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THE BEAR CLAWS INTO FIJI: Opposition raises alarm over 'secret' Russian weapons arriving into the country, and overseen by private security firm Home Link Security Services Ltd, with links to the RFMF!

14/1/2016

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Container trucks escorted by the police and the military police along Mead Rd on their way to the Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Nabua: Fiji Times photo

Fijileaks: Arms and equipment was promised by Russia after Fiji
military contingent went to Sinai in the Middle East

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Statement
[124/12/1/2016]
 
Why Is Russian Consignment of 20 Containers Arriving in Fiji Port Under Cloudy Circumstances?
 
"The Opposition Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and a Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs has expressed outrage at the arrival of a Russian consignment of 20 containers where it is understood that the Police has been barred from monitoring the offloading of these containers by a private security firm, Home Link Security Services Limited.
 
“Why is a private security company owned by about 2,000 Territorial Force members and ex-servicemen including board member representation from officers in the RFMF usurping the role of the Police which is to manage the internal security of the nation?” queried Hon Ratu Isoa Tikoca. What’s all the secrecy about and who is really in charge of our Internal Security?
 
Ratu Isoa said this was highly irregular and he understood that the consignment of 20 containers from Russia consisted of arms, 2 trucks and a helicopter which needs to be explained to the people by the Minister for Defence and discussed in Parliament.
 
Two Russian general cargo vessels Solidat (call sign: UBEE) and St Confidence (call sign: UESZ) were due to arrive today."

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Homelink Security Limited board member Lieutenant-Colonel Kitione Tuinaosara (second from left) and the New Era Development Limited director Peng Deng after the signing at the RFMF Officers Mess - Fiji Sun photo
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$50,000 Chinese bribe to SDL Party: The Chinese (like the Indo-Fijians) are masters in masi polo - irrespective of which party is in power: "The businessman, a representative of a Taiwan company, told us he was approached at his home in early January [2007] by a policeman who told him "a gift to the RFMF would be greatly appreciated."  He hopes the police or the RFMF will not press him any further, noting that he went through a similar experience a few months ago with the Qarase government. In response to numerous requests, his [Chinese] company, whose main customer is a government-owned firm, made a FJ$50,000 donation to the SDL party in the run up to the May 2006 elections." - Former US Ambassador Larry Dinger, 2007

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Shakedown of Chinese Businessmen? "The RFMF proudly proclaimed January 13 that it had received donations of flat screen TVs and other items from "two grateful Fiji Taiwanese community members." The two persons, the chairmen of the "Fiji Chinese Culture Center," and the "Taiwanese Fiji Overseas Association," respectively, told reporters the gifts were in response to the military's efforts to maintain stability and peace in Fiji. A contact in the Chinese business community suggested a different explanation might be possible. The businessman, a representative of a Taiwan company, told us he was approached at his home in early January by a policeman who told him "a gift to the RFMF would be greatly appreciated." The businessman insisted he had not yet made any donations. He hopes the police or the RFMF will not press him any further, noting that he went through a similar experience a few months ago with the Qarase government. In response to numerous requests, his company, whose main customer is a government-owned firm, made a FJ$50,000 donation to the SDL party in the run up to the May elections." - US ambassador Larry Dinger to Washington, 15 January 2007

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PictureBainimarama's cheer leader after the coup - defending Chinese arrivals into Fiji
INTERIM FINANCE MINISTER MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY DEFENDS VISA-FREE ACCESS FOR CHINESE

Fiji's Daily Post,  3 September, 2007

Interim Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry says the fact that Chinese nationals can come into the country now without any visa will not be a threat the country.

Chaudhry's comments follow concerns raised by certain sectors of the
community who are worried that exempting Chinese nationals from visa
requirements to enter the country might backfire. Some say that experiences involving Chinese nationals was not "a healthy sign".

Major religious groups are already predicting a rise in underground prostitution and mafia-type dealings if the system is not checked properly. But Chaudhry said yesterday he did not see any possible threat because the Chinese nationals would also have to adhere to immigration rules and policies.

"Everyone who comes to Fiji regardless of their colour, gender or where they come from have to meet the appropriate laws and regulations before they can enter Fiji. It is the responsibility of the Immigration and Customs Authority to ensure that we don't have any illegal immigrant into this country," he said.

"I know recently some people have been exaggerating in allowing Chinese nationals from mainland China without visas and this will pose a major danger. But I think if the appropriate authorities responsible in Fiji keep alert then there should not be problem as such."

He said it was not right to discriminate against a particular race of people and make decisions on false predictions.

Chaudhry said the law would deal with any Chinese who broke the law, adding that the police, customs and immigration officials had to play their role.

"The relevant government officials, police and the immigration have an important role to play in this and if they do their jobs properly than I don't see any major problem," Chaudhry added.

