Fiji gets worse … again …

Some promising sounds have been made about Fiji returning to democracy and having elections, but one has to judge them on actions, not words, and it is all dismal.

The expulsion of the NZ High Commissioner (an incredibly serious thing to do to a Government) comes on top of killings, beatings, and attacks on freedom of speech. The Commodore is quite insane and I don’t see any path out of the disaster he is heading towards.

Journalist Barry Soper broke the story this morning, and told us during the segment we do with Willie Jackson on Good Morning that it really seems a major factor was the Commodore feeling slighted at a rugby game. Normally you would laugh and say it couldn’t be, but we are not dealing with someone with a full deck of cards.

Our sanctions are still pretty half hearted. We should pull in favours with the US and UK to get the Security Council to resolve to stop using Fijian peacekeepers. If you do that, I predict within three months the Commodore’s poor and starving troops will be handing him over to be arrested.