Bulitavu Uses Stabbing Incident to Make Racist Statement
The Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) seems to have hit a new low. Their sitting Member of Parliament Mosese Bulitavu yesterday posted on his Facebook page that stabbing and killing was something the iTaukei community learned from the ‘vulagi’, those who were brought in from India.
These are his words. This is how the main Opposition Party thinks. This is how far they will go to divide people based on their race and ethnicity. He shared a newspaper article of a recent stabbing where a man allegedly killed his partner in an alleged stabbing incident and
gave his own twist to it. An email seeking further comments was sent to Mr Bulitavu.
When any woman loses her life in domestic violence, the entire country grieves. But, it takes a politician like Mr Bulitavu to see such a grave matter on racial and ethnic lines.
It is this ideology that they preach to their electorate. This is dangerous and needs to be called out. Such disgusting remarks should be condemned in the strongest terms by SODELPA hierarchy, but because they are too busy cementing their own position within the Party, such outrageous views go unchecked and people like Mr Bulitavu are able to spew poison through social media.
But, will Ro Filipe Tuisawau be able to condemn Mr Bulitavu? He was a very active member of the Conservative Alliance-Matanitu Vanua and they had made it their personal mission to divide this country on racial and ethnic lines, the “us” versus “them” mentality. He had sat the basis for his MPs to openly turn everything towards race and ethnicity.