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Fiji's Dictator and Followers irrational, unbalanced and voilent

US cables show Bainimarama beat opponents

BY PHILIP DORLING

27 Aug, 2011 12:00 AM

FIJI'S military strongman Commodore Frank Bainimarama is irrational, unbalanced and violent, and directly took part in the human rights abuses that followed his December 2006 coup, according to leaked United States diplomatic reports.

Secret US embassy cables leaked to WikiLeaks, and provided exclusively to Fairfax, allege beatings and intimidation of the military regime's suspected opponents took place with the full knowledge of senior Fijian military commanders and included the direct participation of Commodore Bainimarama, now Fiji's interim prime minister.

One embassy report records witness testimony that Commodore Bainimarama joined in an assault on a senior public servant detained at the Fijian military's headquarters in December 2006, when the commodore ''kicked [the man's] legs out from under him and beat him around the head, telling him, 'Don't f--- with the military'.''

Although Commodore Bainimarama publicly deplored violence by Fijian soldiers following his coup and said he would ensure any excesses ceased, the US embassy reported to Washington he told European Union diplomats that if anyone insulted the Fijian military ''of course we must have them taken to the barracks and have them beaten up''.

The leaked US cables record that both before and after Commodore Bainimarama overthrew prime minister Laisenia Qarase's democratically elected government, American diplomats found the Fijian military chief ''erratic'', ''irrational'' and ''wildly excessive'' in his reactions to criticism.

In one cable sent to Washington shortly before the December 2006 coup, US ambassador Larry Dinger observed that ''a psychiatrist would have a field day with Bainimarama''.

In other reports, the commodore's propensity for ''sabre-rattling'' and threats of violence, including against foreign diplomats, caused the US embassy in Suva to ''wonder more than ever about the rationality of [Bainimarama's] judgment''.

The leaked US diplomatic cables contain numerous reports of human rights abuses following the military takeover, including the arbitrary detention of human rights activists, senior police and civil servants, trade unionists, lawyers and journalists.

Pictured above : Fiji Regime's current mouthpiece by the name of Mosese Tikoitonga threatening innocent Fijians with military paranoia. For non-Fijian speakers, the graffiti on the wall behind him tells us that the man is a great pretender, boasting to be champion of the people, but when he is really challenged it will be obvious to all that his rhetoric is weak & without substance, and he will be backing off as he is on weak moral and ethical ground.

Human rights abuses documented in the cables include beatings, torture and death threats ''with a pistol to the head''.

One senior police officer detained by the military at Suva's Queen Victoria Barracks described how he saw ''several ambulances depart the camp transporting people beaten by military interrogators''.

Other cases reported by the US embassy included deaths in military custody with one victim's body - ''marked by visible bruises'' - dumped by soldiers at a police station. In another case a group of villagers, including a senior police officer, was ''subjected ... to beatings over a three-hour period''.

The US embassy reports also document cases of rape and sexual assault by Fijian military personnel, including at least one instance of a group of detainees forced to engage in group sexual acts. In another case a prominent female human rights activist was ''felt up'' by a senior military officer and was ''warned she would receive worse treatment unless she stopped her activities''.

In discussing the interim prime minister's motivations, US diplomats highlighted underlying insecurity in Commodore Bainimarama's personality.

The US embassy reports quote a former senior Fijian military officer and close colleague of Commodore Bainimarama, together with then chief of the Fiji Police former Australian Federal Police officer Andrew Hughes, as suggesting Commodore Bainimarama suffered from post-traumatic stress arising from the Fijian army mutiny of November 2000.

Although the US embassy in Suva has reported that Commodore Bainimarama has been ''feeling the strain of governing a country that doesn't salute like an army,'' the leaked cables leave little doubt about the Fijian military's determination to only relinquish power on its terms and to never allow its democratic opponents to regain power.

New elections, originally promised by Commodore Bainimarama within two years of the December 2006 coup, are now nominally scheduled for September 2014.

