Wednesday, August 31, 2011

VRF Blitzes Fiji Text Users with Resistance Message



Posted on Coup Four Point Five - 31 August 2011



BIG REACH: VRF text campaign.


The group giving the people of Fiji new hope has upped its campaign to rattle the regime and show people it's serious about toppling the illegal government.

Viti Revolutionary Forces today carried out a massive text blitz in Fiji, saying it reached "almost everyone."

The message urged people to support the campaign to restore democracy: "PEOPLE of Fiji, ACT NOW 2 return democracy 2 Fiji. Stand up and B counted. Support Methodist church. Start passive resistance now. VRF act for a free Fiji". 

VRF said: "If the service providers are to trace it, then it has to be in conjunction with the international networks and they would not have the capabilities or the co-operation required."

It also told Coupfourpointfive: "This is part of VRF strategy to show the capabilities, strength, leadership and the network VRF possesses."

Social media like texting, Facebook and blogs were crucial in the campaigns to topple the dictators of Egypt, Syria, Iran and Libya. They were also used in the recent London riots to mobilise and organise people.

Viti Revolution Forces says: "VRF is following its strategies and the one and only objective is to remove the regime and bring peace and freedom for people of Fiji. VRF will step up its operations as needed and it has only started. More will come and it will come as required, when the need arises to step up to its maximum capabilities."

Fiji police today, meanwhile, tried to play down the VRF burning of a police post in Vutadradra, saying it was going to be demolished anyway. 

Readers will see from the photos sent to Coupfourpointfive, though, that VRF did serious damage. (see earlier pictures)

The unelected government is also continuing to suppress the Methodist Church as it threatened to do last week, after it cancelled the Suva conference.

Members of the Wesley City Mission Church have now received a letter from their pastor, Apenisa Katonivualiku, informing them that there will no longer be meetings, worship or fellowship services. Others are expecting similar formal notification.

The only services/programs permitted in Church are the regular Sunday worship services.

The continuous attack of the Methodist Church has caught the attention of the UnitingWorld Church of Australia.

In a story headlined Fiji Government Muscles Methodist Church, the National Director of UnitingWorld,  Rev Dr Kerry Enright (pictured), says church leaders in Australia are deeply concerned  about the Fiji military interference in church decisions.

UnitingChurch is urging members to write to the Australian government expressing support for the Fiji Methodist Church and to relay their concerns about breaches in human rights.


Read the UnitingChurch Press Release
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NZers Find Out About Defiance Against Illegal Fiji Regime

by Michael Field - 31 August 2011


Fiji police buildings torched



Examples of some of the grafitti that has emerged on buildings in Fiji.


A shadowy group wanting to overthrow the Fiji military regime is claiming responsibility for the arson attacks on two police posts on Monday.
The group calling itself the Viti Revolutionary Forces (VRF) has also said it is behind a wave of graffiti across the Pacific nation, condemning military strongman Voreqe Bainimarama. Viti is the traditional name for Fiji.
Fiji is under a state of emergency with heavy media censorship, but unusually the daily Fiji Times today published a story saying police were investigating the burning of two bures or houses used by police in the Nadroga district of the main island of Viti Levu.
"We are investigating both fires," police spokeswoman Theresa Ralogaivau said.
"The cause of both fires is still to be determined.
"However, it is important to note that one of the bures was in a dilapidated condition and in the process of being dismantled when the fires occurred."
A bure at the Nawai police station had been used by police to meet members of the community.
VRF, in an email to media, said they set the fires.
"Our aim is not to damage and destroy any property that belongs to our own people or any private property for that matter," the email said.
"However, our property is occupied by thugs and murderers and they are ruining the future of our children."
They say their aim is to prove to Bainimarama, who took power in a coup in 2006, that he did not have the endorsement of the people of Fiji.
"VRF wants to send a clear message to the international communities about the above and to also send warnings to the international organisations and communities that the violent activities will step up to the next level, until the time they hear our cries and intervene," the message said.
For the first time since the coup, political graffiti has appeared across Fiji.
Various anti-regime websites have carried photos of the graffiti which initially appeared on public spaces and a billboard on the busy Nausori-Suva corridor.
The graffiti now appears widespread, including in the tourist areas of Nadi and Lautoka.

Frank’s Satanic Regime Allow Indo Fijians to go Public with their Gods But Not Fijian Christians

Posted on Raw Fiji News - 31 August 2011

Fiji Sun cover story a few days ago


One can’t help but pick up on the injustices meted out to Fijian Methodist Church Christians by Frank’s military regime.


Sources in Fiji report that while Indo Fijians were allowed to parade with their deities along Laucala Bay sea side road from Rabuka gym to Nasese, culminating in the piercing of their bodies and fire-walking at their Howell Road church, Fijian Methodist  Christians were banned from congregating to mark their annual conference where songs of praise and worship, free giving and fellowship is normally the order of the day.

