LaRouche in Fiji
www.cecaust.com.au/main.asp?act=dos&
sub=publications/dossiers&id=14-07-00 Less than three weeks into the
ongoing coup crisis in Fiji,
the Pacific rim again erupted violently, when a strikingly similar coup was
executed against the government of the Solomon Islands to Fiji's northwest. On June
4, a militia group calling itself the Malaita Eagle Force arrested the
Solomon Island's Prime Minister, Bartholomew Ulufa 'alu, and
Governor-General, cut telephone lines from the island, closed the airport,
and then issued an ultimatum that the Prime Minister resign. Catching Australia
seemingly flat-footed so soon after it was similarly exposed by the Fiji crisis, the Solomons
crisis is the latest example cited by foreign policy commentators as a
failure of Australia's foreign policy in the region in which it is the major
power. In reality, though, the opposite is true: it is Australia's
implementation of British policy in the Pacific that has created an arc of
instability stretching from Indonesia to Fiji. |