Fiji's Media Whore

Sharon Jones, Australian Citizen and Fascist - pictured here trying to justify her existence in Fiji on the latest propoganda puke channel.

How dare this woman tell us what to do in our own country.

We, the citizens of Fiji would like you Sharon to go back to where you came from.

Quickly, and soon for you will not ever be missed.

And we are being polite ... for now.

Hark the Death throes of the Methodist Church in Fiji

Today is yet another sad day in Fiji's history - the day the current Methodist Church leadership in Fiji decided to take the Gold Medal at Fiji's greatest Lamusonas' Awards and rolled over like pitiful little sheep to be slaughtered at the alter of the tevoro.

Today also a correspondent emailed me this submission that the Rev Koroi had written way back in 2006. Unbelievably it is addressed specifically to the same culprits that have allowed themselves to be dictated to and rolled over today. It makes compelling reading for it's relevance to this organisation that is surely quite dead but knows not that it is dead.
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Paper addressed to :

President Elect : Rev. L Ratabacaca,
G/S : Rev. A Tugaue
Assistant G/S : Rev. T. Waqairatu

THE “NOW” CONCERNS OF METHODIST CHURCH IN FIJI
By Rev J.F. Koroi August 2006 on the occasion of The “42nd” Fiji Methodist Annual Conference

I speak to the Methodist Church in Fiji as a concerned Christian , and retired President of the Methodist Church in Fiji (1987-1989). In his address to the 12th World Methodist Conference - Denver Colorado 1971 on the topic : “The “NOW” CONCERNS ON CHURCH AND RACE”; Dr. John J. Akar, Attorney for Prosecution of Sierra Leone said:

“All too often, Christians restrict their christianity to the four walls of their church and to the Sunday services only. Some feel that there is no place in politics for Christianity. I disagree. The principles which our Saviour and Master, Jesus Christ, shared with his flock, have as much relevance in politics today, tomorrow, and all times, as they did in His time. And because life is meaningless without principles, that is why I have resigned, I have no regret at all”.

In my observation, “Leadership” in the Methodist Church in Fiji is weak and lethargic.

The clergy in leadership are afraid to take a stand.

They are no longer fearless apostles as of old.

The pulpit has been used from time to time to play up to the idiosyncratic excesses of despotic political leadership, drunk with power, possessed of self-exaltation rather than take a stand.

They neither stand up, nor are they counted.

To that extent the Methodist Church in Fiji by assuming a see - nothing, hear - nothing, and say - nothing attitude is nothing, and has alienated the Fijian intelligentsia and reduced itself to nothing more than a Sunday fashion and a decorative masquerade.

The clergy, I regret to say are neither objects nor shadows; they are nothing; they fear the blinding light of truth and honesty which alone will reveal the magnificence of their presence and cast an inspiring shadow on the conscience of the nation.

The Methodist Church today in all of Fiji is fast becoming, or has allowed itself to reduced to an “irreverent” and “irrelevant” economical social club. No group of people within the Church is more aware of this than the Youth. That is why they are moving away and the Church attendance will continue to dwindle.

I must also admit, though that there are exceptions. There are the lone powerful voices of an extremely small band of dedicated “individuals” shouting in the wilderness of despair. The echo of their ministry will reverberate through out the pages of history. They are few and far between; but they are made of same genuine substance as the original apostles. Because of them, the Methodist Church in Fiji is halting but has not halted. Because of them the dying Methodist Church in Fiji has not died. And thank God, because of them, there is yet hope. But isn’t it fast becoming a dying hope?

If the Church is to be relevant and to be meaningful as Christians, then we must be brutally frank and honest, with ourselves and with our traditional institutions.

The Church in Fiji (Methodist) is incapable today of provoking social consciousness because it has been muted by its self-interest, ineptitude and complacency.

