The Madness of Fiji’s Dictator

23 September 2011

There is an ancient proverb, attributed to Euripides, which is so applicable to the murderer Bainimarama. It says, “Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”. Here is one example. It is laughable that Fiji’s military junta leader and murderer, Voreqe Bainimarama, would make a statement (dated September 22) at the United Nations (UN) on Desertification, Drought and Land Degradation that have no relevance to Fiji. This is because: 1. Fiji has no deserts 2. Fiji experiences occasional droughts, but this is through a lack of proper national water policies, plans and projects 3. Land degradation, coastal, is a result of ocean tides that the illegal junta has tragically failed to address during its five years of repression.

DESERTIFICATION

What is interesting is that Fiji is a Member of the UN Desertification Commission although it has no deserts. It would also be interesting to know what annual financial contribution Fiji has to make to the Commission, not to mention the sums of money spent for travel and subsistence to attend meetings.

DROUGHT

The illegal dictator and murderer preached at the UN to member countries about integrated water resource management when Fiji has no such programme in place, especially for the rural areas where two-thirds of the indigenous Fiji population live. What Fiji does have is a lack of pure water supply or piped water. Drainage and poor sewerage systems and irrigation remain serious problems. Rural electrification is almost absent and interconnecting roads, bridges and transport between villages and districts almost non-existent. A high percentage of indigenous Fijians live in rural areas under primitive conditions while the murderer and his cohorts live in expensive Government funded accommodation and travel the world living in expensive hotels.

LAND DEGRADATION

The land degradation in Fiji applies generally to the coastal areas that surround the islands. It is caused by the Pacific Ocean tides. So while pontificating to UN members about coastal use planning, the murderer Bainimarama has failed miserably to pursue policies, plans, programmes and projects to prevent coastal degradation in Fiji.

RELEVANCE TO FIJI

Instead of the murderer Bainimarama preaching about; deserts, which Fiji does not have; drought, which occurs in Fiji due to the junta’s failure to act; and coastal degradation that has not been addressed, he should have been talking about more relevant topics to Fiji. This includes increasing levels of Overseas Development Assistance to Fiji, facilitating more export trade, increasing foreign private investment, and attracting higher levels of tourists and transfer of technology. In addition, the murderer Bainimarama should have been telling the UN about the end of his Public Emergency Regulations in Fiji, and the end of media muzzling, censorship, and the return of the rule of law and the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, and the restoration of Constitutional rule and Parliamentary democracy to Fiji. Therefore, I find the ancient proverb, “Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”, so applicable to the murderer Bainimarama and his statement to the UN.

ENDS

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