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style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">2006 Fijian coup d'état</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;">Part of the <a href="/wiki/Fiji_coup_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Fiji coup (disambiguation)">Fiji coups</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Checkpoint_Labasa,_Vanua_Levu,_Fiji_-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Checkpoint_Labasa%2C_Vanua_Levu%2C_Fiji_-_panoramio.jpg/300px-Checkpoint_Labasa%2C_Vanua_Levu%2C_Fiji_-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" 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Fiji">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Laisenia_Qarase" title="Laisenia Qarase">Laisenia Qarase</a>, his cabinet, and other government officials are removed from office</li> <li>After agreeing to appoint <a href="/wiki/Frank_Bainimarama" title="Frank Bainimarama">Frank Bainimarama</a> as head of an <a href="/wiki/Interim_Cabinet_of_Fiji" title="Interim Cabinet of Fiji">Interim Cabinet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Josefa_Iloilo" title="Josefa Iloilo">Josefa Iloilo</a> is reinstated as <a href="/wiki/President_of_Fiji" title="President of Fiji">president</a></li> <li>Debates over the legality of the coup continue and eventually culminate in the <a href="/wiki/2009_Fijian_constitutional_crisis" title="2009 Fijian constitutional crisis">2009 constitutional crisis</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Belligerents</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/23px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/35px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/46px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Fiji" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Fiji">Government of Fiji</a> </p><p><b>Political support:</b><sup id="cite_ref-politics_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-politics-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Samoa.svg/23px-Flag_of_Samoa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Samoa.svg/35px-Flag_of_Samoa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Samoa.svg/46px-Flag_of_Samoa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Samoa" title="Samoa">Samoa</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Tonga.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tonga.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Tonga.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tonga.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Tonga.svg/46px-Flag_of_Tonga.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tonga" title="Tonga">Tonga</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/23px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/35px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/46px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Fiji_Military_Forces" title="Republic of Fiji Military Forces">Fijian Armed Forces</a> </p><p><b>Political support:</b><sup id="cite_ref-politics_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-politics-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders and leaders</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/23px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/35px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/46px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> Ratu <a href="/wiki/Josefa_Iloilo" title="Josefa Iloilo">Josefa Iloilo</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/23px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/35px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/46px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Laisenia_Qarase" title="Laisenia Qarase">Laisenia Qarase</a></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/23px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/35px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 1.5x, 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Peace and Progress">Charter for Change, Peace and Progress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qoliqoli_Bill" title="Qoliqoli Bill">Qoliqoli Bill</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Fijian_constitutional_crisis" title="2009 Fijian constitutional crisis">2009 constitutional crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Constitution_of_Fiji" title="2013 Constitution of Fiji">2013 Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyclone_Winston" title="Cyclone Winston">Cyclone Winston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference">COP23</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Fiji" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyclone_Yasa" title="Cyclone Yasa">Cyclone Yasa</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div style="font-weight: bold;line-height:normal;">General elections</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_Fijian_general_election" title="2014 Fijian general election">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Fijian_general_election" title="2018 Fijian general election">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Fijian_general_election" title="2022 Fijian general election">2022</a></li></ul> <hr /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Fiji.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Coat_of_arms_of_Fiji.svg/40px-Coat_of_arms_of_Fiji.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Coat_of_arms_of_Fiji.svg/60px-Coat_of_arms_of_Fiji.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Coat_of_arms_of_Fiji.svg/80px-Coat_of_arms_of_Fiji.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="455" data-file-height="448" /></a></span></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Frank_Bainimarama_series" title="Template:Frank Bainimarama series"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Frank_Bainimarama_series" title="Template talk:Frank Bainimarama series"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Frank_Bainimarama_series" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Frank Bainimarama series"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Fijian coup d'état of December 2006</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a> carried out by <a href="/wiki/Commodore_(rank)" title="Commodore (rank)">Commodore</a> <a href="/wiki/Frank_Bainimarama" title="Frank Bainimarama">Frank Bainimarama</a> against <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Fiji" title="Prime Minister of Fiji">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Laisenia_Qarase" title="Laisenia Qarase">Laisenia Qarase</a> and President <a href="/wiki/Josefa_Iloilo" title="Josefa Iloilo">Josefa Iloilo</a>. It was the culmination of a <a href="/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_Fijian_political_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2005–06 Fijian political crisis">political crisis</a> that had begun the previous year when the Qarase government introduced three bills to the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Fiji" title="Parliament of Fiji">Fijian Parliament</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Qoliqoli_Bill" title="Qoliqoli Bill">Qoliqoli</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Land_Tribunal_Bill_(Fiji)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Land Tribunal Bill (Fiji) (page does not exist)">Land Tribunal</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Reconciliation,_Tolerance,_and_Unity_Bill" title="Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill">Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity</a> Bills dealt with the <a href="/wiki/Modern_history_of_Fiji" title="Modern history of Fiji">ongoing ethnic conflicts in Fiji</a> and the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/2000_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2000 Fijian coup d'état">2000 coup</a>, and were considered to be pro-ethnic Fijian. Bainimarama, the Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Fiji_Military_Forces" title="Republic of Fiji Military Forces">Republic of Fiji Military Forces</a> (RFMF), presented the government with a list of demands on October 16 that included withdrawing the bills. Attempts at negotiation failed and the military launched a coup on 4 December. Parliament was dissolved, Qarase and his cabinet were dismissed, and some civilian officials were placed under house arrest. After the <a href="/wiki/Great_Council_of_Chiefs" title="Great Council of Chiefs">Great Council of Chiefs</a> refused to appoint a cabinet friendly to the military, Bainimarama reached an understanding with Iloilo and reinstated him as president on 4 January 2007. Iloilo then appointed Bainimarama acting prime minister in charge of the <a href="/wiki/Interim_Cabinet_of_Fiji" title="Interim Cabinet of Fiji">Interim Cabinet</a>. </p><p>Bainimarama stated that he launched the coup in order to "lead us into peace and prosperity and mend the ever widening racial divide that currently besets our multicultural nation". Australian journalist <a href="/wiki/Hamish_McDonald" title="Hamish McDonald">Hamish McDonald</a> described it as "a revolution against the country's chiefly and church establishment". There was strong criticism of the coup by many domestic observers, but public protests were much more muted than following the 2000 coup. Australia and New Zealand condemned the coup, and several international organizations imposed penalties on Fiji. Debates over the constitutionality of the coup continued until 2009, when the <a href="/wiki/High_Court_of_Fiji" title="High Court of Fiji">High Court of Fiji</a> ruled the coup unconstitutional, precipitating the <a href="/wiki/2009_Fijian_constitutional_crisis" title="2009 Fijian constitutional crisis">2009 Fijian constitutional crisis</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnic_tensions_in_Fiji">Ethnic tensions in Fiji</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Ethnic tensions in Fiji"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Modern_history_of_Fiji" title="Modern history of Fiji">Modern history of Fiji</a></div> <p>While Fiji was a <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Fiji" title="Colony of Fiji">British colony</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Sugar_Refining_Company_(Fiji)" title="Colonial Sugar Refining Company (Fiji)">Colonial Sugar Refining Company</a> brought large numbers of <a href="/wiki/Indian_indenture_system" title="Indian indenture system">indentured Indian laborers</a> to the islands to work on their sugar plantations. As of 2012, <a href="/wiki/Indo-Fijians" title="Indo-Fijians">descendants of these laborers</a> make up about half of the population, but before 1987 they outnumbered <a href="/wiki/Fijians" title="Fijians">Indigenous Fijians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKnapman199060_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKnapman199060-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite being a minority, ethnic Fijians under conservative <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Fiji" title="Prime Minister of