Dream of Multinational Force in Fiji
I had a dream. It was so real that every time I think about it - it becomes more vivid just as if I was there. Here is how it went :
I was sleeping in our small farm house in Sawani, Naitasiri with a few other people (mainly women and some children) one night. Sometime in the dead of the night all of a sudden I heard the
thunderous boom of these military helicopters and aeroplanes. Then this helicopter landed right beside our house. All the occupants of
our house were rounded up and taken away by the helicopter (probably to prision work farms). I was just standing there amazed thinking
these people never resisted, or tried to run away. And they all acted like I wasn't there. I thought that they had forgotten me. I saw
their faces - they were absolutely lost. They did not know what in the world was happening! I could feel the sheer terror and fright of
the situation!
Soon after they left, maybe a day or two at night, another helicopter came. They were probably told that they had forgotten one of the occupants (ie. me). I was
naturally scared so I hid myself under the bed shaking like a leaf with my legs sticking out. A black and a white soldier (probably a
makeshift multi-national army) came inside the house. They didn't have any UN symbol on them. They had yellow torches and M-16 machine-guns with them. They were
looking and thrashing everywhere trying to look for me. The black soldier was looking under the bed I was under. The funny thing I was
right in front of him with my feet sticking out but it appeared he couldn't see me. Suddenly, it dawned on me that I was invisible to
the soldiers. They couldn't see me. After a while, the soldiers left frustrated not being able to find me. I must say this - the fear and
terror of the situation was unbelievable.
A few days later this helicopter came and sprayed this chemical and the surrounding place turned all brown. They probably had been given
orders to let no survivors, they couldn't find, live. Anyway even before they sprayed I noticed that the surrounding vegetation looked
brownish (maybe a nuclear fallout?). Miraculously, with all these happening I was still alive with this PNG student named
Daphne whom I studied with at a NZ Polytech in 1997. And the dream ended
there. I woke up, shaken and sweating heavily; thinking that it was all for real!!!
- RMC
- June, 2001