By Mr S. Daunitutu
The Amnesty International findings on Fiji All Fijians in Fiji and abroad, We now have an absolute confirmation of human rights abuse, if it was not correctly reported before, it is now.
The on going investigations of Mr.Bose of the Amnesty International Pacific region rep. has exposed the abuse in minute detail like the prisoners going home and having their jail term deducted from annual leave. It has all been documented and Amnesty International has sent out warnings to the Regime that it has to stop.
Confirmation of these reports, are the no arguments coming from QEB to protest the validity of these allegations or deliver another version of Mr. Bose’s claims. Missing from the picture is the peoples’version, which I understand is hard to obtain because of the decrees and the intimidation that has turned our Nation into a country of frightened citizens, a web of espionage (Kai Colo) and a regime finely tuned in the art of telling lies, misinforming the public and spinning rhetorics.
The argument by Richard Herr, that the Australian government should change its approach towards relation with Fiji, should be highly regarded, since he is from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) but I would have accepted his input if this was supporting a legal and democratically elected government which he himself is part of one. His contribution in support of the Regime’s policy changes, places all the past governments of Fiji since independence in a category with incompetent implications
In the country’s 40years of independant governance, we have been able to contibute positively towards the Pacific region and in multilateral realtions on a global scale. We have also been able to, despite the drawbacks of military takeovers, evolve with progress and this is evident in the new leaders with new ideas who have taken Fiji forward from the Colonial days.
The deposed SDL party had most of its members holding bachelorettes, Masters and even doctorates. That is sinificant of a changing and evolving leadership that is aware of Fiji taking its place amongst the big policy changers of the modern world.
Mr. Herr has also rightly declared in his paper that Fiji holds a significant part of Australia’s trade in the Pacific with close to $2billion in investments. That is not a new development, it has progressed from the mid 1800 to today, which resulted in the Colony of Fiji being considered for inclusion into the Australian Federation in 1890. Since then the relationship has matured and grown with understanding and trust, finding thousands of scholars from Fiji developing and homing medical, business, teaching and other skills from Australian Institutes.
That should be proof enough to say that, when Australia progresses and changes, Fiji will too as most, if not all of our leaders are being trained and groomed from Australia. Herr telling Australia to change because a dictator says it should is arrogant to say the least, even if is only sanctions that he is trying to change.
The relationship has been long and trusting for illegallity to be the basis of change in policies, views and emotions. I understand that Mr Herr and I are talking about two different situations, but the principle is the same. We set the rules, we adhere to them, if you break them, you correct yourself, not the rules.
The roudtable discussions about the tri-lateral talks which New Zealand is trying to start has shown good intensions with Prime Keys and Foreign Minister McCully both having a big part to play. Fiji on the other hand has shown contemptuous behaviour in disregarding two high profile politicians and announcing Leweni to be our representative in Wellington, and it was further delineated as a test by the Land Force Commander, Driti. That is also an abuse of some form. An abuse of trust, of goodwill of Biblical teachings (as we are a Christian State) – that is a misrepresentation of “Do unto others what you want done unto you”.
There is also an element of insolence in the whole effort by Fiji. Bainimarama is not very vocal in the whole exercise, and it seems to imply that this is a waste of time for him as his date is set for 2014. Regardless of all their motives, policies, decrees, lies and coverups, Amnesty International is on to them, and we all should help these International bodies who are coming to our aid and hearing our plight by standing up for Nation, stand up for our rights, STAND UP FOR OURSELVES !!!
If one listened into the way the fiji delegates presented their case at Geneva one would see that they had no way of defending the regimes lies about Human Rights abuse in Fiji.
In his concluding statement the ambassador to the European Union who headed Fiji’s delegation sounded as if he coulkd not speak the English and it was really hard for him to understand what he was saying because one could hear some voice helping him in how to pronounce the words in the background.
From this presentation it was obvious that the Fiji delegation were s caught up in the lies that they appeared just like Bainimarama whenhe was interviewed on TV.What a spectacle.
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