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THE FALL GUY: DHL courier driver who forced old couple to VOTE for Fiji First (Theft) Party fronts court while the REAL criminals who broke every electoral rule (even stealing party name) are now running Government!

23/3/2016

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From Fijileaks archive, 4 September 2014

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Jai Ram and Satya Wati, both 80, are living in fear after they claimed they were forced to vote for a candidate.

AN elderly couple was allegedly misled yesterday by a courier company employee into voting for someone whom they did not want to vote for.

It was the first incident of alleged irregularities reported as pre-polling began in the country yesterday in the countdown to September 17.

Jai Ram and his wife Satya Wati, both 80 years old of Horton St in Suva, said their daughter-in-law had applied for postal ballot on their behalf.

“A Fijian of Indian descent employee of the courier company came home this morning (yesterday) with the postal ballot papers and opened the envelopes,” said Ms Wati.

“He asked me who I will vote for. I told him that I’ll vote for the person who can bring peace to the country.

“He said only one person can bring peace and he gave me that candidate’s name.

“That man then ticked that candidate’s number and told me it was OK.

“He then took the ballot paper away. I didn’t want to vote for that person.

“I had wanted to discuss with my family members in the evening and then vote for the person that I was thinking of voting for,” she said.

Mr Ram said the courier company employee showed him a candidate’s number and told him to tick on it, saying he was the best candidate.

“I circled the number and I realised later that it was not the person I had wanted to vote for. I wanted to vote for the Fiji Labour Party.

“The man should have left the ballot papers behind but he took them.

“He insisted that he had to take them away,” said Mr Ram.

Chief Operations Officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police Rusiate Tudravu confirmed receiving a report on the matter.

“We will have to get the other side of the story too from the courier company employee and an investigation will confirm what happened,” he said.

ACP Tudravu said the matter would be referred by the police to Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption for investigations, saying it was the first such case reported yesterday.

Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem said his office was aware of the matter and FICAC was looking into it now. Source: Fiji Times, 4 September 2014

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279: In flagrant breach of Aiyaz Khaiyum's Electoral Decree but then he is standing in the queue waiting to vote for FIJI FIRST PARTY:

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3 Comments
Socho
23/3/2016 10:51:30 pm

What a joke! Charging one minor player,a pawn in the broader gerrymandered election scheme, for fraud when the whole election was a fraud on the people of Fiji perpetrated by the usurpers!,

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rajend naidu
23/3/2016 11:24:43 pm

Editor,
We read in the LAHT article ' Kazakhstan Advances But Falls Short of OSCE's Democratic Standards' 23/03 that according to the leader of the OSCE observer mission, " It is clear that Kazakhstan still has a long way to go towards fulfilling its election commitments, although some progress noted... The RULING PARTY HAD A CLEAR ADVANTAGE OVER OTHERS IN THESE ELECTIONS ( my emphasis) and, while the parties were generally able to campaign freely, GENUINE POLITICAL CHOICE REMAINS INSUFFICIENT( my emphasis )".
Does this remind you of the " return to democracy election " Fiji held in Sept.2014.
See also ' Kazakhstan holds " predictable " elections' ( BBC News 20/03).
Was the Fiji elections of sept. 2014 also predictable?
What made it predictable?
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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rajend naidu
24/3/2016 02:16:48 am

Editor,
We are reminded in Uki Goni's article ' The Long Shadow of Argentina's Dictatorship ' ( New York Times 21/03 ) that following military coup of 1976 Argentina's military dictatorship organised premeditated mass murder in death camps with methods reminiscent of the Nazis ( in fact many Nazis ended up in Argentina after WW11, see UKi Goni's book The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron's Argentina).Over 34,000 people were killed.
Argentina must be commended for its efforts to confront its ugly past. In a reckoning rare in the annals of international justice, more than 1,000 former officers have been put on trial, and hundreds have been convicted.
Barack Obama in his address in Argentina today reiterated that the American government would declassify military and intelligence records on the dictatorship thereby providing evidence for further prosecutions. Responding to the protest against his visit on the 40th anniversary of the coup which was backed by the US Obama said " there is no shortage of self- criticism in our country" over America's complicity in the coup.
Much is owed to the country's human rights campaigners for keeping the spotlight on the atrocities of the dictatorship and demanding justice 40 years on...
There is a lesson and an inspiration from the Argentinian human rights campaigners for human rights defenders elsewhere, including Fiji.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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