WE attach ideals to almost everything in life and it influences our choices and perspective on things: The perfect partner, the perfect job, the perfect holiday, the perfect everything.
I do the same with my country of birth, and I loath what I see.
I threw my hands up in despair upon reading about the arrest of 17 people for protesting against China’s human rights abuses in Tibet (adieu free speech!), and the public disclosure of a sex tape of Ballu Khan and his partner Agnes Tikoisuva (long reign oppression!).
Khan is the Fiji-born New Zealand businessman accused of plotting to kill Bainimarama, and the movies were taken from a computer hard drive and off a DVD seized during police raids.
If ever there was an instant when the 2006 coup was carried out with honourable intentions, that moment is long lost, smothered in the mire that blemishes this once paradise.
April 12, 2008 at 5:04 am
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