Fiji’s minorities have cause to be afraid – very afraid – as Sitiveni Rabuka‘s Coalition government – in an unholy alliance with the Great Council of Chiefs – steps up its attempt to assert indigenous supremacy and marginalise other citizens.
We long ago realised that we were all conned by Rabuka’s assurance that he had learned the lessons of 1987 and had changed. The racist purges in the civil service and offices of state which followed the 2022 election quickly put paid to any notion of equal opportunity under the new government.
But now comes a new phase in which indigenous supremacy is to be enshrined in law – proposed changes to the 2013 Constitution that many fear will end the common and equal citizenry and the common identity and again turn non-iTaukei into second class citizens in their country of birth. And just as insidious, a new Indigenous Rights Act that replicates the infamous Qoliqoili Bill that was one of the main triggers for Frank Bainimarama‘s intervention to remove the Qarase government in 2006.
The reason to be alarmed is that while the minorities had Bainimarama to protect their interests 20 years ago, we are now totally defenceless.
1/ We have a military commander in the form of Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai who has not only pledged to eschew his constitutional right to defend the well-being of every Fijian if it means removing an elected government but who kowtows to his fellow chiefs by formally apologising for the RFMF’s conduct in 2006 as if it had no legitimate basis at all.
2/ We have an indigenous-dominated government with a big majority and a radical agenda that has bought off many of Frank Bainimarama’s former foot soldiers in FijiFirst with ministerial positions and bought their support for that agenda.
3/ And we have a component of the Coalition in the form of the NFP that once stood up for minority rights yet has remained silent as those rights are laid siege, with a leader in the form of Biman Prasad who has betrayed the minority cause and is now in a weakened state to defend anything at all as he faces charges of serious criminal conduct.
Don’t take my word alone, Fiji, for the gravity of what is happening. The dire collective position of the minorities has come into sharp focus with two articles by Victor Lal at Fijileaks that are a “must read” for anyone who cares about the nation’s future direction and especially the principle of equal opportunity for all.
I am republishing them here because they are so important – first Victor’s article on the threat to minority rights posed by the government’s new Indigenous Rights Bill followed by his latest piece on the fact that the minorities are now defenceless.
We have no Frank Bainimarama to stand up for Indo-Fijians and other citizens and a supine RFMF Commander who refuses to stand in the way of the tyranny of the majority, no matter how egregious.
Yes, Fiji. Be afraid. Be very afraid. And get ready to fight this new tyranny at the ballot box in Election Year as best we can or as Victor Lal puts it, become “the last generation to know what equal citizenship felt like before the ground shifted under our feet”.
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And now Victor’s latest article that is just as sobering in reminding us all that nothing now stands in the way of the extremists.
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Coming soon, the commoners are fighting back.
Our columnist from the grassroots in the vanua, CommonMan, rebels against the chiefs, accusing them of “robbing” ordinary iTaukei.
Don’t miss it.
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The full Rights of Indigenous People Act 2025:
The military and police must have ethics and morals and kept totally separate from the Vanua and politics. But such is the culture in Fiji ,the recruitment in military and police is from their separate village connections thus is the actions of the lamu commander towards democracy. When did the military take oath to serve the chiefs on tax payer money? It is corruption at its worst.
People like Biman, Shashi, Agni Deo Singh, Shamima Ali, Richard Naidu and a few others of the NFP will sell their mothers for money so forget that they will ever stand up for the rights of minorities.
Now more than ever, NFP have become obsolete and are just hanging around to milk as much as these leeches can before they go into oblivion next elections.
Again I say if you are educated and have the means, no matter you are a minority or indigenous in Fiji, get out of that shit hole country. Life is not easy in Australia or NZ but you and your children will have a much brighter future.
It’s true that we may be the last generation to see and feel what it meant to be Fijian in real essence and soon being Fijian will not mean anything but a name only.
After Baiman the betrayer, Saint Sashi, aka Crying Kiran, is the biggest traitor and appeaser. Rabuka’s ball greaser can’t get enough of making speeches, being garlanded and hobnobbing mostly with the elites. That’s her major focus and source of validation, under the guise of women, child protection and poverty.
Just like Baiman, Sobbing Sashi is a megalomaniac through and through. Definitely a worthy successor for Baiman as NFP party leader since NFP represents the elites and business class.
