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Author | : Jon Fraenkel |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1921536519 |
Download The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the factors behind - and the implications of - the 2006 coup. It brings together contributions from leading scholars, local personalities, civil society activists, union leaders, journalists, lawyers, soldiers and politicians - including deposed Prime Ministers Laisenia Qarase and Mahendra Chaudhry. The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: A Coup to End All Coups? is essential reading for those with an interest in the contemporary history of Fiji, politics in deeply divided societies, or in military intervention in civilian politics.
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fiji |
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Author | : Jonathan Fraenkel |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1921313366 |
Download From Election to Coup in Fiji Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides an analysis of the lead-up to, the outcome, and the aftermath of Fiji's historic 2006 election - including the December coup. Contributions from ex-Vice President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi; ousted Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase; interim Minister for Finance Mahendra Chaudhry; and an array of leading commentators.
Author | : Brij V. Lal |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2008-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1921536373 |
Download Coup Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
May 19, 2000. Fiji's democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight's supporters gather on the lawns of the parliamentary complex, dancing, cooking food, celebrating the purported abrogation of the constitution that brought the People's Coalition government to power. The country is plunged into darkness yet again, enduring the pain of three coups in a period of just thirteen years. The process of healing and reconciliation, symbolised by the enactment of a new Constitution, unanimously approved by Parliament and blessed by the powerful Great Council of Chiefs, lies discarded, as winds of ethnic chauvinism sweep through the countryside, damaging the fragile fabric of multiculturalism that was carefully constructed by so many over many years. The economy is on the brink of collapse, investor confidence has vanished, and the best and the brightest are seeking succour on other shores. Fiji falls victim, yet again, to the prejudice and greed of a section of its people. This book gathers together a handful of memoirs of those tragic events in Fiji. They were written while the gun was still smoking; personal, anguished reactions of people from all walks of life, concerned about a country they all love but deeply distressed by the developments there. They are first reactions. They will in time become essential building blocks for a larger interpretive framework of academic analysis about origins, processes and impacts. Straight from the heart, these memoirs will be remembered as the people of Fiji and their friends elsewhere contemplate the wreckage and ruin brought about by that act of madness in the month of May 2000.
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Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiji |
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Download Second Fiji Coup--before and After Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Eddie Dean |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Download Rabuka Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"On 14 May 1987, Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka led a raid on Fiji's Parliament House in the nation's capital, Suva, to remove a government dominated by Fijian Indians. The coup sent shock waves around the world and changed forever our view of the tanquility of our Pacific neighbours. Rabuka: No Other Way is Sitiveni Rabuka's own story - told for the first time. It describes the man behind the coup, the growth of tensions between the Fijian racial and political groups and the events that precipitated military action."--Bac cover.
Author | : Susanna Trnka |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2011-05-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 080146188X |
Download State of Suffering Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup. The overthrow of the elected multiethnic party led to six months of nationalist aggression, much of which was directed toward Indo-Fijians. In State of Suffering, Trnka shows how Indo-Fijians' lives were overturned as waves of turmoil and destruction swept across Fiji. Describing the myriad social processes through which violence is articulated and ascribed meaning-including expressions of incredulity, circulation of rumors, narratives, and exchanges of laughter and jokes-Trnka reveals the ways in which the community engages in these practices as individuals experience, and try to understand, the consequences of the coup. She then considers different kinds of pain caused by political chaos and social turbulence, including pain resulting from bodily harm, shared terror, and the distress precipitated by economic crisis and social dislocation. Throughout this book, Trnka focuses on the collective social process through which violence is embodied, articulated, and silenced by those it targets. Her sensitive ethnography is a valuable addition to the global conversation about the impact of political violence on community life.
Author | : Ismael Isikel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiji |
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Download The Fiji Coup Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Steven Ratuva |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Election law |
ISBN | : 9781760460013 |
Download The People Have Spoken Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since independence in 1970, Fiji had endured four coups and four constitutions. Each of the four constitutions prescribed different electoral systems. After eight years of military rule by 2006 coup leader Frank Bainimarama, the long awaited 2014 election was the first under a radically new Constitution, which introduced a new electoral system based on proportional representation and a single constituency. The election was won by Bainimarama's FijiFirst Party, who subsequently embarked on a process of shifting the political configuration of Fijian politics from inter-ethnic to trans-ethnic mobilisation. The People Have Spoken provides a unique collection of articles about the 2014 election in Fiji. It captures the important issues that have plagued Fiji over the years including ethnic relations, power politics, coups, ethno-nationalism, youth and media censorship, to name a few. It provides an excellent mixture of contributors (both Fijian and non-Fijian) including academics, a political party representative, a member of the Election Commission and a member of the international monitoring group.
Author | : Robbie Robertson |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017-08-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1760461288 |
Download The General’s Goose Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
His admirers said he was a charismatic leader with a dazzling smile, a commoner following an ancient tradition of warrior service on behalf of an indigenous people who feared marginalisation at the hands of ungrateful immigrants. One tourist pleaded with him to stage a coup in her backyard; in private parties around the capital, Suva, infatuated women whispered ‘coup me baby’ in his presence. It was so easy to overlook the enormity of what he had done in planning and implementing Fiji’s first military coup, to be seduced by celebrity, captivated by the excitement of the moment, and plead its inevitability as the final eruption of long-simmering indigenous discontent. A generation would pass before the consequences of the actions of Fiji’s strongman of 1987, Sitiveni Rabuka, would be fully appreciated but, by then, the die had been well and truly cast. The major general did not live happily ever after. No nirvana followed the assertion of indigenous rights. If anything, misadventure became his country’s most enduring contemporary trait. This is Fiji’s very human story.