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Saturday 26 December 2009
(+) Bainimarama Resilient and Resolute, Rightly So
Story by Rajendra Prasad in Indian Newslink. Click here.
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Dear, dear, dear. Why do Indians like this gentleman insist of singling out Indians as the principal victims of recent democratic rule in Fiji when the truth is all races other than indigenous Fijians have been disadvantaged? Pandit Prasad falls into the trap of condemning racism while exhibiting some pretty entrenched racialist attitudes of his own. Unfortunately, it was ever thus in Fiji. When will an Indo-Fijian leader emerge who regards himself not as Indian but as someone with a duty to all his countrymen irrespective of race? This has been the country's tragedy from AD Patel through Siddiq Koya, Jai Ram Reddy, Mahendra Chaudhry, the lot. It's a mindset as poisonous to the national body politic as the notion of indigenous supremacy amongst Fijians. And until it can be eradicated, nothing will change in Fiji. Indo-Fijian emigres like Pandit Prasad have evidently learnt nothing from living in successful multiracial countries like New Zealand. They still talk in racial terms rather than embrace the notion of one people working together to build one nation. Isa.
anon - you are very correct in your observation. Many Indians unneccesarily make a racial issue out of Fiji in many instances.
My guess is that writting for an Indian audience as a writer for news link this is an overly Indian focused article.
Indians, Common Fijians, Others as we like to call in Fiji have all suffered due to poor governance in Fiji since 1987. The leaders have been looking after themselves and their selected few supporters.
The way of Government in Fiji needed changing and the military is doing this for all of us.
2 comments:
Dear, dear, dear. Why do Indians like this gentleman insist of singling out Indians as the principal victims of recent democratic rule in Fiji when the truth is all races other than indigenous Fijians have been disadvantaged? Pandit Prasad falls into the trap of condemning racism while exhibiting some pretty entrenched racialist attitudes of his own. Unfortunately, it was ever thus in Fiji. When will an Indo-Fijian leader emerge who regards himself not as Indian but as someone with a duty to all his countrymen irrespective of race? This has been the country's tragedy from AD Patel through Siddiq Koya, Jai Ram Reddy, Mahendra Chaudhry, the lot. It's a mindset as poisonous to the national body politic as the notion of indigenous supremacy amongst Fijians. And until it can be eradicated, nothing will change in Fiji. Indo-Fijian emigres like Pandit Prasad have evidently learnt nothing from living in successful multiracial countries like New Zealand. They still talk in racial terms rather than embrace the notion of one people working together to build one nation. Isa.
anon - you are very correct in your observation. Many Indians unneccesarily make a racial issue out of Fiji in many instances.
My guess is that writting for an Indian audience as a writer for news link this is an overly Indian focused article.
Indians, Common Fijians, Others as we like to call in Fiji have all suffered due to poor governance in Fiji since 1987. The leaders have been looking after themselves and their selected few supporters.
The way of Government in Fiji needed changing and the military is doing this for all of us.
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