There seems to be no depths to which the depraved denizens of Coup 4.5 -the anti-government website – won’t plunge in their frustration at failing to derail Fiji’s march towards a fairer democracy. These so-called “journalists” are regular purveyors of racism and hate dressed up as respectable analysis (see our previous posting) but they’ve reached a new low with a link on how to make bombs.
Yes, they’ve carried a comment by someone calling himself/herself Pyro Farf who says: “Here’s what I’m reading: From a former top explosives expert with the Israeli Army comes a manual that presents ten simple yet powerful formulas for explosives and incendiaries that give the basis for making bombs, booby traps and mines. Learn to obtain or make the needed chemicals, or get substitutes.”
We’re not going to provide the link but it’s all there on Coup 4.5 – the site that poses as the defender of democracy while purveying racism and, in a fresh outrage, promoting violence with a clear inference that people in Fiji try to dislodge the regime with home-made bombs.
They’ve also launched crude attacks on Professor Yash Ghai, the head of Fiji’s Constitutional Commission, with articles casting him as a regime supporter that are a clear attempt to derail the constitutional process. The 4.5 gatekeepers have even allowed a comment posting calling on Professor Ghai to be charged with sedition. Quite on what grounds isn’t made clear but rationality isn’t the website’s strongest point.
The comment comes from a certain Mark Manning, a well known Sydney-based agitator who describes himself as a clinical hypnotherapist. As one correspondent has already quipped on 4.5, he’s clearly in the business of hypnotising himself with the delusion that the good Professor can be charged with anything at all.
Mark Manning is a regular feature at anti-regime rallies organised by the so called Fiji Democracy and Freedom Movement, that rabble of ethno-nationalists, SDL supporters and hangers on who have trouble filling a church hall yet continually cast themselves as credible players in Fiji. He’s also a regular contributor to the Matavuvale website, where these sad characters gather to trade their fantasies and swap their most incisive bon mots. Among Manning’s choicest is to describe Grubsheet in lurid terms as someone who wipes the dictator’s nethers. The imagery is as crude as the language but this is evidently the best this hypnotherapist can conjure up.
Another regular contributor to both Coup 4.5 and Matavuvale is the charmless Ilisoni (Wilson)Tamanikaira, a man now banned from these columns for his overt racism and for urging Fijians (the real ones, of course) to beat Grubsheet to a pulp on sight. He and Mark Manning deserve each other, one a Fijian who appropriately resides in the red neck Australian city of Toowoomba (Pauline Hanson country), the other an Australian who evidently wishes he was Fijian but only if the country is run by people who wouldn’t allow him to be Fijian at all. Strangely, Manning is wedded to the SDL, surely an alliance of the most bizarre kind.
And so we have this gaggle of the politically dispossessed, racial supremacists (or both) plus their assorted camp followers, all quaintly banging their pots and pans offshore in support of a bastardised democracy like a bunch of Argentine washerwomen locked out of a bank. Their desperation is evidently reaching fever pitch as the constitutional process kicks into gear and their dreams of a comeback move further and further out of reach. So perhaps it’s to be expected that their agitation is also reaching fever pitch, whatever rationality they once had dissolving into mass hysteria and a steady stream of idle threats.
Few rational people care anymore about their loathsome politics and racism, not to mention the appalling hypocrisy of one-time coup makers such as Simione Kaitani screaming blue murder about democracy from their cosy perches in Australia. But when the “journalists” at Coup 4.5 start issuing instructions about how to make home-made bombs -presumably to be detonated in the country they claim to love – it’s a bridge too far and let’s call it what it really is: criminal and sick.
Petero says
Why dont they make the bombs and send the two Imams of Matavuvale .coms democracy movement Suli Daunitutu and his chief advisor Mark Manning to Fiji to try and blow up the Public Convenience a t Nausori Bus station.
Anonoymous says
Lets face it, the brains behind the Fiji Democracy Movement in Canberra are John Baleidrokdroka and his mentors at the ANU (no need to mention names).
Mara is in Tonga but has recently been seen in Sydney and Canberra blugding on his relos and the people of Lau for money to fund his lavish lifestyle in the princely courts of that impoverished island nation that hosts him (Tonga).
The coconut wireless tell that Mara has had a falling out with Baleidrokadroka and Suli Dauniveidulu, the latter being a self-confessed house painter with little education who relies on John for ammunition and for the substance of his postings on that other site you mention.
Wonder what happened to their 10 point Plan and whether they will go to Fiji to register as voters and go present their 10 point piece to the constitutional commission? Mark Manning, the night nurse and commode cleaner from Sydney, could be a member of their delegation.
If they do get into strife in the streets of Suva then they have Ilisoni Tamanikaira, the cyberthug and bully, to beat up any opposition they encounter.
guy fawkes says
The AG Khaiyum was an actual bomb maker in 1987.
And now look at him he is Attorney General and sometime PM.
Perhaps Coup 4.5 is providing careers advice for budding dictators
Graham Davis says
Guy Fawkes, what on earth are you on about? Can you explain precisely how Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum was a bomb thrower in ’87?
Chand says
Re: Mark Manning,
I will hopefully come to the crux of the above contents and throw in some suggestions as to how we, the people against violence and threats should identify, tag and log events/people who may be held responsible if the events occur. Although this blog site is generally used for discussions/debate but I think we, like minded people should start acting by identifying and collecting information and keeping such in their private archives for future. We will come to that..and that brings me to Mark Manning:
A clinical hypnotherapist: Oh yea….
Folks you need to go to the Matavuvale website and to Mark Mannings page. You will notice that in the “friends”, of the 378 friends he has, 99% are young Fijian (mostly i-taukei) women.
Quite frankly, I tried to reason as to why…someone who professes to whatever and suppossedly has abroadbased following for whatever…..
Now call me what you may but this is freaky…Have the Matavuvale been sold out. Hypnosis my arse!!!!
Could this guy be a fake and under the guise of a democracy fighter, preys on the gullible and the ignorant. He may be seen as a bastion of hope for some people who have never worked in their lives and have lived on charity under the garb of a chiefly system…and of course their hangers on….but in reality a freak.
People like these crop up from time to time to take advantage of the situation…I mean all you need is a computer and a load of bullshit and there you go….
I would suggest to folks to go to the site and copy as many pics as possible……
Does anybody know who that fat Indian Bloke is…in one of the pictures he has a mike…just for interest sake….
Petero says
Guy Fawkes
If Khaiyum was throwing bombs in 1987 he will be an old man now. What are you smoking man?
Samu says
Bomb making aint no easy feat guys. One wrong move you make, you either lose your arms and eyes or your balls hanging on a tree branch, so dont try it if you value your life.
Anonoymous says
Maybe we should encourage Mark Manning to have a go at making one…..tick…tock….fiddle with this switch….then that switch….tick tock….Manning still fiddling with his creation….then…..KA BOOM!!!
So long Manning! You will be justly rewarded by being sentenced to that very hot place where horned people in red will keep you in line with tridents…your mate J.Tui and other mislaced ethno-nationalists will be there to keep you company.
Enjoy.
Lesley says
Why is Mark Manning so aggressive, rude and nasty. He seems to be very vindictive. I presume he lived in Fiji for a while. Wonder what happened to make him like this? Maybe you could fill us in Mark?
Anonoymous says
@ Lesley
The irony is that he has never been to Fiji at all!
He just jumped on Suli Dauniveidulu’s bandwagon and the only way he feels he can get credibility in the eyes of the rest of that sorry and hopeless bunch in the Democracy movement, is to be rude and nasty in his postings.
Like a converted Catholic he is more ‘catholic’ than the other ‘catholics’.
What a sorry and misguided soul he is.
