President Obama places sanctions on Fiji
The United States has placed sanctions against Fiji because of its poor human rights record.
Fiji is among the list of countries the US will withholding funding from or – for their poor human rights record involving human trafficking.
In a memorandum, President Barack Obama says they will not to provide certain funding for these countries from next year.
The memo says sanctions will be in place until governments comply with the minimum standards or display significant efforts to bring itself into compliance.
Fiji’s poor human rights record in human trafficking was exposed in the annual US State Department’s annual report which was released earlier this year.
The countries affected by these sanctions are Iran, Cuba, Eritrea, Syria, Zimbabwe, North Korea, Burma Sudan Niger Kuwait, Malaysia Swaziland Mauritania and Fiji.
- Radio Fiji
Human rights?
What about the more than a million Iraqis and Afghanis who are now dead and their children who are without parents because of a lie by the previous US administration?
What about the people of Chagos Island in the Indian Ocean whose island was stolen by the British for an American military base?
“You can fool some people some time but you can’t fool all the people all the time” – Abraham Lincoln, former US President.
vitivou
September 16, 2009 at 6:07 am
Stealing a Nation – by John Pilger
vitivou
September 16, 2009 at 6:13 am
Here we go again!!!
Does it come as a surprse that the PIG had recently forged mushy-mushy relations with Cuba (medical scholarship for soldiers) and Malaysia (ex-PM)?
I don’t think so.
The PIG is fast running out of friends that he’s now associating himself with bottom-of-the-barrel sovereigns.
Whoever said “birds of a feather flock together” knew what they were saying.
Folks, if we do not wake up from our slumber then our dream of being “the way the world should be” will be just that….a DREAM.
mrx77
September 16, 2009 at 2:40 pm
The quote by Abraham Lincoln and the book by John Pilger is quite relevant to Fiji. VB steals the nation and then tries to fool the people (which happens to be failing miserably as the people have wisened up now to the real reason for the coup. Save his scrawny neck and worthless hide from doing prison time)
ratubill
September 17, 2009 at 1:25 am