You were not voted in to do the job

Peacepipe say's Eveli, what reform are you talking about and who the hell are you to decide on what and how reforms should be. You were not voted in to do the job and do not represent the majority of the country. Just get the hell out of our face immediately and don't forget to take with you on your way out all the trash in there with you namely the IG headed by Cranky Frank.

The strength is within us let’s unite and fight for our land and restore Democracy to our nation.

Whatever attention or fond regard supporters of this regime may shew them it goes with saying the mass degradation of our country may be ample in their eyes but it must never be ample in ours.

For such is the magnitude of their barbarity and their insatiable desire for wealth they have collectively sodomised the country to the point of no return, all the while debasing the scared institution we as a civilized nation hold so dear our humanity and morality.

While we rumble through the ashes of our past it is patently clear the causes of our predicament is not as elementary as they would have us believe for it is within our inherent psyche lies the biggest bogey-man of all our pretentious ideals.

It is our individual inability to unite under a banner of brother/sister hood no matter what sector of the nation one hails from we shall and forever will remain in moribund otherwise.

We need to collectively remove the shackles and set the bogey-man free which has restrained us from pursuing our destination and free Fiji once and for all.

The nation is facing the biggest calamity of all with the expulsion from the Commonwealth and yet these lowlife sus-scrofa's and their partners in crime seem to take all ills in their stride.

Fiji can survive its buffoons and even those that acquire wealth legitimately but it will survive the rapaciousness of these immoral thugs.

The strength is within us let's unite and fight for our land and restore Democracy to our nation.

Take No Prisoners.

Eveli Nailatikau is still waiting in the wings hoping to appointed President, which has received mixed signals

Well this week continues to reveal people in different light and exposes their stupidity. Eveli Nailatikau is still waiting in the wings hoping to appointed President, which has received mixed signals. I personally believe Frank will take this position himself because Aiyaz, Pryde and company prefer him as they control him better than Eveli Nailatikau, who is controlled by others. Guess what folks, Aiyaz and these other shadowy controllers will collude together for self preservation and control whoever is willing to pretend to be in power because they control ultimately them.

Lesi Natuva, the Naval Officer who is the illegal Minister for Public Works reckons it will costs $40m to reseal all roads around the country. It shows the naivity of the man because resealing roads in Viti Levu alone cost more than this. He reminds me of the late KR Latchan's political speech during the Alliance days when he told a gathering of potential voters if he was elected he would gravel all the tar-seal roads in Fiji and judging from the irrational past decisions of the illegal junta, maybe this is what Natuva is actually referring to? Well it ain't going to surprise me!

Lastly, Steve Ratuva's statement that politics affects tourism and Fiji is actually safe but it was what tourists perceived as a threat is causing them to stay away from Fiji is not totally correct. Steve omits to accept the fact that people may not be coming to Fiji because they don't  like what is happening in Fiji and countries like Australia, NZ and others are warning its citizens of potential hazards, which is having a drastic impact of Fiji's tourism sector.

Furthermore, their voting with their feet is a direct consequence of Frank's coup. Ratuva to prove his point gave a a personal example saying despite his disagreeing with Bush and Howard's policies, he still visited Australia. This da Vinci does not make sense because if people in Fiji were given the opportunity to visit the US or Australia, 100% of the people would go and you know what da Vinci, politics would be the last thing on their minds.

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SO they linger until the people’s coffers are bare

Participants in this dictatorship Fiji can make anything their little hearts desires what with the guns propped to achieve their roadmap ONLY problem is their refusal to stand down from taxpayers' monies buying their bread and butter SO they linger until the people's coffers are bare.

The Commonwealth's revelation is long overdue. The regime's Expulsion is also in the horizon since Bainimarama's gangsters are writing the book on this one too.

Congratulations to the Commonwealth countries and thank you for helping Fiji toss pie in "their" faces ABOUT TIME

Time to just admit that you are unadulterated dictators

Jean d'Ark Says:The main subtext of the Commonwealth suspension is the same as that of the SP Forum suspension ie:-

 "We've heard your story, we've observed your conduct, and basically we don't believe you!"