Coupist Bainimarama's MONEY MAN seeking alternative partners to beat sanctions:
"Like Prime Minister Bainimarama's efforts the previous week at the Forum in Tonga, [Mahendra] Chaudhry's meetings in Washington were carefully orchestrated to visibly seek out alternative partners in the face of censure and sanctions from the likes of the United States, Australia and New Zealand...
Chaudhry's office issued a series of press statements during the week on his Washington meetings portraying him as dynamically pressing for economic and technical assistance for Fiji. Chaudhry, whose single entry visa restricted him to Washington and environs, made full use of the World Bank and IMF gatherings to generate the sort of self-serving, often over-stated publicity he has become known for, flying off to the wider world to lobby for economic advantage...In Washington for meetings of the IMF and World Bank, Fiji Interim Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry made full use of the opportunity to reach out to potential new partners and to USG contacts as well. Chaudhry's calls on IMF, Brazilian, Indian, Malaysian, Chinese, and other contacts played on the interim regime's theme of finding alternative -- and less critical -- partners in the face of sanctions from its traditional allies. The meeting with Exim Bank of China Assistant President Zhu Xinqian concerned the concessional loan offer made by PRC Premier Wen Jiabao during his April 2006 visit to Fiji." -

Larry Dinger on Bainimarama's Interim Finance Minister Chaudhry; now
Fiji is ripping the seed sowed by these 2006 coup sycophants! Chaudhry would still have been Bainimarama's master showman if it had not been for Mohammed Aziz and Pita Driti - these two finally kicked him out of Cabinet in 2008 after he was found to be hiding $2million in his secret Australian bank account while managing Fiji's economy and negotiating financial deals with Chinese and other pro-coup governments!

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Mahendra Chaudhry to Larry Dinger: "This 2006 coup is different because the Qarase Government was so awful...
Fiji could not have survived another five years."

"Mahendra Chaudhry, former PM deposed by the 2000 coup and still head of the FLP, phoned today to let the Ambassador know he intends to accept Bainimarama's offer of the Finance, Public Enterprises, and Sugar Reform portfolios. He put it in terms of having to move Fiji forward and get back to democracy ASAP. When the Ambassador noted how disastrous the past coups had been for Fiji and for Chaudhry personally on two occasions, Chaudhry suggested this coup is different because the Qarase Government was so awful..."Fiji could not have survived another five years." Interim Finance Minister Chaudhry is showing his vindictive side. Under the interim government, Chaudhry crony Vayeshnoi is Sports Minister and Chaudhry son Rajendra is on the FSC board. We comment on a worry that the Indian High Commission and many in the Indo-Fijian population are applauding a highly dangerous game of "pay back" with the ethnic-Fijian community...We suggested that any obvious Indo-Fijian enthusiasm for the RFMF would be playing with fire. Since then there have been many instances of Indo-Fijians complaining to the RFMF about ethnic-Fijians and of RFMF troops then enforcing street justice with no due process. To date, nothing has exploded into flame, but there is certainly a danger of "pay back" reversing course with tragic consequences. "
Larry Dinger to Washington, 7 January, 21 February 2007

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TRUE but the Chaudhrys should NOT have rushed to prop up the dictator resulting in the destruction of everything native Fijian in Fiji!
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BIRDS of COUP feather enjoying stroll together. Mahendra Chaudhry to Larry Dinger: "This 2006 coup is different because the Qarase Government was so awful. Fiji could not have survived another five years."

HASTY ASSESSMENT: "Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Interim Attorney General and Minister for Justice. Khaiyum, a Muslim, is a young Suva lawyer who was General Counsel of the Colonial Group of Companies, President of the Fiji Young Lawyers Association, and a board member of Transparency International Fiji. His brother Riaz is a TV journalist in New Zealand. Khaiyum has had an excellent reputation. While a student at the University of Hong Kong in 2001, he wrote an open letter decrying corruption within the Fiji Muslim League. After the swearing in, Khaiyum said his portfolio includes "anti-corruption and electoral reform." He said there is no specific time frame for elections." Larry Dinger on Khaiyum's appointment, 7 January 2007 to Washington.

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17 Comments
Samjho
14/1/2016 10:28:01 am

Just confirms Fiji is a fake democracy. The military dictatorship has acquired a democratic garb after a phoney election. The Opposition is just a sideshow to complete the farce of a " return to parliamentary democracy ".

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And
15/1/2016 11:52:11 am

Transparency, accountability and public scrutiny is the democratic way. Secrecy is the way of a dictatorship - and this is the way of the Bainimarama regime. It is a democracy only by name.

