THE FALLEN HERO: Alfred Tuatoko, the Colonel who refused to carry out coup for Bainimarama to get contract renewed, passes away; unlike Ratu Meli Bainimarama, who passed away lately, becoming Fiji's ambassador

9/12/2015

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For refusing to be part of 'a criminal and treasonable act', Bainimarama hounded and booted out Tuatoko and others from the military and succeeded, finally, in ousting the Laisenia Qarase led government in 2006; Timoci Natuva was one of those at the 2003 meeting who went along with Bainimarama, and has been rewarded as Minister!

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rajend Naidu

9/12/2015 10:48:03 pm

I am here again reminded of the wise words of the Lebanese philosopher- poet Kahlil Gibran : in a world so conditioned success is often acquired by the sacrifice of conscience and honor... The man of integrity is reviled and the liar admired and rewarded...

paula raqeukai

10/12/2015 01:04:41 am

emeni! to that Mr. Naidu....Isa o viti! for how long we will continue to remain silence....

Ratu Sai

10/12/2015 12:58:34 am

Ratu Meli may have been a man of high qualities when he started out in the civil service but he lost all that when he chose to stay on after retirement curtsey of his brother's treason. There is no comparison whatsoever between him and the Colonel, who chose honor and principle over money.

Saimoni

10/12/2015 01:16:26 am

Senor Lal, do you have any new news or are you republishing old crap to keep your website relevant.

Dekho

10/12/2015 08:58:24 am

Fijileaks is as relevant today as when it first began to publish and expose the lies, the deception, the treachery, the criminal intimidation, the thuggery, the corruption of the Bainimarama- Khaiyum regime and their cronies. What some Saimoni or some other nunni says is irrelevant.

Fiji is full of Crooks

10/12/2015 06:30:51 am

This G Kadavulevu falla, did he have a view on Rabuka's coups of 1987 and did he publicly express those views ?

Sa Dina

10/12/2015 08:39:13 am

Government / Cabinet was unconstitutional in 2003 at the time of G. Kadavulevu's letter to FB.

Was there any advice from GK and his management team to their boss... given RFMF is the final guarantor of law as he wrote himself?

King Rat

10/12/2015 10:10:57 pm

That is a very good question. Indeed, may we ask what did Tuatoko and Kadavulevu do in 1987?

Well, the facts speak for themselves. They happily signed up to Rabuka's ethno-nationalist agenda in 1987 and were duly promoted to full Colonel for their loyalties and given plumb overseas postings etc.

Then when it became clear that Frank's coup would result in many of their 'patrons' having their snouts removed from the trough, GK and Tuatoko displayed what can only be described as "selective outrage".

From memory, there was only one senior Army officer who did not join Rabuka's coup. Neither Kadavulevu (GK) nor Tuatoko was that officer.

Guessing...

11/12/2015 07:20:26 am

...And is that senior army officer our present President His Excellency, the Biscuit?

King Rat

12/12/2015 03:13:47 pm

No. The 'biscuit' was strutting around Suva with an AK47 strapped to his back threatening to shoot Indians who tried to stand in the way of Rabuka's ethno-nationalist agenda.

David Robie's account of the 1987 coup in his book "Blood on their Banner" sheds light on the professional jealousies and backstabbing that was going on among key Army officers of the RFMF at the time. Rabuka's "No Other Way" is also revealing.

Welcome Home

10/12/2015 09:03:47 am

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones" (William Shakespeare Julius Caesar). Conscience and Honour and both are demonstrated in the courageous and timely advice commited to paper for posterity. This is precisely why future generations and those who grieve now must know that "there are things that MUST be said" - there is No Other Way. Oaths of Allegiance are never to be taken lightly or ill-advisedly and posterity and God will be our judge.

It must be Said...

11/12/2015 07:28:56 am

...that an 'Oath of Allegiance' to a FRAUD Constitution counts as pretty Low -and Evil.

Fallen Hero link

14/12/2015 12:11:45 am

R.I.P Col Tuatoko. A true hero indeed, a man with clean hands, may his soul rest in peace.

Let the dirty handed face the consequence yet to come.

On-Song

15/12/2015 11:31:32 pm

It is a fact that all in the military from 1987, 2000, 2006 and onwards became tainted for belonging to the institution that conducted the coups and made so many citizens suffer. Many officers made ammends, reformed and eventually walked away from it all, but the stigma remains. Col. Tuatoko was a good man and lived a clean and decent life. Remaining in power are the hard-core nasties that have little respect for human life and ably led by the globetrotting PM Bainimarama

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THE FALLEN HERO: Alfred Tuatoko, the Colonel who refused to carry out coup for Bainimarama to get contract renewed, passes away; unlike Ratu Meli Bainimarama, who passed away lately, becoming Fiji's ambassador

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