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...racist policies of the past," he says, sipping coffee in his office at the Republic of Fiji Military Force Strategic HQ in Suva, "would have taken us to hell-and we would never have come back." For many observers in the outside world, most vocally Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Bainimarama's actions were an unacceptable interference in the democratic process, but the armed forces chief and now interim Prime Minister is unrepentant. "If you want to stop the coup cycle, you have to get rid of the ugly side of Fijian politics," he says. "If the Qarase government...
...Bainimarama says entrenched corruption, race-based policies that favored the 51% of Fiji's population who are indigenous, and runaway crime drove his intervention. He rejects Downer's suggestion that he has acquired a taste for power as "the height of insensitivity and arrogance," saying he didn't want to be Prime Minister, and accepted the position only at the urging of his military council. "I hate this job," he says, "but it has to be done. And we are going to stay until we complete this business...
...reason for the coup was self-preservation on Bainimarama's part. "He's been resistant to the investigation into the murder of the Counter-Revolutionary Warfare soldiers in 2000," Hughes told ABC News. "We believe he has some questions to answer in that regard himself." Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer shares Hughes' view. "I think, in particular, Commodore Bainimarama is deeply concerned about investigations by the police into the Fiji military itself," he told ABC Radio...
This is hardly a plot spoiler, but the movie ending is a real downer. What do you want viewers to come away with after seeing Bobby...
...rooms to announce their appointments and drench them in champagne. “We wanted to inaugurate them in style,” Finne said. “It was quite fun.” Two weeks ago, Finne and officials at the Harvard Development Office picked Matthew P. Downer ’07 and J. Barton Williams ’07 as Senior Gift Co-Chairs. The two were not doused with champagne, but still said they looked forward to kicking off their fundraising efforts in the coming months. “Senior Gift Co-Chair is a really...