Tag: Fiji coups

By Anish Chand in Suva Prominent Suva lawyer Richard Naidu says removing immunity provisions for coup perpetrators from Fiji’s Constitution may not necessarily result in...

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific The head of Fiji's military says its duty to serve the people of the country means it opposes new...

By Repeka Nasiko in Suva Republic of the Fiji Military Forces Commander Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai has called for a Truth, Accountability and Reconciliation Commission...

By Kelvin Anthony of RNZ Pacific Fiji's constitutional reform process has brought the question of who is or can be a "Fijian" back to the...

By Iliesa Tora of RNZ Pacific The traditional paramount chief of Lau province in Fiji says immunity clauses sheltering past coup leaders cannot be a...

RNZ Pacific reporters Fiji's Constitution Review Commission wants a new governance system for the country and the coup immunity provisions of the 2013 Constitution repealed. Its...

By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji’s universities have been criticised for failing to study the long-term effects of the country’s repeated political upheavals on the...

By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific George Speight -- a former coup frontman in Fiji -- is calling on the perpetrators of the country's past...

By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific A former coup convict in Fiji claims the country will remain unstable while the Indigenous  iTaukei are economically marginalised. Josefa...

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Jone Vakarisi was heard screaming and begging before he was "brutalised to death" in Fiji military custody last...

By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva Public trust in Fiji’s mainstream media has significantly declined, a journalism academic has told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, citing...

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves host TVNZ's 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has released a new memoir looking back at over 30 years of...

RNZ Pacific Sitiveni Rabuka, the instigator of Fiji's coup culture, took to the witness stand for the first time today -- fronting the Truth and...

Pacific Media Watch Taieri MP Ingrid Leary reflected on her years in Fiji as a television journalist and media educator at a Fiji Centre function...

By Vijay Narayan, news editor of Fijivillage News Today marks the 25th anniversary of the May 19, 2000, coup led by renegade businessman George Speight. The...

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer, and Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor The co-founder of Auckland's Fiji Centre is concerned that Indo-Fijians are...

By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has paid tribute to all those working the media industry in his message to mark...

By Litia Cava, FBC News multimedia journalist Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has revealed how arms and ammunition used to conduct the 1987 military coup...

RNZ Pacific The man behind the 2000 coup in Fiji, George Speight, and the head of the mutineers, former soldier Shane Stevens, have been granted...

By Maxim Bock, Queensland University of Technology Fiji journalist Felix Chaudhary recalls how the harassment began: “Initially, I was verbally warned to stop.” “And not only...

By Kaneta Naimatau in Suva In a democracy, citizens must critically evaluate issues based on facts. However in a very polarised society, people focus more...

SPECIAL REPORT: Islands Business in Suva Today is the 24th anniversary of renegade and failed businessman George Speight's coup in 2000 Fiji. The elected coalition...