They said it was moving to watch Methodist Church members respecting Indo-Fijians rights to worship while they stood by the way side reflecting on the regime’s ban against them not to do the same.
Such is the regime’s show of disrespect and prejudice towards the Methodist Church members in Fiji that breaches their human right to their freedom of religion and belief which encompasses their freedom of thought on all matters and the freedom to manifest religion and belief individually or with others, in public or in private.
What Frank & Co. is under-estimating is the untold consequences of their prejudicial decision against the Fijian Methodist Church members that can provoke religious hatred amounting to incitement of discrimination, hostility or violence proved by the recent outbreak of graffiti writing and burning by a group calling themselves the Viti Revolution Forces.
Frank’s Muslim mafia group celebrated their Eid festival freely while Hindus celebrated their puja with their fellow believers, so why deny the Methodist Church, most of whom are indigenous Fijians, from worshiping freely like their fellow immigrant Indo-Fijians?
Evil Aiyaz Khaiyum with his Muslim family
Frank Bainimarama’s regime is unfortunately causing native Fijians to feel more marginalized than ever before – a hopeless place to put these indigenous Fijians in since this is the same dark hole that awakens the monster in them resulting in the coup culture they’ve adopted as their only option out of that dark place since 1987.
Methodist Christian Fijians banned from worshiping on their own land

Here is a report by blogger Tui Savu on the maiming of the Methodist Church in Fiji.
By Tui Savu

Folks, this email dated 29/08/2011 sent by someone from Fiji, reveal the desperate measures adopted by the Military Junta in Fiji, as it tries to destroy the Leaders of the Methodist Church in Fiji, namely Rev. Ame Tugaue & Rev. Tuikilakila Waqairatu for disobeying an unreasonable and unlawful directive from Bainimarama.
 
 
I wouldn’t be surprised this desperate measure extends to prohibiting Sunday Church Services as well because the Junta’s led by an irrational, thin skinned, madman.
 
This will be the first time in Fiji’s history a government, legal of illegal has directly interfered in the affairs of the Church. So much for their claim the Church was deeply involved in political issues, which is part of its responsibilities, but how about the Military Junta?
 
 
As a fellow Methodist, I wish to remind my fellow Church Members of Oliver Cromwell’s quote:
 
“Put you faith in God and keep your gun powder dry.”
 
 
Dear Wesley Family,

Glory be to our Father in heaven who blesses us with more than we need.
 
I received a call from our Divisional Superintendent last night. We wish to inform you that a further NOTICE has been issued by the Government, which is:
 
There shall be no meetings, worship or fellowship services/programmes permitted in all Methodist Churches from MONDAY through to SATURDAY for every week until further notice. The only services/programs permitted in Church are the regular Sunday worship services. 

All other services/programs are not allowed. For Wesley City Mission Church, the services/programmes not allowed are:
  • Women’s Fellowship Prayer Group who meet in Church every Monday week at 10am.
 
  • Suva Central Cell Group meeting
 
  • 10.45am Choir Practice who meet in Church every Tuesday week at 5.30pm.
 
  • Mid-week Holy Communion service held every Wednesday week at 1.05pm
 
  • Youth Fellowship who meet every Friday week in the Lower Hall at 7.00pm 
Church Administrators and Secretaries, please kindly inform your Chief Stewards and Vakatawas of this NOTICE and ensure that all fellowship/ministries that use your Church premises during the week are informed as well.
 
I apologise about any inconvenience caused and humbly ask that you continue to pray and fast. My sincere thanks for your continued prayers for our Divisional Superintendent and for the Leaders of the Methodist Church. The Circuit Administrator will update you on any further developments. In all this, God is in control. Praise be to God!
 
“When Daniel learnt that the order had been signed, he went home. In an upstairs room of his house there were windows that faced towards Jerusalem. There, just as he had always done, he knelt down at the open window and prayed to God three times a day”. Daniel 6:10
 
In His Service,
 
For Wesley Division,
 
Apenisa Katonivualiku
Divisional Steward




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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

First Anti Regime Graffiti Next Regime Property Burned Down

Opposition to the illegal regime's rule has taken another significant turn with the burning down of two Police posts in the Western side of Fiji.

Again the Viti Revolution Forces (VTR) has claimed responsibility and it is adamant military personnel are also involved in its campaign to destabilise and defy the regime.

It is indeed a critical turn, especially if claims that military officers are also collaborating in these acts of defiance.

It is no wonder the illegal PM and Dictator is fuming mad at the lack of progress to apprehend any offenders.

But he for one should have expected this sooner or later. People can only take so much. Now even those close to the Dictator are seeing the real truth about the direction the dictator is taking Fiji - down the abyss of no return and they surely want out.

Coup Four Point Five has posted below some graphic photos about the fires and the illegal PM's panicky reaction to the latest spate of retaliations against his evil regime.

Given the apparent split within the military, Ratu Tevita Mara has also weighed with a message to the security forces in Fiji, to abandon the Dictator and join forces with the Methodist Church and Unions in defying the regime with civil disobedience actions.

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Posted on Coup Four Point Five - 30 August 2011



VRF accepts responsibility for police post fires but says it's not targeting ordinary people, just the regime

CHARRED REMAINS OF VATUDRADRA POLICE POST: VRF says it did it.
VRF is taking full responsibility for the torching of police offices in the western division over the weekend.