So pretty much the same conclusion as the majority in Fiji. So since most everyone (except Cros Walsh) has seen through the Regime's lies, I wonder what is the point of continuing the propaganda war?

C'mon LF – fess up! Why are you guys still even bothering?

It's not as if people, having discovered that you guys are lying, are then going to somehow magically "undiscover" it again tomorrow!

Time to just admit that you are unadulterated dictators, and just get on with the business of failing to achieve anything out of your coup!

Suspension sends harsh message to Fiji

Fiji's suspension from the Commonwealth sends a harsh message to the military regime that refusal to hold prompt elections is totally unacceptable, regional experts say.

Fiji was suspended from the Commonwealth midnight Tuesday after failing to meet conditions, including resuming a dialogue with opposition groups and holding 2010 elections.

The country's self-appointed prime minister Frank Bainimarama, who staged a coup in December 2006 to oust the last elected government, has set elections for September 2014.

Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said suspension was a move taken "in sorrow" but the regime, in failing to meet the conditions, had left the Commonwealth no choice.

Brij Lal, a specialist on Fiji politics at Australian National University, said the move sent a clear message of global opposition to Fiji's political situation.

"It has a huge symbolic significance as it says in no uncertain terms that what the regime is doing is totally unacceptable to the international community," said Lal, who is from Suva.

"Frank Bainimarama will try to play it down by saying it doesn't mean anything but it's undeniable that it does."

There are practical implications from the suspension, the most significant of which is exclusion from next year's Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.

Steven Ratuva, an academic in Pacific studies at the University of Auckland, said the exclusion was unfortunate as it would penalise the people, not the government.

"Fiji is a proud sporting nation and these athletes will already be in the midst of training. This will be a terrible dampener on morale," Ratuva said.

Full suspension also means Fiji representatives will be excluded from all inter-governmental Commonwealth meetings, and the island will receive no scholarships or technical assistance from its fellow Commonwealth countries, unless it is linked to the establishment of democracy.

Suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum and the halting of aid from the European Union both had a greater impact on the nation.

Fiji has been offered a last life line, a meeting with the Commonwealth's special representative to the country, Paul Reeves, when he visits Fiji on September 9.

But comments from Bainimarama on Tuesday suggest he has no intention of swaying from elections in five years time as part of his "roadmap for change".

"The Fiji government believes the roadmap is the only path to ensuring sustainable and true democracy, which includes … to have elections in 2014," Bainimarama told a Fijian commercial radio station.

Prof Lal said that without flexibility from the regime, next week's talks were "destined to be, very sadly, a stillborn exercise".

This is the third Commonwealth ousting for Fiji, which was suspended in 2000 and expelled in 1987 for ten

LASTPOLARBEAR QUESTION MR QARASE'S JUDGEMENT

Our regular contributor "Lastpolarbear" has this to say,As much as I respect Mr. Qarase and what he stands for and the great job he was doing for all Fijians prior to the 2006 coup, I have to question his judgement a little.
Why would anyone try and broker a deal with Chaudhry after all the divisive things he personally has done to Fiji and it's people ?
Along with the Amnesty bill, the Qoliqoli bill and including 2000 coup perpetrators into Parliament, is this another mistake.

I understand the tactic behind trying to bring all sides together, but if Fijians continue to ignore the Rule of Law under the Constitution and try and circumvent the Law to create their own style of Justice, then fiji will be doomed yet again, if not immediately, then in a few years time.
People must be held accountable for breaking the Law and it is ridiculous to continue to try and whitewash their crimes just in order to try and bring about peace.
It won't work, not in Fiji.

Nothing short of a return to Democracy, an elected government, arrest, prosecution and detention of all those involved in this and previous coups, will suffice.

Riding on the tail coats of their fathers is not cutting it anymore

What the Roko Tui Dreketi has done is as honorable as it can be.The likes of the 2 Epelis and their wives the Mara ladies and their brother Ului should learn from Ro Temumu's example.Riding on the tail coats of their fathers is not cutting it anymore. Noiw they show their true colours by muching on Bainimarama's coup to keep them employed in areas they would not have gotten otherwise.These people are good examples of kana buta.They aught to be ashamed of themselves.

