Tag: Coup culture
Threat of another coup still ‘one of biggest dangers’ for Fiji,...
By Anish Chand in Lautoka
The biggest danger to Fiji’s security and stability remains the possibility of another coup “when the circumstances are right”, warns...
Fijians are ‘fed up’ – no more coups in modern politics,...
By Shayal Devi in Suva
"Our people are fed up with coups" -- this is the message from renowned Fijian academic Professor Steven Ratuva as...
As Fiji prepares to vote, democracy could already be the loser
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
When Fijians elect a new parliament on December 14, it is likely their votes will be counted fairly...
Wadan Narsey: Shameful silences over another unfolding tragedy in Fiji
COMMENTARY: By Wadan Narsey
There is a shameful public tragedy unfolding day by day as the Bainimarama government tries to stop a potential political candidate,...
Fiji’s dilemma – how its military has become so deeply mired...
ANALYSIS: By Sadhana Sen and Stephen Howes
The last time the Australian Labor Party came to power (in 2007), Australia was imposing sanctions against Fiji...
History repeats in Fiji?: Police chief warns of election ‘instability’
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
Fiji’s police chief Sitiveni Qiliho looks to have dug out an old playbook that was used over a...
Days of Fiji ‘banana republic’ protests remembered in Bavadra reunion
By David Robie in Auckland
Bananas, balaclavas and banners … these were stock-in-trade for human rights activists of the New Zealand-based Coalition for Democracy in...
Fiji’s actions threaten to unwind the Pacific’s great experiment in regional...
REFLECTIONS: By Robbie Robertson and Akosita Tamanisau in Melbourne
The pictures of Professor Pal Ahluwalia, the vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific...
Fiji 33 years after the first fateful coup – a failed...
COMMENT: Nik Naidu reflects on the 33rd anniversary of the original - first of four - coups in his homeland of Fiji.
Today is the...
‘I was coerced into the 1987 coup,’ admits Sitiveni Rabuka
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Asia-Pacific Report
A repentant Sitiveni Rabuka, the Fiji military strongman who sparked off the country's "coup culture" in 1987, admits he...