Fiji">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Kamisese_Mara" title="Kamisese Mara">Kamisese Mara</a> ran all of Fiji's governments from independence until 1987, when <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Labour_Party" title="Fiji Labour Party">Labour Party</a> politician <a href="/wiki/Timoci_Bavadra" title="Timoci Bavadra">Timoci Bavadra</a> was <a href="/wiki/1987_Fijian_general_election" title="1987 Fijian general election">elected</a> in coalition with the <a href="/wiki/Indo-Fijian" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-Fijian">Indo-Fijian</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Federation_Party" title="National Federation Party">National Federation Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKnapman199075_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKnapman199075-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tensions between ethnic Fijians and Indo-Fijians were strong, and fearing the loss of indigenous Fijian power, <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Colonel" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant Colonel">Lieutenant Colonel</a> <a href="/wiki/Sitiveni_Rabuka" title="Sitiveni Rabuka">Sitiveni Rabuka</a> launched a <a href="/wiki/1987_Fijian_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1987 Fijian coups d'état">pair of coups</a> that overthrew Bavadra, made Fiji a republic, and returned Mara to office. Mara would continue to serve as prime minister and later president until 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1997, the conservative government <a href="/wiki/Group_Against_Racial_Discrimination" title="Group Against Racial Discrimination">acceded to pressure</a> and enacted a <a href="/wiki/1997_Constitution_of_Fiji" title="1997 Constitution of Fiji">new constitution</a> that ended many of the discriminatory laws against Indo-Fijians. Elections under the new constitution were held in 1999, and <a href="/wiki/Mahendra_Chaudhry" title="Mahendra Chaudhry">Mahendra Chaudhry</a> became the first Indo-Fijian to be elected prime minister. However, hardline Fijian ethnic nationalists led by <a href="/wiki/George_Speight" title="George Speight">George Speight</a> took Chaudhry hostage and attempted to install Speight as interim prime minister. In the chaos that followed, Chief Justice <a href="/wiki/Timoci_Tuivaga" title="Timoci Tuivaga">Timoci Tuivaga</a> and other judges advised <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Fiji_Military_Forces" title="Republic of Fiji Military Forces">RFMF</a> commander <a href="/wiki/Frank_Bainimarama" title="Frank Bainimarama">Frank Bainimarama</a> to take control on the basis of "necessity".<sup id="cite_ref-SOV_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOV-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bainimarama then declared martial law, revoked the 1997 constitution, and declared himself head of state.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bainimarama made <a href="/wiki/Josefa_Iloilo" title="Josefa Iloilo">Josefa Iloilo</a> the interim prime minister until <a href="/wiki/2001_Fijian_general_election" title="2001 Fijian general election">elections were held the following year</a>; these were won by <a href="/wiki/Laisenia_Qarase" title="Laisenia Qarase">Laisenia Qarase</a>, an ethnic Fijian. The military put Speight and his co-conspirators on trial for treason and most are now serving life in prison.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Because indigenous Fijians are majority <a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodist</a> <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> and Indo-Fijians are majority <a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_Fiji" title="Hinduism in Fiji">Hindu</a>, religious differences often play a key role in ethnic struggles. The <a href="/wiki/Methodist_Church_of_Fiji_and_Rotuma" title="Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma">Methodist Church in Fiji</a> has frequently played a significant role in politics – senior leaders supported the <a href="/wiki/2000_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2000 Fijian coup d'état">coup of 2000</a> and the subsequent proposal to pardon those involved. Even the possibility of declaring Fiji a <a href="/wiki/Dominion_theology" title="Dominion theology">theocratic Christian state</a> was proposed in the past.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_crisis_and_escalation">Political crisis and escalation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political crisis and escalation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_Fijian_political_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2005–06 Fijian political crisis">2005–06 Fijian political crisis</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Special:EditPage/2006 Fijian coup d'état">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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Perhaps the most significant of these was the RTU bill, which would have granted an <a href="/wiki/Amnesty" title="Amnesty">amnesty</a> to some of those under investigation for participation in the 2000 coup, including some of Qarase's own ministers. The Qoliqoli Bill proposed to hand control of seabed resources to ethnic Fijians. A truce was brokered by <a href="/wiki/Vice-President_of_Fiji" title="Vice-President of Fiji">Vice-President</a> <a href="/wiki/Ratu" title="Ratu">Ratu</a> <a href="/wiki/Joni_Madraiwiwi" title="Joni Madraiwiwi">Joni Madraiwiwi</a> on 16 January 2006, but relations between the government and the military remained strained. </p><p>On 22 September 2006, Commodore Bainimarama attacked government policies in a speech at Ratu Latianara Secondary School. News service <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Village" title="Fiji Village">Fiji Village</a> reported that he claimed that government leniency towards perpetrators of the <a href="/wiki/2000_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2000 Fijian coup d'état">2000 coup</a> had created a culture of disrespect for the law, to which he attributed the increasing incidents of rape, homicide, and desecration of <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hindu</a> temples. He also criticized the <a href="/wiki/Methodist_Church_of_Fiji_and_Rotuma" title="Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma">Methodist Church</a> for supporting the government. The next day Prime Minister Qarase accused the Commodore's statements of being unconstitutional, and announced his intention to refer the matter to the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Fiji" title="Supreme Court of Fiji">Supreme Court</a> for a judgement on the proper role of the military. The Methodist Church also reacted strongly to the Commodore's suggestion that government policies could take Fiji back to <a href="/wiki/Paganism" title="Paganism">paganism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Human_cannibalism" title="Human cannibalism">cannibalism</a>. Reverend <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ame_Tugaue&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ame Tugaue (page does not exist)">Ame Tugaue</a>, the General Secretary of the Church, commented that the Commander appeared to be ignoring the fact that it was the influence of Christianity that had abolished cannibalism in Fiji. </p><p>On 25 September, military spokesman Major <a href="/wiki/Neumi_Leweni" title="Neumi Leweni">Neumi Leweni</a> said that the government's proposed court action was a threat to the nation, and that the military was united in its resolve to prosecute persons implicated in the 2000 coup and in its opposition to the RTU bill. He also reiterated the opposition of the military to the Qoliqoli Bill. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Sun" title="Fiji Sun">Fiji Sun</a> quoted Bainimarama on 25 September as saying that his speech at Ratu Latianara Secondary School had been based on the advice of United States General <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Brown_(general)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Brown (general) (page does not exist)">John Brown</a>. The same afternoon, however, United States Ambassador <a href="/wiki/Larry_Dinger" class="mw-redirect" title="Larry Dinger">Larry Dinger</a> told the <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Village" title="Fiji Village"><i>Fiji Village News</i></a> that Bainimarama had misunderstood Brown's intentions. The military must never challenge the rule of a constitutional government, Dinger insisted. Brown feels that his words of encouragement were misconstrued and may have led to the coup.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leweni subsequently denied that the Fijian military stance on the Qoliqoli Bill had been influenced by Brown.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Major Leweni called on the Qarase government to resign on 6 October 2006, saying that the government had lost all semblance of credibility, integrity and honesty and that the country was sinking into an economic and financial abyss.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ultimatum_and_failed_negotiations">Ultimatum and failed negotiations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ultimatum and failed negotiations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 16 October 2006, Bainimarama issued an ultimatum for the government to meet nine demands or resign by 1 December.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The nine demands mainly centered around: the 2000 coup proponents being brought to justice; withdrawing any political machinations which would potentially further <a href="/wiki/Economic_inequality" title="Economic inequality">economic inequality</a> based on racial grounds; denying intervention by foreign authority (mentioning by name <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Fiji" title="Law enforcement in Fiji">Police Commissioner</a> <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hughes_(police)" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew Hughes (police)">Andrew Hughes</a>, an Australian national); dropping the court proceedings regarding the military's statements from earlier in the year and formally addressing concerns about government spending and internal governance. A week and a half later, on 31 October 2006, the military staged exercises around <a href="/wiki/Suva" title="Suva">Suva</a> and closed off the city's army barracks. The military said that the exercises were not threatening.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In response, Qarase and President Iloilo attempted to fire Bainimarama, who was in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> inspecting Fijian peacekeeping troops. Qarase reportedly told Iloilo that the government would step down if Bainimarama was not removed.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nonetheless, their nominee for his replacement declined the position and Major Leweni said the Army remained loyal to Bainimarama.