Ro Teimumu is like a breath of fresh air

Blogger PovertystrickenFiji say's

Unlike the illegal crooks who have stolen their government positions at the point of a gun, Ro Teimumu is like a breath of fresh air; she shows that toughness, as Alex Karras tells us, is in the soul and spirit, not in guns and immature minds!

There’s no hiding from the truth here

That's what happens when those who want power and the money to go with it, try to obtain it deceitfully.

Unless you win the lottery, the only way to the top if you strive hard enough is through education and plain hard work.

For those of us born and bred in Fiji, which is a very very small place where everyone tends to know anothers business, any dishonest or disrepectful behaviour is quickly found out.

There's no hiding from the truth here, and if the illegal regime think their disgusting behaviour is something to be proud of, then they are more foolish than they think.

Now that the illegal regime has dismantled all the institutions we hold sacred, it's going to be amusing to see who takes up residence at the White House.

If neither of the Epelis are fast tracked to president, there will be some huge loss of face around Suva.

Curry in a hurry in the face.

The isolation will result in hard economic times for Fiji

As International friends of Fiji regret the suspension the arrogant Dictator Bainimarama does not seem to comprehand the significance of this move by the Commonwealth of Nations.

 

 This supension virtually leaves Fiji with no Friends at all in the Western Allies and the only options are Moslem league,African league,and any other country not associated with Commonwealth or PIF. Such a sad state of affairs for a country like Fiji.Fiji will now allign itself with the terrorist states and soon no one will be there for it anymore.No Commonwealth Games, No more participation at the Head of Commonwealth States meeting where even the likes of Kiribati and Tonga a given Regal treatment as equals by the likes of England India and Australia to name a few,

 

The isolation will result in hard economic times for Fiji, no help in medical grounds and judiciary and Fiji as the banana republic that it has become will just as we have always said just a spec of dust in the vast Pacific.Forgotten and very insignificant.

The Commonwealth really need to send over a peace Keeping Force

Its no use talking to this piece of shit Bainisonarama since his brain is all screwed up, from drinking homebrews under the maqo tree, back home in Kiuva.The Commonwealth really need to send over a peace Keeping Force to tell this AzzOle to hang himself and hand back the Government to the people of Fiji?

 

 Was that too hard to understand? Bainisona, knows that the day he gives in to our democratic wishes is the day his ass is going to Naboro! He'll cheat, lie and steal to stay in power. I say send over a commonwealth peace keeping forces and kicked this AzzOle out of Fiji?

The suspension is a big blow to Bainimarama’s ego

The suspension is a big blow to Bainimarama's ego and also to the coup supporters like the 2 Epeli's.As the people of Fiji suffer, they will try to erase the blow by saying exactly as they are saying now, that suspension is a price for the change they want.

 

The non participation of Fiji in the Commonwealth games will be another area they will face opposition from.Ganilau is pleased because this way he will be VB's deputy for as long as Fiji is out of the Commonwealth. He would not have gotton to where he is in a pproper decnt way but only in the dirtiestest like the coup.

 

The Roadmap that they are saying is a lead on to total authoritorian and Fiji will be in troble because of it.Bainimarama does not know nor does he understand what it is he is doing and the people of Fiji are suffering.

You must be dreaming Vidhya Lakhan

Vidhya Lakhan says that the Commonwealth Secretariat do not have the right to block Fiji from the commonwealth games.
How can Fiji attend the commonwealth games if it is not a member? Fiji is not a member now because of the suspension.
You must be dreaming Vidhya.

They are shoving them down our throat through the barrel of the gun.

The roadmap for change is actually a strangle hold on democracy because they are shoving them down our throat through the barrel of the gun.
The Charter was not transparent when it was conducted as the army and the Police are the ones who had been going around trying to convince people and make them sign.
The proper way is through secret ballot but they were afraid that it would be disaster for them.

The IG’s motto is “Hook or by crook”

Cama say's the IG'S  motto is "Hook or by crook"

Cut off Frank’s military from UN Peacekeeping duties!