Graham Davis says
Anonoymous, I presume you mean Suliasi Daunitutu, the leading light in the “Democracy and Freedom Movement”? 🙂
Anonoymous says
@ Graham
Yes. That is what he is known by those who are acquainted by his antics.
He is of course supported by another dickhead in the leader of the US Democracy Movement, LoruamaTawawili, another Tongan from Ono i Lau (these were the guys who threatened to secede to Tonga after Tevita Mara couped them for the leadership of the Lau Provincial Council you will recall).
Another misfit, my informants tell me that Loruama is another former washed up Fijian soldier who spent 10 years as a pay clerk before he was promoted to the giddy heights of Lance Corporal in the Pay Office at QEB.
Like Suli Daunivedulu (ooops…a Freudian slip of the tongue once again) you would think that Tawawili, from the strength of his rhetoric, was, or is a man with proven leadership credentials …but the reality is there for everyone to see…another non-achieving former Fijian soldier who thinks he knows the answer to Fiji’s problems.
Tawaili’s name tells you everything about himself ie Tawawili = “meaningless, not worth a counting in the greater scheme of things etc”. His parents have named him well.
He is now a well fed, obese
Mark Manning says
Graham, your claim to fame is that you are a Reporter, yet you don’t base much on facts, just lies and conjecture.
You twist and falsify the truth to the point where you’ve intertwined fantasy and reality until no-one, except those who have been falsely accused, know the truth.
It’s called propaganda Graham and proves that in reality, your not a real Journalist at all.
One must wonder how you ever won any awards, given your diatribe of false accusations.
Graham Davis, the new Peter Foster of Fiji.
Your Father would be very proud.
Graham Davis says
Ah Mark, how entirely predictable that you should pop up here with nothing more remotely original to say beyond parroting the tired old line of your kai vata at Coup 4.5. It’s water off a duck’s back, mate. Now look into my eyes. You are getting sleepier and sleepier….
Lesley says
Guy Fawkes – you had better not smoke – you might blow up! Where did you hear that the AG made bombs. The coconut wire going overtime I reckon!
Mark Manning says
Lesley
I have been to Fiji several times, met Frank Bainimarama personally in Fiji and Mr. Qarase in Sydney.
I know many of the key players in the FDFM in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide and support Democracy for Fiji.
I’m not sure if your for real or if your graham Davis writing to himself to pretend to be real here. I don’t recall ever advocating making bombs but am aware that aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum has that reputation from the 2000 coup.
How can I have been a Nurse and Ambulance Officer for over 37 years and be as aggressive as Graham Davis makes out ?
Graham is delusional and determined to be as famous as his Father, sadly though, it will be for the wrong reason, given that he supports high treason, torture and murder of innocent unarmed Indigenous Fijian Civilians, up to 6 possibly, since December the 5th. 2006, under Frank Bainimarama. I strongly suspect that graham gets paid by the Regime for each story he writes which supports it. I think it’s called selling your soul to the highest bidder or the Devil himself. I live in Sydney.
Jiale! says
@ Mark
You must channelling your dearly departed mate, misfit and ethnonationalist Pastor J. Tui
Remember how he used to call for uprising and armed struggle against Fiji?
Sa qai sauti koya na nona vosa (his words have come back to bite him).
Sa quitataki koya na Vanua…sa voleka me quita talega o Suli kei Raiova!
(Suli and Jone are next…mark my words…be prepared)
Mark Manning says
You shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but then again, Frank Bainimarama is there already.
Jiale! says
@ Mark Manning aka the “Commode Kid”
Ya, J.Tui. the guy who kept pushing for a military solution and for the people of Fiji to rise up and revolt and shed blood. All this coming from a self proclaimed man of the cloth!
A ‘White fella’ like yourself who was not born in Fiji suddenly think you are the expert. How about go sort out your own Aborigine problem there before jusgding us here in Fiji, you useless turd.
Suli, JB, Mara and leeches lke you are misguided scumbags with nothing positive to offer Fiji at this time.
J. Tui had so much hatred in him that he collapsed at your talkfest in Canberra from all that hate and spite that had accumulated and clogged his system.
Same thing will happed with you all.
Mark Manning says
J.Tui challenged the Soldiers to abide by their oath, to protect the Citizens of Fiji and very soon, we will see a number of them come forward and arrest Frank Bainimarama, Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum the Shameem sisters and many other Regime supporters.
His passing will not have been for nothing.
It is you Jiale who is filled with hatred and it is you who will die a lonely death, but i suspect that you are already rotting from the inside.
So being born in Fiji, makes you an expert does it ?
Well God help Fijians if they are relying on the likes of Graham Davis who will no doubt run away once Democracy is restored and a warrant is out for his arrest for his acts of Sedition against the State.
vinay says
Mark, you cannot comment on Graham because he belongs to Fiji, for fake sake he was born there. You have not even been to Fiji and how the hell you know what’s ok for Fiji. What you listening to that caqabuku from canberra or what. Leave the struggle to the Fiji born people and stick you opinion to where no light shines/.
Cheers.
Mark Manning says
You are more than welcome to Graham Davis, he is of no value to Australia.
How the man ever got an award for investigative Journalism is beyond me, but then if your prepared to do anything to and have sex with anyone !
Vinay, your an idiot.
Chand says
Re: Mark Manning,
I will hopefully come to the crux of the above contents and throw in some suggestions as to how we, the people against violence and threats should identify, tag and log events/people who may be held responsible if the events occur. Although this blog site is generally used for discussions/debate but I think we, like minded people should start acting by identifying and collecting information and keeping such in their private archives for future. We will come to that..and that brings me to Mark Manning:
A clinical hypnotherapist: Oh yea….
Folks you need to go to the Matavuvale website and to Mark Mannings page. You will notice that in the “friends”, of the 378 friends he has, 99% are young Fijian (mostly i-taukei) women.
Quite frankly, I tried to reason as to why…someone who professes to whatever and suppossedly has abroadbased following for whatever…..
Now call me what you may but this is freaky…Have the Matavuvale been sold out. Hypnosis my arse!!!!
Could this guy be a fake and under the guise of a democracy fighter, preys on the gullible and the ignorant. He may be seen as a bastion of hope for some people who have never worked in their lives and have lived on charity under the garb of a chiefly system…and of course their hangers on….but in reality a freak.
People like these crop up from time to time to take advantage of the situation…I mean all you need is a computer and a load of bullshit and there you go….
I would suggest to folks to go to the site and copy as many pics as possible……
Does anybody know who that fat Indian Bloke is…in one of the pictures he has a mike…just for interest sake….
Mark Manning says
You coup supporters are so deluded and influenced by your own egotistical aspirations.
Your like a bunch of monkeys, all sitting together scratching each others backs and removing all the ticks and fleas.
Jiale! says
@ Mark the ‘Commode Kid’
No Mark. That description best describes you so-called pro-democracy lot…scratching yourselves and peeing in each others pockets, ya.
Just a handful of no-bodies with nothing to offer us in Fiji.
At least I am here in Fiji and paying my tax and will be registering as a voter, so I have every right to say anything I want about the coup.
Whether I support or dont support its none of your business because you dont live here.
Please go back to that other site and ply your muckraking there. You dont here
Graham Davis says
Mark, you are totally whacko. Here. Have a banana. 🙁
Mark Manning says
Graham, is that better that being one eyed and closed minded like yourself ?
For a so called Journalist, your views are very slanted and an insult to Journalism.
With great power, comes great responsibility Graham and a journalist can wield a lot of influence, but you already know that, that’s why your more than happy to say what aiyaz tells you to say.
You are it seems, Frank and Aiyaz’ bitch, or are you shagging one of the Shameem sisters ?