The only thing that seems to sustain the Methodist Church in Fiji these days is “singing” and “fund-raising” festivals at its annual Conference and even that is of an appalling poor standard. Methodist Fijians do love to sing and Church hymns are endearing.

Transistor radios in particular and T.V. have made serious inroads and Church members need not go to Church now to enjoy good hymn singing or good Church service for that matter. A twist of the knob and the entire radio spectrum and T.V. channel is at his disposal.

What really is the function of the Methodist Church in Fiji?

Is it enough to say that it Baptises babies; officiates at weddings and buries the dead?

Is it worth sustaining an institution that does nothing more than perform routine orthodox functions?

And yet, I can see no way out of this impasse unless the clergy are prepared to follow the noble example of the Master and Lord Jesus Christ and lead rather than allowing themselves to be identified with unscrupulous traditional and political leaders.

Is it not true that the Fiji Methodist Church leaders mostly identified themselves with the status quo, the chiefly power structure, the imperialistic, and dictatorial authority?

Is it not true that Church leaders (ministers) reside in the most expensive and exclusive upper class homes only visited by members for special appointment - but never pay pastoral visitations to the flock in their homes?

The Methodist Church in Fiji was no better off in the old missionary days than today. In fact, in many ways it was worse. In one crucial area, which constitute my fundamental observation, the Methodist Church in Fiji allowed itself, whether by design or by accident, to be very culture oriented instead of Christ oriented. This is why the Fijian intelligentsia and/or nationalist finds incredible difficulty coming to terms with the true Christian Church in Fiji. It was and is Christian only in name and only our prayers and our concerns will jerk it out from its present tragic position.

There should be more to the Church than its architecture, however, beautiful and compelling aesthetically. It seemed to me that the Christian Church needs to come to terms now with itself. It seems to have forgotten the “Rock” upon which it was built. Its attention seems to have been perversely diverted into the acquisition of monetary Real Estate; of playing up to the pocket books of its affluent adherents; of preserving the status quo, of rejecting change and revolution which Jesus Christ preached and practised.

If the Church does not know itself, does not rediscover itself anew, it will have many sad lessons to learn, not the least its probable continuous rejection by more and more young people.

There will be no meaningful Christianity until the Church leaders begin to hate their own hypocrisy, their double standards, “racism”, “nationalism”, their impotence to fight against evil injustice, suppression, hatred cruelty and racial discrimination - asking from the depth of their being; how can one become a truly Christian Church?

Heaven cannot mean accepting injustice of the present because we know we have a home in the great beyond. Home is where we have been placed now, and to believe in Heaven is to refuse to accept hell on earth. This is one dimension of the future that the Church should not sacrifice. The Church must not scorn Christian hope, but affirm it. Hope must be related to the present, the individual ethnic community. All individual community should be both liberated and liberating. The Church is and should be “Christ existing as a community”. It not only proclaim the good news of freedom, but actively shares in the liberation of all forms of struggle. To preach the gospel today means confronting the world with the reality of Christian freedom.

Jesus took a definite stand. He was for the poor and not the rich; He was for the weak and against the strong. He must be where men are enslaved. To speak of Him is to speak of the liberation of the oppressed. He was and is the liberator par excellence whose very presence makes persons sell all that they have and follow Him.

Jesus is who He was and the Church must never lose sight of this.

The question of the Methodist Church and its role in the future deals with one’s faith, belief in himself and in his destiny.

Can the Methodist Church or, better still, can Christianity renew itself in terms of its original promise - namely, power over one’s destiny, love, brotherhood and eternal life? In that renewal lies the relevancy, meaningfulness, effectiveness, and the survival of the Christian Church and of Christianity.
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Rev. Josateki F. Koroi
(03.02.06)

Man of God vs Military Junta

One of many of the ongoing intimidation tactics that go on daily in the Junta domain of Fiji continued in the city of Suva on the evening of 22 August, at the home of the 80 year old past President of the Methodist Church of Fiji, Rev Josateki Koroi.

