As Fiji enters a new political era following 16 years under the rule of Bainimarama, history’s shadow looms large. Fiji will see a new leader for the first time in 16 years, but Sitiveni Rabuka ...

Rabuka raised concerns that the mass deportation of criminals from the U.S. posed a safety risk to Pacific Island states in a meeting with the Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus chairman, Fiji ...

Sitiveni Rabuka, for example, who led Fiji’s first coup of 1987, became prime minister after the 1992, 1994 and 2022 elections, and the 2006 coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama, became prime minister after ...

is expected to facilitate truth-telling regarding the political upheavals that were started by Rabuka in 1987, as well as George Speight's 2000 putsch and Frank Bainimarama's 2006 military coup.