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Frontline reporters: A students' internet coup
Hours after a mob attached Fiji Television and cut transmission for almost 48 hours, the University of the South Pacific pulled the plug on the website, fearing a similar raid on the sprawling Laucala campus.
David Robie
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In Spite of Mr Speight? Fijis road to the general elections [PDF]
George Speight's seizure of the Fiji parliament on 19 May 2000 now seems like a bad, nightmarish dream. Contrary to all provocations and incentives to violence, Fiji managed, but only just, to retrieve itself from the precipice of national ...
Lal, Brij
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REVIEW: An engaging analysis of core issues
Review of Government by the Gun: The unfinished Business of Fiji's 2000 Coup, by William Sutherland and Robbie Robertson, Sydney: Pluto Press. Government by the Gun starts with a brief overview of the events of May 2000: the seizure of Parliament and ...
Nic Maclellan
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Sitiveni Moce, a 37-year-old Sun photojournalist, was beaten by rebels in the Fiji Parliament during the Speight coup crisis in full view of other media.
Reggie Dutt
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Poolside rumours at the Centra and the media peddling of them had much to answer for in foreign coverage of the Fiji coup. One reporter was an extreme example of the Stockholm Syndrome but others who remained in Parliament day after day also quickly ...
Michael Field
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Race, speight and the crisis in Fiji
In Fiji one suspects no one really cares about this crucial distinction. On 14 May 1987, Rabuka 19s rhetoric was racial; since 19 May 2000 George Speight 19s has been even more so.
Mishra, V., Vijay Mishra
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Summary Genomic technologies including next‐generation sequencing (NGS) and arrays for cytogenetic anomalies are now standard of care in England for the diagnostic evaluation of patients with suspected haematological malignancies. Challenges remain in the management of potential germline findings as a result of NGS panels and copy number variant ...
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the rise and collapse of the 2021 United Arab Emirates (UAE)–Israel–Jordan Water‐for‐Energy Deal, a landmark initiative that sought to exchange Jordanian solar energy for Israeli desalinated water. Presented as a breakthrough in regional cooperation and environmental peacebuilding, the agreement was brokered under the ...
Majed Abu‐Zreig, Hussam Hussein
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Speight of Violence : Inside Fiji's 2000 coup [PDF]
In May 2000 a gang of soldiers and failed politicians, with George Speight at their head, burst into Fiji's Parliament and captured the nation's government led by its first Indo-Fijian prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry.
Nabobo-Baba, Unaisi +2 more
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Abstract Kenya and the wider East African region suffer from significant flood risk, as illustrated by major losses of lives, livelihoods and assets in the most recent years. This is likely to increase in future as exposure rises and rainfall intensifies under climate change.
Augustine Kiptum +13 more
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