If the Commonwealth would really want to hit Baini and his supporters where it hurt most then they should veto for the discontinuation of RFMF at all UN Peacekeeping duties. That is Baini lifeblood thats keeping him in power. All Fijian Security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan should be terminated immediately and have them replaced by other Pacific Islanders Peace keepers that had being trained by RAMSI. There should be concerted effort by all global and regional gatekeepers in order to eradicate this type of political problem from the Pacific for good. What ever happen in Fiji can aslo happen in PNG and these are destabilizing factors for regional peace.

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Even the very first Dicator fails

Our contributor Jone send this to us .

 jone Says:
September 1, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Frank or rather Vo won't let go of the guns — never before did FIJI have a self proclaimed illegal prime minister slash commander/minsier of finanace and never before did fiji have a PERegulation for 3 years. This is Fij's very first dictatorship rule.

Frank becoming President of a failed State

Lastpolarbear say's, isn't it frustrating to see and hear all the Fijians just sitting around the Mango tree, eating and drinking and singing and praying !
But they have forgotten a very important aspect of humanity, Freedom comes at a price and one should fight for ones freedom.
I believe that Fijians are frozen with fear, but that fear is ill founded because the
Regime and it's cowardly leader, boce Frank Bainimarama, are more frightened than the citizens of Fiji.
Now that Fiji is suspended from the Commonwealth and the subsequent aid is drying up and the threat of Frank becoming President of a failed State and over turning the Land Ownership Laws becomes ever closer,I wonder how long before Indigenous Fijians snap out of that state of mind !

Fiji’s Christian Police Force Compared to Taliban

Suva wakes up to heavenly noises as Fiji's Police Force Band and officers excite the Fijian Public with Gospel music and dancing and sharing a common bond- Jesus Christ.
And this is the 'Only strategy' the Fiji Police Force is now implementing in the hope of changing the lives of people whose lives have led them to live a hurtful, troubled, criminal resulting in making irrational choices.

A recent article in the Brisbane Times gives a bit of background:

A "Jesus crusade" led by Fiji's police force has been compared to the rule of the Taliban.
Editor in Chief of the Fiji Times, Mr Netani Rika, addressed journalism and communications students at the University of Queensland yesterday, telling them of life under the illegal rule of interim Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama.
Mr Rika said police converts to the fundamentalist New Methodist Church had replaced military personnel as in-house censors in newsrooms.
…The head of the new Methodist Church is the brother of the Police Commissioner, a close friend of Mr Bainimarama and former Fiji Navy Commander. The Police Commissioner is regarded as the second most powerful position in Fiji.
…An Associate Director of `Uniting World', a Uniting Church body operating in the Pacific, said he was investigating reports that preachers from Australian pentacostal [sic] churches were funding the New Methodist Church in Fiji and were sending people to preach there.

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Will FNPF and Hibiscus queen Mere Nailatikau bring hope to disillusioned Fijians?

Will FNPF and Hibiscus queen Mere Nailatikau bring hope to disillusioned Fijians?

August 30, 2009

Mere Nailatikau heralds a new era not only to the Hibiscus Festival of which she is the queen but to the face of what Fiji really is today.

Here is a young, modern, articulate and intelligent Fijian lady who in a way represents what Fiji is all about,, minus the political and power-trip coup nonsense its older generation leaders are caught up in right now.

Sources there say that the Hibiscus Festival of 2009 is one of the best in its history coupled with the unbelivable good weather right throughout the festivity week.

The Hibiscus Festival is almost synonymous to rain but that curse was broken last week.

The military regime fears of a possible uprising from the banned Methodist Church annual conference or from the hibiscus festival itself has proven to be nothing but unsubstantiated claim that originated from fear itself.

So the Suva Hibiscus week has come and gone bringing together the oppressed people of the over-populated Suva City to enjoy the festival and encouraged camaderie with their Suva folks.

It would have been undoubtedly the biggest public gathering since the coup of December 2006.

Mere Nailatikau is now the reigning Hibiscus queen and with it comes great responsibilities.

