Coup commended.

Your June ‘PIM Opinion’ was unbelievably one-sided. Little wonder it was anonymous.

The truth however, is that since the Indians arrived in Fiji,uninvited and unwanted by the Fijians, the Fijian has seen his share of Fiji wealth and benefits progressively deci mated and denied.

According to statistics col lated at USP in 1985, Indians in Fiji own 92% of private resi dences and commercial prop erties, 90% of all businesses, 96% of all vehicles, 87% of personal income and 95% of personal wealth. Almost 90% of senior government positions are occupied by Indians and 93% of legal practices in Fiji are

Indian.

The Indian “Establishment” began to dominate Fijian affairs soon after so-called Fijian inde pendence in 1970. In land matters, through the farcical and notorious Landlord and Tenants Tribunal and the Suva judiciary, the Establishment has secured a stranglehold on most of the leased land in Fiji.

Records demonstrate that land disputes before the courts are almost always settled in favour of the Indian, often in most blatantly biased and in competent judgments. The Fi jian and foreign land-owners have little “crony-access” or rapport with the judiciary, but the omnipotent Indian Estab lishment has been able to per

suade judges to issue judg ments in land disputes that would shame any court in Western democracies. This situation is a significant part of the cause of current Fijian rejec tion of further Indian encroach ment. The landowners’ rights and future have been placed under threat from the new Indian-dominated Alliance (sic) and, to put it simply, the Fijians aren’t having any. I commend the Fijian stand and I blame a biased and unprincipalled judiciary in Suva for much of the bile generated by ’’bent” judgments in favour of Indians in leased land disputes. Perhaps the judiciary will now have the moral stamina to perform like proper judges - without fear or favour. Tom J. Barrington, Wellington, NZ.