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Pita
14/1/2016 01:21:22 pm

Bainmarama and Khaiyum are risking the safety of our troops in the Middle East by allowing ourselves to be armed by the Russians, who along with Iran, Syria and the Herzbullah are in one camp while the other opposing camp are backed by the United States and comprising Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, NATO forces and including Australia and New Zealand. The kidnapping last year of some 40 Fiji soldiers from the Qolan Heights by the Saudi, Qatar and Israeli backed Al Nusra Front did not happen by accident. It followed Fiji’s clear shift towards the opposing Russian camp with Bainimarama meeting with the the Iran President in New York in 2013 and also his visit to Russia with the existing RFMF Commander, Naipoto and his Nbr 1 hitman, Major Ben Naliva.
Both the Al Nusra and its backers Israel accused the Fijian peacekeepers with bias and siding with the Russian and Syrian side at the Qolan Heights justifying their kidnapping. Qatar paid a ransom demand of US20 million for the release of the Fijian peacekeepers, but this $20 million was only a tiny small fraction that Qatar normally provided to the As Nusra Front anyway.
The Front is the best equipped and resourced of all the radical Islamic groups fighting the government in Syria.
With the Russian arms delivered clandestinely to the RFMF at the Suva Wharf we can expect a retaliation of some kind in the Middle East. The stakes have risen there since the kidnapping and release of our soldiers and my prediction is that our peacekeepers will again be targeted for a reprisal but that this time there won’t be a rap on the knuckles like last time. The response will be more serious so that the message is driven home to the RFMF and to Bainimarama and Khaiyum that if we are to be involved in the Middle East we must remain neutral which is not happening with Fiji's clear shit towards the Russia and Iran camp

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Vili
14/1/2016 10:15:47 pm

What garbage!

The main backers of Jabat Al Nusra are Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE....not...Israel.

That explains why Ratu Inoke Kubuabola went to seek the assistance of Qatar in obtaining the release of the 40 Fijian soldiers. He did not go to Israel.

I have read this kind of fear-mongering before from the ilk of Pita. Remember the ''Indian threat' to Fiji in 1987 and 2000 etc?

Now just because the RFMF is to be armed with the AK74 (Russia) and not the M16A2 (US) all our peacekeepers in the Middle East are under threat!!

There are some national contingents serving with the UN in the Middle East who use Russian equipment and not threatened at all.

So Pita is saying we must remain neutral and to do so we must use US military equipment to do so (which the RFMF already uses). Very strange logic indeed!

Also bear in mind that much of the equipment the RFMF uses in the Middle East are old and are falling to pieces. When the RFMF sought to have it replaced with US and Australian weapons etc, these countries refused as part of their ban on military cooperation with Fiji at that time. Russia stepped in and offered help.

I served in the Middle east some years ago now and I am speaking from my own personal knowledge of the rather decrepit state of the weapons in the RFMF inventory.

The other point is that the UN has approved the weapons replacement program for the Fiji contingent in the Middle East. So there is no big deal. All the hype by Tikoca and Pita etc are politically motivated and must be taken with a grain of salt.

Sa dri yani

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Petr Velikiy
15/1/2016 12:25:35 pm

Vili, since you claim to be a soldier, then how come you don't know that the Kalasnikov is AK47 and not as you put it AK74? Did you also not know that the 7.62 mm calibre bullets are Not UN approved as opposed to the rest of the rifles at 5.56mm? Nobody in UN sanctioned service use the larger bullets because they do serious damage to the opposing side.A UN soldier is not authorised to kill but immobilise the opponent for capture.
AK74 bahahaha, oilei I just shat myself from laughing at the RFMF expert FIELD MARSHALL VILI...hahahaha
By the way since PEACEKEEPERS are not allowed to use AK47 then those guns are meant for domestic duties and that doesn't sound good.7.62mm against Fiji citizens versus 5.56mm against Al Nusra. Mmmmmmm!!!

Vili
15/1/2016 11:48:29 pm

See below. I rest my case. You obviously don't know what you are talking about Peter.

"The AK-74 (Russian: Автомат Калашникова образца 1974 года or "Kalashnikov automatic rifle model 1974") is an assault rifle developed in the early 1970s, by Russian designer Mikhail Kalashnikov as the replacement for the earlier AKM (itself a refined version of the AK-47). It uses a smaller 5.45×39mm cartridge, replacing the 7.62×39mm chambering of earlier Kalashnikov-pattern weapons."

I am reminded of that saying" Tis better to keep your mouth shut and be thought of as a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt".

Viavia vuku qai backfire. Ulukau

Lets Face Up
14/1/2016 02:27:40 pm

Vinaka

Every bloody day he shows off the expensive food he has eaten, at home, in restaurants, or with his friends or their houses.

Every second day he boasts about flying from an Australian court to New Zealand court - saying he has two legal offices.

Has he made so much money or are there so many criminals that he has been inundated with legal work?

And hiding in Australia (New Zealand) wants starving Fijians to rise up - yes, the Chaudhrys should never have voluntarily given their fingerprints to Bainimarama coup - no matter how much they despised the Qarase government.

