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We say – to give credibility to Frank and Leweni’s claim, why haven’t they asked Driti and Ului to give a joint press conference to justify that they still support Frank. Or simply, why hasn’t Driti or Ului stepped forward to speak to the media like they use to do to dispel the split prevalent at FMF. Frank Bainimarama can not deny that the masses support from all walks of life and Fiji Military Forces, is now behind Driti and Ului. He will have to face up to his fate as the coup executionist. W

It was first predicted on Coup Four and Half, but we knew all along it had to happen. When the full facts about the mismanagement of the Fiji National Provident Fund escaped, Frank would want to pin the blame on someone. Never forget the board was installed as one of the first acts of the coup. The aim was to secure the money so that it would be available for the use of the regime. The biggest scandal is probably the hijacking of the Natadola Project by Felix Anthony. The Auditors could not

From AFP   Fijians keeping up with political developments since the media clampdown by Voreqe Bainimarama's military regime this month are turning to a growing band of Internet blogs. The latest political upheaval in the troubled South Pacific nation was triggered by the regime's repeal of the constitution on April 10, accompanied by the sacking of the judiciary and emergency regulations to control free speech. Regime censors have been sent into newsrooms to preven

Fijians keeping up with political developments since the media clampdown by Voreqe Bainimarama's military regime this month are turning to a growing band of Internet blogs.

Fijians keeping up with political developments since the media clampdown by Voreqe Bainimarama's military regime this month are turning to a growing band of Internet blogs.

The blogs are now the only source of uncensored news from Fiji.  The media are now now allowed to report news that is “negative”. And even the blogs are at risk - there is talk that the Commodore has ordered Fijian telcos to cut off Internet access to Fiji. I encourage people to read and promote these blogs. Also I am always happy to do a guest post from any Fijians who don’t want to set their own blog up. Intelligensiya Raw Fiji News Discombobulated Bubu Luvei Viti : Children

Chris Merrit and John Stapleton writing in The Australian this morning : THE Australian judges who triggered Fiji's latest political crisis have branded the Pacific nation's president a dictator and warned that any expatriate judges who accept job offers from him could be seen as treasonous. The attack on president Josefa Iloilo was unleashed yesterday after he had sacked the country's judiciary, torn up the constitution and reappointed a prime minister whose regime the judges had d

Since the 2006 coup, I have tried to chronicle the rapidly changing world of blogs in Fiji as they start up, shut down, climb to great heights, and then fall out of the spotlight. My comments even garnered some unwanted attention from the Human Rights Commission Director who, paradoxically for a human rights officer, seemed to be arguing against freedom of speech. While the interim government

A New Zealand poll has found that calls for New Zealanders to boycott Fiji as a holiday destination seem to have fallen on deaf ears ... to go to Fiji as tourists despite the military coup. " Readers will recall that two blogs who are known ... including tourists coming to Fiji, had tried their best to damage Fijis tourism industry. The HATE

Posted in LOYAL FIJIAN -FIJI INDEPENDENT NEWS ( 19 links from 9 sites) by LoyalFijian

Fiji-Live.com Reporters Without Borders has condemned the decision of military authorities in Fiji to block access to blogs " ... security" argument to step up control of the Internet. "This is an unprecedented step in Fiji ... and block access to the blogs such as resistfrankscoup. Last December?s coup brought Frank Bainimarama

Posted in CoralPoetry ( 18 links from 15 sites)

Blogs and the Fijian military junta May 25th, 2007 Here?s an unsurprising story of curtailing free speech: ... launching its coup last December, the military has detained dozens of prominent oppositionists ... opposed to the trampling of democratic rights in Fiji. Many have been assaulted and one person

Posted in ICT for Peacebuilding ( 84 links from 42 sites) by yajitha

Fiji has blocked domestic access to blogs hat contained damaging allegations against the army and members of the interim government.