Rev Koroi has been getting some press lately with his continual barrage against the military regime and its suppressive tactics and policies over the years.

It seemed only a matter of time, like with Wadan Narsey, that the military would try to muzzle this brave man too.

According to the family source, about 6.45pm on the evening of 22nd August, the family saw a twin cab vehicle with GM number Plates circling the family home. It drove away and then another van came back about 10 mins later with 1 policeman and 2 soldiers in it. The policeman talked to a family member and demanded to know where the Reverend was.

The Reverend Koroi arrived to his home a few minutes after the truck and the military personnel and policeman tell him that he has been "ordered" to come to the camp where the Commander Tikoitonga wants to see him for a meeting of all the Methodist Talatala's who were supposedly at the Military camp in Nabua.

Apparently the Rev Koroi asked them to hand the phone over for him to speak to their commander, who they appeared to be busy phoning, but they refused. He informed the goons that he has had a long day , and the only way they will be taking him to see the camp scenery will be trussed up hands and feet and forced physically and against his will into the truck.

At which point the military personnel left .

When I spoke to the source of this news, the talatala was at the time trying to calm his distraught family and grandchildren.

It transpired that at the same time this was happening, news had already broken that the regime has now "cancelled" the Methodist Conference.

My question is then if the regime had decided already to cancel the Conference at the time they were intimidating the Reverend and his family, to what end were their actions intended ?

It is well known in Fiji that the military regime hounds and intimidates Fiji citizens daily. One of their very early victims in March 2007 was ex Major Edward Heffernan, his 40-year-old wife Mere Vulakoro, their 16-year-old daughter Shelly , and their 14-year-old grandson Peni Heffernan, burnt to death in their home after a Molotov cocktail was thrown into their home by goons unknown.

Major Heffernan was speaking out against the regime at the time he was silenced.

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Political Debate and the Human Will for Justice and Goodness cannot be suppressed in Fiji

No matter how hard the Fiji Junta tries to put good men down, political will and the resilience of good men and women will ALWAYS come to the fore.

Just for example, Gaddaffi's regime was FINISHED today the 22nd of August 2011.

He is a dead-man walking today.

Tomorrow he may meet his just deserts at the hands of the people of Libya that he tried to suppress and stamp on like vermin all the years of his despotic rule.

Praise be.

Bainimarama and Kaiyum and your evil band of suppressors - take note ..... lots ... and lots .... of notes .....

Today I note with great sadness also the loss of yet another great academic and wonderful Fijian son from our dwindling ranks of principled good citizens who have the pertinacity to speak out loud and proud about what rankles us and what should concern us all.

I know that Wadan Narsey will continue his great work in other ways and will continue to be a wonderful representative of , and for the real people of Fiji.

Today I also salute the Methodist Church for standing their ground against the Regime. The people are watching . Let's pray they do not break under pressure.

Methodist Church (Fiji) vs Military Junta (Fiji)

In light of recent rumblings amongst Fiji's placid nationwide Methodist congregation and the fiendish aggressiveness shown by cowardly men attired in military cloth brandishing guns towards their leadership and coming Church Summit this week, it seems timely to publish this sermon once preached by the wise & insightful now-retired President of the Methodist Church in Fiji, Rev J. Koroi.

This must-read homily reveals a down-to-earth and factual reality of what constitutes our christian responsibilities in the landscape of politics in Fiji today.

"Together with me are all the faithful ministerial brethren within Fiji and abroad join me in sending this gospel message to all God’s people in our beloved country, particularly the Methodist Church Hierarchies.

May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

Two Biblical Texts to be considered :

Mark 12:17

Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are CAESAR’s, and to God the things that are God’s”.

Rev. 11:15

There were great voices from heaven saying: “The Kingdom of this world has become the Kingdom of His Christ and He shall reign for ever and ever.”


