WARNING: Anyone turning up in the traditional i-Taukei attire will be chased out of the dinner hall. It is a strictly Black Tie Event
RABUKA’S JUSTIFICATION OF THE 1987 COUP AN INSULT: A-G
* Attorney-General and Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says Sitiveni Rabuka’s justification of the 1987 Coup is an insult to Fijians of Indian descent who were terrorised and forced to flee Fiji.
*Mr Rabuka in an interview with Fijivillage claimed that the 1987 Coup had prepared people of Indo-Fijian descent for greener pastures.
* The Fiji Sun also approached National Federation Party (NFP) Leader Biman Prasad in Parliament yesterday for his thoughts on the comments made by Mr Rabuka. However, Mr Prasad replied:
“I do not talk to the Fiji Sun. Simple.”
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said Mr Rabuka’s justification was a grave insult to those affected by the coup.
“And the fact that you have somebody like the leader of NFP just sitting by and grinning and not saying a word is a further insult to that,” he said.
GREENER PASTURES: Sure of defeat in the forthcoming election, he has already surrendered the Indo-Fijian birthright to be elected Prime Minister of Fiji. He has run away for 'greener political pasture' with his white dhoti. He is now in political bed with Sitiveni Rabuka - the man who planned his racist and violent coup so that it coincided on 14 MAY, 108 years to the day first of the thousands of Indian coolies arrived in Fiji. His racist mob went on to beat, torture, kidnap and RAPE Indo-Fijian women. The THUG is still hiding behind IMMUNITY he gave himself in the 1990 Constitution.
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An Indian coolie labourer who arrived in 1911
"When we arrived in Fiji, we were herded into a punt like pigs and taken to Nukulau where we stayed for a fortnight. We were given rice that was full of worms and kept and fed like animals. Later, we were separated into groups for various employers to choose who they wanted. We got to Navua and were given a three-legged pot, a large spoon, a bucket and a billycan, and some rice. We then went to Nakaulevu where we saw the lines.'
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