Sunday, April 6, 2008
FIJI
This is completely random besides being related to human rights. The other day in aesthetics Mr. Greenwood brought up a current human rights issue in Fiji. Apparently in the last six years there has been a major upheaval in government- the old one was overthrown and the new government is highly predjudiced against all non-Fiji natives or natural citizens. A friend of Mr. Greenwoods- a student- was the only one in her family who was allowed to leave the island as new laws were created preventing non-natives from owning buisnesses, then aquiring more property, then owning any at all, then taking money out of the bank etc, to the point where her family and thousands of other non-natives are literally trapped, both physically and financially. Just something to call attention to, especially since it just illuminates how oblivious we can be to other parts of the world. I had absolutely no idea that this was going on, and it has all been in the last six years.
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That is really interesting, Devin. It is weird and upsetting and kind of makes me wonder why the media didnt draw any attention to this- it seems like a really serious event.
I found an article on bbc that gave me a better idea of the situation, there is also a time line that helped as well. I found the part about the military raping the constitution a very interesting choice of word, something you wouldn't see in the US news article.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6208758.stm
Yeah I had no idea about that as well. I wanted to go to Fiji on this summer program, but my dad started to tell me about this and was like I don't know if i want you going there.
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