Peceli Rinakama has been kidnapped by the military in Fiji

Peceli Rinakama has been kidnapped by the military and is now in danger to be tortured and murdered as others before him. The question is how much more do we want to take from the dictator? The record of this regime is summarized in the contribution above. It is time to do something.

I suggest that we reassure ourselves by wearing a little blue ribbon in the colour of our beloved flag at our wrists, shirts, in our hair, light blue t-shirts, wherever…So everyone who sees another citizen wearing our national colour knows that they are not alone in their contempt for this regime that tramples on our human rights and ruins the economy of our beloved country. As a next step, we should think creatively how to undermine the dictatorship. Letters and e-mails to the UN (especially to the SG and head of UNDP) to the EU, the OZ, US and NZ governments, the Commonwealth etc will have some impact. Civil servants can through a million of spanners into the works. Let's do it. Legal action can be taken outside Fiji. Crimes against humanity can be prosecuted internationally and Cassava Frank would not be the first dictator being presented an arrest warrant on foreign soil. I understand that there is something in the making in New Zealand to that effect.

Next we should think about action at home. Modern communication technology offers incredible opportunities. Blogging is fine but the internet offers a host of other possibilities, which we need to explore. Imagine we stage a peaceful protest against the GESTAPO methods used by the regime and everyone carries a little camera, phone or otherwise. Everything the dictator does to oppress our human rights would be out on CNN and BBC more or less immediately. At this stage we do not need a leader or a headquarters that can me raided by the goons or a charter. The only thing we need is action in the shadows led by a common goal: to oust the dictator and return Fiji to its people.

A new Dress Decree about to be released by the Dictator of Fiji!!!

The latest bizarre news leaked out of the 'water tight' regime (tche tche)   is a soon to be released decree prohibiting female  government workers from wearing long trousers to work. Obviously given the closed closet known religious background of the author of these decrees, what else do you expect? The only exception we suppose are female soldiers wearing military issue trousers of course. Then again soldiers are above the law! It seems judging from certain decrees such as the decriminalizing of consenting adult same sex, that there is a deep psychological gender crisis being made manifest by the legal author . As if to say, only she, Samimi, wears the pants and the balls to go with  on such highly public controversial issues!  Otherwise for mere female mortals in the service of our glorious most chaste  state- only  salulu  jamba lewa! and  sari betwa with  no midriff or  waistline showing! Next decree- loose sapo for all male government workers!  COMMENTS

The people of Fiji wanted an IMMEDIATE END to military Dictatorship by Senijiale

AMEN to that lastpolarbear! (not that I'm religious).

Everyone now sees the military brass and their advisors as the source of evil in Fiji (the institution has either initiated or lent support to treasonous deeds since independence).

As I see it, should the military junta put this issue to a "free and independently monitored vote" next week, I have no doubt in my mind that the overwhelming majority, save for the usual suspects, would want to see an IMMEDIATE END to the military junta; a return to an interim civilian administration whilst national elections are organised ASAP, and after elections, a gradual disbandment of the RFMF (given the livelihoods of the rank and file at stake).

Let the people be "legitimately forced" to iron out whatever differences they might have "within a democratic and legitimate framework" without having to resort to guns, military thugs and sheer brutal force to get their own selfish ways… which of course is what LOSERS resort to! What a crying shame.

And these LOSERS you'll find, won't even show their faces around in town but will drive around in heavily tinted vehicles from one short block to the next. Shame! Shame! Shame!

How to avoid further coups in Fiji by Lastpolarbear

there are a couple of issues that need to be sorted out in order to avoid further coups.
1/ people should be educated about just what a democracy is.
2/ people who speak of sedition, should be arrested and dealt with immediately through the Courts.
3/ maybe the RFMF should be downsized to 500 as planned by the Qarase Government.
4/ a tactical response group should be established to deal with matters of National Security in Fiji.
5/ a coast guard should be established, in line with the recommendations of the Qarase government./ those guilty of Treason, should spend lengthy jail sentences to deter others.
6/ a special investigation unit should be established to ensure internal security and to counter threats against the State etc.
7/ people in fiji should learn to extract themselves from cultural allegiances which have the potential to course a conflict of interests etc.

 

Lastpolarbear

And lest we forget…

And lest we forget…

The late Mr. Nimilote Verebasaga, a father and husband, who died as a result of multiple assault wounds inflicted on his person – at the hands and in the custody of MAIKA VUNIWAWA, an RFMF army officer.