I’m trying to work out what it is that makes you or draws you to supporting an act of High Treason by a man who we all know is demented, retarded and responsible for the torture and murder of indigenous Fijians, it’s beyond me.
I sincerely hope that once democracy is restored, the authorities come to your front door and arrest your arse for all the seditious articles you have written and put on record for everyone to see.
Your own articles will be your undoing graham, you are being used just as frank used the old ailing President before he passed away.
By the way, your getting fat, maybe you should try the bananas.
Samu says
Graham
When Daunitutu came here to the US he didn’t realize that the majority of the US democracy members were overstayers. What suli doesnt know is that these people are in this organization just to be seen and on the record as someone opposed to the regime so they can build up a case for the lawyers to file for political asylum on their behalf.
People like tevita korodrau who has conned a lot of people in Fiji are barking the loudest here for a return to democracy. Democracy for Fiji is only a front, the bottom line is these guys want a green card which very sorry is never gonna happen.
As for mark manning i have no time to comment on that picece of crap. Adios. buena suerte graham.
Mark Manning says
I don’t know anything about overstayers in the U.S. but it does make good reading doesn’t it ?
Samu I’m sure you’ve heard the expression :-
“you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time” !
The only person you seem to be fooling today, is yourself.
Livai says
Manning
What happened to that BS pastor j.tui and the 10 point plan you guys cooked up. As they always say take your 10 point plan and shove it up your ass.
Mark Manning says
Jone Tui past away in Canberra a little over 12 months ago after fasting for 2 days in support of a return to Democracy for Fiji.
You can’t implement a 10 point plan when you can’t even get a general consensus, basically, there are too many thieves and thugs running Fiji into the ground at the moment, but this won’t last and that is when the 10 point plan can be considered.
Jiale! says
@ Mark aka the “Commode Kid”
Why did he waste his time fasting when elections are promised for 2014?
Couldnt he wait?
His impatience got the better of him, ya?
We doing voter registration exercise now and Prof Yash Ghai is in town to start the consultations.
Is Suli and JB coming over to register as voters and put their views to the test by presenting as candidates before the people of Fiji?
Or are they cowards and will stay there and continue barking like mad dogs in the night?
What useless scumbags you lot are.
As they say here in Fiji you all “big talk but no action’
Mark Manning says
Jiale
At least they have used their real identities !
Jiale says
@ Mark
Using their real identities only goes to prove that they wannbe public heroes….but in reality are private fools!
Reflect on that will ya.
And revise your expectations of them…coz they are in no position to deliver what they pronounce publicly eg 10 Point Plan….what a joke that is….sounds like something a bunch of primary school-kids would come up with in a brainstorming session…are you really that shallow to belong to these numbskulls?
Mark Manning says
Good morning Graham, thanks for the hypnotherapy session, it’s about as effective as your articles.
Don’t you think that as a Journalist, your personal views should be put aside and that you should be reporting the facts ?
If you have earned your Journalistic reputation fairly and honestly, and congratulations on that by the way, don’t you think that you should continue to maintain it by at least being objective when writing articles about the Fiji Political situation.
Graham Davis says
Mark, you seem to misunderstand my role in all of this. I am not covering a news story where I’m obliged to give all sides of the story. I am a columnist expressing opinion – a quite legitimate endeavour if you have any understanding of the media at all. But can you please tell me where I have been factually wrong as opposed to you disagreeing with my views? Then we can have a cogent conversation.
Incidentally, you and your ilk are fond of raising the ghost of my late father in these discussions, as if you all have a much better insight into his views when he was alive than I do. He and I had many discussions over the years about Fiji and I hate to disappoint you all by stating some very stark facts:
!/ Peter Davis was a strong supporter of the late President Ratu Iloilo – his friend since the 1950s – and had a very high regard for Frank Bainimarama, having also known his father’s since the 1960s.. 2/ He passionately believed in a multiracial Fiji and fought hard for this within the Methodist Church. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar and is trying to use my father – a former church president – for base political purposes.
Graham Davis says
BTW, Mark, what’s with this obsession of yours with sex and “shagging”? You say I’m “prepared to have sex with anyone” and I’m “shagging the Shameem sisters”. This is very unhealthy a reflection of the state of your own mind. The Sydney rumour mill has it that you have something of a penchant for i’taukei young ladies and are regarded in SDL circles as something of a stud. But I don’t use this kind of gossip against you.
I’ve never met the Shameen sister – yes, honestly – so the notion of me having “shagged” them is surely wildly optimistic, even for someone with a fevered mind like you.
And, no, I don’t get paid anything whatsoever by anyone in Fiji, either in cash or in kind. I have never received one cent from the Fiji Government and not one cent from the Fiji Sun. Again, “cross my heart and hope to die”, as we used to say as kids in Fiji. Maybe money and sex may come my way one day and though it seems highly unlikely, hope springs eternal, as the old saying goes.
Jimbo says
Graham,
Your mention of your old man the Rev PK brought back a flood of memories.
As a kid we used to attend Butt Street Sunday School under the watchful eye of Mrs Rogerson etc. All we did was play with other kids there. In the evening we were taken by our parents to the evening service where we all sit in the front row and promptly fall asleep coz we were all tired. Sundays were very long days back then you know.
Once when the Rev PK was invited (by the Rev Robson I think who the Church minister at Butt St) to deliver a sermon at the evening service in Butt Street, my mother got excited and had my brothers and I (there were 3 of us unruly lot) all scrubbed up, donned our white shirts and tie then off to Church we went, only to promptly fall asleep when the Rev PK came on to remind us all of our sins etc.
At the end of the service my Mum was very dissappointed in us kids (there were kids too) who all fell alseep during the sermon of such a respected ‘talatala’ as the Rev PK.
Anyhow my Mum told us (something I have never forgotten to this day) that we would never enter the Kingdom of Heaven for having slept through the Rev PK’s sermon. She went and personally apologised to the Rev PK after the service.
Circa 2000 I met the Rev PK at a funeral service he conducted in a cemetery in the west of Sydney, past Plumpton there. He delivered his sermon in Fijian and, as usual, dragged it out a bit, to the extent that the next funaeral party who had booked the hall were knocking on the chapel door pointing to the time and telling us we were over allocatted time. They had a body in a coffing and we already to get their service under way but we were taking too long, courtesy of the stories by Rev PK of his days in Lakeba.
Someone in the Church got up and politely addressed the Rev PK pointing to next crowd outside the chapel door. To which the Rev PK thundered in Fijian “Tukuna vei iratou, me ratou wawa” ‘ tell them to wait!
Great man who left us all as better persons.
May he continue to RIP
Graham Davis says
Jimbo, vinaka for this. It makes a nice change in these columns and I very much appreciate it. My father tried to keep his sermons to 20 minutes and generally disapproved of those of his fellow clergymen who spoke for longer. But perhaps in later life, he managed to stretch them out beyond the mark he’d once set himself. I’d imagine that at the funeral you mention, there may have been lengthy eulogies from family members and friends. In which case, my father would have defended their right to complete their observances to the death, if that doesn’t sound too inappropriate under the circumstances.
Livai says
mark
A pastor dies after fasting for 2 days for democracy!! wow, never heard of it before. Maybe this pastor was not a pastor at all but an impostor.
For your 10 point plan,please don’t insult our intelligence, you moron.
Jiale! says
@ Livai
Well Pastor Tui was screaming out for people in Fiji to stand up and shed blood although whose blood he was calling for is unclear…but from his insinnuations it was to be the blood of the ‘vulagis’….
…..conveniently not his blood, or that of the ‘Commode Kid” (Mark) nor that of Suli, JB, Mara, Kaitani, Tui Savu, Waqatairewa and the whole sorry lot of them.
How can a true pastor make such a call? I dont understand.
