Fiji recently kicked out of Commonwealth...

It was recently announced that Fiji has been kicked out of the Commonwealth because Commodore Bainimarama has refused to set a date for early democratic elections.

The despicable illegal military regime continues unabated, with no change in the near future.

Commodore Bainimarama has been repeatedly warned that Fiji's actions could be detrimental to their future relationship with the Commonwealth. This is not been the first time that Fiji has been kicked out of the Commonwealth through illegal regimes following coups.

Fiji booted out of Pacific Islands Forum...

Fiji has been booted out of the Pacific islands forum...




Fiji becoming the basket case of the Pacific...

Despite last minute attempts by Fijian military dictator, Commodore Bainimarama to meet the leaders of Australia and New Zealand and negotiate a change of mind over sanctions against Fiji, Fiji will be kicked out, officially suspended from the Pacific Islands Forum, and possibly from the Commonwealth later in the year.

Bainimarama claims elections can't be restored for another five years, but this a load of codswallop! He claims to be the hero of multiracialism in Fiji, but is just another dirty little dictator like Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe who dictated his country from being the bread-basket of Africa to becoming the basket-case of all time!

There are absolutely no civil rights in Fiji, no democracy, and the local media has been dictated to and controlled by the army, with foreign media and diplomats detained and kicked out of Fiji. Some Fijians have lost there lives, and others are missing.

Much foreign aid has already been suspended by Australia, NZ, Britain and the European Union. Fijian army peacekeepers may also be suspended from new contracts by the United Nations, and as a consequence much of Fiji's economy will be affected with the loss of the soldiers income. With unemployed troops drifting around unemployed in the capital of Suva, Bainimarama's regime could well have some substantial opposition. Fijians are pretty effective soldiers - good peacekeepers!

The Bainimarama regime's future is already in doubt - the clock is ticking!

NZ SAS special forces could be sent to Fiji to restore law, order and democracy...

The New Zealand PM, John Key, mentioned the possibility of New Zealand troops going to Fiji to restore law, order and democracy, but thought it unlikely.

It was said that Fiji would fight back because they have a large defence force for the size of the country. Maybe! But the troops NZ could consider are among the premier special forces troops in the world - the NZ SAS, who have served with distinction in Afghanistan for a number of years.

The last time NZ troops were sent to a Pacific country to restore order was in Samoa in 1914; they were actually armed police and a number of Samoans were killed after riots Samoa was at that stage a German colony taken over by NZ - or so the story goes.Fijian troops would be mere babes in the woods against those Kiwi SAS troops.

Getting written out of credibility as a nation - Fiji dies one step at a time...

Australia's journalists' union says Fijian authorities are acting outside the law with the introduction of tough new media regulations.

ABC correspondent Sean Dorney is being deported from Fiji today after authorities objected to his coverage of the recent political and constitutional turmoil.

Journalists have been told not to publish or broadcast stories that present the reinstatement of the military government in a negative light, and police censors have been installed in newsrooms across Suva.

Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) federal secretary Chris Warren has criticised the Fijian government for the introduction of the new censorship laws.

Mr Warren says the censorship is a very serious step.

"Fiji has now become the most repressive country, in terms of press freedom, in the region, and indeed is on the road to becoming one of the worst in the world," he said.

"Installing military fences inside newsrooms is one of the worst measures we've seen around the world.

"That sort of pre-publication censorship is a very serious step."

He also says the situation for the media in Fiji will get worse.

"Fijian courts were quite clear about what needed to occur," he said.

"The Fijian authorities are ignoring the laws, and ignoring the impact of the laws.

"That's very serious, because once they start down that road there's no clear point at which they're likely to stop."


'It's got to behave'

And Fiji's interim government is facing serious punishment, according to the special representative of the Commonwealth secretary-general to Fiji.

Sir Paul Reeves, who is also the former New Zealand governor-general, says the military regime's crackdown on journalists is a disgrace.

He says Fiji could be kicked out of the Commonwealth.

"Fiji's got to stay an international player, it can't just flout things," he said.

"Face it, it's a small nation in a vast sea, it's got to realise that it depends on other people - it can't exist on by itself, it needs an international context, it's got to behave."