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Author | : Jonathan Fraenkel |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1921313366 |
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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 | : Jon Fraenkel |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1921536519 |
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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.
Author | : Brij V. Lal |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2008-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1921536373 |
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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.
Author | : Jon Fraenkel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2007 |
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In May 2006 Fiji held its tenth general election since independence in 1970. In a country with an unenviable history of electoral trauma, the mood was apprehensive if not tense - not least because of controversial public statements against the incumbent Qarase government being made by the commander of Fiji's military forces. Despite a record number of parties and candidates, the winners were the two big parties - the heavily church-backed SDL, the party of choice of the majority of indigenous Fijians; and the Fiji Labour Party, the party preferred by most Indo-Fijians. Although the result was ethnically polarised, for the first time in Fijian history the successful candidates came together to share power in a constitutionally ordained multiparty cabinet, with Laisenia Qarase retaining the prime ministership. But the fragile collaboration was short-lived. On 5 December 2006, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama ordered a military takeover, declaring himself 'President', ousting the elected government and replacing it with an 'interim' government of his choice, and once again throwing Fiji into political turmoil. With contributions from ex-Vice President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, ousted Prime Minister Laesenia Qarase, leader of the Fiji Labour Party and now interim Minister for Finance Mahendra Chaudhry, and an impressive array of leading commentators on Fijian affairs, this book provides a comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the lead-up to, the outcome and the aftermath of Fiji's historic 2006 election. Shedding light on the complex weave of traditional chiefly systems, race relations, economics, constitutionality, the military ethos and religion, From Election to Coup in Fiji is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Fiji, the South Pacific and the politics of divided societies.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Coups d' état |
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Author | : Eddie Dean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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"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 | : Victor Lal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Stephanie Lawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Civil-military relations |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Brij V. Lal |
Publisher | : Asia Pacific Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
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Documents the major political events in Fiji over the past decade. Provides an overview of the 1987 coups and discusses the subsequent events such as the 1992 and 1994 elections and the Reeves Commission and its findings. Presents proposals for a new constitution and speculates on future directions. Includes a glossary, references, a bibliography and an index. The author's other publications include 'A Vision for Change'.
Author | : Rory Ewins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Coups d'état |
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