WELCOME TO 2016: “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.” The Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi

31/12/2015

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RajendNaidu

31/12/2015 10:36:45 pm

Editor,
Meet history's most savage and powerful rulers in Ian Schott's book Worlf Famous Dictators
"... Who put the 1.6 million inhabitants of a rebellious city to the sword? Who spent a third of his nation's budget on his coronation? Who, after a battle, feasted among the bodies of his victims? Who kept human remains in his deep freeze?
Learn how these savage men gained and held on to absolute power, and about the insane brutality and horrific cruelty they used to govern. Millions died at their hands; the money of entire countries was at their disposal; and more often than not, the rest of the world stood by and watched as they ran whole nations into the ground to feed their whims.
From Caligula to Saddam Hussein, via Hitler, Papa Doc, Idi Amin, Ceausescu, and many more, this is a gripping collection about most powerful and most evil people ever to have ruled in the world."
In one way or another lesser tyrants we are familiar with have taken a page out of the book of these evil rulers to ply their trade.
Good men and women must never support any tyrant no matter if he is a tin boat variety. It only entrenches them in power and procrastinates their fall.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Pita

1/1/2016 01:27:39 am

Bai and Khaiyum trumpet to the world that they want Fiji to be the next Singapore but Frank's Santa Claus free hands out is making people more dependent on his free bees and they refuse to get off their buts to do a decent bit of work His "gifts" are inconsistent with his govt's economic goals but consistent with its political goals under our D'Hondt electoral system that serves only to encourage a patron-client mentality in dealing with the general population and cronyism when dealing with business and investors

Sonnu

1/1/2016 04:33:33 am

Pita you too right. The one culture that has flourished in Bai- Kai's new Fiji is the culture of sycophancy. Only people prepared to suck up to the twin dictators of Fiji have been appointed to high positions and have prospered and they are the ones singing high praise for the twin dictators and their Fiji First Theft government. That is the " merit " system Bainimarama is boasting about and his cronies like Ashneel Sudhakar parrot.

Rajend Naidu

1/1/2016 08:40:24 am

Editor,
In a comedy flick Jerry Seinfield and President Obama did together the comedian asked Obama so how many leaders world wide are out of their mind?
President Obama replied a sizeable proportion! ( SBS news 1/1 ).
Many would find it hard not to agree with the President.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Rajend Naidu

1/1/2016 11:48:58 pm

Editor,
Do the crime do the time. Here is an example of that.
A Begian court sentenced former Rwandan army major Bernard Ntuyahaga 55 to 20 years in prison for his part in the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers, on UN duty in the country, and an unspecified number of Rwandan civilians at the start of the genocide.
Ntuyahaga was accused by prosecutors of taking the peacekeepers from the residence of the prime minister whom they were trying to protect and handed them to fellow soldiers at a military camp in the capital Kigali where they were beaten to death, shot or slain by machetes. In the following 3 months some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered...
It is not the first time Rwandans have stood trial in Belgian over the genocide. Two Catholic nuns, a university professor, and a businessman were sentenced in 2001 to between 12 and 20 years in jail for aiding the mass murder.( ' Former Rwandan major gets 20 years in genocide trial ' the guardian)
The long reach of the arm of law is demonstrated in this case.
Other cases are waiting for the long arm of the law to reach it.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Rajend Naidu

2/1/2016 06:48:49 pm

Editor,
We learn from the Independent article ' The New York Times article Pakistan doesn't want you to see ' 3/12 that the International edition of the NYT newspaper had two blank pages after printers in Pakistan removed an article.
An article by one of the paper's freelance correspondent Joshua Hammer headlined ' The imperilled bloggers of Bangladesh ' was removed from the front page and page two.
The article focused on the brutal attacks and murders on a group of Bengali bloggers who are in support of gender equality, human rights and civil liberty and are battling online with Islamists.
At the heart of the piece is a man named Asif Mohiuddin an online activist who had to flee Bangladesh after his free thinkin , atheist views and secular blogging put him in severe danger.
He was brutally attacked outside the IT company building he worked at with the 8 inch kitchen knife missing his spinal cord by half a centimetre.
Mohiuddin is part of a movement which started in chat forums in 2001 in Bangladesh and then moved to a website called Mukto MONA which translates as " Freethinkers " in Bengali
In October a publisher of a secular blog Avjit Roy was hacked to death in Dhaka. Atleast four other atheist bloggers have been killed in the country last year for writing critically about Islamist militancy.
Beneficiaries of the established order, of the status quo do not take kindly to critical writing and often set their hound dogs on the critical writers and thinkers.
It's the same story of persecution of the critics no matter whether the militancy is religious or political.
We have had our share of both in Fiji.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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WELCOME TO 2016: “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.” The Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi

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