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Two military coups in Fiji

Critical Asian Studies, 1987
The first Fiji coup of 14 May 1987 sought to reinstall a feudal aristocracy which had been severely threatened by a narrow defeat in the elections of the previous month.
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Cooking the Goose: Fiji's Coup Culture Contextualised

Round Table, 2012
Abstract In the 40 years since Fiji became independent, there has been no shortage of perspectives from which to frame its development: its colonial past, its dual status as a Third World and Pacific island state, and, most pervasively perhaps, race conflict.
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Race, politics, and the coup in Fiji

Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1987
The military coup that took place in Fiji on 14 May 1987 is generally seen as having been prompted largely by racial tensions in terms of a deepening conflict between “Indian” political ambitions a...
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Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji [PDF]

, 2008
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 ...
Lal, Brij V., Pretes, Michael
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Conflict Prevention in the Commonwealth: The 2000 Fiji Coup

International Negotiation, 2012
Abstract The Republic of Fiji experienced three armed coups in less than twenty years – 1987, 2000, and again in 2006 – symptoms of inter-communal tensions in the country and a political, economic and social system unable to manage them. The Commonwealth, through the good offices of its Secretary-General, was the lead international actor in responding
Craig Collins, Jon Fraenkel
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Fiji Indians and Political Discourse in Fiji: from the Pacific Romance to the Coups

Journal of Historical Sociology, 1988
Abstract Why did Fiji Indian political rhetoric shift, at Fiji's independence, from Gandhian political grievance to nation, development and harmony? The Indians were brought to Fiji as plantation labor in order to protect the indigenous Fijians from wage labor.
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Out of Fiji . .. A Perspective on Migration after the Coups

Pacific Viewpoint, 1989
The impact of the military coup detat that occurred in Fiji in May 1987 on emigration particularly of the population of Indian origin is examined. "The review commences with a brief statement about the magnitude of net migration losses of Fijis population since the early 1960s.
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The Causes of Fiji's 5 December 2006 Coup

2008
This thesis looks at the causes behind Fiji’s 5 December 2006 coup. It takes a twofold approach, first looking at the background causes which illustrate that Fiji was vulnerable to a further coup after the 2000 coup. The study then moves on to an analysis of the triggering causes.
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The Case that Stopped a Coup? The Rule of Law and Constitutionalism in Fiji

Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, 2001
(2001). The Case that Stopped a Coup? The Rule of Law and Constitutionalism in Fiji. Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 73-93.
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An analysis of the causes of the Fiji military coups

1992
The Fiji military coups of 1987 are about a Fijian chiefly elite and their supporters who were too reluctant to relinquish their power and privileges. Seventeen years had been a long time in office for the Alliance government. Those who patronised and were patronised by the Alliance government feared change as the Bavadra government had promised a ...
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