THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY Bainimarama’s total control shows due Constitutional progress in Fiji is doomed

By Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara, Council for a Democratic Fiji. 25th October 2012

Yash Ghai, Chairman of the Constitutional Review Commission, has now concluded receiving submissions. A Constitution will be drafted and presented at a later stage to a creation of the current regime called the Constituent Assembly, that body being purported to be created by another of the illegal Khaiyum Decrees which the regime continues to issue on the pattern of the practice followed in the seventeenth century by the Stuart kings.

The body imitates the name of the Constituent Assembly set up in France between 1789 and 1791 and it is very much hoped that those perceived by the regime to be opposed to it will not be subject to the guillotine as were those targeted in the Ffrench Revolution. No doubt an even worse fate is in store for them under Khaiyum....Read full media release