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Australia and New Zealand condemned the coup, and several international organizations imposed penalties on Fiji. Debates over the constitutionality of the coup continued until 2009, when the High Court of Fiji ruled the coup unconstitutional, precipitating the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis.
In June 2006, he became vice-president of the Senate of Fiji and served in this capacity until the Senate was forcibly dissolved one day after the military coup of 5 December 2006. On 14 October 2005, Khan launched a national appeal for funds to assist with relief efforts in the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Kashmir , on the ...
Brij Vilash Lal AM, FAHA, OF (21 August 1952 – 25 December 2021) was an Indo-Fijian historian who wrote about the Pacific region and the Indian indenture system.A harsh critic of the Bainimarama government, which originated in the military coup of 2006 and retained power in the 2014 elections, he lived in exile in Australia.
During the 2000 Fijian coup d'état, he joined the Cabinet of George Speight. As a result, he was refused entry to New Zealand in 2003 due to his involvement in the coup. [ 1 ] Following the coup, he switched his allegiance to the Conservative Alliance , but failed to win re-election in the 2001 election .
Tupeni Lebaivalu Baba (14 June 1942 – 14 July 2024) was a Fijian academic, politician, and Cabinet Minister.A founding member of the Fiji Labour Party, he served as a Cabinet Minister in the government of Timoci Bavadra until removed from office by the 1987 Fijian coups d'état, and then one of the two Deputy Prime Ministers in the government of Mahendra Chaudhry [1] until removed from ...
Mahendra Chaudhry was born in an Indo-Fijian family in the town of Ba in Fiji. His paternal grandfather Ram Nath Chaudhry was from a Hindu family of the village of Bahu Jamalpur in Haryana, India (then the British Raj) and arrived in the British Colony of Fiji in 1902, as an indentured labourer, to work on Fiji's sugarcane plantations.
[124] [125] Fiji has since been suspended twice, with the first imposed from 6 June 2000 [126] to 20 December 2001 after another coup. [121] Fiji was suspended yet again in December 2006, following the most recent coup. At first, the suspension applied only to membership on the Councils of the Commonwealth.
Most coup attempts occurred in the mid-1960s, but there were also large numbers of coup attempts in the mid-1970s and the early 1990s. [2] Coups occurring in the post-Cold War period have been more likely to result in democratic systems than Cold War coups, [4] [5] [6] though coups still mostly perpetuate authoritarianism. [7]