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From Fijileaks Archive, 15 March 2016:
Raj ran away from Australian National University [ANU], so he claimed, because he found his supervisor and ANU's distinguished Professor Brij Lal "an mediocre academic", and Qiliho failed to show up for the much publicized study trip at the Australian Staff College when he found out that he was most likely to be denied a place and was also going to be arrested and charged for assaulting and spitting at Professor Lal at the
RFMF's military barrack! Raj is yet to respond to claims that he was behind the arrest, assault, deportation and banning order against Professor Lal and his wife from Bainimarama-Khaiyum's Fiji!
"I walked away from ANU for all sorts of reasons...Also, the intellectual trajectory of my work has shifted dramatically. I don't think that my then supervisor Prof. Brij Lal was best suited and theoretically trained to supervise. Incidentally, ANU is very anti theory and I was trained in the US by Gayatri Spivak the leading philosopher in Marxism, deconstruction and postcolonialism. I think Brij's work is mired in romanticism."
Ashiwn Raj (STAR Project Manager, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Learning, Teaching, and Student Services. University of the South Pacific, Private Mail Bag, Suva, FIJI) to Fijileaks, March 2015
"Indeed, she taught me at the University of Hawaii. I considered that one semester as intensive training in the three theoretical domains that really changed the way I think about literature, politics, humanities. Of course I took the queue from there and developed my own political consciousness."
Ashwin Raj to Fijileaks, 30/3/2015
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SIGN PETITION BELOW, led by the newly formed and United Kingdom based, The Coalition for Defence of Human Rights in Fiji. Let us unite and call for Qiliho's arrest in London, and for him to face trial under Section 134 of the United Kingdom's Criminal Justice Act. This Act allows the UK, under the principle of universal jurisdiction, to arrest and prosecute people accused of human rights abuses committed outside the UK.
https://www.change.org/p/fijians-all-over-the-world-keep-qiliho-out-of-uk
In 2006, Fiji military overthrew a democratically elected multi-party government resulting in a wave of arrests, beatings, violence, torture and human right abuses of opponents who protested against the coup.Brigadier Sitiveni Qiliho, promoted to the brigadier rank and made Land Force commander, became the Royal Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) most notorious perpetrators of human rights violations. Amnesty International report will attest to the claims. A leading Fijian professor residing in Australia describes how Qiliho tortured him at the barracks: “He (Qiliho) covered my face with his spitting and slapped me around to the point of breaking my glasses. He told me that if I did not leave by the first flight the next day (to Australia) my family would have to fetch my body from the morgue.’ There are a host of other documented evidence against him and the abuses he perpetrated against his opponents. In 2015, Australian government intervened and denied him a visa to study for a year at the Australian Command and Staff College in Canberra. He then became Police Commissioner, appointed by military strongman and prime minister Frank Bainimarama, and has continued to abuse the regime’s opponents. Now, he has disclosed that he is shortly coming up to London to take up a study at the prestigious British military academy, the Royal College of Defence Studies. We urge his offer to study to be rescinded and he be informed that like Australia, the Royal College of Defence Studies is no longer welcoming a prominent human rights abuser to their London study academy.
Fijileaks: See why other supporters are signing, why this petition is important to them:
* There should be consequences for the oppressors. Let the victims voices be heard
* Qiliho is a criminal and should be investigated and jailed.
* Human rights abuse. We couldn’t do anything then but we can now.
* This vicious heartless no mercy corrupt abuser should NOT be allowed to enter Britain or any country in the world. He should NOT be allowed a spot at the British Royal College of Defence Studies either. He don't deserve it. He should be thrown in jail for life, without parole.
* Qiliho is a criminal and should be investigated and jailed.
* Human rights abuse. We couldn’t do anything then but we can now.
* This vicious heartless no mercy corrupt abuser should NOT be allowed to enter Britain or any country in the world. He should NOT be allowed a spot at the British Royal College of Defence Studies either. He don't deserve it. He should be thrown in jail for life, without parole.
