Thursday, 10 December 2009
(o) Today is Human Rights Day
While Government opponents continue to focus on restrictions to some human rights in Fiji, visiting UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay says one of the most dangerous forms of discrimination is racial and ethnic discrimination, a concern that seems to have escaped the attention of many of today's Government critics. Full report.
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Women's rights are human rights. Children's rights are human rights. That is often said and not too much thought attends. Over more than twenty years in Fiji 'Human Rights' became distorted to mean "Indigenous supreme rights" and 'indigenous' was to mean only one ethnic group. How indigenous? Racial purity became the test. But how racially pure? Were we to wear our DNA on our shoulders like a yellow star? This is what New Zealand and Australia supported and were complicit with in the South Pacific small island nation of Fiji. Whether knowingly or through incomprehension, they subscribed to this message and mindset. They reinforced it through their failed appreciation of the 'scheme of things'. Too many incompetent and unintelligent diplomats were posted to Fiji. There were some notable exceptions. In the main they were mediocre and they failed both New Zealand and Fiji. The same might be said of Australia and their representatives: unknowing, unappreciative of too much going on right under their diplomatic noses. At times arrogant in their supreme self-satisfaction. How foolish this all was. It must NEVER happen again.
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