Interlude: Reflections on Coups
On 14thMay 1987, I was working in my office when my secretary came in to say something had happened in parliament. It did not take long to discover from the radio that the military had stormed parliament and removed the members of the House. Accurate details were scarce but rumors abounded. Shock tu...
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Zusammenfassung: | On 14thMay 1987, I was working in my office when my secretary came in to say something had happened in parliament. It did not take long to discover from the radio that the military had stormed parliament and removed the members of the House. Accurate details were scarce but rumors abounded. Shock turned into dismay as the full implication of this unprecedented assault on our democratic system gripped us and the nation began to fall apart.
It was fortunate that full executive power was assumed by the Governor General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, who followed a pragmatic path in |
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