Perhaps, the most pressing issue that has befallen the recent South Pacific crises has been indicative of socio-political power sharing from the oligarchical elites suffering from economic and political inertia. The implication and impact is completely salient in the military cabals attempts at undermining the Ratu privilege through the usurpation of the Cakabau military elites. This is the true historical tradition of the Fijian military tradition. The Bau historical annals would reveal the most bellicose nature of the Fijian warrior. The recenta pste of civil insurrections in Fiji since the mid 1980s is not atypical of the Fijians in contention for power. The catalyst in this instance has come from the Indians who have recently presented an ideological raison de tre for ultra right xenophobia and a requisition for power ownership and control by the indigenous people.

 

In Samoa, the Chinese Samoans and the half caste population have managed to integrate successfully throughout the entire fabric of society and, in thus, they have managed to control a fair proportion of power resources amongst the Samoan polity. The Honiara and Nukulalofa tension has been considered as a symptomatic crises along human resources distribution throughout the South Pacific region creating the present day tensions.

 

The presentday crises, is merely another chapter to the power sharing malaie amongst the indigenous and the non-indigenous peoples of Tonga, Fiji, solomon Islands and PNG. The rest of the South Pacific forum members are duplicating the tensions in domestic tensions. In Samoa the Chinese Samoans have more power than any other region in the South Pacific. The embourgiousement of the former 'Coolies' and indentured slaves brought into Samoa by the Germans over a century earlier have now become the new economic elites in Apia. With this reversal of empowerment has brought about the disempowerment of the 'Tumua ma Pule' oratory constituenciecies and replaced by the Faipule unicameral unicameral system of government in Samoa. The Athenian democratic process of the 'Tumua ma Pule' has been replaced by the modernday Legislature assemby. The 47 MPs (Faipule) are elected customary chiefs, the 2 non indigenous seats are Palagi electorates (consigned to the Apia electorate). The indigenous chiefly constiuency of 'Apia proper' is Vaimauga i Sisifo. The descedents of my late mother is from Apia village from the Sa Tuiletufuga line (High chiefly line). In truth, however, the Chiefly title holders of traditional landowners are disempowered by the freehold landowners who have populated the Apia suburbia and the outlying areas. The half castes now control the capital of Samoa denuding the power resources of the real indigenous people in the area to nominal status.

 

The resent situation in Fiji, Tonga, and the Solomon islands, is merely a realpolitical reflection of the tension of conservative politics and the dynamic changes of modernity. The clashes with racial integration of cultural shock and resentment to change seems self evident. The military aspects is merely the physical dimension to the ideological and epistemological crises that has now challenged the Pacific Islander intelligentsia. 

 

Australia and New Zealand's role seems to be arbitrary and in truth concillitory in diffusing a crises that will indirectly impact upon Australian society in many ways. The military standoff with HMAS Kanimbla and the two other Australian ships within Fijian waters is merely Australian military physical postering that will only test the mettle of defiant indigenous peoples. The accidents that have happened is not in anyway politically signicant apart from the Blackhawk crash being an act of God. Still, the Fijian military have gone on full alert and the deceased SAS specialist has been taken to Noumea, New Caledonia, in readiness for transportation to Australia. The missing aviation personnel is perhaps considered lost at sea within the wreakage.

 

The situation seems arduously drawn out and media making progress is merely a deflection from the Middle East, the Indonesians, and the international jihad. Needlessto say, the deflection from jihadi conflict is suitable for Pacific Islanders annoyed at religious sectarianism that has very little to do with their indigenous culture and traditions.