Baini Khaiyum sa lako Niusiladi sa levu paisa

Mum is off to New Zealand

Aiyaz Saiyad Khayium is fond of attacking New Zealand, and all his little loyal followers moan about how Wellington has got its ties with Suva ... and wow is us, Fiji is becoming part of China.

Here is a little piece of news: Aiyaz's mum is leaving Fiji and guess what, she is not going to China or India or anywhere that suggests she might be "Looking North".

No, Aiyaz's mum is coming to live off the New Zealand taxpayer. She has permanent citizenship in the country.

And she is welcome here; perhaps she can carry the word home to her son on Skype that the rest of the world thinks he is an idiot.

Funny thing though, as Mum was shuffled off to New Zealand, a couple of beach front plots on Naisoso Island were being purchased - for a couple of million dollars apiece - in Mum's name.

Methinks she will be living in Mt Roskill while son, and that lovely soul with the boat, will he hanging out on Naisoso.

So is the burden of fighting corruption in Fiji.

ARTICLE COURTESY OF MICHAEL FIELD

Teleni - oya na kei Atu

Let the implosions begin.
Fijians breath a sigh of relief that this prime dimwit has been let go to the care of Atu


Fiji is now Teleni-free. Well, almost.

Bubu has had some information come to her recently that is quite explosive. My sources are understandably nervous about revealing themselves suffice to say they live and breath police work.

They are sufficiently and understandably outraged about the abuse they have received under the hand of the regime and Teleni in particular, and wish this abuse exposed. They are also concerned at the manner in which they are being used to knock down traditional Fijian institutions under the guise of 'law'.

Their traditional oath to protect and care about the people has been superseded with one that demands loyalty to a dictator and his interests only.

As a police force, my sources say, they are being ordered to persecute, prosecute and spy on citizens whose only crime is to be critical of the regime. Courtesy of the military-led police they also have a secret watch list of citizens who have not been charged with any crimes but who are "visited" from time to time by police for the purposes of intimidation. Many of these good people have been so harassed, they have been forced to leave Fiji.

The police under Teleni were ordered to trump up charges , make up stories and lie about citizens in order to further the junta's programme for suffocating their critics. My sources have showed me a menagerie of conflicting & contradictory memos issued by Teleni and other senior military stooges that instruct them to NOT investigate any public complaints against any member of the military even if these actions contradict the law and pervert the course of justice. One of these memos specifically names the SDL & Mick Beddoes parties and instructs police NOT to take down or act on any of their complaints. Another directive specifically instructs on police action in regards to the religious persecution of the Methodist Church hierarchy in Fiji, and what steps to take to actively persecute, charge & disrupt their services and meetings. There are numerous others that are a continuing antipathy of the original policeman's oath, including the harassment of internet cafe users.

In early 2009, the homes and cars of several anti-government civilians, including Saikiusa Raivoce, a former military man & Bainimarama critic; unionist Attar Singh, head of the New Movement for Democracy, Fiji Times editor in chief Netani Rika ; and lawyer Akuila Naco, were attacked with rocks & Molotov cocktails At year's end police investigations had not resulted in any arrests or prosecutions.

Our police sources say they knew who was responsible and that these people were drawn from a special Fiji military terrorist cell specifically set up for this purpose. However the police team was told in no uncertain terms to "look in the other direction" by the god-fearing Jesus Commissioner himself.

Also being revealed now is how scornful Teleni was to the Women's Rights Movement and Fiji Women's Crisis Center, especially after Shamima Ali mocked his police dancing brigade. His advise to officers soon after this was to "leave the women's complaints to the customary practise of reconciliation" and "don't waste time investigating".

Shameful.

Now, amongst the other morally-glaringly-obvious issues as presented above, if Aiyass and his regime be believed about all their talk about transparency and accountability, let the questions be asked now, about the millions of our taxpayer dollars that Teleni passed his grubby hands over :

* how much exactly did Teleni spend directly with his brother's religious cult programme forced down the throat of the police force ? (Our sources say over 5 million dollars was siphoned off in this direction)

* how many needless overseas trips with entourage, did Teleni take and for what stated purposes. (Our sources say trips were taken for medical and sightseeing purposes - all paid for by the taxpayer)

* how many millions were spent on the designs of , and the purchase of new police uniforms, disposal of old uniforms, and the design and purchase of new lapels and badges (Our sources say this was in the millions especially as Teleni had to go to India to see for himself, then he had the audacity to take deductions from police officers for something they had no say in changing.)

* How many hundreds of thousands of taxpayer funds were spent on cult dance indoctrination workshops, and crime-free-centre propoganda? (Our sources say what was wasted in this arena is unbelievable)

* How much in financial kick-backs has Teleni accepted from Padam Lala and other businessmen in the community? (Our sources in the bank tell us of amazing deposits into Teleni's family account)

* Will we ever know the extent of Teleni's mismanagement of funds in the regimental mess fund?

* Will Fiji ever be repaid the money that Teleni owed to NBF and to the FNPF ?

* Will the real crime statistics that he ordered his officers to concoct be released ?

* Will we be told the real story of the cover-up that Teleni ordered on the files of the unsolved CRW murders ? (Our sources tell us that all files to do with Police Commissioner Andrew Hughes investigation into Bainimarama, Ganilau , Teleni and other shady coup individuals have all been destroyed on the orders of Teleni)

Fiji's Human rights not for sale

Article by Sir Ronald Sanders - consultant and former Caribbean diplomat

Sunday, August 15, 2010

THE military leader of Fiji, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, recently said that he would like to cut his country's ties with neighbouring Australia and New Zealand and align with China. His statement would find little support amongst the people of Fiji who value their long and deep relationship with Australia and New Zealand.