As the taxi drivers here in Makoi say “bahut rerevaki”.
Mark Manning says
@ Livai
Impossible to insult you of something you never possessed in the 1st. instant.
Any man who speaks ill of the dead, is no man in my books and I’m sure and know for a fact, that even Graham Davis would agree with that to a point.
Point is Livai, who cares what your opinion is ? Your not even man enough to use your real identity.
Samu says
Mark
The only person who seems to be fooling himself is you.Take a look at your posting in the mtvl.com where you and your pals fool each other with lies and pretend its the the truth.
As for me, I am a citizen and proud member of the armed forces of this great country and have fought in three theaters of war, Panama, Granada and Iraq for democracy. What about you mate, what can you say about yourself.
Jiale! says
@ Samu
Thank you for your service in those places.
We here in Fiji respect you very much.
Kalougata tiko
Chand says
May the good LORD be with you and your family always I salute you Sir.
Komai says
@ Samu
Indeed, may the the Blessings of the Good Lord be upon you and your family on this Blessed Sunday (in Fiji).
We in Fiji are very proud of our sons and daughters who have served in uniform overseas whether it be in the Fiji military, British Army, Aussie, Kiwi, US Army etc.
Mark Manning says
@ Samu
Congratulations, but I am wondering why, if you are still in the RFMF, you remain serving under a man who has committed High Treason against the State of Fiji, trashed the Constitution and the Rule of Law consequently and been implicated in the torture and murder of 5 CRW Soldiers in 2000, not to mention the 4 to 6 or more unarmed Indigenous Fijian Civilians since the coup on December the 5th. 2006.
It seems to me that the very values you so bravely fought for, you have abandoned, on this occasion.
It’s not too late for you to redeem yourself by rejecting the Regime and its leaders and either resign or lead a party of like minded Soldiers and have them arrested for Treason and Sedition.
This could be the turning point all Fijians are waiting for and you could be the man responsible for their Salvation.
I’ve served in the Military in the ADF, briefly when I was young, but resigned before being deployed overseas. I have never been to a Theatre of War, but neither was I kicked out of one, like Frank Bainimarama.
Feroz Khan says
Mark
Are you being offered a post in Daunitutus government if and when they lead Fiji? For someone who is not connected to Fiji in anyway I am surprised at the venom you spew out in blog sites. Man, just by looking at your picture you remind me of son of sam the serial killer. You are a creepy guy dude.
Mark Manning says
@ Feroz Khan
I don’t know who Sam the serial killer is, but obviously he is a man of considerably good looks, so thanks for that comparison.
Suliasi won’t be forming a government, he is like me, just an advocate of a return to Democracy for Fiji, we are an apolitical organisation, with no Political aspirations. Once Democracy is restored under a Legitimately elected government, the Fiji Democracy and Freedom Movement intends to keep accountable, those Parliamentary Representatives elected by Fijians.
Does one have to be affiliated with or connected to any Country to support Democracy, Liberty, Freedom and Peace, I don’t believe so.
Boo !
Chand says
Mark Manning and Coup 4.5..
I know you guys at Coup 4.5 are reading this…whether it gets in into your head is another matter.
How could you guys let this Mororn Mark Manning be championing for your course…how could you…are you guys so blinded and desperate for any support. Ok we may not meet eye to eye but you will agree wer’e all Fijians and we protect each other in the extreme….your sister is my sister and I will protect her to death and I know from experience that you will. You may dislike me for my views but I know in my heart of hearts that you will…..In that I have faith in you. If I pass your house you will call “mai kana”. That is the beauty of i-taukei…no kidding believe me you will.
But how could you let this guy fool you all.
His only ambition is to lay his hands on your little girls….this guy is demented….how could you guys.
These guys crop up from time to time seeking the vunrable and the helpless and under the guise of assistance penetrates the organisation to prey on young girls.
He borders on paedophelia…and you guys don’t know.
Have a look into his personal pages and you guys still don’t get it…..are so blinded.. that his all friends are young female i-taukei.
Get some respect coup4.5 and get him out. People will only take you all seriously if you have some self respect otherwise you will be know as the largest PIMPS in the southern hemisphere.
This guy is a demented moron, a grub who will not fight for the aboroginal indegeneous rights but think of fighting for the fijians…man I hope you guys get.
Have some self respect…be true Fijians you claim to be
Pious says
@ Chand
My brother, thank you for reminding us all of our simple ways in Fiji.
Yes, you can go to any house in Fiji, whoever you are, and when you ask for food or charity the people there, even though we have nothing, will always willingly share what we have with you, even if it is a simple roti or baji (churaiya) or pot of boiled dalo with lemon tea (remember that?), everyone shares what they have in the right spirit.
Let me tell you Baiya,that right now there is a new spirit sweeping this country (Fiji). We are all calling ourselves Fijian!
We have a new spirit that unites us all unlike anything the previous British, Mara, Rabuka and Qarase government have been able to mobilise.
We now all have a common identity that we all proud of. Strange, but it took the military in Fiji to bring this upon us. I cant explain that.
Go down to the streets of Suva, Lautoka, Ba and Nadi etc and you will feel the new Fiji.
As a taukei, and a school teacher who deals with the young generation every day, I sense it, and I feel very proud that we are charting a new way forward for our youth,,,oure leaders of tommorow.
Problem is that people like Mark Manning and others in the pro-democracy movement there in USA, Australia and NZ, have not recently been to Fiji to feel the pulse on the streets. They rely on their biased and racist contacts in Fiji to give them a one-sided view that they feed on in their blogs.
Suki has never been to Fiji in the last 5-10 years, yet he seems to think he knows the answer to all our problems. From what I have been told he has never had the benefit of a formal education.
Chand, I know that you have Fiji in your heart and that, like the rest of us born here, are proud of your humble origins. Thats what makes you Fijian.
People like Mark Manning will never understand that. They were never born or lived here for any sufficeint period of time to understand what na=makes us what we are. They are opportunists who think they know us, Hah…hah….
From the poor and humble islands of Fiji, we send you and your beloved family our best wishes
God Bless
Chand says
Thanks my brother, you just brought tears to my eyes….
I hope we can be in touch through this blog for the moment….there are some great souls with a common purpose in this blog…..with great ideas and thoughts about how we can make Fiji a great place once again….
I’m quite stuck with a situation here in Sydney that requires my presence but promise as soon as its over, I will be there giving it all….and hope to meet with great souls like yourself, Komai…that Anonymous, Vinnie and a lot more of yous.
I would personally like to meet and pay my greatest respect to Samu..and together with all those blessed souls, brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers and the coming generation of youngsters, march forward hand in hand, a people movement to define a new Fiji…
Let the current gov’t define the perimeters and let us build on those. A time will come when we might have to temporarily pen off and get in the field….
In the mean time God bless you all
Mark Manning says
@ Pious
You poor demented soul !
The Military have reconnected you all ?
Are you aware that without the military, there would never have been a coup in 1987 and 2006 ?
The Fiji Economy has lost upwards of $10,000,000,000 each coup ad still counting.
I suppose now that you will all be running around the Islands holding hands !
And what of the tortures, murders and illegal detention of so many of your fellow Indigenous Fijian Civilians by your wonderful soldiers of the RFMF, are you not aware ?
I do get the Fijian ideal of Community Spirit and Clansmanship etc. but it is failing you this time because of a handful of greedy, money and power grabbing thieves, thugs, murderous and Human Right’s abusers.
Try running around Suva with a placard saying “no more coups ” and then see what support your wonderful Military give you.
The only reason Fijians appear happy is because they are shit scared of saying the truth, knowing that even their brother, sister, mother or father might dob them in to the Military.
Talk about being hoodwinked.
