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The bad old South African apartheid laws now on display in Fiji: Sodelpa wants answers from new police chief on why investigations closed on the horrific beating and torture of escaped prisoner & one another!

20/7/2014

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 A BLOW TO THE RULE OF LAW

Statement, July 20 2014

The SDL Leader Ro Teimumu Kepa said today that the decision to halt investigations into the horrific beating and torture of two men last year is a massive blow to the rule of law. The new Police Commissioner owes the people of Fiji an explanation? Does this mean the government now seeking election condones violence?  It can have no other meaning.

In the absence of a satisfactory explanation from the Commissioner, the police force, under its new commissioner, is compromised.

The government and the police had promised the nation there would be a full investigation into this serious crime.

It involved a prolonged attack by members of the security forces on an escaped prisoner and the man who reportedly harbored him. The assault was seen worldwide on You Tube. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama said he stood by his men who were doing their duty.

And now, 16 months later, without any charges being laid or an explanation the police chief of operations, ACP Rusiate Tudravu, announces (Fiji village 18/07/2014) the investigation has been closed and there will be no further comment. This is not ‘good enough’ we demand an explanation from the Police Commissioner.

Ro Teimumu said a SODELPA government will reopen the investigation and ensure the culprits are brought to justice. We want to know what kind of inquiry was conducted and how many people were interviewed?

As elections draw near the rule of law is an issue in the election campaign and it is a keystone for Fiji’s progress.

Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama will have to explain the policy of his Fiji First Party on the application of the law.  He must explain this in view of the closing down of investigations into the savagery of the attack on the two men last year without a conclusive outcome and due process fully applied.

Authorized By: SODELPA


“Well if closing the investigation means that no-one has been held to account, then I think that’s really another black mark in terms of accountability and
the rule of law in Fiji.”
Grant Bayldon of Amnesty International


Mother of the beaten victim: "They treated my son like an animal...ISA na luvequ! Oilei turaga! Sa mosi dina na yaloqu, na cava beka e leqa
(Oh my son! Oh Lord! My heart is in pain, what is the problem)"

FAIR OR FOUL RESPONSE: THE BEATING AND BRUTALITY HAD DIVIDED OPINIONS:
"This is not an apologia for excessive use of force on the part of the police, as doubtless some of Grubsheet’s critics will argue. Yet there seems little doubt that certain elements of the criminal class in Fiji have a sense of entitlement that poses a very real threat – even in relatively peaceful times – to the rights of all citizens to not only feel, but be, secure and unmolested. This demands a particular resolve on the part of the authorities and some excesses are doubtless inevitable. They can’t be condoned but they can at least be understood, set against a social background in which violence has been an accepted feature for so long...when we were watching that video of those prisoners being degraded and were appalled, we were also watching something of ourselves."  Graham Davis in Grubsheet, 7 March 2013, TACKLING A CULTURE OF VIOLENCE.  Read full opinion HERE
4 Comments
Prison Warder and Fijian Citizen
20/7/2014 05:50:04 am

This chap deserved to have been taught a lesson - pity those seen in the video were not charged, brought to court, and acquitted for keeping Fiji safe

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Concerned Indian
20/7/2014 05:00:39 pm

So much torture ...is this acceptable level of torture for escaped prisoners as the new standard in new Fiji under FijiFirst (theft) Party?

But where is Aiaz's decree of level of torture acceptable via decree to having police close thefile on this case?

Or are the no further comments from Police associated with decree that excempts any crime against the civil servants and military since Dec 2006 and until after the elections 2014?

Or is this torture acceptable by FijiFirst (theft) Party and Bainimarama as he claimed he stood by his man in that this type of torture is what he learnt from his village in Quiva that Frank is used to following the home brew sessions, hence accepable to support such abusive behaviour?

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Frank is an Idiot
20/7/2014 05:15:16 pm

Maybe Police has closed the file because Aiaz is drafting new law for Fiji that allows torture by police and military in new Fiji as governing law under the 2013 Constitution.

Indeed new Fiji under FijiFirst is where you cut the legs off those who escape from prison, but after prolonged severe beating crushing bones first; cut the hands who steal and assault; you cut the genitals who rape.

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Indigenous Fiji Indian
21/7/2014 02:09:37 am

I like the comments by concerned Fiji Indian in that Bainimarama stood by his man in torture is what he learnt from his village in Quiva following the home brew sessions, hence accepable to support such abusive behaviour.

We indeed campaign (women's rights movement) for abusive relationship where men come home drunk and beat their wives... we talk about break the cycle.

Is there any n.g.o. movement to help Frank break the cycle of abusive behaviour in encouraging his men to torture only to send strong message as what he learnt from home brew sessions in Quiva?

Or was the torture really showing frustration of his men showing how incompetent and unintelligent his military boys are that they could not catch an escapee for days so decided to break his legs in case they face another embarrasement if he runs away again?

Whatever it may be, they are a bunch of thugs thinking they are still in village drinking home brew and declared by their actions not to be professional soldiers.

WEwlcome to new Fiji under Fiji F'd Up Party!!!

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