Bainimarama's reason for saying he would sever ties with Australia and New Zealand and align Fiji to China has nothing to do with the interests of his country or his people. It is entirely to do with Bainimarama's perception that China would be tolerant of his Government, which seized power in a coup d'état four years ago.

BAINIMARAMA... believes China would be tolerant of his Government, which seized power in a coup d'état four years ago

MUGABE... his regime has practised the worst form of discrimination and brutalised its own people

MUGABE... his regime has practised the worst form of discrimination and brutalised its own people 2/2

Both Australia and New Zealand — countries to which many Fijians have emigrated and which are Fiji's biggest trading partners — have seriously objected not only to the military coup, but also to the fact that Bainimarama has failed to hold democratic elections at which a civilian government could be elected. Neither country shows any sign of letting up on their objection to a serious violation of democracy in Fiji.

The Commonwealth — a grouping of 54 nations of which Fiji was a member along with Australia and New Zealand — suspended Fiji from the Councils of the Commonwealth immediately after the coup, and the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) suspended the country fully from the Commonwealth in 2009 after further gross violations of the Constitution by the Bainimarama regime, including the dismissal of judges who ruled that his regime was illegal.

Australia and New Zealand are in the forefront of upholding CMAG's position in Fiji. And they are not alone. Other big Commonwealth nations such as Britain, Canada and India insist that a condition of membership of the Commonwealth must be adherence by governments to the democratic values and principles to which the organisation's member states have declared themselves to be committed.

Fortunately for the people who live in the Fiji Islands, neither Australia nor New Zealand has imposed tough sanctions or bans. Had they done so the Fijian economy — already suffering from the consequences of a military government — would have collapsed, and the people of the islands would have suffered extreme hardship.

A significant amount of their exports and their tourism would have been adversely affected, creating high unemployment and increased poverty. There would also have been a greater exodus of qualified people than there has been.

Australia and New Zealand have chosen instead to join their fellow members of the Commonwealth in keeping up pressure on the Fijian regime to restore democracy in the country. They have also relied on the "good offices" role of the Commonwealth Secretary-General to find ways of opening up an effective dialogue with the Fijian regime to return the country to democracy.

So far, these efforts have failed amid Bainimarama's determination to maintain himself in power. In the meantime, the people of Fiji suffer, and the regime shops around for governments that would give it assistance despite its naked abuse of power.

But Fiji's immediate neighbours in the South Pacific have shown their deep concern about the abrogation of democracy by suspending the country from the 16-member South Pacific Forum last year.

Shopping around for support for an undemocratic regime is hardly the answer to the Fijian Government's unconstitutional status and the pariah status that the country is acquiring. Eventually, pressure will mount both internally and externally to isolate and remove a regime that clings to power without the will of the people.

China has been long in the game of international politics and it is unlikely to extend any great comfort to the Fijian regime for a sustained period, particularly as Fiji has neither an abundance of resources in which China is interested nor any particular strategic interest.

It is in the manner of the Commonwealth's method of operation that it will not surrender the people of Fiji to an unelected government, particularly one that seized power at the point of a gun.

In this connection, the Commonwealth secretary-general, Kamalesh Sharma, repeated the Commonwealth's determination to help Fiji to restore democracy while continuing its suspension from the association.

The point may come, however, when a determination will have to be made about how much longer an unelected regime is allowed by the international community to hold a country hostage to its will. The danger of a more prolonged "capture" of the state apparatus by Bainimarama and his military supporters is that it might

encourage similar unconstitutional developments, not only in the Pacific but in other regions as well. For, if other regimes feel that Bainimarama can get away with flouting democracy they may be tempted to do so themselves, especially if countries such as China give them succour, however temporary.

The Commonwealth will have a unique and special role to play in all this. It is a value-based association of 54 nations drawn from every continent of the world and representing one-third of the world's people. Unlike many other multilateral organisations it has declared democracy, freedom, human and civil rights to be its core values, and in the past — particularly on issues such as racism — it was the world's torch-bearer; its moral conscience, even as many governments turned a blind eye to atrocities in Apartheid South Africa and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the interest of economic gain.

In a world where human and civil rights are increasingly being defiled, many will look to the Commonwealth to raise the banner of democracy and to push for it to be upheld. Fiji is one country where unconstitutionality will demand further and stronger action from the Commonwealth. Zimbabwe, where the Robert Mugabe regime has practised the worst form of discrimination and brutalised its own people, is another.

Human rights and democracy should not be for sale.

Teleni suspended from duties

No one is saying a thing.

We know the Fiji military regime is unstable, but real instability starts to show when key members from the coup planning stage suddenly get drop-kicked !

It is well know that Teleni and Salusalu displayed open animosity to Aiyaz and Colonel Mohd Aziz’s moves within the Military Council. Then suddenly they stopped getting invited to Council meetings and baboom, and then last week we get reliable word that Teleni is suspended – just like that - a victim of his own type of back-stabbing and warped fabrications of the truth ...

Word is that that senior policemen (Daveta and Tudravu) that Teleni has tried to expel from the policeforce, did leak some very serious allegations against Teleni and this has led to the current regime in-house crisis.

I asked a senior inspector recently for confirmation and all he said was "As he sowed, so will he reap" . Station constables have since been seen dancing on their counters with glee, but what has happened has Aiyaz Khaiyum's distinctive identifying characteristic's all over it.

The sycophantic, ignoramuses on the phantom Fiji Military Council thought they were the ones using Aiyaz to achieve their secret agenda, and that they were the ones who are in control.

However, as a recent commentator on one of the blogs said recently, it seems clear who is really driving the sunset-clause-truck into the Fijian people and the only one getting what he wants here is Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum- Minister for Everyting in Fiji !

Watch this space as word is there are some very heated arguments going on in regime corridors.