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  title info:
    title: Coup
    sub title: reflections on the political crisis in Fiji
  name:
    name part: Lal, Brij V.
  name:
    name part: Pretes, Michael
    name part: 1963-
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: aca
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 186 pages)
  abstract: "May 19, 2000. Fiji's democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight's supporters gather on the lawns of the parliamentary complex, dancing, cooking food, celebrating the purported abrogation of the constitution that brought the People's Coalition government to power. The country is plunged into darkness yet again, enduring the pain of three coups in a period of just thirteen years. The process of healing and reconciliation, symbolised by the enactment of a new Constitution, unanimously approved by Parliament and blessed by the powerful Great Council of Chiefs, lies discarded, as winds of ethnic chauvinism sweep through the countryside, damaging the fragile fabric of multiculturalism that was carefully constructed by so many over many years. The economy is on the brink of collapse, investor confidence has vanished, and the best and the brightest are seeking succour on other shores. Fiji falls victim, yet again, to the prejudice and greed of a section of its people. This book gathers together a handful of memoirs of those tragic events in Fiji."--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Fijicoup.com -- The Sun Set at Noon Today -- An Historic View of Fiji -- Refections on the Civilian Coup in Fiji -- An Analysis of the Current Political Crisis in Fiji -- Constitutional Order in Multi-Ethnic Societies -- Thoughts on Fiji's Third Coup D'Etat -- On Being Fijian -- Outcasts of the Pacific -- Race, Speight and the Crisis in Fiji -- Peace in Fiji -- On Reconciliation -- Two Countries Called Fiji -- Living in Unusual Times -- Who Will Pick up the Pieces? -- Fiji Villagers' Bus Trip to Freedom -- Guns and Money -- Conversations at Mahendra Chaudhry's Home -- Fiji's New Western Confederacy -- The 'Ghostly Smell' of Indian Coolies too Strong for Speight -- The Race Bandwagon -- The Strange Saga of Speight's Siege in Suva -- Chaudhry's Last Public Address before He Was Made Hostage -- Confidential Draft and Statement of 22 May 2000 -- Statement to the Commonwealth by the Fiji People's Coalition Government -- Statement to the Members of the Commonwealth Ministerial Group -- Statement of the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma on the Armed Seizure of Government -- A Public Statement by the President of the Methodist Church in Fiji -- Coup Timeline 1987-2001.
  note: editors, Brij V. Lal ; Michael Pretes.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: pofj---
  subject:
    geographic: Fiji
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: World
    topic: Australian & Oceanian
  subject:
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Fiji
  classification: DU600
  classification: 320.99611
  identifier: 9781921536373
  identifier: 1921536373
  identifier: 9781921536366
  identifier: WK Hancock Library, The Australian National University ACTON ACT 0200
  identifier: 22573/ctt235n1t JSTOR
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 081206
    record change date: 20260728172603.0
    record identifier: in00003840952
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng