A former land force commander in Fiji, Jone Baledrokadroka, says there needs to be serious reform of Fiji's military and a commission set up inquiring into its ethos and involvement in Fiji politics.
Jone Baledrokadroka has just completed PhD studies on the Fiji military at the Australian National University.
His studies follow imprisonment in Fiji following alleged involvement in a plot to kill the regime leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama in 2006.
Jone Baledrokadroka says the military has become politicised for many reasons including acting as peacekeepers overseas and he says constitutional reform can only go so far.
"We've had a history of tearing up constitutions so anything that is written is not worth the paper it's written on with how the military's behaving at the moment. There has got to be serious reform of the military, about the ethos, about being subservient to the civilian masters. A reform exercise has to be done."
Former high ranking Fiji military officer Jone Baledrokadroka