Reasons why we Christians should be involved in Politics in Fiji and the world at large ......

1. In the first place “Our Christian Involvement in Politics is inescapable”.

The Bible is from cover to cover, full of politics. The Old Testament is about the call of a Nation, a people and a community.

• The books of “Law” give the standard of personal morality, social justice, but they also present the code which regulates the life of the community; this is politics.
• When Prophet Amos speaks violently against the rich who sell the poor for a pair of shoes; this is politics.
  
• When Prophet Isaiah tells Ahaz the King of Judea to stand up to Assyria’s threat; that is politics.
  
• When Prophet Jeremiah pleads with the King of his day to come to terms with the Chaldeans (Jer. 21:4, 9) that is politics.
  
• When Prophet of the Exile declares that God is “not” interested in their “fasting” but in “economic justice”, that is politics.

So too the “New Testament” is about the “New Israel”. The natural expression of the first fellowship under the power of the Holy Spirit was to share all things in common - this is a political act.

The Roman Empire did not persecute the Christians out of aimless cruelty; they persecuted because they were “politically dangerous”; and in the midst of a bitter persecution the seer who wrote the last book of the Bible (Revelation) asserted that the “kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ”. This too is politics.

2." Our Master and Lord Jesus Christ lived His life, proclaimed His Gospel , and died his death in a political context”.

This was the context of what we today would call a colonialist situation.

When Jesus told his disciples to love their enemies, He was not merely meaning anyone they happened to hate or dislike. He was meaning the “Roman oppressors”.

The context shows this.

The Roman soldier had the right to force a Jew to carry his pack for one mile. The Messiah was expected to be the leader of a nationalist movement of liberation.

We still call Jesus the Messiah, for that is what “Christ” means. “He was – He is – the Messiah.” But He saw clearly and proclaimed that the way of violence was self-doomed. But it was a way of changing the world none the less. The political leaders of the Jews and the representatives of Rome would not have bothered to crucify a harmless Carpenter of Nazareth.

They crucified Jesus because He was politically dangerous.

3. The work of Christ in our time has become more and more political , not less.

Christians have always seen the enlightenment of the mind as part of our mission. We know that the provision of education in schools and college and universities, and of adequate scholarships, is a political issue. Christians have tried across the ages to follow our Master’s work of healing. The provisions of efficiently equipped modern hospitals, of research facilities into unsolved medical problems, of a national health service, depend upon political action.

Our Master proclaimed in solemn words his judgment upon us if we fail to feed the hungry. Two thirds or may be more of the people of the world are hungry. We cannot meet their hunger by personal alms giving alone. If we are to obey our Master we are committed to political action.

4. In any event, we cannot evade political responsibility.

The act of abstention from politics is itself a political act.

If we do not proclaim God’s way in politics, then we are responsible for what happens.

Politics is simply the art of living together, the ordering of the life of the community.

No community can exist without politics.

It is for us to see that they are better rather than worse. If politics has got into the hands of the wrong people and has become a dirty business, it is “our job to clean it up”.

If politics is an unclean refuse or a “muckheap”, the Christian Church must be a “muckrake”. We do not live to ourselves.

We must not be afraid of soiling our hands. If Jesus, whose body on earth we are, had been afraid to soil his hands, the “Word” would never have become “Man”.

WHERE THEN IS OUR CHRISTIAN CALLING IN A WORLD OF POLITICS ?

It is there, in the New Testament, alike the words of Jesus and of Paul and the practice of the early Christians. It is threefold.

1. We shall fulfill the normal obligations of citizens. We shall render to Caesar the things that are Caesars.

2. We shall go beyond the normal obligation of a citizen; we shall be known for our enthusiasm, our willingness to do more; we shall always be “going the second mile”.

3. If the demand of the community conflict with the “calling” which God lays upon us and the way of our Master and Lord Jesus Christ, then we shall proclaim “a clear, fearless, uncompromising No!”

We shall render to God the things that are God’s.