What surprises me is Mahendra Chaudhry's party was in coalition with SDL at the time of the coup.

Were the Chaudhrys party to the coup is a $2million question worth probing?

Lets not be conned by them - one is now a convicted criminal - for hiding $2million in Australia, money given by India to pass it to Indo-Fijian victims of George Speight's 2000 failed coup.


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Fiji Labour Partying
14/1/2016 10:03:15 pm

He is just enjoying the loot. The loot was big. Shared within the family. He questions all who stood against his daddy. Felix, Dan, Agni. For him and his daddy, the only people who can stand against dictatorship is he and his daddy. All others are idiots. Cowards. Good for nothing. Daddy is now old. Sonny wanted to take his place so that looting and labour partying could continue. But ASK wanted to replace them and become a bigger crook. No honour among thieves (FB, ASK, MPC, RPC), is there?

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Dekho
15/1/2016 05:35:02 pm

You've put it so well. There is indeed no honour among thieves and yet decent law abiding citizens are expected to regard them as
" Honourable " this and "Honourable " that.
These thieves should have no place in public life. In fact many of them should be behind bars!

Jo
14/1/2016 03:41:15 pm

Larry Dinger, whites are even better at masi polo. DNews.com.au

Set your weather
uring colonial times masi Polo the chiefs and to this day masi polo bainimarama who staged coup partly on behalf of white hoteliers. Rapacious greed of whites well known, aquiring vast tracts of land for trinkets and dippossesing indigenous population all over the World. Plight of Australian aborigines is shameful and dinga's own ancestors lied, robbed, poisoned, genocided American Indians in order to steal their land.

A bit of perspective is needed and self awareness on Dinger's part if that is at all possible.

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Stop getting Angry
14/1/2016 04:54:49 pm

Jo,

There is no need on perspective from Dinger's part.

As mbassador he is merely providing his weekly reports to Washington.

In this case the phone calls from Chaudhry, the Chinese businessman telling him SDL extracted $50,000 donation from the Chinaman and now military and police are also asking him to bribe RFMF

It is the likes of you who refuse to accept what is happening in Fiji and what was happening in Fiji that we are where we are - just because if someone is raping his sister doesnt mean we should do the same - yes, Whites are equally guilty, and I am sure Dinger have also conveyed information we have not seen yet

Stop getting angry!

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Chiku
14/1/2016 06:34:44 pm

You can't justify or rationalise a wrong with reference to other presumably greater wrongs. It is a logically fallacious argument. A wrong is a wrong. And here on Fijileaks we are focused on the wrongdoings of those in power in Fiji and their business cronies because the mainstream media in Fiji has largely become impotent and unable to perform its watchdog function. Volumes have been written ( mostly by white scholars ) of the atrocities committed by white colonialism. But that is not the issue here. Is it?

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Vili
15/1/2016 07:10:01 am

As if black on black racism and genocide does not exist!

Pull your head out of your arse Jo.

Do yourself a favour and go read about the Tutsi's and the Hutu's in Rwanda. That will give you some perspective.

Chiku (who I sometimes disagree with) as well as poster 'Stop Getting Angry' are bang on in their response to your post.

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Dekho
14/1/2016 06:42:20 pm

This new Fijileaks revelations just further confirms the Bainimarama - Khaiyum dictatorship in Fiji is the most corrupt and ethically bankrupt rulers the people of Fiji has had in its history. And to think they grabbed power after accusing the Qarase government of being corrupt. What hypocrites, liars and thugs!
Cry, My Beloved Country...

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Rajend Naidu
14/1/2016 08:22:47 pm

Editor,
Hylton Reid writes referencing Australia : We call it " lobbying " or "donations ". Other countries call it corruption. ( The Age 15/01 ). By what name is it called in the " New Fiji "? Or, has Fiji now become a
" corruption free " country under the stewardship of Frank Bainimarama, Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum, Praveen Bala and all the other honourable people running the country after the removal of the
" corrupt " Qarase government via an unlawful military coup?
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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Why Indians for Bai
14/1/2016 10:39:51 pm

Many people say Indians supported Bai/Kai FFP. True. But no one has asked the question: why? The reason is Indians supporting Labour saw their leader as a crook, stealing millions. They deserted Labour. NFP always too weak and unable to mobilise people. So no other option. Indian vote for FFP was not FFP support. It was anti-MPC vote. MPC and his son RPC are the reasons why 2006 coup succeeded. MPC and RPC are reasons why Bai-Kai won 2014 election. There is only one way out - they apologise for supporting Franks Bainimarama in 2006 coup, and they give the stolen money to charity. If not, no one will trust them ever. They are finished but not because of Bai/Kai, but because of their own greed.

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Vili
15/1/2016 11:25:52 am

YAWN.......!

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