6 Solomon Star, Friday 24 June, 2011 www.solomonstarnews.com View Point Co-operate or else! AFP thuggery for a white By BAKCHOS tralian Federal Police have pendent nation to further Police investigation into league, Australian Federal demonstrated time and Australia’s neo-colonial the charges inten- Police officer Bond, in the 8 The evidence of the again since their inception interests in the Pacific. sified in mid-2006, on the Solomons, congratulating ASIO conduct, con- in 1979. Before I go on it is worth back of Moti’s then pending him on a “job almost well “9sidered alone, would Allegations of oppressive noting that Mr Johnson appointment as Attorney- done”. be sufficient to establish op- conduct by the Australian is an Australian citizen of General under the govern- Colonel Roko Ului Mara pressive conduct within the Federal Police are not lim- Anglo-European extraction, ment of Prime Minister section. But the oppression , the A further point of com- ited to the Ul-Haque case. aka a ‘white’ Australian, parison is the difference was continued, in my view, Three witnesses involved in considered ‘white’ enough target of the Johnson al- by the conduct of the AFP. legations. in Australia’s treatment Julian Moti’s extraction, to be given “diplomatic of former Fijian Army Mr Gordge’s presence at the two ’ police protection” and “consular Johnson allegedly con- interviews was a clear signal Commander Ratu Tevita and a former immigration assistance”. spired with a double mur- to the accused of the inex- Uluilakeba Mara, who was official, allege that they derer to assassinate a demo- tricable link between ASIO This despite the fact that ‘rescued’ by the Tongan were threatened with loss of cratically elected Prime and the AFP and an implicit one of his co-accused was Navy while escaping from employment if they testi- Minister of a foreign state reminder that he should not none other than former where he was awaiting depart from anything already fied in the stay of proceed- Solomons’ police sergeant and was given all the sup- ings case that was heard port Australia could mus- trial on charges of uttering said. The conversations with Edmund Sae, on the run seditious comments and him at the end of the inter- before Justice Deborah ter, which was not insignifi- since escaping from a Solo- inciting mutiny. view on 7 November and when Mullins of the Queensland mons’ jail before he could cant given that Australia he came to AFP headquarters Supreme Court in 2009. be tried for the February dominates RAMSI, which Like the Solomons, Fiji is on 10 November continued the Solomon Islands’ police 2003 assassination of former was and remains an occupy- a sovereign state; unlike the thrust of the message com- officer Sam Kalita testified police commissioner Fred- ing force in the Solomon Solomons, Fiji refuses to municated by ASIO at the that he was appearing in erick Soaki. Islands. bend to Australia’s neo-co- first meeting: co-operate or defiance of a threat made Mr Sae is also accused of Moti by contrast was kid- lonial and racist aspirations else.” (Adams J in R v Ul- napped from his home in the in the Pacific. Haque [2007] NSWSC 1251) by his superiors that if he murdering a second po- testified he would be fired. lice officer following his Solomon Islands, marched In the case of Moti and his The purpose of criminal escape. It is believed that onto an awaiting plane to removal from the Solomons, law is to foster the protec- Kalita accompanied Moti he has remained in hiding be flown directly to Bris- Australia used its imperial tion of human interests on the flight from Honiara in the jungles of Malaita bane, where he was arrested occupying force to dictate a by forbidding and thus to Brisbane on 27 December Island, where Mr Johnson by the Australian Federal political outcome to one of preventing conduct that 2007. He further stated that lived prior to being accused Police on arrival. its imperial possessions. threatens substantial harm he and Selwyn Akao, the po- of plotting to assassinate As an interesting aside, to the individual, the public lice officer who transported I wonder how the imperial Prime Minister Sogavare. according to documents or the collective (society). Moti from his Honiara resi- master will respond to the dence to the airport, were It is also worth noting produced under subpoena by The United States Model extradition request Fiji has confronted by the Solomon that RAMSI failed to find the Commonwealth in the Penal Code defines criminal lodged with Australia for Islands’ Deputy Police Com- Mr Sae even though it had Queensland Supreme Court conduct as being that which proceedings brought by the return of Colonel Roko missioner Walter Kola and conducted several well- “unjustifiably and inexcus- Moti, his Excellency Pat- Ului Mara? Will Australia Honiara Police Commander planned searches of the ably inflicts or threatens rick Cole, Australian High uphold the ‘rule of law’ or Nella Mosese and told that island. substantial harm”. Commissioner to Honiara at will it again resort to the they “would be fired” if they An interesting point of ‘gunboat diplomacy’ of the If we accept this defini- the time of the Moti affair gave evidence and were spe- comparison is the assis- tion, how then can it be noted that: 19th Century and ignore cifically directed to “stay tance given by Australia to argued that the Australian Some Ministers [in the the rights of those states out of the Moti case”. Mr Johnson, a man accused Federal Police either di- Solomon Islands govern- Australia considers part of It needs to be remembered