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NEWS SPECIAL: COUP IN FIJI. 14/05/1987

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Year
1987
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F58391
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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:10:50
Broadcast Date
14/05/1987
Production company
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND

News Special: Fiji Coup.

Newly elected Fijian Prime Minister Timothy Bavandra and 27 of his MPs have been taken at gunpoint from Parliament to an army camp near Suva.

An announcement was broadcast over radio saying the Fiji armed forces had taken over government and that Col Sitiveni Rabuka had gone to the Governor-General to ask for recognition of the military government.

In Wellington the Prime Minister has given a news conference on developments. Speaker: David Lange (Prime Minister).

The Fiji High Commission has been fielding calls all day from Fijian residents in New Zealand, anxious for news from home. Speaker: Mr Satyanand (High Commissioner for Fiji).

Today’s coup has left thousands of Fijian Indians in New Zealand worrying about the fate of their families back home and fear an outbreak of racial violence there. Speaker: Ambika Nand.

The coup has been a complete surprise to people in New Zealand familiar with Fiji’s politics. A background report.