This means that we shall make our voice heard in politics.

This will for many, perhaps most mean being active members of whatever political party to which they belong. Active, but never uncritical.

We will not be afraid to criticize the evil in our own party or honor the good in others, and we will refuse to descend to coarse reviling in abusive words or unscrupulous campaigning.

Others may not feel able to join a particular political party.They will rather work through voluntary organizations which cut across party lines, such as the “United Nation Associations”. In any case, they will seek to be accurately informed and politically efficient; there are would few things as useless as inefficient goodwill.

They will stand constantly for the things that are good for economic and political justice, for peace and disarmament among the nations, for health and food and education, for an ordered society and for the redemptive treatment of law-breakers, for the independence of the judiciary from political pressure, for the right priorities when the resources of the community are limited.

They will refuse to use wrongful means to these ends. It may cost them power, but it may not.

Integrity can be a political asset.

We are sometimes so frightened that “righteousness” may lose that we forget that “righteousness” may win.

It may seem easy to bribe an electorate, but the people soon find that the man who bribes then goes on to refill his purse from public money, and come to prefer the “man they can trust”.

We must not, and dare not deviate from the way of God for the sake of power, wealth or self aggrandizement.

God wants our witness; if it leads us there; accept it as His will also.

There could be no greater disaster than to identify Christianity, as some would do, with a political theory which happens to attract us for the time, and will finally go the way of every other.

It is indeed one of the first of Christian duties to build up a social order in which the demands of Jesus will be more capable of fulfillment, but He has prescribed for us no definite physical plan which we must follow.

His one concern was with the great moral principle and spiritual interests, and the human organization which He approves is that which will secure them best under the given requirements of our own country and time.

As Jesus concern is always with the inward principles of man’s life, not with the framework, He demanded that on the larger as on the narrower scale, men must act justly and mercifully and respect the worth of each individual soul; but He never tried to prescribe the manner in which this demand should be realized.

Men must here decide for themselves, in view of the special contingencies which they have to reckon with from time to time.

It was never the design of Jesus to recognize the world’s life according to a set scheme which should be complete in all its details and incapable to any change.

Jesus aimed at creating in men the “new will” in virtue of which they would be able henceforth to make their own laws.

May God Bless Fiji"
Rev J.F Koroi

Can We Expect Justice And Independence From Servants Of Military Dictators?

Here are some of the highlights in an article by Uvindu Kurukulasuriya in Sri Lanka in his take on the continuing decline of the professionalism and independence of the judiciary in that country, and the links to the same MO in Fiji ...

"Judges should behave within the judiciary as well as outside it in such a manner as to consolidate the confidence of the people. Judges have no private behaviour. It should be remembered that when oppressive, criminal, arbitrary, despotic actions are taken against the people by the executive or authorities,it is the judiciary that will be the guardian of the people."


Chief Justice (Sri Lanka) Hema Basnayake in his farewell speech on July 3, 1964.

TOP : (illegal) Justice Sathya Kada Hettige, left, (illegal)Chief Justice of Fiji Anthony Gates, (illegal) Fiji President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, (illegal) Chief Registrar Ganga Wakishta Arachchi and (illegal)Justice Saleem Marsoof after swearing in ceremony at Govt House, Fiji.
BOTTOM : (illegal) Justice Sathya Hettige, Fijian Dictator Frank Bainimarama and (illegal) Supreme Court Justice Saleem Marsoof

There is currently a prevalent sense of grave concern and apprehension, one may even say a degree of anxiety, in a section of the legal community that the deeply cherished values of judicial independence and moral integrity among judges are under serious threat and in a state of crisis..............


Two Sri Lankan Supreme Court Judges are also Judges of the Supreme Court of Fiji, which is under a military dictatorship. Many other Sri Lankans are also judges of other courts in Fiji, making them servants of the Fijian military dictatorship.

