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Article: Land Rights: The New International Powder Keg.(ethnic nationalism errupts in Fiji)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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IN AN AREA of the world generally thought to be remote in the West, Fiji is fighting a surrogate battle that may have effects on much of the planet and many of the social and political processes that are a part of globalization. We should be paying attention.
Here's the problem: In May, a small group of armed native Fijians seized the parliament building in the capital, Suva, along with Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and a number of cabinet ministers. The intent of the coup leader, George Speight, was to remove the Prime Minister, who was not of the same native racial group, and to replace him with someone who was. The island nation's population is ethnically ...