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Monday, March 19, 2012

Auckland, New Zealand

Fiji Liberates Council of Chiefs

The Great Council of Chiefs a legacy of the British colonialism for the past 130 years has now been finally liberated by the Fijian Government last week.

“This liberation of the Great Council of Chiefs will enable the chiefs to spend more quality time with their families and our fellow Fijians as Fiji moves towards true democracy,” said Alton Shameem president of Fiji Club New Zealand (FCNZ).

“The Great Council of Chiefs is a product of our colonial past, and Fiji must now focus on a future in which all Fijians are represented on the same basis.
"We must now look to our commonalities as citizens of the same nation, not to what separates us as individuals or groups," the Prime Minister of Fiji Honorable Frank Bainimarama said.
“By letting go of the infamous, devastating, elitist, divide and rule mantra and policy of their former world superpower colonial masters our fellow Fijians can now move forward together as one nation for the greater good, progress, peace, harmony and freedom of our country and all the peoples of Fiji, ” said Alton Shameem JP the New Zealander – native Fijian.

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