The Sri Lankan Supreme Court Judges who sit on the Fijian Supreme Court are Justice Saleem Marsoof and Justice Sathya Hettige. The names of the judges can be read on this website.

Servants of military dictators

The main issue here is the impact their Fijian jobs have on Justices Marsoof and Hettige when they are sitting in the Supreme Court at Hulftsdorp.

Can we expect justice and independence from servants of military dictators?

What is their judicial mentality?

What is their ethical compass in relation to the judicial function?

What principles of judicial independence do they adhere to?

Do they make a distinction between their Sri Lankan and Fijian judicial roles?

Can someone serving under a foreign military dictatorship, legitimately and credibly, sit at the same time on the bench of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka?

What can be expected of judges in Sri Lanka who serve a military dictatorship elsewhere?


Some would say there is no difference between a military dictatorship in Fiji and an elected dictatorship in Sri Lanka. But others still have a hope about Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court and judiciary, because there are still judges who have been forthright and dispense justice without fear or favour.


Fiji is a country where there is no independence of the judiciary.

The president of NZ’s Law Society ...... Jonathan Temm says, “that Fiji’s judiciary is effectively no longer independent”.

The Law and Justice Report issued by the Fijian Citizens Constitutional Forum found that 40 judicial officers were dismissed in the year to April 2010, in addition to the five recently dismissed magistrates.


“It appears that a government agency – which was purportedly established to fight corruption – is being used in a manner inconsistent with its statutory purpose. The effective dismissal of judicial officers attacks the independence of the judiciary,” he says. “Of most concern is those judicial officers apparently dismissed for rejecting prosecution cases brought by the military government or its agencies.”

........... Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said the Australian Government was concerned about the state of Fiji’s judiciary.

“The state of the Fijian judiciary is a matter of concern, as evidenced by the fact that most expatriate judges, including a number of Australian nationals, have resigned or have refused to renew their contracts,” he said.


It seems judges in other democracies have refused to accept offers or who give judgments against the military government in Fiji are fired and they recruit judges from Sri Lanka whom they can control. That is the level of Sri Lankan judges. .....

Is it appropriate that a SriLankan Supreme Court judge (Sathya Hettige) should continue to have personal and social relations with the executive branch, especially of a government whose behaviour is extremely questionable from the viewpoint of democracy and the Rule of Law?

Why did he go to work under the Fiji military dictatorship?

How does his Fijian experience influence his high judicial role in Sri Lanka? .........
........... It seems the people of Sri Lanka must contend not only with Sri Lankan practices of corruption, but also with those who are influenced by foreign military dictatorships in the continuing decline of the professionalism and independence of the judiciary.

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Fowl Clown decrees crumbs for Fiji investments

Fiji's Clown prince and Bainirama's manic second banana, Airykum Saiarse, has been at it again chucking, plucking and shrieking decree, after edict, after proclamation, after commandment.

Enough yapping to make one feel quite nauseous.

First, he hung our FNPF Ma and Pa donor's out to suck air instructing the FNPF bureaucratic-birdbrains to blame the older fund contributors for depleting the fund, and ignoring the fact that the regime has been sucking on the Fund to the tune of 1.7 billion since the coup in 2006 !

This vulgar toady then set about banning the media from letting the public of Fiji know what was really going on with the fund.

The truth is yet to emerge so watch this space, but recently the aforementioned ass ratified the departure of YET another foreign investor from our shores ; this time via a unit of little Hitlers called BAF who have something to do with banning feathers from landing on our forests but are instead cutting employment to 90 persons (who in turn have lost income support to a collective of at least 450 persons in the extended family network).

Excellent work Cock's .....

.... time to show those investors their investments will never be safe in Fiji for the changing of the regime's coop-posts whenever it suits the cockeral's in green, eh?

In the meantime Kaiyum sees no reason why he shouldn't continue feathering his own nest and his family's too, whilst he continues to crow orders from behind Bainirama's skirts.