Rabuka: "In 1987, you probably know the truth behind it. I was told, “The only way to change the situation now is to throw this constitution out of the window.” These were the words of Sir Ratu Mara...Jim Sandy, the Chief of Staff, knew something would happen. He told me, his own words were, “Either you or the Commander have got to do this. I can’t do it: I’m kai loma, I’m a white European.”
And I didn’t say yes or no. I just said, “No, either you or the Commander [Ratu Epeli Nailatikau]. He’s got to do it. He is the Commander.” At that time, the Commander was going to go to Australia. After that discussion, nothing else took place. I quietly started doing what I was doing and training the people to be used, making sure we had enough ammunition in case we had to ward off any military counter-moves from Australia and New Zealand."
Sitiveni Rabuka, talking to Dr Sue Onslow in Suva on Thursday, 10th April 2014, for the Commonwealth Oral Histories Project
And I didn’t say yes or no. I just said, “No, either you or the Commander [Ratu Epeli Nailatikau]. He’s got to do it. He is the Commander.” At that time, the Commander was going to go to Australia. After that discussion, nothing else took place. I quietly started doing what I was doing and training the people to be used, making sure we had enough ammunition in case we had to ward off any military counter-moves from Australia and New Zealand."
Sitiveni Rabuka, talking to Dr Sue Onslow in Suva on Thursday, 10th April 2014, for the Commonwealth Oral Histories Project
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*The racially-motivated 1987 Coups saw thousands upon thousands of Indo-Fijians forced to flee Fiji.
*Their children beaten for breaking the siga tabu Sunday bans.
*Indo-Fijian women raped in their homes.
*Their husbands and brothers forced to stand in sewage pools or taken to the military camp for bloody buturakis.
*Hundreds evicted from their farms without any compensation.
*The ethnic cleansing of Indo-Fijians from the Civil Service and other government controlled institutions.The dismissal of the Indo-Fijian Police Commissioner Raman.
*The imposition of a racially biased 1990 Constitution that disenfranchised the Indo-Fijians and other non i-Taukei minorities. The Indo-Fijians, from being the majority population, reduced to being minority in Fiji.
*The racial oppression in the 1990 Constitution continued, supported by the NFP traitors, led by Jai Ram Reddy, until Reddy-Rabuka were kicked out in the 1999 general election.
*The military swelled to over 5,000 men and women, predominantly i-Taukei, with COUP CULTURE becoming a permanent fixture in Fiji.
*Today, the Third Ranking Racist Military Thug is not only Prime Minister for the second time but was this week welcomed back to the Bloody 2 November Military Camp with full Guard of Honour accorded to him by RFMF Commander Jone Kalouniwai.
*The mutiny was put to the back burner, and the 1987 Coupist Rabuka enjoying not only the pomp and pageantry but the IMMUNITY he granted to himself after the two COUPS, a coup he claimed was originally mooted to him by his then Chief of Staff Colonel James (Jim) Sanday
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