Rabuka rejects racist media claim
Title -- 5389 FIJI: Rabuka rejects racist media claim
Date -- 25 March 2008
Byline -- None
Origin -- Pacific Media Watch
Source -- Radio Fiji Online 24/03/08
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Status -- Unabridged
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RABUKA REFUTES CLAIMS THAT FIJI MEDIA IS RACIST
www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=9665
SUVA (Radio Fiji Online/Pacific Media Watch): Former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says people in power can see the media as racist because of its criticism of their policies.
In a response to a claim by Interim Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry that the media is divisive and racist Rabuka, who staged two coups in 1987, says the same was evident during his term in government.
“In 1987 a lot indigenous nationalists saw the media as being racist because they were saying things against ethno-nationalism - against the Taukei Movement and the principals they stood by. And now for Chaudhry, an Indian, to be saying that the media is racist - I cannot identify which race the media now is promoting.”
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