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Fiji Times Online Story: Call to Exclude Human Rights
Thursday, 9 August 2012, 11:36 am | Rajend Naidu
I refer to the "call to exclude human rights"(FT 8/8)and ask what else should be excluded? What about good governance of the democratic kind - with its stress on public accountability and transparency and citizenship rights? Should that ... More >>
Logically Speaking
Friday, 3 August 2012, 1:57 pm | Rajend Naidu
If ex- PM Lasenia Qarase can be sent to jail for some crime he is said to have committed in the distant past (is it 10years ago?) although he denied doing it ,then can ex- PM Sitiveni Rabuka be also put on trial and sent to jail for the crime he now admits ... More >>
Australia Humiliated
Wednesday, 1 August 2012, 12:55 pm | Rajend Naidu
Editor, Acha right Fiji has like Graham Davis proclaims "bested its larger neighbours" (see " The humiliating Australian backdown on Fiji" in Fiji Sun 1/8) because the restoration of full diplomatic ties with Fiji "can have no other conclusion" ... More >>
False Fear
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 11:35 am | Rajend Naidu
Praneet Singh of Sacramento, USA was right (The Fiji Times 28/6) when he told us there was no reason for WikiLeak's editor Julian Assange to fear persecution at the hands of the US if he was extradited to Sweden. More >>
Top Syrian Defector
Friday, 13 July 2012, 2:23 pm | Rajend Naidu
Could it be because he realised - even if belatedly - that the State he was representing had become a rogue state which was hell-bent on persecuting its own people and even killing thousands of them just because they were opposed to the current state rulers? More >>
PMs Political Comeback
Monday, 28 May 2012, 12:32 pm | Rajend Naidu
Where is the need in a small Pacific island country like Fiji for grand dad politicians like Chaudhary and Qarase to make a political comeback when the world's most powerful country can be led by a 50 year old? Remember he took office as President at age ... More >>
Russian Stance On Syria
Monday, 28 May 2012, 12:28 pm | Rajend Naidu
If Russia has not been moved by all the killing going on in Syria (' Syria's massacre of the innocents' the Australian 28/5) and continues to block UN action on Syria then no one should be too surprised by the Russian stance. Afterall in their own ... More >>
Need For Professionalism
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 12:11 pm | Rajend Naidu
Ex-judge Nashat Shameem's talk on the need for professionalism in the police force refers. I should like to point out that not only the police but many other institutions of the state in Fiji - including the judiciary and the military- could benefit from ... More >>
Cancer Villages
Monday, 21 May 2012, 10:37 am | Rajend Naidu
SBS dateline documentary 'china's cancer villages' (screened on 15/5) gives an illuminating insight into the nature and extent of the toxic costs of china's great economic leap forward in recent times. More >>
Right To March
Friday, 18 May 2012, 1:32 pm | Rajend Naidu
Australia is an imperfect democracy but in Australia in a recent case just this past week the supreme court has ruled that citizens have the right to march in a peaceful protest and the police cannot take away that right More >>
Knowing Fiji
Thursday, 10 May 2012, 12:23 pm | Rajend Naidu
I know all too well the Fiji Thakur Ranjit Singh talks about in his letter (Fiji Sun 10/5). The gang in the Qarase Government also got rid of me through a cooked up case with the connievance of their puppets in the Fiji Public Service Commission ... More >>
Not Ready For Media Freedom
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 12:33 pm | Rajend Naidu
His personal opinion that Fiji is " not ready for First World media freedom" which Thakur Ranjit Singh articulates in his article " Western way not be best way for Fiji" (Fiji Sun May I) reminds me of Professor Harold J Laski's insightful ... More >>
Power Of One
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 12:32 pm | Rajend Naidu
China is one of the most powerful countries in the world and yet it is worried what one blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng can do. But China is right to be worried because the one blind activist embodies the power of one who can influence ... More >>
Backtracking
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 11:54 am | Rajend Naidu
In ABC news 7/5 we heard the former chief prosecutor Colonel Mason Davis say President Barack Obama "lacked backbone" when it came to follow through on his election promise to close down Guantanomo and shift the trial of the prisoners to the Federal ... More >>
Peoples' Voice
Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 10:17 am | Rajend Naidu
In her media briefing on 30 April - as reported on all television news chanels - the prime minister Julia Gillard seems to suggest the peoples' articulation of issues in the media is somehow inferior to that of politicians like herself. I don't think ... More >>
Military Might Madness
Friday, 27 April 2012, 9:46 am | Rajend Naidu
With the development of a "microwave pain-infliction system" at a cost of $120 million the Americans have clearly reached new heights of military might madness/megalomania. More >>
Retirement Job
Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 1:50 pm | Rajend Naidu
Retired diplomat Robin Nair went to Fiji to help Fiji get back on its feet after the coup of 2006 and ended up landing himself a lucrative university job there. More >>
Who to Believe
Thursday, 12 April 2012, 12:45 pm | Rajend Naidu
Kumar Gunaratnam an Australian claims he was abducted last Friday at gunpoint by the secret police in Colombo and was assaulted and tortured and left to fear for his life. His treatment at the hands of the Sri Lankan State authorities is related ... More >>
Why in Peacetime?
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 10:05 am | Rajend Naidu
A letter writer Anne- Marie Scully (Letters the Age 6/4) is upset that the US marines arrived in Darwin "toting guns". But the bigger issue is why are they here at all - in peacetime? More >>
Secret Police Abduction
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 9:12 am | Rajend Naidu
An Australian man Premakumar Gunaratnam(42), a political activist involved with the Peoples' Struggle Movement In Sri Lanka, who is missing in Sri Lanka has been kidnapped by the country's "secret police" his family alleges.According to his mother ... More >>
