Here Anonymous – let me address every single issue that you brought up and show you for the dumbass that you are.
In response to me stating that 25% of the Indo farmers had moved out of the Macuata region because of the non-renewal of leases – your response was 25% down, 75% to go.
What you failed to see is what had happened to the indigenous population in the that region and in other rural areas during that same period – the rural-urban migration.
So what exactly do you think happened to the Indigenous people in that area who had got used to the income from the land lease over the last sixty years – so when they got their land back, you think they started farming themselves – of do you thing they followed those Indo's to the mainland and many of them ended up in the squatter settlement in the Suva-Nausori corridor – with no electricity, poor housing, bad sanitation, high infant mortality, lower life expectancy, high crime rate and the list goes on. As for them Indo, with the insecurity that they feel, their option has been for while now to get off the land – and get better education for the next generation, migrate – and that Indo from Macuata – you might bump into him in the streets of SF or Sydney, Vancouver or Auckland – and you will probably go Haha – stateless, untouchable – and he would have two college graduate kids, a house with two car garage, and second home rented out – guess who had the last laugh.
This Indo move out of Macuata began in 2000, and in 2008 I read in the local media the paramount chief of Macuata Ratu Aisea Katonivere Wsaying that "we are working with the NLTB and our people talking to them about getting involved with cane farming themselves."
Yeah right – did they not start the Seqaqa cane scheme in the 70's to helf Fijians get into sugarcane farming – that when all those thieving Alliance Ministers signed up on the cane land under their wives names, just like the SDL signed up for the FHL shares.
BTW – I am sure you can check on the statistics on the increase in the Fijian population in urban areas and how it compares to the national average.
….. tick tick tick… before they start foraging for food in Macuata – you think it will be slash and burn kinda farming or should we get all the way back to hunter/gatherer type.
..and it is not only sugarcane land – almost half the rice areas in Dreketi, Nasarawaqa and Korokadi up in the north are not in production now because the leases on the land have expired. (Maybe all new rice import licenses should be distributed under affirmative action)
Next – you wrote, "Repeat – you are not Fijian – you never will be reconised as a Fijian – here or anywhere else – everywhere you go in this world identifies you as Indians – thats not racist more a reality that you won't acknowledge."
Honey – that depends on how you define "Fijian" – if the word Fijian refers to the Indigenous people of Fiji – then I am not one, if the word Fijian would refer to a citizen of Fiji than I am a Fijian – I don't think the argument here is whether I am a Fijian or not – I think the argument here is whether the term Fijian should be used to refer to a citizen of Fiji or to a indigenous person from Fiji…and there are good arguments on both sides.
