Newspaper slates Qarase for perverting  law

Issue No: 601; 19 March 2001

 
The Fiji Sun has questioned the political credibility of the reappointed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.

In a strong but objective editorial written on Saturday, the paper stated:
"The people no longer place their faith in the office of the President, the Prime Minister and even the once exalted Great Council of Chiefs no longer commands the respect it once did. Why? Because our leaders have not been honest with the people who made them leaders. How Laisenia Qarase can claim to have the majority backing of the people of Fiji should be explained to the people. His policies are blatantly racist. His very appointment is a smack in the face for all right thinking people who were led to believe that Mr. Qarase would live by his words and abide by the High Curt ruling. The way the court judgment has been perverted will blight the conscience of this nation for generations".

The editorial echoes the sentiments of a vast majority of Fiji's people.

Earlier, the head of the Women's Crisis Centre, Shamima Ali had called Qarase racist and stated that he was not a respectable person. A day later the regime attacked Ali for making the comments, saying that she is unelected and unrepresentative!

Meanwhile the Sunday Times columnist Netani Rika has also questioned the credibility of the Great Council of Chiefs. Calling the Council of Chiefs a "flatulence", Rika slated the inability of the Chiefs to make a firm decision on the Court of Appeal decision.

 

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