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bainimarama in response repeated his call for the government to meet his demands or step down. </p><p>On 4 November, Qarase suspended amnesty provisions for the leaders of the 2000 coup from the RTU Bill, saying that they will investigate further whether the provisions were unconstitutional. Up to this point, this was the only concession made to the military's demands.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 26 November, while Bainimarama was on a private trip to New Zealand, Police Commissioner Hughes announced that he would be charged with <a href="/wiki/Sedition" title="Sedition">sedition</a>. Bainimarama then called up 1,000 reserve troops.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New Zealand's <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(New_Zealand)" title="Minister of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand)">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a> <a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a> invited Qarase to New Zealand in order to negotiate with Bainimarama. The night before the meeting, Bainimarama said "It's very simple. He [Qarase] comes with a yes or a no to our demands, full stop. He's going to be wasting his time debating issues with me. The meeting's going to be the shortest meeting he's ever attended in his life." The meeting lasted two hours, and no resolution was reached. Both men returned to Fiji after the meeting.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Qarase announced concessions to some of the demands: he agreed to suspend the three bills and to drop them altogether if a review found them unconstitutional; he recognized that the 2000 coup had been illegal; he accepted the decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions not to lay sedition charges against military leaders; and he agreed to review the position of the Police Commissioner Hughes.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bainimarama rejected this compromise and reiterated his ultimatum that Qarase must accept all demands by noon the following day or be overthrown by the military.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the deadline passed on 1 December, Qarase claimed that the deadline had been extended until 3 December, due to the annual <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> game <a href="/wiki/Sukuna_Bowl" title="Sukuna Bowl">played between the National Police and the military</a>, but Bainimarama denied that there was an extension. He said he intended to begin a "clean up" campaign of government. Qarase and his government moved to secret locations.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 3 December, Bainimarama announced that he had taken control of Fiji, but Qarase emerged from hiding and said he was still in charge.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Radio_New_Zealand" title="Radio New Zealand">Radio New Zealand</a> reported on 3 December that Fiji's civil service was still taking its instructions from the civilian administration, and quoted <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Huggett" title="Stuart Huggett">Stuart Huggett</a>, the head of the civil service, as anticipating no change to that.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events_of_the_coup">Events of the coup</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Events of the coup"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 4 December, after weeks of preparations, the military launched the coup. They confiscated arms from the headquarters of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Tactical_Response_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Tactical Response Division (page does not exist)">armed police division</a> in <a href="/wiki/Nasinu" title="Nasinu">Nasinu</a> and the Nasova Police Academy in <a href="/wiki/Suva" title="Suva">Suva</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The armed forces held public demonstrations around the capital and blocked the road from <a href="/wiki/Naitasiri_Province" title="Naitasiri Province">Naitasiri</a> province, where Prime Minister Qarase was attending a provincial council meeting. The Prime Minister had to use a helicopter to bypass the checkpoints and return to his home in central Suva.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the morning of the 5th, armed troops began to surround the offices of government ministers and place them under house arrest, confiscating their phones and vehicles.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Qarase announced that he would not resign and attempted to call a cabinet meeting at the government house to discuss the military's demands. However, neither he nor the other government ministers arrived.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He asked New Zealand and Australian governments for military assistance, but this was declined. New Zealand Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Helen_Clark" title="Helen Clark">Helen Clark</a> said "Our judgment is that this would make the situation worse, and it is not a step we are contemplating".<sup id="cite_ref-NZ_Herald_10414072_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZ_Herald_10414072-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After meeting with Commodore Bainimarama in the morning, Iloilo was reported to have signed a legal order dissolving Parliament, citing the doctrine of necessity, and paving the way for the formation of an interim administration.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later denied having signed such an order and condemned the military takeover, and exiled Police Commissioner Hughes accused <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rupeni_Nacewa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rupeni Nacewa (page does not exist)">Rupeni Nacewa</a>, the President's secretary, of having fabricated the decree.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the event, soldiers entered the Parliament and disbanded the meeting of Senators discussing a motion to condemn the coup. </p><p>Bainimarama announced on 6 December that the military had taken control of the government as executive authority in the running of the country.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to President Iloilo and Prime Minister Qarase, Bainimarama dismissed a number of public servants. This included <a href="/wiki/Vice-President_of_Fiji" title="Vice-President of Fiji">Vice-President</a> <a href="/wiki/Joni_Madraiwiwi" title="Joni Madraiwiwi">Joni Madraiwiwi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Fiji" title="Law enforcement in Fiji">Police Commissioner</a> <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hughes_(police)" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew Hughes (police)">Andrew Hughes</a> and his acting replacement <a href="/wiki/Moses_Driver" title="Moses Driver">Moses Driver</a>, Assistant Police Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Kevueli_Bulamainaivalu" title="Kevueli Bulamainaivalu">Kevueli Bulamainaivalu</a>, chairman <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Huggett" title="Stuart Huggett">Stuart Huggett</a> and chief executive <a href="/wiki/Anare_Jale" title="Anare Jale">Anare Jale</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Public_Service_Commission_(Fiji)" title="Public Service Commission (Fiji)">Public Service Commission</a>, <a href="/wiki/Solicitor-General_of_Fiji" title="Solicitor-General of Fiji">Solicitor General</a> <a href="/wiki/Nainendra_Nand" title="Nainendra Nand">Nainendra Nand</a>, chief executive of the Prime Minister's Office <a href="/wiki/Jioji_Kotobalavu" title="Jioji Kotobalavu">Jioji Kotobalavu</a>, and Supervisor of Elections <a href="/w/index.php?title=Semesa_Karavaki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Semesa Karavaki (page does not exist)">Semesa Karavaki</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media_censorship">Media censorship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Media censorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 5 December, the <i><a href="/wiki/Fiji_Times" title="Fiji Times">Fiji Times</a></i> (Fiji's largest newspaper) refused to publish the next day's edition, citing military interference. Soldiers had occupied the premises and warned against publishing "propaganda" from the deposed government. They insisted that they be allowed to monitor news content and demanded approval rights for editorial material, as well as access to news sources.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensorMonsters_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensorMonsters-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensorStuff_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensorStuff-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Daily Post also reported receiving military threats and closed for a while after the coup.<sup id="cite_ref-CensorMonsters_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensorMonsters-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="When did they reopen? (December 2022)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> Fiji TV, also under pressure from the military, pulled its late evening news bulletin from the air.<sup id="cite_ref-CensorStuff_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensorStuff-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fiji TV announced it would not run any more news bulletins until it was satisfied the army would not interfere in its content.<sup id="cite_ref-CensorMonsters_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensorMonsters-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="How was this resolved? (December 2022)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> It was reported that the military entered the premises of state radio station Fiji Broadcasting Corporation; due to reported military scrutiny of its news scripts the radio station has closed down.<sup id="cite_ref-CensorMonsters_51-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensorMonsters-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensorStuff_52-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensorStuff-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 6 December, the military allowed Fiji Times Limited to resume publication without any interference from its armed forces.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formation_of_the_Interim_Cabinet">Formation of the Interim Cabinet</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Formation of the Interim Cabinet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Announcing he had toppled the elected government and taken control on 5 December, Bainimarama said he was assuming the presidency until the following week when the <a href="/wiki/Great_Council_of_Chiefs" title="Great Council of Chiefs">Great Council of Chiefs</a> (GCC) would meet, who would then have the authority to appoint an <a href="/wiki/Provisional_government" title="Provisional government">interim government</a>. In the meantime, he appointed <a href="/wiki/Jona_Senilagakali" title="Jona Senilagakali">Jona Senilagakali</a>, a 77-year-old military doctor, to serve as caretaker prime minister. Senilagakali stated that he had no choice but to take the job after being ordered to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the GCC slammed Bainimarama's "illegal, unconstitutional" activities<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Was this expected or unexpected? What is the background to their decision? (December 2022)">why?