RE: [nukkad] Fiji Crisis

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On Wed, 31 May 2000 mallu@asu.edu wrote:

> Those who have American passports are called Indian Americans.

So they still have the label Indian though they don't have Indian
passports.  Same applies in Fiji!  don't have Indian passport but called
Fiji Indians.

> Your forefathers may be early setllers  but majority Indians in Fiji (if u
> dont know) were the ones who migrated inthe 60s and 70s. 

No!  not the majority.....the majority were taken in the late 1800s-early
1900s.

It was independent
> India then. Dont blame India now when things have gone wrong.
> Yes even during the Kuwait war India did put special flights to bring the
> Indians back from Kuwait. But that was 1 lakh Indians nothing in Millions.

The total Fiji population isn't even one million!

> I for one would not see my Country's soldiers die in a foreign land bcos if
> they are to protect u without fighting means they cant defend themselves.

Peace-keeping missions abroad are not just to kill but to create peace.  I
am not asking India to invade.  Safeguarding Indians means, killing those
who attack Indians, or the Indian soldiers!  simple to grasp i believe.

> Our Military is to protect India not to Protect Indians all over the world.

over thousand died in Sri Lanka.......maybe no one had your line of
thinking then.

>  Ofcourse I aint old either but I like Mahatma a lot,
> and his principles of non-violence. If he could liberate Indians from British
> rule with non-violence then u people can get ur rights with the same thing.

I also like his policies.  But there is a difference.  The British had
wrongfully occupied India, but according to the native Fijians, we are
wrongfully occupying their land.  They didn't ask the British to take us
there, so why should they be responsible?  In fact one nationalist leader,
Sakeasi Butadroka said, if Sonia Gandhi can'tbe the Indian PM, why should
we accept an Indian leader in our country?  Sonia is an Indian citizen but
why were her opponents calling her videshi?

Anyway, Gandhi's non-violence also created a terrorist nation.

> Lives will have to be laid to achieve something. If India interves with its
> military might then things will get bloodier only.

I hope you are not thinking nothing will be bloodier when unarmed Indians
are butchered.

> BTW India is not sitting silent it is workingon the diplomatic front.

A criminal like George Speight who openly threatened to personally shoot
the President;s daughter, won't understand diplomacy.



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