Mark Manning says
@ Chand
I don’t know what your smoking, but can I have some please ?
Have you ever considered you dill brain, that people on matavuvale.com and other Social Networking sites, asked me to accept their friend request, not me asking them ?
Chand says
You are a pea brain ….seriously…a sick and demented grub…a coward of course….Leaving the army before being deployed in action…under the guise of some sort of democracy advocate but in fact a coward….a grime where your neighbour will have nothing to do with you…and infectious slimy leach. Hoping to justify your miserable existance by getting involved in grub work….maybe coup 4.5 deserves you..why would they get the support of a coward is beyond me…maybe birds of a feather………coward of a lonely existence…fondling himself in front of children…oh I know the likes of you…of very poor mentality that somehow thinks people will notice….and what a tiny brain that wants to compare himself with the likes of Graham….oh you twitt who feeds on his own shit and somehow wants to change the world according his dimwit brain…friggin coward
Mark Manning says
Wow, that’s a tirade of abuse, typical of small minded coup supporters I suspect.
Dim-witted, brainless, half-wits !
You seem to know an awful lot about Pedophilia, how a Pedophile operates and you seem to be obsessed by them !
Perhaps your speaking from experience, an early childhood encounter with one perhaps ?
Why don’t you release all that pent up anguish and just tell us the truth now so we can guide you through this moment of terror ?
The Australian Government stopped deployments to Vietnam the day I marched out. There were no other Theatres of War left to go to at that point in time, dopey !
Chand, why don’t you stop hiding behind a fake name ? Time to come out of the closet !
Chand says
@ Moron Manning,
Chand is my name and I am an Indo Fijian (Fijian) and I don’t hide you dim-witted low life grubb.I don’t need to further reveal myself to the sick and the demented….you got it wrong….I was brought up in a cultured society where the i-taukeis and my family lived side by side and ate in the same plate.
Cultured yes and one can tell by the rationallae of our being on the same page regarding Fiji.
I’ve known about pedophilea in my adult life after arriving in australia…about schumuks like you suddenly appearing from nowhere but children on mind… and you fit the bill you dim-witt…a loner with a very low IQ.
Chand says
Graham,
I was wondering if the “Recent Comments….” section can be increased..ie from the 5 recent posting to maybe 10…it makes it easier to search the recent comments greater than 5..sometime you have more than 5 posting in quick succession…just a thought
Mark Manning says
Haha, well put, well perhaps I’m reading you wrong and owe you an apology Graham.
I don’t know your late Father but have heard many good things said of him, by many people. So may he Rest in Peace, along with Pastor Jone Tui.
Well I can only assume then, if what your saying is truthful and correct, is that as much as I disagree with the coup, you agree with it.
It was said or implied in the Fiji Sun however, that I advocated the making of bombs in Fiji, but I don’t ever recall saying that.
As for where you’ve misrepresented the truth, I think it’s more a case of you having either inadvertently or deliberately glossed over Frank Bainimarama’s reputation as a thug, torturer and possible having been instrumental in the death of at least one of the CRW Soldiers in 2000. Clearly though Graham, you do support the Regime and what it stands for, but I get that as a Columnist, you certainly are entitled to your view and that it is only that, your view.
Simply, we have differing views and may never see eye to eye.
As they say :- “with great power, comes great responsibility” !
Chand says
@ Moron Mark Manning,
You a columnist…really…someone who cannot write a complete sentence…a columnist..maybe for coup 4.5.
And I can now understand why you despise Graham so much…It reminds me of Pol Pot…if you cannot match them beings, send them to collective farms and execute them…oh boy this tiny tot just gets better.
Did you know you are a dick head…frankly…did you..
You look like an abused child only physicall grown up but a mental case with a very low IQ….go ride a Mongrell you useless smug.
Mark Manning says
Crikey mate, you can’t even read, your so excited !
Graham Davis told me in his previous comment to which I was replying, that he is a Columnist !
How does one ride a mongrel pray tell ?
I don’t despise anyone, not even you.
Jiale says
@ Mark
Lets get one thing straight, the CRW ‘soldiers’ who died eg Kalouniavle etc, were rebels who deserved what they got.
When you come and shoot dead loyal soldiers doing their jobs at their desks; isnt that terrorism?
Go ask professional soldiers like Samu etc, and they will tell you that they will put a bullet thrugh the likes of them rebels in very quick time…no questions asked….professional soldiers dont mess about…one shot, one kill….just ask Samu.
So what makes you think that those rebels like Kalounivale…all George Speight supporters….are heroes?
You must be listening too much to he likes of Suli Dauveivutu and JB etc, to think that we people in Fiji consider them (Kalounivle etc) as heroes!
They were cold-boolded cowards who came and shot down loyal Fijian soldiers working at their desks!
For Christ sake, Mark, cant you and Suli and other scumbags grasp that?
Mark Manning says
@ jiale
Weather the CRW Soldiers who killed fellow Fijian Soldiers as they slept in their bunks and worked at their desk are heroes or not, is not for me to decide, and I get what your saying about the response of Loyal Soldiers, but we are speaking of Loyalty to the Constitution and the Rule of Law aren’t we, not the Law of the Jungle ?
It is the Rule of Law which I am supporting and I’ve never referred to the CRW soldiers killed in 2000 as heroes, just victims, victims of Frank Bainimarama’s rage.
Jiale says
@ Mark
You are a liar.
Why are you then praising ‘ther sacrifice and memory’ in your postings on the other site?
Those CRW people like Kalounivale were cowards. They came and cold bloodedl y shot people at theit desks!
Isnt that terrorism?
My aunty was one of the female soldiers who was innocently shot through the arm!!! Fortunatley she still lives today, albeit wth a partially paralysed arm!
Yet you scumbags go one and praise the guys that shot her!!
Your postings praise the CRW thugs but make no mention of those who were killed or wounded.
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You therefore condone terrorism.
Like all ther terrosrists ,Yyu are a low down scumbag.
Thats why we need a strong military in Fiji to keep you terrorist scumbags at bay!
Go tell your bludging friend Suli that…another misfit like you
Graham Davis says
Mark, you really need to get a grip. This was a mutiny in which treacherous officers and men killed innocent loyalist troops and tried to kill the commander. It was nothing to to with defending the constitution. It was a crude attempt at another coup. It failed and they suffered the consequences. It makes me really angry when you and others harp on about what happened to these traitors. What about the innocent and their families? They never get a mention from the misfits you hang with. Why don’t you ask them why? Because some of them were allegedly involved in the conspiracy, that’s why. And they better get used to being out in the cold – literally and figuratively – for a very long time.
Mark Manning says
Graham I am aware of most of the history as to what transpired in Fiji in 2000, most of it televised on Australian television at the time.
I wasn’t referring to anyone defending the constitution but rather Frank Bainimarama and some of his goons, ignoring it and the Rule of Law.
I don’t recall ever stating that these particular CRW Soldiers were brave, doing anything legal or constructive.
I certainly acknowledge that their actions were also illegal and amounted to murder and mutiny, as you rightly point out.
I suppose the point I’ve been trying to make is that it is the present Commander of the Military, Frank Bainimarama, who has been in charge during all of these atrocities.
Using your own assessment Graham, I’m assuming that in turn, you are advocating Frank Bainimarama’s torture and murder for committing High Treason in the form of yet another coup ?
It’s not true that the families never get a mention, that is your own propaganda as i have seen many references on many sites to the families of those who were killed, both CRW and Loyalist Soldiers. You make a lot of accusations graham about people being involved, but you never produce any evidence.
Unlike many of your readers, I’m not influenced by your title of journalist.
As with Fiji’s Soldiers, you are supposed to deal with facts and act responsibly and within the Law.
