Rabuka has certainly attempted to encourage such communal strife. The changes he is proposing to ¿ne consulunan de desoed to prevent the Indian communitv trom decisivelv affecting the formation of a government.
racterise the toppled characterise toppled Timoci Bavadra an 'Indian' governmen. l ne reverse Is the case. It was the first time i rais nistory lal people had not voted strictly along lines Davalla himself is Melanesian.
The real objection to the government which underlay the coup was not that it was a government of the Indian community. but that it was the first time since independence that Fiji had a government which wasn't a simple pliant representative of imperialist interests.
The coalition governLabour Party and the National rederation partv was moving to taking Fiji into the Non-Aligned Movement and had banned ships carrying nuclear weapons tom king a te Islands Gonilau: Oxford educated servant of British imperialism the DSO for his part in leading the Fijian tingent in support of Britain's bruțal suppression of the Malayan independence struggle in the 1950s.
He was appointed governor-general in 1982 wIel against a proposal in parliathat parliamentary seats be reserved for Melanesians. Five years later and it looks as though he and Britain have got their way.