</span></a></i>]</sup> and cancelled their planned meeting.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bainimarama told a press conference on 15 December that he would agree to attend the forthcoming meeting only in his capacity as President of the Republic.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Bainimarama was told that the Great Council still recognized Ratu Josefa Iloilo as president, he responded that his caretaker government could rule for 50 years if the GCC continued to hold off appointing a new president of Fiji who would swear in a military-backed government. Bainimarama also dismissed <a href="/wiki/Adi_(title)" title="Adi (title)">Adi</a> <a href="/wiki/Litia_Qionibaravi" title="Litia Qionibaravi">Litia Qionibaravi</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="If Bainimarama wanted the GCC to convene, why was Qionibaravi dismissed? Was he replaced with someone more pliant? (December 2022)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> as head of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fijian_Affairs_Board&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fijian Affairs Board (page does not exist)">Fijian Affairs Board</a> that convenes meeting of the Great Council of Chiefs.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Great Council did meet in the third week of December, but failed to persuade the military to relinquish power. It proposed the formation of an interim government representing all major political and social factions in Fiji, but this was rejected by the military, which announced on 27 December that the GCC would be banned from holding further meetings without military approval.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 4 January 2007, Bainimarama restored Iloilo<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Was the GCC involved in this decision? Why did Bainimarama change his mind? (December 2022)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> to the Presidency.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Iloilo then made a broadcast endorsing the actions of the military.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Did Iloilo change what he has said about his decree being forged? If so, why? If not, what was his explanation? (December 2022)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next day, he formally appointed Bainimarama as the interim prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An <a href="/wiki/Interim_Cabinet_of_Fiji" title="Interim Cabinet of Fiji">Interim Cabinet</a> was subsequently appointed.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reactions">Reactions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Reactions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-POV plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-POV" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/45px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/68px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/90px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="354" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">The <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutrality</a> of this section is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute" title="Wikipedia:NPOV dispute">disputed</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Relevant discussion may be found on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat#Fixing_formatting_&_organization,_re-writing_lead" title="Talk:2006 Fijian coup d'état">talk page</a>. Please do not remove this message until <a href="/wiki/Template:POV#When_to_remove" title="Template:POV">conditions to do so are met</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2022</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Reaction to the coup and the new <a href="/wiki/Interim_Cabinet_of_Fiji" title="Interim Cabinet of Fiji">Interim Cabinet</a> was mixed.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/National_Alliance_Party_of_Fiji" title="National Alliance Party of Fiji">National Alliance Party</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ratu" title="Ratu">Ratu</a> <a href="/wiki/Epeli_Ganilau" title="Epeli Ganilau">Epeli Ganilau</a> (a former Military commander) welcomed the appointment, as did <a href="/w/index.php?title=Himat_Lodhia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Himat Lodhia (page does not exist)">Himat Lodhia</a>, of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fiji_Chamber_of_Commerce&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fiji Chamber of Commerce (page does not exist)">Fiji Chamber of Commerce</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Felix_Anthony" title="Felix Anthony">Felix Anthony</a>, general secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Trades_Union_Congress" title="Fiji Trades Union Congress">Fiji Trades Union Congress</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Labour_Party" title="Fiji Labour Party">Fiji Labour Party</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Mahendra_Chaudhry" title="Mahendra Chaudhry">Mahendra Chaudhry</a> was more inclined to reserve judgement,<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase condemned the appointment, saying it amounted to establishing a military dictatorship.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/United_Peoples_Party_(Fiji)" title="United Peoples Party (Fiji)">United Peoples Party</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Mick_Beddoes" title="Mick Beddoes">Mick Beddoes</a> also criticized it,<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as did <a href="/wiki/Pramod_Rae" title="Pramod Rae">Pramod Rae</a>, general secretary of the <a href="/wiki/National_Federation_Party" title="National Federation Party">National Federation Party</a>, who said that Bainimarama's dual positions of prime minister and military commander created a <a href="/wiki/Conflict_of_interest" title="Conflict of interest">conflict of interest</a>. <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Law_Society" title="Fiji Law Society">Fiji Law Society</a> president <a href="/wiki/Devanesh_Sharma" title="Devanesh Sharma">Devanesh Sharma</a> described the appointment as unconstitutional, while <a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a>, New Zealand's <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Minister_of_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Minister of New Zealand">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a>, also condemned it as a "charade" that would fool nobody.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Interim Cabinet received support from the <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Human_Rights_Commission" title="Fiji Human Rights Commission">Fiji Human Rights Commission</a> (FHRC) and its chairwoman <a href="/wiki/Shaista_Shameem" title="Shaista Shameem">Shaista Shameem</a>. Shameen agreed with Commodore Bainimarama's views regarding Prime Minister Qarase's allegedly <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racist</a> and divisive policies. In 2007, the FHRC commissioned an inquiry into the 2006 general election (which had seen Qarase re-elected as prime minister), intended to reveal whether it had truly been "free and fair". The Commission of Inquiry delivered a report which "identifie[d] deficiencies and anomalies at every stage of the election process". More specifically, the report stated that <a href="/wiki/Indians_in_Fiji" class="mw-redirect" title="Indians in Fiji">Indo-Fijian</a> voters were provided with incorrect information regarding the voting process, that they were mis-registered in their constituencies to a far greater extent than other voters, and that, as an ethnic group, they faced specific impediments to voting (such as an absence of voting slips required for Indo-Fijian voters) in key marginal constituencies. There was also evidence of ballot boxes having been tampered with. Dr. David Neilson, a member of the Commission of Inquiry, wrote: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The registration process was both inadequate and biased and submissions strongly indicate campaigning involved deliberate and explicit vote-buying near polling day by the <a href="/wiki/Soqosoqo_Duavata_ni_Lewenivanua" title="Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua">SDL party</a> in league with the broader state. [...] The evidence does not provide systematic quantitative proof regarding the extent to which bias and vote-rigging altered the election outcome. But it provides a strong prima facie case that the elections clearly fell short of "free and fair".<sup id="cite_ref-NZ_Herald_10469843_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZ_Herald_10469843-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The FHRC report's claims were subsequently challenged by one of the 2006 election observers, who claimed that Dr. David Neilson (a leading member of the commission) had 'failed to understand' the mechanics of Fiji's electoral process. David Arms, who served as a member of the Electoral Commission under Bainimarama's government, described the FHRC's report as weak and claimed that there was "undue haste in its preparation" (Arms, 'A Critique of the Report of the Independent Assessment of the Electoral Process in Fiji', 31 July 2007). According to Arms, Neilson and his colleagues reached the verdict that the 2006 result had been 'rigged' mainly on the basis of evidence gleaned at public hearings, without any independent effort to verify the accuracy of the allegations. Arms' report states that most of those who showed up at the hearings had an axe to grind. They were defeated candidates or supporters of political parties that had performed poorly at the polls. The FHRC's report's only evidence of electoral fraud had to do with alleged bias in the treatment of Indian voters' registration slips. However, election observer and Fiji-specializing academic Jon Fraenkel claimed that Neilson's claims were false:<br /> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I was a University of the South Pacific election observer during the 2006 election. Early in election week, the problem of officials finding the names of voters on one roll, but not on the other, became apparent and much discussed. I personally raised this with the Fiji Elections Office, and was told that – although the colour-coded registration slips handed out to voters at the time of registration were often in error, the electoral rolls themselves were not. Over the following days of election week, I tested this claim by requesting presiding officers in the polling stations to show me their logbook records of voters who had been able to cast only one vote because their name could not be found in a corresponding open or communal constituency. In every case I checked, the Elections Office was correct: it was possible for presiding officers, if they ignored the registration slips, to use any one correct entry on the electoral roll to find the other. In other words, the problem lay with the registration officials and with the training of polling station officials. It was not an indication of systemic bias or ballot-rigging. In any case, during the final days of election week, in somewhat chaotic circumstances, the Fiji Elections Office effectively dispensed with the electoral rolls as a means of avoiding duplicate voting and allowed citizens whose name was found on one roll to cast a second vote on a corresponding open or communal roll, even if their name could not be found. From that point, prevention of duplicate voting depended solely on reference to the ink marked on voters' fingers'.