I wonder if, once democracy is restored, if you will be found guilty of Sedition and or inciting violence etc.
Only time will tell I suppose.
Better pack your bag Graham.
@ Jiale
You make broad statements based on your emotional state at the time, please take a sleeping tablet and relax.
I’ve never condoned the actions of the CRW Soldiers in 2000, I find them abhorrent as much as anyone else.
It is a fact that the consequences of their illegal and repugnant actions, the killing of innocent fellow Indigenous Fijian Soldiers, one at his desk another as he slept in his bunk, were a result of a deliberate pay back and certainly understandable;e given the circumstances.
But it’s also a fact that the deaths and tortures of those 5 CRW Soldiers were an abuse of Human Rights and sa Summary Execution by a handful of Soldiers and Fiji Police under the Command of Frank Bainimarama in his capacity as commander of the Military and believed to be sanctioned by him at the time.
Frank Bainimarama remains the Commander of the Military in Fiji and yet you people still support him, so who are the real Terrorists then ?
Graham Davis says
Mark, can you explain precisely how I would be liable to a charge of sedition? This is the same absurd claim you’ve made in relation to Professor Yash Ghai.
Sedition: noun. 1. incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government. 2. any action, especially in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.
I have not incited discontent or rebellion against the current Fiji Government, as you have. I did not incite discontent or rebellion against the Qarase Government, though like many people I was delighted to see the back of it. So this whole idea of yours is a fanciful concoction. Cling to it, if it gives you comfort, but you look like a bloody idiot.
Jiale says
@ mark manning
If you say you are aware of the facts surrounding the mutiny and the retaking of QEB from the rebels (teerorists) then you would know the person who lead the retaking of QEB and the rounding up of rebels and their torture?
It wasnt Frank coz he had escaped down the naval base in Walu Bay.
So who then was in charge at QEB and supervised the capture and torture of those CRW guys?
Clue: he has been given Aussie PR status and is a Vice President of your democracy movement…the guy feeding Suli all his information.
So there we have it – the guy who led the capture and treatment meted out to those CRW you portray as heroes is sitting there right under your nose every time you go to Canberra to kiss Suli’s ass.
How he ever got Aussie PR for those atrocities committed is beyond me.
Fark Fanning says
I have read almost all of Graham Davis’s articles.
He strikes me as a person who has a deep love for the country of his birth and all its people. He is against hypocrisy and racism and wants a Fiji where everyone is included.
Jai Ho Graham Davis !!
Mark Manning says
@ Fark Fanning
Good for Graham Davis but his ideals are based on fantasy because he supports an illegal action, High Treason and a murdering bastard, Frank Bainimarama and his bomb making mate, Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum.
Having a deep love for your Country of birth, doesn’t make one honest and sincere or correct.
Where does Graham Davis live by the way, Fiji or Australia ?
I actually think that Graham has a bigger love for himself and his written words in his Column !
His actions just don’t match his ambitions.
Graham Davis says
Mark, you are an Australian with no links whatsoever to Fiji aside from friendships with some ex-Fiji people in Sydney. I was born in Fiji and am a dual Fijian-Australian national. People can decide the relative merits of our arguments for themselves. But I don’t think the “what would he know compared to me” line really flies in your case and it shows.
Mark Manning says
Back to you for a moment Graham.
You proudly state that you have Dual Citizenship and I guess that you live in Australia and enjoy the very thing you would deny Fijians, their Freedom and Liberty.
You continue to hide behind the fact that you were born in Fiji, yet that would be like me shouting to the tree tops that I was born in England and therefore entitled to be treated as a demi God !
How ridiculous that Fijians think of you this way.
To me, you should be ashamed as an australian, spreading your filth and your lies , while hiding behind your status as a Journalist come Columnist, as you like to describe yourself.
You are nothing more Graham than a grub, the very name you have chosen yourself, for your website.
I have to wonder if you were molested in your youth and that this experience has warped your view of the world.
If Fiji is so great at the moment, why don’t you go back there, please !
Samu says
Mark Manning
I was never a member of the RFMF. I am a Veteran US soldier and working here in the US as a material handler in a Biotech facility in Silicon valley.I visit my beloved country Fiji every year.Your being member of the ADF does not concern me at all because you chickened out prior to being deployed.
terry tavita says
there’s more news and information on c4.5 than davis propaganda crapsheet..
Mark Manning says
Graham, how could you possibly know who I know or what I know when even I don’t.
Graham your own supporters use that line and I do agree with you there, being born in Fiji doesn’t mean that you know anymore about it than anybody else.
@ Samu
It’s of no concern to me that you are a soldier of the U.S. nor that you insult me because I wasn’t deployed overseas, you did ask me remember ?
And I don’t think professing to be an American soldier is anything to brag about necessarily, given the many things American Soldiers have done to civilians in other Countries over the years.
Feroz Khan says
mark meningitis
If you really care about democracy in fiji, come over we are waiting to hear from you.Barking from the safety of Australia means nothing to us, just a lone voice in the wilderness and a coward.
Mark Manning says
Feroz Khan
Thank you for your invitation to attend your Seminar on Democracy, Liberty, Freedom and Human Rights.
I’ve heard that the present Regime and its supporters, know absolutely nothing about those Topics and I’d be more than happy to impart my limited knowledge to you and your Colleagues, though I suspect that it would be a waste of your time and mine.
Tuilaepa says
tarry
Go to sydney and bring manning to samoa. He will be your new Boss.
Tuilaepa says
tarry
manning will be the commander of the samoan army and you his second in command. we will invade Fiji and chase bainimarama into the sea and fiji will be part of samoa
Mark Manning says
I would rather be the Attorney General and Treasurer !
Mark Manning says
And Commander of the Military, Prime Minister, Chief Justice and President.
Immigration Officer says
Graham, you say you hold dual citizenship – please tell us when and how you got Fiji citizenship – the Dual Citizenship Act did not come into force until 2009
Citizenship
The Citizenship unit consists of two officers and a support staff and is located at the ground floor, Immigration Department HQ, 969 Rodwell Rd, Suva.
With the abrogation of the 1997 constitution Fiji Citizenship is now being governed by a Citizenship of Fiji Decree 2009. This is Decree No 23 and was introduced in July 2009 and is deemed to have come into force on 10th April 2009 – for more information refer Public Notice.
Fiji citizenship can be acquired by:
Birth
Registration
Naturalization
By Birth
Every Child born in the Fiji Islands on or after the date of commencement of the Citizenship of Fiji Decree 2009 (10 April 2009) becomes a Fiji citizen at the date of birth unless one parent has diplomatic immunity and neither parent is a citizen.
By Registration
Citizenship by registration covers six categories of individuals:
The first category covers children born outside the Fiji islands on or after 10th April 2009 if at the date of the childs birth either of the Childs parents was a citizen – section 8(1) of the Citizenship of Fiji Decree2009
The second category covers children under 18 years of age of a foreign nationality that are adopted by Fiji Citizens – section 8 (2) of the Citizenship of Fiji Decree 2009.
The third category covers children who were under the age of 18 when either parent became a Fiji citizen – Section 8(3) of the Citizenship Decree 2009.
The fourth category covers persons who would have qualified under the previous three categories but they have reached the age of 18 years. These applicants cannot be granted citizenship unless they have been lawfully present in Fiji for a total of three (3) of the five (5) years immediately before the application – Section 8(5) of the Citizenship of Fiji Decree 2009.
The fifth category provides for former adult Fiji citizens who wish to regain their Fiji citizenship. With the introduction of the multiple citizenship policy former citizens wishing to regain their Fiji citizenship need NOT renounce their other citizenship – Section 8(6) of the Citizenship of Fiji Decree 2009.
