Part 2. The coup

Table of Contents

2. 'Anxiety, uncertainty and fear in our land': Fiji's road to military coup, 2006

Introduction

Gathering storm

Controversial bills

General election

Multiparty cabinet

Confrontation with the military

The Great Council of Chiefs

Military demands

Impact and implications

3. Fiji’s December 2006 coup: Who, what, where and why?

4. ‘This process of political readjustment’: The aftermath of the 2006 Fiji Coup

The ‘President’s Mandate’ and the ‘Doctrine of Necessity’

Appointment of the interim administration

Politicization of public institutions

The Church, the chiefs and the Indians

The response of civil society

External response

Warfare in cyberspace

Where to now?