Ethnic Indians now make up 44 percent of the 800,000 population. Three coups, fuelled by a fear among some indigenous Fijians that the economically powerful Indo-Fijians would gain the political ...
Since the 1980s there have been four coups in Fiji - each with links to ethnic tension between Indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians. Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister of Indian ...
In 2013 the constitution was changed to remove a race-based electoral system that favoured indigenous Fijians over the country's large Indian population. Mr Bainimarama later won two elections to ...
But the move has enraged Fijians. "It's a matter of respect ... approval to enter Fiji country profile "Speaking from an indigenous persons' point of view, before we take something, we would ...