The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji - OAPEN

The 2006 Military Takeover in FIJI

A Coup to End All Coups?

The 2006 Military Takeover in FIJI

A Coup to End All Coups?

Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth and Brij V. Lal (eds)

State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program Studies in State and Society in the Pacific, No. 4

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

Title:

The 2006 military takeover in Fiji: a coup to end all coups?

/ editors, Stewart Firth, Jon Fraenkel, Brij V. Lal.

ISBN:

9781921536502 (pbk.) 9781921536519 (pdf)

Notes:

Includes index.

Subjects:

Government, Resistance to--Fiji.

Fiji--History--21st century.

Fiji--Politics and government--21st century.

Other Authors/Contributors:

Firth, Stewart, 1944-

Fraenkel, Jonathan.

Lal, Brij V.

Dewey Number: 996.11

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Cover design by Annie Di Nallo Design Copy editing by Wendy Tubman Cover photograph of Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka: Ian Mackley [ca 29 May 1987], reference number: EP/1987/2601. Dominion Post Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Cover photographs of George Speight and Commodore Frank Bainimarama: AAP/AFP/ Torsten Blackwood.

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This edition ? 2009 ANU E Press

Table of Contents

Acronyms and abbreviations

vii

Authors' biographies

xi

Introduction

1. The enigmas of Fiji's good governance coup

3

Jon Fraenkel and Stewart Firth

The coup

2. `Anxiety, uncertainty and fear in our land': Fiji's road to

21

military coup, 2006, Brij V. Lal

3. Fiji's December 2006 coup: Who, what, where and why?,

43

Jon Fraenkel

4. `This process of political readjustment': The aftermath of the

67

2006 Fiji Coup, Brij V. Lal

Themes 5. The changing role of the Great Council of Chiefs, Robert Norton 97

6. The Fiji military and ethno-nationalism: Analyzing the paradox, 117 Stewart Firth and Jon Fraenkel

7. Swim or sink: The post-coup economy in limbo, Satish Chand 139

8. The great roadmap charade: Electoral issues in post-coup Fiji, 155 Jon Fraenkel

Religion

9. Religion and politics: The Christian churches and the 2006 coup 187 in Fiji, Lynda Newland

10. The good, the bad and the faithful: The response by Indian

209

religious groups, Jonathon Prasad

Labour

11. Heading for the scrap heap of history? The consequences of

237

the coup for the Fiji labour movement, Vijay Naidu

12. The Fiji nurses' strike, Kuini Lutua

253

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