A Fijian speaks on Leninist-International mailing list

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have just read Lou Paulsen's commentry (posted on L-I) on the attempted
coup by terrorists in
Fiji. All I can say, as a hostage held for 56 days, that what he/she has
written is nonsense. Speight is a criminal - there ar emany charges pending
against him in Fiji courts; all the key players are either convicted criminals
or bankrupts (who rose to quick fame after the 1987 military coups, borrowing
heavily from the state bank and eventually driving it down to the point of it
being sold to a foreign company); the so called thousands of supporters in
th marches were no more than 1,600; the so called thousands turning up to
suppport speight were again no more than 2,000 - as I saw and estimated
them at
the peak period around 28-29 May..... And believe me, Melanesian Fijians as a
race are not oppressed in Fiji  by any other race - of course, as workers,
like
workers of all other ethnic groups in Fiji, they are exploited by those very
forces which orchastrated the terrorists to take the elected government
hostage.
Ganesh Chand

Louis Proyect

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