Fiji’s 75-year-old prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka ... as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Fijian military, he led two coups, according to The Independent. “I was delighted to have participated ...

Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister of Indian ancestry, but in 2000 he and most his cabinet were held hostage for almost two months, after a civilian coup backed by a faction of the ...

Since the 1980s there have been four coups in Fiji - each with links to ethnic tension between Indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians. Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister of Indian ...

The Fiji Times newspaper reported. Bainimarama had led his government for 16 years, first as a military dictator following a 2006 coup and then as a prime minister who was democratically elected ...