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The army was also opposed by several important institutions. The <a href="/wiki/Great_Council_of_Chiefs" title="Great Council of Chiefs">Great Council of Chiefs</a>, on 7 December, called the coup illegal and called upon soldiers to "leave the barracks and return home to your people"<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The President of the <a href="/wiki/Methodist_Church_of_Fiji_and_Rotuma" title="Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma">Methodist Church of Fiji</a> led a delegation to visit and support the Prime Minister while he was under effective house arrest. The <a href="/wiki/Archbishop" title="Archbishop">Archbishop</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican Church">Anglican Church</a> issued a statement opposing the coup.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Churches took out newspaper ads including one quoting Reverend <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuikilakila_Waqairatu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tuikilakila Waqairatu (page does not exist)">Tuikilakila Waqairatu</a>, president of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fiji_Council_of_Churches&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fiji Council of Churches (page does not exist)">Fiji Council of Churches</a>, saying "We are deeply convinced that the move now taken by the commander and his advisers is the manifestation of darkness and evil".<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Fiji" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism in Fiji">Roman Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Archbishop" title="Archbishop">Archbishop</a> <a href="/wiki/Petero_Mataca" title="Petero Mataca">Petero Mataca</a> took a more nuanced position, however. In a letter to the <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Sun" title="Fiji Sun">Fiji Sun</a> on 10 December, he condemned the coup, but also claimed that the government had pursued policies that had led to it. Part of this statement was quoted in <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Village" title="Fiji Village">Fiji Village</a> on 12 December.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The confiscation of the police's arms faced criticism from acting <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Fiji" title="Law enforcement in Fiji">Police Commissioner</a> <a href="/wiki/Moses_Driver" title="Moses Driver">Moses Driver</a>, who said the military action was unlawful and unnecessary.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bainimarama responded by saying that the military had taken this action because "we would not want to see a situation whereby the police and the military are opposed in an armed confrontation".<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unlike the 2000 coup, which was marked by looting and burning of businesses, protests were smaller and less violent in 2006.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The reason for this is unclear. (December 2022)">why?</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 7 December 300 villagers blocked the entrance to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tavualevu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tavualevu (page does not exist)">Tavualevu</a> Village, in response to a rumor that the military was coming to arrest <a href="/wiki/Ratu" title="Ratu">Ratu</a> <a href="/wiki/Ovini_Bokini" title="Ovini Bokini">Ovini Bokini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Great_Council_of_Chiefs" title="Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs">Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs</a>. The army quickly denied the rumor.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most government ministries had a full turn out at work, except for certain CEOs, and parliament workers were reportedly offered positions elsewhere in government.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Justification_of_the_coup">Justification of the coup</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Justification of the coup"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bainimarama's stated justification for the coup was to "lead us into peace and prosperity and mend the ever widening racial divide that currently besets our multicultural nation".<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Above all else, he has emphasised the need to root out racially discriminatory legislation and attitudes, and emphasise the common national belonging of Fiji's citizens, above any form of ethnic self-identification. In a speech to the media on 6 December, he accused Qarase of corruption and of having inflamed tensions between ethnic communities through "divisive" and "controversial" policies: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We consider that Fiji has reached a cross roads and that the Government and all those empowered to make decisions in our <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_democracy" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitutional democracy">constitutional democracy</a> are unable to make decisions to  [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] our people from destruction. </p><p>As of today, the Military has taken over the Government/executive authority / running of this country. [...] </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Fiji_Military_Forces" title="Republic of Fiji Military Forces">RFMF</a> over the years have been raising security concerns with the Government, in particular the introduction of controversial bills, and policies that have divided the nation now and will have very serious consequences to our future generations. </p><p>These concerns have been conveyed to the Prime Minister in all fairness and sincerity with the country's interest at heart. </p><p>Apparently, all RFMF concerns were never accepted with true spirit. All my efforts to the government were to no avail. Instead, they turned their attention on the RFMF itself. Despite my advice, they tried to remove me and create dissension within the ranks of the RFMF; the institution that stood up and redirected the Nation from the path of doom that the Nation was being led to in 2000. Qarase has already conducted a 'silent coup' through bribery, corruption and introduction of controversial Bill. [...] </p><p>Our position can be differentiated from the Qarase Government which for example through the passing of the Reconciliation, Qoliqoli and Land Claims will undermine the <a href="/wiki/1997_Constitution_of_Fiji" title="1997 Constitution of Fiji">Constitution</a>, will deprive many citizens of their rights a  [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] guaranteed under the Constitution and compromise and undermine the integrity of the Constitutional Offices including the Judiciary. [...] </p><p> When the country is stable and the Electoral Rolls and other machineries of Elections have been properly reviewed and amended, elections will be held. We trust that the new government will lead us into peace and prosperity and mend the ever widening racial divide that currently besets our multicultural nation.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Addressing the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">United Nations General Assembly</a> in September 2007, he stated: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>[I]n 1970, Fiji started its journey as a young nation on a rather shaky foundation, with a race-based Constitution, one which rigidly compartmentalised our communities. The 'democracy' which came to be practised in Fiji was marked by divisive, adversarial, inward-looking, race-based politics. The legacy of leadership, at both community and national levels, was a fractured nation. Fiji's people were not allowed to share a common national identity. </p><p>Of the two major communities, indigenous Fijians were instilled with fear of dominance and dispossession by Indo-Fijians, and they desired protection of their status as the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Indigenous people">indigenous people</a>. Indo-Fijians, on the other hand, felt alienated and marginalised, as second-class citizens in their own country, the country of their birth, Fiji. [...] </p><p> [P]olicies which promote racial supremacy [...] must be removed once and for all. [...] Fiji will look at making the necessary legal changes in the area of electoral reform, to ensure true equality at the polls. [...] [E]very person will be given the right to vote for only one candidate, irrespective of race or religion.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Fiji's <a href="/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Fiji" title="Electoral system of Fiji">race-based electoral system</a> would be replaced by a "one citizen, one vote" system with no ethnic differentiation. This was to be achieved, he declared, through a <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Charter_for_Change,_Peace_and_Progress" title="People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress">People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress</a>, the stated aim of which was to "rebuild Fiji into a non-racial, culturally-vibrant and united, well-governed, truly democratic nation that seeks progress, and prosperity through merit-based equality of opportunity, and peace".<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_response">International response</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: International response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There was considerable international concern about the situation in Fiji and active involvement by other governments to try to prevent a coup. The Australian and New Zealand governments and media in particular strongly condemned the coup. </p><p><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(New_Zealand)" title="Minister of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand)">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a> <a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a> described the crisis as a coup and a "creeping siege on democratic institutions".