The Fiji Human Rights Commission maintains that the regional agreement under which ousted Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase allegedly requested for foreign intervention must be looked into by the Pacific Islands Leaders Forum.
The FHRC today released a 13 page Special Investigations Report on alleged Australian intervention in Fiji in October to December 2006, and when Fijivillage news questioned Commission Director Dr. Shaista Shameem on the need for such a report, she said it seemed that actions were being taken without any adherence to international declarations on foreign intervention.
In the report the commission said the information they have gathered raises some very serious concerns about the presence of Australian SAS forces, warships and Black Hawks in Fiji in 2006.
It said clearly there needs to be some meaningful discussion in the forthcoming Pacific Island Forum meetings about the obligations of sovereign states to each other and the rights and duties of members of the sub-regional body under the UN Charter and relevant declarations. The UN Charter which was drafted after the end of World War 2 prohibits the use of force between nation states.
FHRC defends report
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