Frank Bainimarama citations (34 citations)

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Frank Bainimarama: Citations en anglais

“Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer”

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Contexte: Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer: "I do not see the Military Commander of Fiji as a political player in all this. Let me make this very clear: it is not the job of a military commander to play politics; it is the job of the military commander to command troops and the Government is to decide where those troops get deployed, whether to Iraq or RAMSI. It is not the role of the commander to play domestic politics." (29 September 2005, on Bainimarama's opposition to the Reconciliation and Unity Bill (q. v).

“If we don't act, this country is going to go to the dogs and no investor will want to come here.”

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(8 December 2004).
2000, 2004

“We were never involved in politics. It was the political party that pushed their agenda, the Bill, forward and we only reacted to the consequences the Bill would bring.”

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2000, Reaction to calls from Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for the Military to stay out of politics (30 September 2005)

“Colonel Ioane Naivalurua, Land Force Commander but now illegal Commissioner of Prison: "Courageous, strong and … a saviour of Fiji in this time of need". (23 June 2005).”

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“As long as this bill hangs over our heads there is no credibility in what people in leadership do.”

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2000, Reaction to calls from Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for the Military to stay out of politics (30 September 2005)

“I told Mr Downer that I was disappointed with his comments and said that we should stay out of politics. I told him his country has not experienced a coup to feel what the military went through here. He can't compare the situation there to this side.”

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2000, Reaction to calls from Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for the Military to stay out of politics (30 September 2005)

“The Bill will legitimise the 2000 coup and will weaken the law and order agencies. All the good work of rebuilding Fiji to what it is today will be undone. The freeing of anyone (even if their crimes are politically-motivated) will show to the world that we are a nation that condones law breakers. It also means that we support terrorists as the Police Commissioner has commented.”

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2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“When we wrong God, he does not let us go, he makes us pay for our wrongs but through the death of his own son Jesus Christ. When God's people (Jews) wronged him, he weakened them in battle and caused them to be captives in Babylon for 70 years.”

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2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“There are two things that need to be taken away. First the lies and this government which needs to follow the law and imprison those implicated in the coup. The chiefs are being used just like those that have been made to believe that there is $6million in the bank for them. This Bill was pushed by the SDL party, the very same people that supported what happened in 2000 and there are opportunists seating in the council looking to mislead the council.”

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2000, Warning to the Great Council of Chiefs, 9 March 2006

“We are not going to take this Bill for granted. We asked them (the Daily Post reporters) to leave the room because they are for the Bill. And if they are for the Bill, this means they are anti-RFMF.”

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2000, Reaction to calls from Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for the Military to stay out of politics (30 September 2005)

“Why should only a few people be freed and not others when we are all serving under the same law?”

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2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“This confirms the RFMF view that the Bill has nothing to do with Reconciliation and everything to do with the selfish agenda that George Speight brought into Parliament in 2000 to gather support and ensure his leadership. We better stop lying to ourselves, we better stop these people lying to us.”

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2000, Reaction to statements in Parliament from Senator Apisai Tora, 23-24 August 2005

“You have to give it (the tiger) room. If you don't give it room, it will bite you.”

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(4 January 2005; seen as a veiled threat to politicians not to interfere with the military).
2000, 2005

“Who's promoting the Bill? These are people in the current Government who participated in the 2000 coup. Some have been convicted, others are facing trial, there are still others left whom the long arm of the law should get at.”

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2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“Our Fiji today is a new Fiji where individual freedom is protected and not a Fiji solely for Fijians. Wise decisions from this august house will promote multiracial harmony and true friendship.”

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2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“This is where we are coming from. The Bill is a continuation of the 2000 coup and it is the consequences of the Bill that we are looking at.”

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2000, Reaction to calls from Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for the Military to stay out of politics (30 September 2005)

“All the nation has been saddened by the extent to which the country has fallen during the last week. I have therefore, with much reluctance, assumed executive authority.”

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(29 May 2000, announcing that he had taken over the government from President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
2000

“Coups will be taken lightly if we condone this Bill, without justice there is no peace. If you honourable chiefs agree that those involved in the coup be forgiven, it will prove that we support the wrong and will be at odds with the integrity of God.”

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2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“If we don't put our foot down, they will release every man and his dog.”

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(Criticizing the government's policy of releasing persons sentenced for involvement in the 2000 coup).
2000

“"We will maintain our stand despite criticisms." (on being told by Downer that the international community would not be happy about the Military's intervention in the political arena).”

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2000, Reaction to calls from Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for the Military to stay out of politics (30 September 2005)

“Maciu Navakasuasua: "Commander Bainimarama holds the key in putting this country on the rightful path."”

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11 January 2006; quoted in Fiji Sun http://www.sun.com.fj

“The military stand is that reconciliation is only possible after justice is served.”

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2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“Those threats they (Apisai Tora and Tomasi Vakatora) came up with should be condemned. He (Tora) has come up with the same threats that politicians like him throw up before elections. That if any other party especially Labour wins, there will be instability … These people are forcing the population to vote out of fear. These types of talks have to be condemned now.”

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2000, Reaction to statements in Parliament from Senator Apisai Tora, 23-24 August 2005

“We are not interfering with any political agenda or plan. We are only doing our job and that is on the grounds of security.”

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2000, Reaction to calls from Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for the Military to stay out of politics (30 September 2005)

“Ropate Sivo, General Secretary of the Conservative Alliance: "I ask Frank to remain where he is and not to interfere in politics. He should not think that he will always be commander because there are other capable people that can do the job. He is only hungry for power and just because he helped bring the present people into power as an interim government, that does not give him the right to threaten the present government.”

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(Quoted in the Fiji Sun http://www.sun.com.fj, 9 March 2006.).

“I don’t think they should be discussing the Bill. It represents the lies of those that took the people into Parliament. The same opportunists are using the GCC to push the Bill through.”

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2000, Warning to the Great Council of Chiefs, 9 March 2006

“Senator James Ah Koy: "I think he is doing a good job and I really support him for his strong words against Mr Downer." (1 October 2005)”

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"He is a strong man and we are blessed to have him in office. His priority is national security and that is why he is coming out strong on the Bill." (1 October 2005).