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Relative_time_references" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="Clarify the applicable timeframe so that it is unambiguous when read at a later date. (December 2022)">timeframe?</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New Zealand Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Helen_Clark" title="Helen Clark">Helen Clark</a> said that the Fijian constitution only allowed the President to request the dissolving of Parliament if the Prime Minister no longer had the confidence of the Parliament and that this was clearly not the case.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The New Zealand Government also stated those taking part in the coup will be banned from entry to New Zealand, and that military ties, aid and sporting contacts would be cut. Clark said that she would consider sanctions against Fiji.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2008, after New Zealand refused to grant a study visa to the son of a Fijian government official due to the postponement of elections, Fiji expelled New Zealand's acting high commissioner to Fiji. In response, New Zealand expelled Fiji's high commissioner to New Zealand.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the political crisis in the months before the coup, Australia <a href="/wiki/Australian_Defence_Force_support_to_Australian_citizens_in_Fiji_in_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Defence Force support to Australian citizens in Fiji in 2006">moved three warships</a> to waters near Fiji to assist in the evacuation of Australian citizens should a coup occur. Two Australian soldiers died in a <a href="/wiki/Blackhawk_helicopter" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackhawk helicopter">Blackhawk helicopter</a> related to this maneuver.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In early December, Australia's Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Downer" title="Alexander Downer">Alexander Downer</a> said that the military were "slowly trying to take control" and pressure the PM to resign.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other notable Australians commented on the situation, such as Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/John_Howard" title="John Howard">John Howard</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Relative_time_references" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="Clarify the applicable timeframe so that it is unambiguous when read at a later date. (December 2022)">timeframe?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The United States suspended $2.5 million in aid money pending a review of the situation.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="Was this followed through with? (December 2022)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Several international organizations condemned the coup or imposed penalties on Fiji. In November, an eminent persons group of Pacific Foreign Ministers was formed to try to defuse the situation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Secretary-General_of_the_United_Nations" title="Secretary-General of the United Nations">Secretary-General of the United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/Kofi_Annan" title="Kofi Annan">Kofi Annan</a> made a public statement and personally spoken to President Iloilo and Prime Minister Qarase.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_Netball_Associations" class="mw-redirect" title="International Federation of Netball Associations">International Federation of Netball Associations</a> announced that Fiji, which had been scheduled to host the <a href="/wiki/2007_Netball_World_Championships" class="mw-redirect" title="2007 Netball World Championships">2007 Netball World Championships</a>, had been stripped of its hosting rights as a direct result of the coup.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth</a> provisionally suspended Fiji's membership, and its Secretary General, <a href="/wiki/Don_McKinnon" title="Don McKinnon">Don McKinnon</a>, stated that Bainimarama should resign and that the coup is a total violation of Commonwealth principles.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After failing to meet a Commonwealth deadline for setting national elections by 2010 Fiji was "fully suspended" on 1 September 2009.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath_and_legacy">Aftermath and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Aftermath and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-POV plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-POV" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/45px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/68px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/90px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="354" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">The <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutrality</a> of this section is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute" title="Wikipedia:NPOV dispute">disputed</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Relevant discussion may be found on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat#Fixing_formatting_&_organization,_re-writing_lead" title="Talk:2006 Fijian coup d'état">talk page</a>. Please do not remove this message until <a href="/wiki/Template:POV#When_to_remove" title="Template:POV">conditions to do so are met</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2022</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Jon Fraenkel and Stewart Firth described the events as "a coup of the radicals amongst the <a href="/wiki/Westernisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Westernisation">westernized</a> <a href="/wiki/Elite" title="Elite">elite</a>, who sought to superimpose a national consensus upon a divided social order", "a coup of <a href="/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia">utopians</a> seeking to transcend, rather than mould, social forces that they deemed responsible for long-run ethnic disquiet and poor governance".<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hamish_McDonald" title="Hamish McDonald">Hamish McDonald</a>, interviewing Bainimarama for the <i><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Morning_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney Morning Herald">Sydney Morning Herald</a></i> in October 2007, described it as "a revolution against the country's chiefly and church establishment". He quoted Bainimarama's criticism of the chiefly <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Fiji" title="Local government in Fiji">provincial councils</a>, for allegedly dictating to indigenous citizens whom they should vote for, and of the <a href="/wiki/Methodist_Church_of_Fiji_and_Rotuma" title="Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma">Methodist Church</a>, for allegedly encouraging indigenous "hatred" against <a href="/wiki/Indians_in_Fiji" class="mw-redirect" title="Indians in Fiji">Indo-Fijians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2008, the publisher of the <i>Fiji Sun</i>, Australian citizen Russell Hunter, was deported on the orders of the interim Defense Minister, <a href="/wiki/Ratu" title="Ratu">Ratu</a> <a href="/wiki/Epeli_Ganilau" title="Epeli Ganilau">Epeli Ganilau</a>, who claimed that Hunter was a threat to "national security". Opponents of the military-backed government claim that it was a blatant attempt to intimidate the media.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Debate_over_legality">Debate over legality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Debate over legality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2009_Fijian_constitutional_crisis" title="2009 Fijian constitutional crisis">2009 Fijian constitutional crisis</a></div> <p>It was legally unclear whether removal of a government with the consent of the President would constitute a coup, as that term is usually understood. According to the <a href="/wiki/1997_Constitution_of_Fiji" title="1997 Constitution of Fiji">Constitution of Fiji</a>, under certain conditions if a state of emergency is declared, the President was allowed to appoint an interim government. However, was debated whether the President had removed the Prime Minister of his free will, rather than simply acceding to the demands of the military.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Jona Senilagakali, the interim prime minister appointed by the military, stated that he thought that the military coup constituted an illegal act, though a lesser illegal act when compared to the rule of the previous government.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 18 January 2007, President Iloilo signed a decree granting the Commander and all military personnel, along with all officers and members of the police force, prison officers, and all who served the Interim Cabinet formed after the coup, immunity from all criminal, civil, legal or military disciplinary or professional proceedings or consequences. The decree was published in a government <a href="/wiki/Gazette" title="Gazette">gazette</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Tupou_Draunidalo" title="Tupou Draunidalo">Tupou Draunidalo</a>, Vice-President of the <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Law_Society" title="Fiji Law Society">Fiji Law Society</a>, denounced the decree as illegal.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ousted Prime Minister Qarase also lambasted it as hypocritical, because proposed amnesty for perpetrators of the 2000 coup was one of the reasons given by the military for carrying out the 2006 coup.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2008, <a href="/wiki/High_Court_of_Fiji" title="High Court of Fiji">High Court</a> began proceedings on a case brought by deposed prime minister Lasenia Qarase, who has asked the courts to rule on the legality of the coup.<sup id="cite_ref-RNZI_38400_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RNZI_38400-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bainimarama government's lawyers argued that the court lacked jurisdiction to question President Iloilo's decision to appoint the Interim Cabinet. Qarase's lawyers countered by suggesting that the court should consider whether the invocation of the <a href="/wiki/Doctrine_of_necessity" title="Doctrine of necessity">doctrine of necessity</a> in the overthrow of the Qarase government was justifiable.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 9 October 2008, the High Court found that President Ratu <a href="/wiki/Josefa_Iloilo" title="Josefa Iloilo">Josefa Iloilo</a> had acted lawfully when he had appointed Bainimarama as prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the ruling, Fiji's interim attorney-general, <a href="/wiki/Aiyaz_Sayed-Khaiyum" title="Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum">Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum</a>, called upon Australia, New Zealand, the European Union and the United States to lift the sanctions they had imposed on the country, stating that they could no longer refuse to recognise the Interim Cabinet.