Vuniwawa was finally convicted of MANSLAUGHTER and rcvd a sentence of 3 years imprisonment – for the assault and taking of a human life!

… State v Vuniwawa [2009] FJHC 101; HAC170.2007S (7 April 2009)..

 

Senijiale

Fiji youth need to be taken into consideration.

I'm sure that fiji has enough honourable people in fiji to deal with the current crisis.
Mr. Qarase as stood his ground, the previous Vice President jone, is Intellectual and an honest man and there are many women who have proved their worth as well.
I think this time, the Fiji youth need to be taken into consideration.

 

Lastpolarbear

The ruling by the ilegal justice system has always benifited those who backed Crank and his cronies.

 

I read the Fijisun with the heading Respect case ruling and I feel a sense of remorse for the people of Fiji. When you look at the rulling of the case when crank was told to return to baracks, what transpired after that is history.
He sets up his legal system to protect his interest and the outcome is what we see in the ruling on Firday.
What respect is Crank morting about when he and his cronies did not respect the decision to return to baracks.
The people are not blind and stupid as you are and I hope that the people in Fiji today will stand up and tell this ilegal regime that its enough of this havoc.
The ruling by the ilegal justice system has always benifited those who backed Crank and his cronies.
The question to be asked is the system in place a truely democratic system where every person can practice his democratic right?.
I dont think so and What are the chiefs, church and the people, doing about it.
Enough is enough, don't sit on your laurels and think your democratic right will be served to you on a plate.
Its got to be earned and that is your responsiblity to fight for it, which ever path you take its got to be done today not tommorrow because tommorrow will never come.
God bless Fiji in this session of lent and I pray that everybody will pray and fast for a UNITED FIJI who will stand for DEMORCACY and PEAC

 

Hector

The fact that they’ve been sentenced is tragic for a crime they never committed

The green goons should read this article; they might learn something about the injustice in Fiji.

""""From the ABC

""VJ Narayan, the news director for Legend FM in Suva, was in court for the sentence and is one of the few Fijian journalists who is prepared to talk to international media.

"Men convicted of conspiring to murder Commodore Frank Bainimarama have all been handed down prison sentences by High Court judge, Justice Paul Madigan, this afternoon," he said.

The men were charged over a 2007 plot to assassinate Commodore Bainimarama. The self-appointed prime minister seized power in December 2006 in a military coup.

During his summing up, the judge found that a ninth man, Ballu Khan, was behind the plot to assassinate the Commodore – that is despite his case not going ahead after he won a stay of proceedings.

"There are a number of times Ballu Khan's… name came up in the course of the trial when evidence was presented in court and also when the verdict was read out," Mr Narayan said.

"The judge said he found the eight men guilty of conspiring with Ballu Khan to murder Commodore Bainimarama."

But Khan says he and the men are innocent.

"The fact that they've been sentenced is tragic for a crime they never committed," he said.

"We know this crime was committed by the military. The criminality belongs to the military, not to these people.

"None of them should be going to jail. They should have never been tried in the first place.

"This is a very sad day, another sad day in the chapter of Fiji's recent history."

Veteran Pacific journalist Michael Field says the details of the assassination attempt were never revealed to the court.

The Fairfax journalist was expelled from Fiji 18 months ago but still monitors the country closely.

"The evidence that was actually offered in court was based on hearsay evidence from two rather low-ranking operatives in the military intelligence service – a corporal and a major – who described going to these various meetings that were said to have occurred," he said.

"Somewhat more astonishing, in court they admitted that at no point had the now convicted plotters actually said that they wanted to assassinate Bainimarama but they had responded to these suggestions from the military spies that they assassinate Bainimarama.

"So this thing overall looks remarkably suspect."

Mr Field says the political situation in Fiji is unstable.

"Basically what's happening is that we have the military seemingly driving the whole agenda in the country and full of this sort of paranoia," he said.

"We have to remember that even today Fiji operates under a state of emergency. There's severe censorship, there's a ban on gatherings and the suggestion that there was a plot to assassinate Bainimarama is just justification for this suffocating military overlord rule of Fiji that goes on."

It is not yet known whether the men will appeal.

A spokesperson from the Fiji government was not prepared to comment to the ABC.