As today marks the 25th year since the May 19th coup led by George Speight, the Prime Minister at the time, Mahendra Chaudhry ...

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 ...

“I had to do what I had to do in 1987,” he told the Fiji Sun in a 2014 interview ... After Mr Frank Bainimarama seized power in his own bloodless coup in 2006, he and Mr Rabuka regularly ...

As we remember the events of May 19th, 2000 this week, a call is being made for people to live in unity and people from all ...

Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka Sunday apologised for his role in orchestrating the 1987 coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of then Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra, the ...

Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka on Sunday apologised to the Indo-Fijian community for the coup of 1987. Rabuka made the confession at the Reconciliation Service between the Methodist Church ...

Suva [Fiji], May 15 (ANI): Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka on Sunday apologised to the Indo-Fijian community for the coup of 1987. Rabuka made the confession at the Reconciliation Service ...

Since Fiji’s independence from the British in 1970, the country has had more than ten general elections since 1966, two coup d’états in 1987, one in 2000 and another in 2006. The years after were grim ...

But in 1987 when I turned up to cover the military coup led by him ... After the first ship bringing Indian labourers to Fiji under the indenture system in the 19th century, clearly devised ...

who had ruled the Pacific island for 16 years after taking power in a coup. Fiji has a history of military coups, including two staged by current Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in 1987.

Fiji has experienced four military coups ... instigated two coups in 1987. Bainimarama led a coup in 2006 that ousted Laisenia Quarase as prime minister, a role he then assumed until the elevation ...