Tag: Military coups
Jale Moala: The Fiji coup that started it all
FLASHBACK: Jale Moala, a former editor of the Fiji Daily Post, recalls the day of Fiji's coup.
It's the morning of 14 May 1987, just...
Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’
BOOKS: David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review
When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime minister) Voreqe Bainimarama staged Fiji’s fourth "coup...
Rabuka’s message to 1987 Fiji coup victims: ‘To you I say,...
By Litia Cava in Suva
Social Democratic Liberal Party leader and former military coup maker Sitiveni Rabuka says the rioting and assault on some Fijians...
Indonesian military threatens news site after generals coup plot story
Indonesia's military says it is reporting an online news site to the police after it wrote about an Intercept story alleging current and retired...
A damning indictment of the parlous state of affairs in the...
Dr Shailendra Singh reviews a new edition of Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face.
Above all, David Robie’s Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and...
New Zealand PM’s diplomatic debacle and geopolitical hypocrisy over Fiji
ANALYSIS: By John Braddock
Fiji’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama used what would normally have been a bland official speech in Suva earlier this month to...
Indonesia and Philippines confront the ghosts of past dictatorships
By Mong Palatino in Manila
Indonesia’s Golkar party wants former strongman General Suharto to be declared a national hero. In the Philippines, President-elect Rodrigo Duterte...
Mong Palatino: The ‘death of democracy’ in Southeast Asia
Democracy has died and been reborn several times in different countries in the region, writes Mong Palatino.
On March 2, 1962, General Ne Win led...