of plotting with a double rectly or indirectly com- ment] want to appoint JM its ‘backyard’? that the Solomons’ police murderer to assassinate a municating to a suspect [Julian Moti] to be our At- Apart from any of the are now being trained and democratically elected head other issues raised in this that they must “co-operate equipped by RAMSI, which torney-General. Naturally of state and what happened I’m trying to block it. short analysis, it is beyond or else” have not acted in many see as a foreign occu- a way that may inflict or to Julian Moti QC, who is question that Australia has pying force. also an Australian citizen, How can these words be threaten substantial harm read as anything other than treated Moti, an Austra- The AFP and oppressive but of Fiji-Indian decent. to that individual? the actions of an imperial lian citizen of Fiji-Indian and racist conduct Then [Australian Federal The genesis of Moti’s administrator backed by extraction, differently and Police] Officer Gawel said, Blak and Black is about troubles go back to late a foreign occupying force, less favourably than it has “Izhar, you’re a medical exposing the hypocrisy of 2004 when then Australian dictating ‘desired’ political Johnson, an Australian student and I think third the Australian myth of a High Commissioner to the outcomes to a colonial pos- citizen of Anglo-European year is a very important ‘fair go for all’ and shining a Solomon Islands, Patrick session? extraction. light on the entrenched and Cole, asked the Australian year for medical studies and The same source docu- This again gives rise to institutionalized racism Federal Police to look into you wouldn’t want to miss ments produced by the a question I have posited that is modern Australia. criminal charges that had third year medicine would Commonwealth also reveal several times before on Blak you? And we can make life In a recent article The previously been brought and finalized in Vanuatu. that Cole had further noted: and Black: who really are very difficult for you and strange case of Bill John- “The consequences [of citizens of Australia? your family, and if you don’t son, a study in neo-colonial Cole’s request to the Australian Federal Police Moti QC being appointed If Australia treats its co-operate with us, you’re hypocrisy, I looked briefly Attorney-General for the not going to be able to con- at the circumstances sur- coincided with Australia’s citizens differently, based efforts to persuade the Solo- Solomon Islands] could be on racial origins, then Aus- tinue your studies.” ( R v Ul- rounding Mr. Johnson and disastrous for Australians mons’ government to not tralia really has begun to Haque at Para 110) his involvement in an al- and Australia’s interest and appoint Moti as Attorney plumb the depths of racial Fortunately for Mr Ul- leged plot to murder former RAMSI”. Solomon’s Prime Minister General. segregation and hypocrisy. Haque, Adams J found that While Moti was being Sogavare. Prior to this Moti had a If for no other reason, this this conduct was oppres- forcibly ‘chaperoned’ to long history as an opponent alone, should be cause for sive and ruled that evidence The case against John- Australia under the direc- of Australian neo-colonial the Pacific to turn its back gathered by the Australian son came to an end after tions of the Solomons’ operations in the South on a racist Australia and Federal Police using in- members of the Australian imperial master, Australian timidation tactics such as Federal Police interfered in Pacific. High-Commissioner Cole, embrace a more inclusive “co-operate or else” was the police investigation of He was also identified by who like all good imperial future elsewhere. inadmissible in his case. the Solomon Islands. Australia as a potential lackeys, was himself acting For more visit this web- This leaves a much more Such interference can threat to RAMSI, the Aus- under instructions from site; http://blakandblack. fundamental issue unad- only be viewed as a further tralian-dominated occupy- Canberra, a senior Austra- com/2011/06/21/co-operate- dressed, that of the total example of the Australian ing force first deployed to lian Federal Police officer in or-else-afp-thuggery-in- disregard for the ‘rule of Federal Police meddling in the Solomons in 2003. Canberra (known as “Aus- the-pursuit-of-a-white-aus- law’, something the Aus- the sovereignty of an inde- The Australian Federal sie”) sent a cable to his col- tralia/ Letters to the editor Write to Solomon Star, PO Box 255 Honiara or email: [email protected] and not on the grass. why it was played on the charges which one of them made by the bank to re- Futsal champ There have been promises grass. Thanks ANZ is the account keeping move the charges should be to support Futsal with the I’m a direhard Futsal fees. applauded. DEAR EDITOR – Its in- building of their own play- supporter and would want DEAR EDITOR – Just a While I cannot do much So thank you ANZ for do- teresting to read in the ground. something good for them. small word of thanks to about these charges, I just ing this because some of Island Sun newspaper But it saddens me that It’s a pity we failed to ANZ for their announce- have to go along with the us average income earners where a former soccer rep the current champ is being support this code of game ment yesterday. Its good deductions every month where every dollar counts. has raised concern over played on a grass turf. when they are the ones lift- to see one of the commer- because it’s a business. 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