Issue No:
821; 4 June 2001
Disgraced political party, the National Federation Party
has joined the indigenous Fijian supremacy bandwagon.
According to media reports, the NFP yesterday endorsed the calls by its leader
Jai Ram Reddy that Fiji's ethnic Indians must accept ethnic Fijian supremacy in
the country. Reddy was speaking that a meeting of the party held yesterday in
Lautoka.
Reddy stated that the demand for indigenous rights is an
international demand and that the ethnic Indian population in Fiji must
acknowledge this demand.
The demand for indigenous rights in Fiji includes the demand that ethnic Fijians
alone be responsible for political decision making in the country. This involves
reserving key legislative, ministerial, judicial and executive positions to
ethnic Fijians only. 50% of Fiji's population is ethnic Fijian.
Reddy also stated that he had seen the possibility of a coup in Fiji if the
Labour Party won the election. In 1977, Reddy had also stated that if the NFP,
which had won the election then, made a government then a coup would take place.
The NFP had also widely campaigned in 1999 that if the Labour Party won the
election, there will be a coup. Reddy, who is close to businessmen who allegedly
funded the terrorists, now resides in New Zealand. Numerous key NFP politicians
were also involved closely with the terrorists.
Meanwhile the police force says that it is focussing its attention now on those
who financed the terrorists. It is expected that some prominent businessmen will
soon be charged for funding the terrorists.
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