777ER From New Zealand, joined Dec 2003, 9860 posts, RR: 23 Posted (2 years 11 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 225 times:
Fiji's president has dissolved parliament and sanctioned the removal of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said on Tuesday.
"I have been advised this morning that the president of Fiji has acted outside his constitutional powers and supported the removal of the democratic prime minister by the military," Clark said in a statement to the New Zealand parliament.
This law breaker of a cammander deserves to be punished for the way he is wrecking Fiji. He has family in Wellington, New Zealand and there was talk of banning him from entering New Zealand. The commander was in Wellington last week and an RNZAF B752 operated an emergency flight to NAN to pick up the Fijian Prime Minister to hold talks with the commander the next day at Government House in WLG, with the talks over in under two hours
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MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 10367 posts, RR: 67 Reply 1, posted (2 years 11 months 4 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 202 times:
I understand that the whole situation is not that simple. QAcc. to what I've heard from several sources the problem in the Fijis is that during the 19th century the British brought lots of Indians there to work the plantations.
Now the Indians are about 40% of the population, and since they are often quite businessminded, are controlling the Fiji economy, but underrepresented politically.
The ousted government of the Fijis has apparently following a course sympathetic to an ethnic Fijian businessman, Speight, who tried some years ago to overthrow the first ethinc Indian prime minister to establish laws which would only ethnic Fijians to allow to occupy political positions. The ousted prime minister has been pardoning Speight and his fellow coupists and himself tried to introduce racist legislation against the Indians.
Zkpilot From New Zealand, joined Mar 2006, 3481 posts, RR: 9 Reply 2, posted (2 years 11 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 166 times:
Quoting MD11Engineer (Reply 1): I understand that the whole situation is not that simple. QAcc. to what I've heard from several sources the problem in the Fijis is that during the 19th century the British brought lots of Indians there to work the plantations.
Now the Indians are about 40% of the population, and since they are often quite businessminded, are controlling the Fiji economy, but underrepresented politically.
The ousted government of the Fijis has apparently following a course sympathetic to an ethnic Fijian businessman, Speight, who tried some years ago to overthrow the first ethinc Indian prime minister to establish laws which would only ethnic Fijians to allow to occupy political positions. The ousted prime minister has been pardoning Speight and his fellow coupists and himself tried to introduce racist legislation against the Indians.
Whatever that may be, the military who is taking over is Native Fijian not Indian Fijian.
The whole saga is utterly pathetic... yes their political system is not representative of the population.
The whole thing needs to be cleaned out and replaced with a completely represenatative parliment based on population votes not ethnicity.
The Fijian military needs to be scaled back from the 1000 odd plus 2000 reservists, to about half that number whilst boosting the police force by about 500. This would make the police more numerous than the military to stave off any future coups whilst helping to reduce the relatively high crime rate in cities such as Suva, Nadi, Lautoka etc. Some would argue as to why Fiji needs such a large military for such a small nation... well Fiji does a lot of UN peacekeeping missions and also is subject to devastating Tropical Cyclones to which the military is extremely useful in the recovery effort and in keeping the peace. But a better solution as I pointed out above would be for a smaller military but larger police force.
777ER From New Zealand, joined Dec 2003, 9860 posts, RR: 23 Reply 3, posted (2 years 11 months 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 154 times:
Quoting Zkpilot (Reply 2): Fiji does a lot of UN peacekeeping missions and also is subject to devastating Tropical Cyclones to which the military is extremely useful in the recovery effort and in keeping the peace. But a better solution as I pointed out above would be for a smaller military but larger police force.
Sounds like the UN is taking action against Fiji, so there might not be a need for a big military
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