The sixth category provides for spouses of Fiji citizens. Applicants must have been lawfully present in Fiji for a total period of three of the five years immediately before the application – Section 8(7) of the Citizenship of Fiji Decree 2009.
By Naturalisation
A foreign national can apply for Fiji citizenship if he or she has been lawfully present in Fiji for a total of five (5) of the ten (10) years immediately before the application is made. With the introduction of the multiple citizenship policy applicants do NOT need to renounce their other citizenship – Section 11 (2) of the Citizenship of Fiji Decree 2009
Graham Davis says
“Immigration Officer”, it’s frankly none of your goddam business but in the interests of transparency, I’ve paid my $3385 like everyone else in Category Five.
Mark Manning says
More fool you Graham Davis !
Straight into that Indian Moslem Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum and Indigenous Fijian Catholic Frank Bainimarama’s Bank Accounts.
Mark Manning says
An illegal decree by an illegally appointed bunch of thieves and thugs.
Immigration Officer says
Graham
The fifth category provides for former adult Fiji citizens who wish to regain their Fiji citizenship. With the introduction of the multiple citizenship policy former citizens wishing to regain their Fiji citizenship need NOT renounce their other citizenship – Section 8(6) of the Citizenship of Fiji Decree 2009.
When did you renounce your Fiji citizenship? If I understand correctly, Fiji had never allowed its citizens to hold dual citizenship until 2009?
Immigration Officer says
Oh, Graham, in the name of transparency, please tell us when you became Fiji citizen? Did you ever hold a Fiji passport? And why you gave it up in the first instance?
Davis was born in Suva, Fiji,[3] the elder son of the Rev Peter Davis, who served as President of the Methodist Church in Fiji and, later, New South Wales Moderator of the Uniting Church in Australia.[4] He spent his early years on the island of Lakeba in the Lau Group and attended Buca District School, Savusavu, and Drasa Avenue School, Lautoka, before being sent to Newington College, Sydney (1966–1971) as a boarder
Jiale says
@ Immigration Officer
Graham has already told you its none of your business….nor ours for that matter.
What are you trying to prove?
Mark Manning says
My goodness, does Graham need a minder these days ?
Chand says
A great Son of a Great man and your positive contribution for the betterment of all Fijians (including the naysayers) is greatly appreciated. Keep up the great work Graham and I can identify with your sentiments….and I can see your passion…..you having lived in Australia will definately bring your experiences across the oceans for betterment of the nation.
God bless
Mark Manning says
Crikey, what a load of crap, do you write Graham’s article ?
Most Fijians bag me because I’m not Fijian nor living in Fiji, but you guys worship the old bugger !
Chand says
Moron Manning,
You lack basic education ..man. Really. You are like a wart on the dogs arse man…..because whatever comes out is just warty shit man…..I’ve noticed even chicken coup 4.5 is ignoring you….I mean do you really eat shit for breakfast, lunch and dinner…oh boy
Mark Manning says
Chand
You must spend a lot of your time studying a dogs rear end !
Immigration Officer says
Jiale
It is our goddam business – for only when he tells us what I have asked him, than only his Fijian citizenship will make sense – anyway, have you become Graham Davis press secretary – let him answer those questions. He can tell us all the details – for it might help others wanting to become dual citizenships of Fiji, and imagine all the money that the regime will be able to make by following the good Graham Davis example of becoming a Fijian citizen
Chand says
Immigration Officer, …or lack of it….oh boy these guys really need education…wellcome to Grubsheet. We understand most of you guys are intelectually challenged but wellcome…you might learn something…well hopefully. Some do you see…they just fade away after sometime…remember Vincent, Wilson.
Some like the Moron Manning keep on appearing like grubs…but your’e welcome…how hollow and repetitive your arguemenmts may seem…please come back. You will not get this education on any other blogsite…really
Oh the Immigration Officer…oh boy this one….now where do I begin with him…
Ok just read this from the Fiji times of 2010:
“People apply for dual citizenship
Publish date/time: 28/09/2010 [11:10]
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The large number of applications being received by the government from former citizens and foreigners living in Fiji for dual Fijian citizenship is a positive sign of changing perception of the situation in Fiji.
Despite the negative and incorrect information being circulated about the situation in Fiji by overseas media outlets, Minister for Defence and Immigration Ratu Epeli Ganilau said with people wanting to hold dual Fijian citizen shows that confidence in Fiji and its people is growing.
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Ratu Epeli said they continue to receive several applications for dual citizenship every month.
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He said this is also having a positive impact on the economy as a lot of those that have been granted Fiji citizenship under the new Citizenship Decree have invested in property, farming and tourism development.
Statistics from the Department of Immigration reveal that between July last year and July this year, 1054 applications were received and of that total, 857 applicants were granted dual citizenship status in Fiji.
Story by: Roneel Lal
I hope you will fade away…but you are welcome on this blogsite…you see we are not chicken coup4.5.
And how did you become an Immigration Officer….oh by cut and paste from the government website right….
And you said Graham is not a citizen….your point being
You know I think intellectual discussions be left to us…you can observe from the sidelines…I hope I could educate you on the basics economics re: fromer residence returning and contributing towards the building of the country…I think you are just not ready for this…not yet
What says Moron Manning on this.
Immi…Officer you could become like this guy….Moron Manning …you know warts on dogs arse…yea thats him
Immigration Officer says
Graham
You are an award winning international journalist and experienced TV interviewer (having interviewed PM Bainimarama on several occasions), so it will be very easy for you to fill out the form below for Fiji Immigration and Naturalization Department.
(1) When did you become Fiji Citizen?
(2) When you left for Boarding School in Australia, what passport did you hold on that journey in 1966
(3) From 1966 until 2009, what was your nationality?
(4) The fifth category provides for former adult Fiji citizens who wish to regain their Fiji citizenship under the Citizenship of Fiji Decree 2009. When did you renounce your Fiji citizenship to become an Australian citizen?
(5) Peter Thompson – It has been said of Fiji’s UN Rep: “Having lost his Fiji citizenship by becoming an Australian and a New Zealander after the 1987 military coup, he regained his original citizenship in 2009, following a Fiji government decree authorising dual citizenship”.
In your Grubsheet blog you wrote: “Almost half a century on, Grubsheet is pleased to have played a minor part in re-establishing the connection when – after an interview with the Prime Minister- we talked about the old days in the West and I mentioned that Peter and I got together regularly in Sydney to talanoa about Fiji. Bainimarama’s eyes lit up and while he didn’t say so at the time, he evidently began mulling over the possibility of using Peter in some senior role. Soon afterwards, Peter began a private mission – financed by veteran Fiji businessmen Mark Johnson and Dick Smith – to try to bridge the gap between Fiji and its Australian and NZ critics. He went to Port Moresby to enlist the support of the PNG leader, Sir Michael Somare, and the initiative produced the first meeting of the respective parties for some time.
That was in 2009. Three years on and Ambassador Thomson is chairing the United Nations General Assembly. It’s a triumphant personal story, the Kai Valagi (European) civil servant removed at gunpoint and forced to leave Fiji now sitting as moderator and adjudicator at the pinnacle of global affairs. But it’s also one of the triumphs of Bainimarama’s determination to use the best people- irrespective of race – to present Fiji’s face to the world. To see my old mate sitting there on the UN podium – Fiji Water bottle by his side – fills me with pride, as it surely must others who hope that Fiji’s best days as a united, prosperous, multiracial nation lie ahead.”
Do you know when Peter Thompson became a Fiji citizenship? In his case he did have Fiji citizenship which he renounced or as you say “lost” it after the 1987 coups?
Again, Graham, did you ever, like Peter Thompson, hold Fijian citizenship? If so, when you gave it up? And, when it you reclaim it for $3385 dollars under the new citizenship decree
Jiale says
@ Immigration Officer
You just dont get it….its none of your or our business what the citizenship status of Graham is.