<sup id="cite_ref-RNZI_42433_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RNZI_42433-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the decision was appealed, and on 9 April 2009, the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeal_of_Fiji" title="Court of Appeal of Fiji">Court of Appeal</a> ruled that the coup had not been legal and that the "only appropriate course of action at the present time is for elections to be held to enable Fiji to get a fresh start."<sup id="cite_ref-ABC09_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC09-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This led to the <a href="/wiki/2009_Fijian_constitutional_crisis" title="2009 Fijian constitutional crisis">2009 Fijian constitutional crisis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Age09_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Age09-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fijivillage.com/artman/publish/article_35250.shtml">the original</a> on 28 January 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.fijivillage.com&rft.atitle=PCRC+claims+President+has+restricted+powers+in+granting+immunity&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fijivillage.com%2Fartman%2Fpublish%2Farticle_35250.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A2006+Fijian+coup+d%27%C3%A9tat" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-103">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120207204628/http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=55544">"Immunity granted"</a>. <i>www.fijitimes.com</i>. 20 January 2007. 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-politics-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-politics_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-politics_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Political support and opposition for Fiji during both the coup itself and the period of military rule.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1300499.stm">Fiji Timeline</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.smh.com.au/news/world/rumblings-of-a-revolution/2007/10/26/1192941338637.html">"Rumblings of a revolution"</a>, a five-page analysis of the coup, its consequences and contemporary issues in the <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i>, 27 October 2007.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516132310/http://archives.pireport.org/archive/2007/November/11-21-com.htm">"Has Fiji come up with a 'good coup'?"</a>, Gerard Finin, <i>Pacific Islands Report</i>, 21 November 2007</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120322005355/http://www.fijitimes.com/extras/qarase-vs-bainimarama-coup-case-judgement.pdf">Qarase and Others versus Bainimarama and Others</a>: full text of the High Court's ruling on the legality of the Interim Cabinet</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.paclii.org/fj/cases/FJCA/2009/">2009 Court of Appeal of Fiji Decisions</a></li></ul> <div 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heads of state of Fiji">Heads of state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiji_during_the_time_of_Cakobau" title="Fiji during the time of Cakobau">Cakobau period</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Fiji" title="Colony of Fiji">Colonial period</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Fiji" title="Governor of Fiji">Governors</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern_history_of_Fiji" title="Modern history of Fiji">Modern history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_Fijian_constitutional_crisis" title="1977 Fijian constitutional crisis">1977 crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_Fijian_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1987 Fijian coups d'état">1987 coups</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military%E2%80%93church_relations_in_Fiji" title="Military–church relations in Fiji">Military–church relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2000 Fijian coup d'état">2000 coup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconciliation,_Tolerance,_and_Unity_Bill" title="Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill">Reconciliation Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005%E2%80%932006_Fijian_political_crisis" title="2005–2006 Fijian political crisis">2005–2006 crisis</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">2006 coup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Fijian_constitutional_crisis" title="2009 Fijian constitutional crisis">2009 crisis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Fiji" title="Geography of Fiji">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Archipelagoes_of_Fiji" title="Category:Archipelagoes of Fiji">Archipelagoes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Fiji" title="List of cities and towns in Fiji">Cities and towns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Fiji" title="List of earthquakes in Fiji">Earthquakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Fiji" title="Provinces of Fiji">Provinces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Fiji" title="List of rivers of Fiji">Rivers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rotuma" title="Rotuma">Rotuma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Fiji" title="List of volcanoes in Fiji">Volcanoes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Fauna_of_Fiji" title="Category:Fauna of Fiji">Wildlife</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Fiji" title="Politics of Fiji">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" 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href="/wiki/President_of_Fiji" title="President of Fiji">President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vice-President_of_Fiji" title="Vice-President of Fiji">Vice-President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Fiji" title="Prime Minister of Fiji">Prime Minister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Fiji)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Fiji)">Leader of the Opposition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Charter_for_Change,_Peace_and_Progress" title="People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress">Proposed charter</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Fiji" title="Economy of Fiji">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reserve_Bank_of_Fiji" title="Reserve Bank of Fiji">Central bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Companies_of_Fiji" title="Category:Companies of Fiji">Companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fijian_dollar" title="Fijian dollar">Fijian dollar <span style="font-size:85%;">(currency)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Pacific_Stock_Exchange" title="South Pacific Stock Exchange">Stock exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Fiji" title="Telecommunications in Fiji">Telecommunications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Fiji" title="Transport in Fiji">Transport</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Society_of_Fiji" title="Category:Society of Fiji">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Fiji" title="Demographics of Fiji">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Fiji" title="Education in Fiji">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fijians" title="Fijians">Fijian (iTaukei)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indo-Fijians" title="Indo-Fijians">Indo-Fijians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_in_Fiji" title="Health in Fiji">Health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Fiji" title="Languages of Fiji">Languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Fiji" title="Religion in Fiji">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rotumans" title="Rotumans">Rotuman people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Squatting_in_Fiji" title="Squatting in Fiji">Squatting</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Fiji" title="Culture of Fiji">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God_Bless_Fiji" title="God Bless Fiji">Anthem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Fiji" title="Architecture of Fiji">Architecture</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Bure_(Fiji)" title="Bure (Fiji)"><i>bure</i></a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_Fiji" title="Cinema of Fiji">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Fiji" title="Coat of arms of Fiji">Coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_festivals_in_Fiji" title="List of festivals in Fiji">Festivals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Fiji" title="Flag of Fiji">Flag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meke" title="Meke"><i>Meke</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(dance)</span></a></li> <li><a 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coup attempts since 2010">since 2010</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1991_Malian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1991 Malian coup d'état">Mali (1991)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Lesotho_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1991 Lesotho coup d'état">Lesotho (1991)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Thai_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1991 Thai coup d'état">Thailand (1991)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_attempt" title="1991 Soviet coup attempt">Soviet Union (1991)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Haitian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1991 Haitian coup d'état">Haiti (1991)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991%E2%80%931992_Georgian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1991–1992 Georgian coup d'état">Georgia (1991–1992)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li>Venezuela (1992) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_1992_Venezuelan_coup_attempt" title="February 1992 Venezuelan coup attempt">February</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_1992_Venezuelan_coup_attempt" title="November 1992 Venezuelan coup attempt">November</a></li></ul></li> <li>Peru (1992) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1992_Peruvian_self-coup" title="1992 Peruvian self-coup">April</a><sup><small>‡</small></sup><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Peruvian_coup_attempt" title="1992 Peruvian coup attempt">November</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Sierra_Leonean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état">Sierra Leone (1992)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Algerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1992 Algerian coup d'état">Algeria (1992)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Sudanese_coup_attempt" title="1992 Sudanese coup attempt">Sudan (1992)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Guatemalan_constitutional_crisis" title="1993 Guatemalan