Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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Frank Bainimarama's Rouge State and Tal-Qaeda
The Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum announced on the 2nd of May that the "military regime" of Fiji had been suspended from the Forum.
There has however been a continued misunderstanding by the mainstream media as to the subject of this suspension for over two months now, both locally and internationally, that can be attributed to the official deliberate misleading statement by our illegal Attorney General stating that "Fiji" was suspended from the Forum. This is certainly NOT the case.
The suspension is applicable ONLY to the "military regime", its leader Frank Bainimarama and his illegal Ministers and Officials.
The reason for the careful drafting of the Forums press release is simple, it has ensured that Fiji as a State will be bound by the regional security instruments in place so as to ensure that when a 'trigger event' occurs it would invoke and justify an intervention response.
Although it is acknowledged that intervention by powerful states in the sovereign affairs of weak, failed or rouge counterparts constitutes a profound challenge to the foundation principles of contemporary international law based on state sovereignty, nonintervention and the equality of nation states, it nevertheless reflects the international community’s judgement that a particular state has forfeited its right to self-determination, necessitating intervention to restore state authority in the interests of development and security.
The securitization of underdevelopment and state failure has created powerful security imperatives for states to intervene to stabilize the state-based global order and prevent the emergence of governance black holes within which security risks can fester. The secondary security risk that has been left to flourish in Fiji since the 2006 coup-de-tat are transnational risks including human trafficking.
However, the primary risk which has emerged and is blatantly obvious is the risk of an Islamic "Terrorist Haven" in the Pacific headquartered in Fiji. Terrorism has been defined by state authorities as an extraordinary criminal act aimed, directly or indirectly, at challenging established political authorities.
The emergence of what I term Tal-Qaeda in the Republic of the Fiji Islands is REAL and the International community cannot afford to be complacent and ignore this reality. The foundation has been laid and Fiji is currently been used as a terrorist base to undertake the planning and groundwork for an attack. We do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand what the Iranian President meant when he said last week that the infidels must "repent".
The 'arc of instability' to the North is now bolstered with an 'arc' to the East for Australia and New-Zealand and an arrow from the South-West for the United States, all in direct line of sight from the hub.
The time for debating whether Frank Bainimarama's rouge state 'could be' or 'may be' a terrorist haven is over, IT SIMPLY IS!
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