Why should it matter to you or me?
Will it make any material difference to your life or my life?
Sweet F.A. my friend. Thats why I think you are pissing into the wind.
You are wasting space and peoples time by your silly question.
Try asking JB or Suli waht their current citizenship status is. That might be of more intereset to the public here in Fiji.
I am not Garhams’s Press Secretary.
So who are you then?
Immigration Officer mai vei o iko? Mai na valevo keli mai nomudou koro?
Graham Davis says
“Immigration Officer”, I’ve given you my response and that’s it. I repeat. It’s none of your business what my citizenship status is. Nor is it your business what Peter Thomson or anyone else in the country does.
You have copied and pasted the standard form from the Department of Immigration website and tried to make something of it. Qori.
I have a question for you now, Mr/Mrs/Ms “Immigration Officer”. What country were you born in, what citizenship do you hold and where do you live? I personally don’t give a toss. But seeing as you asked first, how about an answer?
Immigration Officer says
Jiale
You are the one who have been so eager to defend Graham – let him answer those questions – it matters, and it is a very simple YES or NO – did Graham ever hold a Fiji citizenship, and if so, when, and when did he give it up, and when did he reclaim it
Let him answer – keep out of it if you have no answers – I didnt start it – it was none other than Graham who was waving his dual citizenship into that chap Mark Mannings face
Graham Davis says
When you give me your real name, “Immigration Officer”, we can have a rational conversation about these matters. But I don’t box with shadows. Nor to I answer to those who hide behind pseudonyms. Your belligerence tonight is pathetic. And you have the audacity to demand answers from me from your coward’s castle? I intended to give you nothing more than I’ve given you. But because I have nothing to hide, here are the facts:
I was born in Fiji, was a citizen from Independence and carried successive Fiji passports until the early nineties, when I was obliged to give up my Fiji citizenship when the Australian authorities wouldn’t renew my permanent residency. Thanks to the Bainimarama Government, I can have my Fiji citizenship back. Furthermore, I’ve paid the requisite amount to regain what would ordinarily be my birthright anywhere else. I’ve done what anyone else in my position would do and received no favours from the system, if that’s what you really want to know. That’s the true story whether you like it or not. Now bugger off.
Immigration Officer says
Graham
You should put your money where your mouth is – the fact that you are saying its none of my business means that there is a question mark on how you managed to get Fijian citizenship?
Presumably that dual citizenship was conferred on you by dictator Frank Bainimarama – an honorary one for supporting his coup?
Be proud of your Fiji citizenship but when did you become one with the citizens of Fiji?
Where you ever one of them – from 1966 to 2009?
Graham Davis says
“Immigration Officer”, I’ve given you my answer. You may not like it because it doesn’t suit your paradigm of the dictator’s kai valagi stooge being rewarded with a blue passport for all his efforts. But it’s the truth and I’m sorry to disappoint.
If you really were an “immigration officer” you could go the to files in Rodwell Road and find copies of one of the first Fiji passports ever issued with my name and photo in it as a teenager of 18. Then successive ones issued at diplomatic missions in London, Canberra and Suva right up to the time when I was forced to abandon my citizenship by the Australian authorities in the early nineties.
As I say, so sorry to disappoint but that is the truth. But I have to say it’s pretty sad that I feel obliged to tell it if only to stop low life characters like you perpetuating the myth of special treatment at the hands of the regime. I paid my money and got in the queue like everyone else. And you know what? No-one suggested otherwise, nor would I have ever expected special treatment. Why? Because we finally have a government in Fiji that isn’t corrupt like the last one, where no-one expects to be treated any differently from anyone else. And I, for one, happen to find that very reassuring. Because it’s the way the world should be.
Immigration Officer says
I was obliged to give up my Fiji citizenship when the Australian authorities wouldn’t renew my permanent residency.
Oh, so you didnt have Fiji at heart? Why now?
Graham Davis says
Because I was living in Australia, you moron, with a job and kids in local schools just like anyone else. There are more than 40-thousand Fiji born people in Australia and 85 per cent of them are Australian citizens. Wake up!
Immigration Officer says
Graham
Since you chose Australia over Fiji, and for whatever reasons, I suggest you keep your bloody nose out of Fiji – in any event, that citizenship was acquired through the illegal Citizenship Decree of 2009. And you bought it for $3385 – if it was your birthright, than you should have refused to pay for it.
Graham Davis says
It’s you who have the bloody nose, “Immigration Officer” my foot. A cheap attempted smear derailed by the truth.
I was born in Fiji as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under colonial rule, was a Fiji citizen from after Independence in 1970 until the early 1990s and am now Fijian again, thanks to the current government.
Incidentally, in 1978 – eight years after independence – I became the first Fiji citizen ever to be employed by the BBC. I still have the work permit in one of my passports from the time. So if you think this is all some recent concoction, you’re very much mistaken.
I also had all my mail during this period sent to 34 Hyde Park Gate SW7 5DN, where every Fiji citizen living in London had the right to have their correspondence forwarded. I imagine it was before you were even born. So spare me the sanctimonious lecture about where I really belong. This correspondence is closed.
Immigration Officer says
It seems Australian citizenship instilled in you no manners – unless you are high on Fosters – calling those who are engaging you into a debate “morons” etc and allowing your supporters to do the same – here you are, accusing C4/5 of all sorts of things. Hang onto the Fiji dictator, your mate! If you want to use abusive language as publisher of Grubsheet, than rename it Grubshit!
Graham Davis says
Moron: disused term for a person with a mental age between 8 and 12, and a common insult for a person considered stupid.
And I thought I was being pretty charitable under the circumstances.
Immigration Officer says
No wonder you are publishing Grubshit, and aiding and abetting treason. It has become clear that you and others were behind the introduction of the Citizenship Decree 2009 to obtain that Fijian passport, and you in particular, by writing those pro-regime and Bainimarama pieces – no wonder you hated the last democratically elected government. You dolt!
Graham Davis says
Yes, that’s right. When you “pro democracy” types try to get up one passage and are thwarted, you merely turn your attentions to another. Sodomisers of one sort or another whichever way you portray yourselves. Buenas Noches, companeros. Ni vakacegu mada.
terry tavita says
tsk..tsk..that’s very low..
Immigration Officer says
Graham, you and other supporters are sodomisers and gang rapists – who in order to get what you couldnt get in a democracy turned to supporting dictatorship – yes, go sleep with your sodomisers in Fiji, you dolt
Jiale says
@ Immigration Officer
Sa qai kune tu! .Now you have shown up you true colours…when you cant win an argument with facts you resort to abuse…sounds familiar pro-democracy type rhetoric ala Wilson and others.
You lowlife types have to learn to mind your own business.
We now have dual citizenship decree in place…and many people are taking advantage of it and returning in Fiji in droves to go live there. Former professional people (doctors, lawyers, architects etc) are streaming back to take advantage of dual citizenship. Whats wrong with that?
The Qarase government and taukei governments before them refused to consider dual citizenship. Why?
By the way, dont try and set yourself up as an arbiter of peoples loyalty and patriotism coz you are a coward hiding under a psuedonym.
My name is Jiale and am at logging on from ITC Centre at USP. Just come ask for me at the ITC help desk…me laurai mada o iko
Chand says
Re: my blog above that in 2010 more that 840 applications were approved for dual citizenship……that shows the confidence of the former citizens in the dictatorship whether you like it or not. Reading your earlier blogs, I suspected your motives and that is why I said that you and the likes of Moron Manning don’t have the basic intelligence for a meaningful debate.
You belong to Terry’s club. We at least know who he is.
You need help mate.