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Article: OBITUARY: Sir Robert Munro
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 23, 1995
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Timoci Bavadra, elected the last pre-coup Prime Minister of
Fiji in 1987, died of cancer in November 1989. Thousands of
ordinary Fijians and Indians thronged his village of Veiseisei for
the great customary obsequies that stilled all normal life in the
island country for days. Among them was Robert Munro who, at the
age of 83, had made the 120-mile journey from his home in Suva.
Munro's was one of the handful of white faces among the silent
mourners. He was there to re-state publicly his belief in the
rightness of the democratic process and his abhorrence of
militarism in his adopted land; and to mourn the passing of a
short-term Fijian head of government whose concept of public
service ...