health is at its worst ever. Road transport pathetic. Can't say anything about the speaker. Her actions will be marked in history in shame. All these so that BainiKaiyum can dictate and mind control all. Well done Fiji.

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Dekho, Socho, Samjho
18/5/2016 10:42:02 am

I am speechless! Now I have heard it all.

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Welcome Home
18/5/2016 11:13:13 am

A foolish and ill considered statement made with poor judgement and timing. Too many of us for too long have been witness to the direct results of aggravated violence At Home or in schools upon defenseless women and children. Most often aggravated by over indulgence in alcohol and fueled by an uncontrolled sense of authority and entitlement. The entitlement ought to be that of a home or dwelling place being one of peace and security: a place of safety. So often it has become a nest of threat. Is this maybe why so many Missing Person Cases are reported?

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Chiku
18/5/2016 12:21:38 pm

Shamima from the Women's Crisis Centre and every self-respecting woman in Fiji should not be asking the Speaker Jiko Luveni for a retraction and apology. They should be demanding her resignation. Women should take to the street to demand she be removed NOW.
In Fiji even the activists have become meow meow people. What a bloody shame. See the way women activists in India, even Bangladesh conduct themselves in the true spirit of social activism.
It's a disgrace that women in Fiji put up with such rubbish!

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Ledua
18/5/2016 02:40:03 pm

I agree with the speaker.. Some of us women really go to the extent that our husbands really throw that punch, cause we know that the law and Women crisis center will always protect us.. Have seen some wife really swearing at the husband in presence of friends etc. yet some hold their cool.. On the other end some men really wants to show that they are more muscular as any small petty issue a punch is thrown,,
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Dekho
18/5/2016 06:23:09 pm

Remember Jiko Luveni is part of a regime that came to power through violence. It was a force-line takeover of power . Most of what the Bainimarama - Khaiyum regime did since the force line takeover was by force line.
Jill Luveni subscribes to the force line modus operandi of the regime. That's why she has been installed as Speaker.
Now you know where she is coming from with her take on domestic violence.

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2013 Constitution is a FRAUD
18/5/2016 06:41:45 pm

It shows how much of a FRAUD the 2013 Constitution of Khaiyum is.

Even the Madam Speaker demonstrably has no respect for this FRAUD Constitution of Khaiyum and she in blatant defiance is philosophizing her own Luveni brand of equal citizenry whereby Fijian women should be, are to be, subservient to the needs of their Fijian men- otherwise it is all right for the men to beat them up. This too, she blithely and stupidly, speaks at a school!!

Khaiyum MUST immediately make this stupid Madam Speaker RESIGN for being so disrespectful to his FRAUD Constitution of 2013 – let alone the women and children of Fiji.

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Pita
18/5/2016 09:19:36 pm

This is what you get when you rake up a lowly dentist with a diploma for fixing teeth, who had never been inside a university to study and apply the principles of policy and critical thought, but unashamedly and dishonestly uses the term Dictor, and then you elevate her to parliamentary Speaker. It's the Peter Principle at work where a person is elevated to their level of incompetence,
Coming so soon after reading on this site the shocking level of English by MP Sudhaka displayed in the Fiji Times transcripts, the Childishness of MP Radrodro, Bai's swearing and mouthing profanity last year at Biman. SODELPA leader Naiqama swearing at the Speaker outside of Parliament to attract a suspension and Khayum's Darth Varder performance the whole Parliament is nothing but a room full of incompetent nincompoops.
The smart ones were the ones who quit under some guise or other

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Justice
18/5/2016 10:29:18 pm

Pita you rightly summed it all. All are crooks and does not have true leadership qualities. People of Fiji needs respected leader who are respected both on their professional and personal life. We dont need chamelions and actors as our leaders.

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Naibono
18/5/2016 10:10:33 pm

Well said madam speaker, spade a spade what is wrong with that.
Certainly if followed few grief would have been avoided happy family mentioned more stable the relationship

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Alby
19/5/2016 12:02:10 am

The reality is that we all know exactly what the speaker was referring to and there was no way that she was 'blaming' all women for being the cause of domestic violence.

The problem we have in Fiji is that for many, that speak from a prominent position, stringing a coherent and logical sentence together is difficult.

When this is then mixed with journalism where some journalist have exactly the same problem the results are easily twisted.

It does not help the cause when prominent activists use this fact to so obviously grandstand, devaluing their good intentions.

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Litiana
19/5/2016 04:00:34 am

The Speaker should be ashamed of herself for suggesting that victims are to be blamed for domestic violence. What Era is she living in? What an unintelligent person who does not know basics about justice or law or rights of women. How can such a person be the Speaker of Parliament? Learn some diplomacy lady if you don't know the law!!!!

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Welcome Home
19/5/2016 06:33:24 am

Today is the anniversary of the 2000 event in Fiji which rendered most of us without a predictable or safe refuge. The Duty to Protect was entirely set aside in an eruption of untrammeled violence and deliberate intransigent threat. So why settle for calling a spade a spade? It had better be termed A Bloody Shovel. The ills of domestic violence were visited upon all and sundry - we cannot pretend we live in ignorance of them. John Scott was being visited and threatened daily by one who had the temerity to do so because he was protected. So protection per se delivered contrary outcomes. This is a recipe for chaos. Until we value mothers and the role of mothers we shall not have peace: neither individual nor national. Nurture is the most fundamental task: the care of the newborn and the vulnerable, the sick and the elderly. May all who suffered the consequences of that terrible day in 2000 find Peace. May Justice continue to find a path to all involved without fear or favour.

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Bahuki
19/5/2016 12:44:22 pm

The speaker herself just doesn't know when to actually start thinking first before speaking and eventually coming up with ridiculous comments about how women should live and behave in the household.

No wonder why she's often in hot water from feminists and the numerous women's rights groups that severely condemn her for sounding slightly sexist against her own gender.

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