New Zealand radio and TV gave much attention to Fiji over the weekend, and for a pleasant change some programmes presented a range of opinions. Listen to David Robie, Barbara Dreaver and Ranjit Singh on TVNZ Media 7. The Cafe Pacific site also has a copy of my separate posting on the Sunday Group. Click here. Listen to Robie on Shine TV saying that Australian and New Zealand policies have backfired. And to Ranjit Singh saying that the media is not telling the full story.
TV1 had a lengthy interviewed with Ballu Khan, with whom I sympathise at a human level because he was very badly beaten up by the military in the early days of the Coup, but otherwise is a person in whom I do not place a great deal of trust. His later comments were similar to those of Baidrokadroka (mentioned in an earlier post) and our PM John Key. All of these statements could be seen as inflammatory and decidedly dangerous interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, whatever their government. For this reason I have not provided a link to the Khan interview, but Key's comments may require a later posting. Meantime, I'm not sure whether he intended the media to "enlarge" on his story (promoting his "last resort" as the first resort, and demoting the provisos) or whether the media did it on their own, or a bit of both. Statements like this can only make the Fiji situation worse, as indeed all of those in the interviews noted above made very clear.
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