constitutional crisis">Guatemala (1993)</a><sup><small>‡</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Azerbaijani_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1993 Azerbaijani coup d'état">Azerbaijan (1993)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis" title="1993 Russian constitutional crisis">Russia (1993)</a><sup><small>‡</small></sup><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Libyan_coup_attempt" title="1993 Libyan coup attempt">Libya (1993)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Burundian_coup_attempt" title="1993 Burundian coup attempt">Burundi (1993)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coup_of_the_Volunteers" title="Coup of the Volunteers">Lithuania (1993)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1993 Nigerian coup d'état">Nigeria (1993)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Bophuthatswana_crisis" title="1994 Bophuthatswana crisis">Bophuthatswana (1994)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Gambian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1994 Gambian coup d'état">Gambia (1994)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Lesotho_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1994 Lesotho coup d'état">Lesotho (1994)</a><sup><small>‡</small></sup><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Liberian_coup_attempt" title="1994 Liberian coup attempt">Liberia (1994)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Cambodian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" title="1994 Cambodian coup d'état attempt">Cambodia (1994)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_Azerbaijani_coup_attempt" title="1995 Azerbaijani coup attempt">Azerbaijan (1995)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_Qatari_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1995 Qatari coup d'état">Qatar (1995)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe_coup_attempt" title="1995 São Tomé and Príncipe coup attempt">São Tomé and Príncipe (1995)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Guinean_coup_attempt" title="1996 Guinean coup attempt">Guinea (1996)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Paraguayan_coup_attempt" title="1996 Paraguayan coup attempt">Paraguay (1996)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Iraqi_coup_attempt" title="1996 Iraqi coup attempt">Iraq (1996)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Burundian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1996 Burundian coup d'état">Burundi (1996)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Nigerien_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1996 Nigerien coup d'état">Niger (1996)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Qatari_coup_attempt" title="1996 Qatari coup attempt">Qatar (1996)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Bangladeshi_coup_attempt" title="1996 Bangladeshi coup attempt">Bangladesh (1996)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_Cambodian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1997 Cambodian coup d'état">Cambodia (1997)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_Turkish_military_memorandum" title="1997 Turkish military memorandum">Turkey (1997)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_Zambian_coup_attempt" title="1997 Zambian coup attempt">Zambia (1997)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Guinea-Bissau_coup_attempt" title="1998 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt">Guinea-Bissau (1998)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_Nigerien_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1999 Nigerien coup d'état">Niger (1999)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_Pakistani_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1999 Pakistani coup d'état">Pakistan (1999)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_Ivorian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1999 Ivorian coup d'état">Côte d'Ivoire (1999)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2000_Ecuadorian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2000 Ecuadorian coup d'état">Ecuador (2000)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Paraguayan_coup_attempt" title="2000 Paraguayan coup attempt">Paraguay (2000)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Fijian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2000 Fijian coup d'état">Fiji (2000)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Solomon_Islands_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état">Solomon Islands (2000)</a> <sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Ivorian_coup_attempt" title="2001 Ivorian coup attempt">Côte d'Ivoire (2001)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Burundian_coup_attempt" title="2001 Burundian coup attempt">Burundi (2001)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Haitian_coup_attempt" title="2001 Haitian coup attempt">Haiti (2001)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Central_African_Republic_coup_attempt" title="2001 Central African Republic coup attempt">Central African Republic (2001)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_attempt" title="2002 Venezuelan coup attempt">Venezuela (2002)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_Ivorian_coup_attempt" title="2002 Ivorian coup attempt">Côte d'Ivoire (2002)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Burkina_Faso_coup_attempt" title="2003 Burkina Faso coup attempt">Burkina Faso (2003)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Central_African_Republic_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2003 Central African Republic coup d'état">Central African Republic (2003)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Mauritanian_coup_attempt" title="2003 Mauritanian coup attempt">Mauritania (2003)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oakwood_mutiny" title="Oakwood mutiny">Philippines (2003)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Guinea-Bissau_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état">Guinea-Bissau (2003)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/2008_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2008 Mauritanian coup d'état">Mauritania (2008)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Guinean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2008 Guinean coup d'état">Guinea (2008)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Malagasy_political_crisis" title="2009 Malagasy political crisis">Madagascar (2009)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Honduran_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2009 Honduran coup d'état">Honduras (2009)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2010_Nigerien_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2010 Nigerien coup d'état">Niger (2010)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Madagascar_coup_attempt" title="2010 Madagascar coup attempt">Madagascar (2010)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Nigerien_coup_attempt" title="2011 Nigerien coup attempt">Niger (2011)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Guinea-Bissau_coup_attempt" title="2011 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt">Guinea-Bissau (2011)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Bangladeshi_coup_attempt" title="2011 Bangladeshi coup attempt">Bangladesh (2011)</a></li> <li>Mali (2012) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2012_Malian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2012 Malian coup d'état">March</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Malian_counter-coup_attempt" title="2012 Malian counter-coup attempt">April</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Guinea-Bissau_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état">Guinea-Bissau (2012)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Sudanese_coup_attempt" title="2012 Sudanese coup attempt">Sudan (2012)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Eritrean_Army_mutiny" title="2013 Eritrean Army mutiny">Eritrea (2013)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bangui_(2013)" title="Battle of Bangui (2013)">Central African Republic (2013)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Chadian_coup_attempt" title="2013 Chadian coup attempt">Chad (2013)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Egyptian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2013 Egyptian coup d'état">Egypt (2013)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Libyan_coup_attempt" title="2013 Libyan coup attempt">Libya (2013)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Libyan_coup_attempts" title="2014 Libyan coup attempts">Libya (2014)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Thai_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2014 Thai coup d'état">Thailand (2014)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Gambian_coup_attempt" title="2014 Gambian coup attempt">Gambia (2014)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen" title="Houthi takeover in Yemen">Yemen (2014–15)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Burundian_coup_attempt" title="2015 Burundian coup attempt">Burundi (2015)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Burkina_Faso_coup_attempt" title="2015 Burkina Faso coup attempt">Burkina Faso (2015)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_attempt" title="2016 Turkish coup attempt">Turkey (2016)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Burkina_Faso_coup_attempt" title="2016 Burkina Faso coup attempt">Burkina Faso (2016)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Libya_clashes_(2016%E2%80%932018)" title="Western Libya clashes (2016–2018)">Libya (2016)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Zimbabwean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état">Zimbabwe (2017)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aden_(2018)" title="Battle of Aden (2018)">Yemen (2018)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Gabonese_coup_attempt" title="2019 Gabonese coup attempt">Gabon (2019)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Sudanese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2019 Sudanese coup d'état">Sudan (2019)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amhara_Region_coup_attempt" title="Amhara Region coup attempt">Ethiopia (2019)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Malian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2020 Malian coup d'état">Mali (2020)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bangui_(2021)" title="Battle of Bangui (2021)">Central African Republic (2021)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Myanmar_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2021 Myanmar coup d'état">Myanmar (2021)</a><sup><small>c</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Nigerien_coup_attempt" title="2021 Nigerien coup attempt">Niger (2021)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Malian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2021 Malian coup d'état">Mali 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