Will she be able to articulately address the many valid but disturbing issues that face her sponsors FNPF members since the coup of 2006?

Will she be the face and voice  the FNPF board and management will use to try and water-down the financial hemorrhage it's plagued with?

Or will she be used by the Suva City Council and Hibiscus Festival organisers for their own agenda.

Is Mere Nailatikau brave enough to advocate for the removal of human rights breaches of soughts on the people of Suva and Fiji by Frank Bainimarama's junta?

Mere professes to be a proud Fiji Islander.

We believe many people in Fiji feel that way too.

But is it safe to say that Mere Nailatikau is also proud of what the Fiji peoples are going through under the tyranny of Frank & Co?

We don't think so!

We think Mere Nailatikau is too brilliant a girl to imply that she is also proud of Fiji's murderous and tortureous military regime her country men, women, youth and child are forcefully subjected under as we blog.

She simply couldn't admit it because doing so would have seen her and her beautiful green dress with its dazzling sparkling crown get hauled up to the military camp for breaching the Public Emergency Regulation.

But we're hopeful that someday, somewhere, sometime, Mere Nailitakau will be brave enough to stand up for her fellow countrymen and say it like it is!

Our congratulations is definitely in order for Miss FNPF and Miss Hibiscus 2009, Mere Nailatikau.

 
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IT APPEARS THAT FRANK IS TORN BETWEEN TWO SIDES

It appears that frank is torn between the two sides. "Their" original plan and the newly emergent money power group's plan.Well insiders were saying Frank was not heeding their advice. Ofcourse his got his ears to those that have the money. On the other hand Koila has already ordered a $20k+ renovation to the swimming pool at the white house on top of some $45k+ required for the main.

 

They know they will get it hence the preparation. My bet, if they do not get the nod for the position, it will be the end of the regime and Frank will cop everything. This is their ultimate dream. If this is true then there will be no compromise. Its president or nothing. SO may be things will drag for a while. My bet is still on the Koila & Nailatakau. They stand a very good chance according to how things stand from this far.

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My heart still goes out to Fijians, as they slowly lose their paradise

From our regular contributor Mark Maning

I first got involved with Fijians a week or so before the first coup and thought what a nice, kind, fun loving, well dressed, well educated people they are.
Especially when I was comparing them to the Torres Strait islanders I had previously been involved with.
For years, Fiji had been described to me as a paradise, yet I didn't get the opportunity or desire to go there until 19 years later, in May, 2006.

It was during the 2006 elections and I wondered why many of the Soldiers would stare at me as I drove past them on a crowded bus and why they were on the roads.
I learnt later that they were expecting trouble on the streets and thought to myself, but the only trouble that is being caused, is their presence in the streets around Suva, blocking the traffic day and night etc.
At the same time I wondered, why is the military in control here, why hasn't the Government ordered it's Soldiers back to camp and just who is in charge ?

Anyway, then I was shown around Suva and the surrounding areas.
Given the stories over the previous 19 years of a paradise, I was shocked and disgusted at the filth of the area and the town of Suva, the poor public transport and the beggars on the streets and drunks rolling around the City, and my heart went out to these people at the same time, because I understood that the coup of 1987 and 2000, had helped destroy Fiji's soul, and that so much of the economy and political will had been sucked out of the Community and Fiji's people.
I felt powerless to help, I was angry that paradise has been turned into another Calcutta !
My heart still goes out to Fijians, as they slowly lose their paradise, their jobs, their homes, their livelihoods and their futures.

I feel sorry for the parents who wanted so much for their young children, now adults in their early twenties.
And as we see the trend of degradation continue to destroy that which was Fiji, I wonder how much more can you all take before you reach the point of no return.
The soul of Fiji, of Fijians is being destroyed by a handful, yet most Fijians have lost their will.
I wonder as I sit here in Sydney by my computer, what will Suva look like in
another twenty years and how many beggars will be on the streets, how many drunks will be roaming around aimlessly, how many of your Daughters will contract H.I.V. and A.I.D.S. , how many of your children will miss the opportunity to study at home, follow a career path and become successful in life ?

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