NEW DELHI: India will launch an international campaign in support of Fijians opposing institutionalization of racial discrimination by the interim government installed after the 1987 military coup in the Pacific island nation.
This was stated by a federal Indian minister in parliament.
Members saw a new form of apartheid in Fiji where the majorities 53 percent of people of Indian origin were being treated as third class citizens.
The minister accepted Samrendra Kundu’s suggestion that the matter be raised in the United Nations Human Rights Commissions.
The Fijian Govt meanwhile has strongly protested India’s interference in its internal affairs and said India must look to its own human rights record, India’s human rights record is among the worst in the world _
Article extracted from this publication >> May 18, 1990