In a statement, the group says "VRF comrades, CID HQ staff from Suva, crime scene personnel, military and forensic officers were all present at the scene of the incident - Vatudradra Police Post, No. 107 in Nadroga."

VRF says it has a very clear mandate and its plans have been mapped out by what it says is highly qualified professionals and individuals. 

"Our aim is NOT to damage and destroy any property that belongs to our own people or any private property for that matter. However, our property is occupied by thugs and murderers and they are ruining the future of our children."

VRF says its mandate is clear and it is as follows: 


1) proving that regime and junta does not have the endorsement of the majority of the people of Fiji as it claims it does




2) and proving that there is a clear division within the military

Message to international observers
"VRF wants to send a clear message to the international communities about the above and to also send warnings to the international organisations and communities that the violent activities will step up to the next level, until the time they hear our cries and intervene. 

"VRF is assessing the situation locally and also internationally and listening very carefully. We are also anticipating the regime to create counter violence and VRF is in fact waiting for them and comrades are saying "bring it on Bai/ASK we are ready from inside and out". 

"At the same time we are also cautioning the general public to be on high alert as regime may try to organise attacks and blame on VRF."

The group had said it would strike out at taxi and bus operators that didn't support the call to stay off the roads yesterday but it now says it won't follow through with that. 

It says: "The word went around in the majority of the work places in public and private sector and they were eagerly anticipating a massive protest to initiate. 

"VRF also had communication with certain bus and taxi operators, who pleaded with VRF not to damage their properties as they are also against the regime and they say they will step in when the time is right.  
"VRF has considered very carefully the feedback and called off the activities against the operators FOR NOW. "


'We are not against the people'
The group says the people of Fiji will have to accept that certain sacrifices have to be made for "our children and grand children."
"We are not against you. We do not intend to harm any innocent member of the public or their property. We are against the murderers, who are running the country. 
"And, finally we are the rightful people who took an oath to provide protection to our own people. We will take you to the free Fiji for ALL in the very near future. Be ready to join the VRF and celebrations. We are there for you and for our children. God bless Fiji and pray."

VRF has neither denied nor accepted that there has been any involvement from militaryin its activities. A high ranking source has told Coupfourpointfive, Bainimarama's own men are part of VRF.


Police bure burnt! VRF believed to be behind the torching


VUTADRADRA POLICE BURE (top, above and below): Between Nadi and Sigatoka.

Intelligence sources have released these pictures of the police bure which was burnt on Sunday night. The fire is believed to be the work of the new group fighting to topple the regime, VRF.

Two bure were said to be set alight that night between ten and half past ten: this one is of the post  in Vatudradra.

The other bure is that of Nawai police. No pictures have been made available of that fire yet.

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Source: Bainimarama seething like a stuck pig over graffiti campaign


VRF GRAFFITI CAMPAIGN HITTING NERVE: The dictator, Frank Bainimarama.




VRF WORK: Police bure, too?
Fiji's unelected prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, is said to be seething at the graffiti campaign against him and the thought it's being driven by some of his own men.A reliable source from within the hierarchy of the regime, told Coupfourpointfive that Bainimarama "is so wound up he could burst ... kaca bote."

The source, who calls himself, PS Who Knows Them Well, told us: "Number One is rampaging like a stuck wild pig with the graffiti."

The source was behind the exclusive leaks to Coupfourpointfive last year that revealed Bainimarama was losing the plot and the military hierarchy was wracked with division.

The graffiti camaign started last week and is being driven by a group calling itself VRF, Viti Revolution Forces.

The group has yet to publicy reveal who it is, but our source says those behind the civil disobedience campaign are from the military.

"The men who did it are soldiers in his own camp, not one or two but over a dozen. They are getting ready to finish the job they have started."

No arrests have been made but intelligence sources have told Coupfourpointfive, a special taks force has been travelling the country in unmarked vehicles looking for VRF.

Over the weekend, it was reported by another blog site that soldiers had broken the fingers of a 12 year old boy they believed had graffitied a bus shelter with anti-Bainimarama sentiment.

Intelligence sources say the dictator gave a clear directive to his personal bodyguards, loyalist and to the police commissioner: "Cut their fucking hands off, no court cases – make an example."

Coupfourpointfive has also been told police property has been burnt. We've been told the Police Bure at Vatudradra Post was completely burnt last night and that Nawai Police Post Bure partially destroyed.

The source says he was there and that police were running around like mad. It's believed the bures were burnt around ten or half past ten and have not been reported by the Fiji media because of the censorship.

VRF says it will release a statement soon about yesterday's No Service No Work Day.  

Editor's note: The former 3Fir leader, Roko Ului Mara, who is now supporting the call for return to democracy for Fiji, is meanwhile calling on Fiji police and military forces to take back control from the 'murdering Bainimarama.'  In the following statement aimed at police and soldiers (the key to Bainimarama's reign of power), he says "You must restore respect for the rule of law" and "join the Methodist Church and trade unions in passive resistance."

Message to the Fiji Security Forces