Rabuka questions claims that Fiji Media is racist [1]
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 12:49. Updated on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 16:15.
Former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says people in power can see the media as racist because of its criticism of their policies.
In a response to a claim by Interim Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry that the media is divisive and racist Rabuka, who staged two coups in 1987, says the same was evident during his term in government.
"In 1987 a lot indigenous nationalists saw the media as being racist because they were saying things against ethno-nationalism - against the Taukei Movement and the principals they stood by. And now for Chaudhry, an Indian, to be saying that the media is racist - I cannot identify which race the media now is promoting." Radio Fiji Online/Pacific Media Watch, 24/03/08.