They are the chief enablers of ethno-nationalists. None of them have the guts or morals to stand up for minorities as they are busy looking after their own interests. After getting the votes of the poor through false promises, Baiman, Sashi and NFP turn their backs on them.
Next election, let’s punish them and make them remember.
The Hitler moustache says it all.
Baby Hitler, with the evil grin to match, is standing all the way to the back to the wooden cuppards behind the goon in green.
A mega bigot and Speight’s left scotty and bosi guard in the 2000 mayhem. He was arrested at Laqere with GS, but let go as a kaivata.
Baby Hitler was the dutiful condiut between the goons in parliament and his aunties and uncles in the gcc.
Except the bastard and GS were clueless, the GCC were liumuring each other to be the PM, showing callous disregard for the welfare and safety of hostages.
Baby Hitler will remember well the good times as he maximized his sadistic joy. His hate for the vulagi is stronger than ever.
Baimaan Prasad and the members of the NFP are not even aware that the Snake has used them to achieve what he wanted. Now he will abuse them at the next elections. I think all the dollars shining in front of their eyes has blinded them. What a bunch of openly treasonous traitors. And they were supposed to keep the bastards in check.
Let me try to get this- you are spewing hate at NFP but aren’t you a NFP dogla ( actually multiple of them), because that’s what your name says. 🤣
NFP and other Kaindias inc FFP Doglas aided by bajaaru business people through their support for Rampuker Rambo and PAP have turned the vision of racist pig George Speight’s vision for Fiji that is all but irreversible.
That’s what Baimaan Biman, Sashi Mataganisau, Idiot Agni, Choron Jeath Singh have inflicted on the Indo-Fijians. In any other country…their Dogla politics would have invoked vigilante action. We still have the ballot.
Just as every sinner has a past, it is always darkest before the dawn. Our best DPM in history Biman will soon mount his horse from beneath the mango tree and ride into Suva and take control with his trusted band of fiscal advisors who will rain down fiscal hellfire onto all sinners, restoring Fiji as the Singapore of the South Pacific, ensuring victory once and for all.
@Rev: With world class universal health services.
If not for FFP 16-year rule, Baiman woulda already made Fiji better than Singapore. Blame FFP.
Dunno about who will be doing the mounting, Baiman or the horse.
Crying Kiran, as someone has rightly dubbed her, is clearly Rabuka’s right hand woman, as the photo rightly shows. She’s the mastermind behind the bogus social cohesion plan and the farcical Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
It’s becoming clearer that these are smokescreen to hide the true intentions of this government and Sashi is at the forefront of it — who better than a sari-clad Indo Fijian woman prone to crying and hugging at the drop of the hat. Except we didn’t hear a sound let alone see a tear with regards the Qoliqoli Bill.
Either she’s too dumb to understand the consequences, too cowardly to raise a voice, totally in with Rabuka’s ethno-nationalist agenda, or all three.
NFP leader Biman the Dogla is the real culprit but Sashi isn’t far behind. She’s right there with him. As long as her bread is buttered.
NFP is the most traitorous party in the history of Fiji.
Whatever was achieved (equality , justice, meritocracy etc) for the minorities and in particular for the Indo Fijian community was lost in a day by dogla Baimaan by sleeping with the snake.
His Party had the choice to further those achievements but because of his personal agenda and squabbles with Bainimarama and Khaiyum, is seeing a whole community of people suffer big time. Karma is catching up, Baimaan, and you will rot in hell for your deeds.
Apartheid is reality in Fiji. It is just dressed up in new fandangled language. It is about time that people start calling the systemic race based discrimination for what it is – ‘apartheid’ a single but very powerful world.
The world took a long time to recognise apartheid in South Africa and it will be the same for Fiji. Our middle age and older generation are too lazy, placid and easily enticed not to stand up against systemic racism. Lets hope the youth of Fiji wake up and have the courage to speak up.
I would not wish that it takes a sacrifice like Hector Petterson in Fiji for the world to raise their objection to racism in Fiji. I am encouraged by some young ikaukei tiktokers who call out things in Fiji but insightful ones like Ben Bush live outside Fiji.
Alas, we live in hope.