Articles Tagged: communal

THE CASE OF FIJI: Continued from yesterday? Ethnic identity, political identity and the state: Paradox of communal democracy; Moreover, the Fiji Labour Party itself suffered from an identity crisis in that while it prided itself as a multi-racial, working class party, most of its elected politicians were Indo-Fijians. To the nationalists, this became visible ?evidence? of ?Indian takeover?. The electoral victory of the Labour led coalition posed a threat not only to the indigenous Fijian chi

People, this is taken from One National News. Who the hell is Father David Arms? What authority does he have to put forward these changes? Does he and Mataca truly believe there are doing the right thing in supporting the illegal government? Interestingly enough, the communal roll system was first proposed by the NFP during the Constitutional talks in Britain, which was strongly opposed by the Fijian Leadership because of their being in the minority. One thing that we at SV believe in i