From Fijileaks Archive, 21 November 2013
http://www.fijileaks.com/home/the-driti-trial-bainimarama-refused-to-sack-khaiyum-and-told-driti-to-leave-his-residence-turned-blind-eye-to-alleged-dirty-dealings-of-a-g
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HISTORY NOTE: In 1987, the then Army Commander Ratu Epeli Nailatikau declared that the military will fully support the newly elected Bavadra government. What did he do when the coupist and third-ranking racist Sitiveni Rabuka cowardly struck and overthrew the Bavadra government? Nailatikau had quietly slipped to Australia, refused to lead a counter force to overthrow Rabuka, accepted to become Fiji's High Commissioner to London post Rabuka coup, and lo and behold, became President of Fiji after the Bainimarama coup and signed into law the 2013 Constitution of Fiji
50 YEARS AGO: "One of these days I will reveal all the correspondence made available to me between the late President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and my former academic supervisor at Oxford, Sir David Butler, on race, ethnicity, chiefs, party politics, and constitutionalism in Fiji, and how Coups and Aiyaz Khaiyum's D'Hondt Electoral System has destroyed politics and the machinery of government in Fiji" - VICTOR LAL
Professor Sir David Butler in the garden of Nuffield College, Oxford, 1992
