Thank goodnesss someone with the stature of the Rev. Akuila Yabaki has said that basic human rights are still respected in Fiji. Limitations on human rights have only affected the media and those human rights activists who have not been prepared to give the Government a chance to prove its sincerity. This is not ideal, of course, but it's a far cry from the picture presented in our NZ media. And it's great to see the Fiji Times coming in from the cold and printing this kind of story, at last. Click here for full story.
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Can i see the start of the tide turning in Fiji!! i have read many comments and stories on the web and there is an increase on the positive news stories and there seems to be real progress in Fiji
Hooray!!!! Finally, some sensible reporting. Speaking of human rights abuses, I think the Dr Haneef saga has to be a classic example. It was flashed all over the world, but do people learn from their stuff ups? Probably ignorance gets the better of them.
Can anyone of the calibre of Netani Rika, editor of a newspaper owned by overseas interests and allowed free rein by an incompetent Media Council wearing blinkers be deemed to have 'turned around'? When we speak of the possible criminality of the abuse of human rights and freedoms in Fiji, it is people like Rika and his associates and shady political mentors who must be pegged out to dry. Class action suits will never be out of the question. The think tanks who assisted him should also consider their position. The persons who so unsmartly populated them are still out and about. We know who they are: each and everyone. What measure of thought went on there?
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