Fiji
Race-based regime clings to power in Fiji
By Peter Byrne and Mike Head, November 27, 2001
Since elections nearly three months ago, the racially-based Fiji government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has consolidated its hold over the country, primarily due to the role played by the Labour...
Race-based government formed in Fiji
By Peter Byrne and Mike Head, September 17, 2001
Following general elections earlier this month, Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has appointed a cabinet without a single Indo-Fijian member and excluded the Labour Party, sparking a fresh politi...
Fijian election dominated by racialist politics and instability
By Peter Byrne, August 25, 2001
When voting begins today in Fiji’s general election, the 451,000 voters of the Pacific island state will face an unprecedented array of 18 parties, some of which did not even exist several month...
Fijian regime seeks to stall two threatening court cases
By Will Marshall, June 28, 2001
The military-appointed regime in Fiji and key members of the judiciary are going to great lengths to delay two court cases, both of which have the potential to destabilise, if not remove, the current ...
Fiji's illegal government reinstalled
By Tim Joy, March 19, 2001
Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, himself newly re-appointed by the unelected Great Council of Chiefs, has reinstalled the military-backed government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, which was de...
Fijian chiefs split over political crisis
By Tim Joy, March 13, 2001
Having met for two days, Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) broke up last Friday without making any decision on the country's political crisis. Acting President Ratu Josefo Iloilo called the 52 land...
Fijian government declared illegal but refuses to resign
By Tim Joy and Mike Head, March 3, 2001
Despite being declared illegal by Fiji's Court of Appeal on March 1, the country's military-installed Interim Government has refused to step aside and its leaders have indicated that they may try to c...
Political tensions rise in Fiji ahead of court ruling
By Tim Joy, February 12, 2001
Political tensions are coming to a head in Fiji with the country's highest court—the Court of Appeal—due to sit on February 19 to rule on the legality of the interim government of Prime Mi...
Fijian military government defies another High Court order
By Tim Joy, January 4, 2001
A Fijian High Court Judge has denied an application by the military-appointed Interim Government for an order staying his earlier ruling that the government is illegal. The latest decision by Justice ...
Fiji's military government wins more explicit backing from Australia and New Zealand
By Tim Joy, December 19, 2000
The Australian and New Zealand governments have strengthened their support for the military-installed interim government in Fiji by making it plain that they are not calling for the reinstatement of d...
Fijian High Court ruling declares military government illegal
By Mike Head, November 20, 2000
A Fijian High Court judge ruled on November 15 that the military-appointed Interim Government of Laisenia Qarase is illegal, heightening the volatile political situation in the Pacific island state.
Mutiny highlights deep splits in Fiji's military regime
By Mike Head, November 4, 2000
Sharp and unresolved differences within Fiji's military regime erupted to the surface on November 2 when members of the elite Counter Revolutionary Warfare unit who participated in George Speight's Ma...
