The Fiji Human Rights Commission said we are now in the post-apartheid era in Fiji.
Commission chairperson Dr. Shaista Shameem said peoples' rights were violated before the events of December 5th and that there was a form of apartheid in Fiji.
According to Shameem, the President's mandate given to the interim government is a good indication that discrimination will no longer be tolerated in Fiji.
The chairperson also said the People's Charter process seems well on the way to ensure that unfair discrimination in elections will also not occur in the future.
She was reacting to Pope Benedict's recent human rights message to the UN General Assembly where he referred to freedom of religion, freedom from discrimination and the right to equality of all people.
Pope Benedict also said that the international community sometimes had to intervene when a country could not protect its own people from grave and sustained violations of human rights.
Fiji in Post-Apartheid Era-FHRC
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