SUVA: Fiji’s military commander Gen Stitiveni Rabuka has lashed out at the Fiji Indian for their nationwide strike on Friday.
The strike which disrupted normal life in most parts of the country was called to protest the expulsion of the Indian embassy from Fiji.
“The stop work protest,” Gen Rabuka said, “showed the hands of the provocateurs at work and raised the question of where the ultimate loyalties of local Indians lie.”
Charging India with “trying to isolate the country and bring down its government,” Gen Rabuka said “Indians (in Fiji) taking their orders from New Delhi cannot be condoned.”
Rabuka also warned that the military would harvest the sugarcane crop if the Indian farmers did not do so.
This was in response to a statement by the National Farmers Union, comprising mainly Indians, that “the knife would not touch the cane until all outstanding issues were fully resolved.”
Article extracted from this publication >> June 8, 1990
