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 Koila Nailatikau - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vasemaca Koila Josephine Mara was born in 1953, the daughter of the Fijian statesman Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (1920-2004) and Ro Lady Lala Mara (1931-2004).
In the aftermath of the coup that deposed her father and the government in which she was a minister, Adi Koila has been an outspoken critic of the Qarase government's handling of the prosecution of persons implicated in the rebellion, accusing it of showing lenience to its perpetrators and insensitivity to its victims.
Clarifying her remarks of a further Senate speech on 29 October, Adi Koila reiterated that the reconciliation ceremony was inappropriate because the person who received the whale's tooth and forgave the people in the ceremony at Albert Park had not been a victim of the May 2000 coup.
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 lala mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Adi Lala's marriage, on 9 September 1950, to Ratu Mara, who was to become the Tui Lau and Tui Nayau (the traditional ruler of Nayau and the Lau Islands) was considered a dynastic marriage, as it united two powerful feudal families.
Their second daughter, Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1999 and was Minister of Tourism in 1999 and 2000.
In 1991, Adi Lala founded the Fijian Political Party (Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei, or SVT) as the successor to the disbanded Alliance Party that her husband had founded and led, but for the leadership she was outmanoevered by Sitiveni Rabuka, who had led the Fiji coups of 1987.
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 Kamisese Mara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mara's daughter, Adi Ateca Ganilau (wife of Ratu Epeli Ganilau) appeared support Bainimarama's claims in a statement on 10 January 2005, saying that her father had resigned and had refused to return because he was upset by the abrogation of the Constitution.
Mara was also known for his support for (A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong) Taiwan.
Mara's character was described as a combination of the forthright and the diplomatic, the inflexible and the dexterous, the imperious and the tolerant.
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 Kamisese Mara
Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara was born on 6 May 1920, in Vanuabalavu in the archipelago of Lau, the son of Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba, head of the chiefly Vuanirewa clan, and his first wife Lusiana Qolikoro, who was related to Tongan royalty and was also descended from an English missionary.
Mara's character was described as a combination of the forthright and the diplomatic, the inflexible and the dexterous, the imperious and the tolerant [1].
Mara was survived by his wife, Adi Lala (who herself died on July 20 the same year), and by two sons and five daughters; one son predeceased him.
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 Koila Nailatikau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She was born in 1953, the daughter of the Fijian statesman Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and Adi Lady Lala Mara.
After a serving her country as adiplomat in the 1980s and 1990s, Adi Koila decided to follow in her father's footsteps, and was elected to the House of Representatives in 1999 as a candidate of the Christian Democratic Party.
Adi Koila's cabinet career was brought to a sudden end on May 19, 2000, when George Speight, an extremeFijian nationalist who objected to the presence of Indo-Fijians in thegovernment, seized power, kidnapping the Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry and most of the Cabinet, including Adi Koila, andforcing her father to resign as President.
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 Kamisese Mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara was born on 13 May 1920, in Vanuabalavu in the archipelago of Lau, the son of Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba, head of the chiefly Vuanirewa clan, and his first wife Lusiana Qolikoro.
Mara was elected to one of four seats on the Legislative Council reserved for ethnic Fijians in 1953.
Mara refused, citing his oath to uphold the constitution, and was forced to resign on May 29 and had power over to the military.
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 Lala Mara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Adi Lala's marriage, on 9 September 1950, to Ratu Mara, who was to become the Tui Lau and Tui Nayau (the traditional ruler of the Lau Islands) was considered a dynastic marriage, as it united two powerful feudal families.
Their second daughter, (Click link for more info and facts about Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau) Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1999 and was Minister of Tourism in 1999 and 2000.
Adi Lala was succeeded as Roko Tui Dreketi by her younger sister, Ro Teimumu Vuikaba Kepa, who is also Minister for Education in the Qarase government.
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 Kamisese Mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara was born on 6 May 1920, in Vanuabalavu in the archipelago of Lau, the son of Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba, head of the chiefly Vuanirewa clan, and his first wife Lusiana Qolikoro, who was relatedto Tongan royalty and was also descended from an English missionary.
Mara's title, Ratu, which means "Chief," washereditary; as the hereditary Paramount Chief of the Lau Islands, he held the titles of Tui Lau, TuiNayau, and Tevita Uluilakeba.
Their eldest son, Ratu Finau Mara, was a Cabinet Minister and parliamentary leader of the Fijian AssociationParty from 1996 to 1998, when he resigned to takeup a diplomatic posting.
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 Kamisese Mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mara's title, Ratu, which means "Chief," was hereditary; as the hereditary Paramount Chief of the Lau Islands, he held the titles of Tui Lau, and Tui Nayau kei Sau ni Vanua ko Lau.
Mara was educated first at Knox College, Otago University in New Zealand, where he studied medicine (1942 to 1945).
Mahendra Chaudhry, the deposed Prime Minister, has publicly supported Mara's version of events, and has further alleged that Mara was flmailed with a threat to kill his daughter, Tourism Minister Adi Koila Nailatikau, who was one of the hostages.
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 Koila Nailatikau - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vasemaca Koila Josephine Mara was born in 1953.
Along with her fellow hostages, Adi Koila was held captive for 56 days, although she was briefly released on 1 June to attend a funeral, on condition that she immediately rejoin the other captives.
Nailatikau said that some government authorities, who she said were "hell-bent" on promoting the amnesty clauses of the legislation, were creating the impression that there was some connection between the coup perpetrators and themselves.
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 Lala Mara
Ro Lady Lala Mara, maiden name Litia Cakobau Lalabalavu Katoafutoga Tuisawau (January 4 1931 – July 20 2004) was a Fijian chief, who was better known as the widow of the late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, modern Fiji's founding father who served for many years as Prime Minister and President of his country.
Allegations were subsequently made in Parliament, however, that she had suffered a fatal heart attack after hearing the distressing news that her son-in-law, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, was to be dismissed as Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs, which was "the last straw" after her husband's death three months earlier.
Senator James Ah Koy claimed on the floor of the Senate to have received the information from sources close to Adi Lala's family, and charged the Qarase government with responsibility for her death because of its involvement in Ganilau's sacking.
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 Adi Koila goes after PM's office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Adi Koila lashed out at the Prime Minister and President for using the rhetoric of reconciliation for his own political gain.
Responding to Adi Koila, CEO of the PM's office, Jioji Kotobalavu fired back saying that Adi Koila failed to take notice of how her own father had benefited from the 1987 coup.
He failed to address Adi Koila's charge that the current administration is packed solid with individuals who had played a heavy hand in guiding the Coup of May 2000.
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 Strategic Marriages
His eldest daughter Adi Samanunu Cakobau, presently high commissioner in Malaysia, was proposed by George Speight as Prime Minister, and she is now being investigated for her activities during the attempted revolution, while she was still a public servant.
Ratu Epeli Nailatikau is married to Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, who is the daughter of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and Adi Lady Lala Mara.
Her daughter, Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau (married to Ratu Epeli Nailatikau) is a qualified lawyer and was Minister for Tourism in the Chaudhry government.
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 Lala Mara Did You Mean Lala Mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Her mother was Adi Asenaca Vosailagi, through whom she had close ties to the chiefly Na Ka Levu Clan of Nadroga.
On 12 November 2003, Radio New Zealand reported that Adi Lala had bitterly accused some chiefs, whom she did not name, of having been involved in the coup d'état which deposed her husband from the presidency in May 2000 and also toppled the elected government.
The period of mourning for Adi Lala ended on 20-21 September 2005, with a ceremony at the chiefly village of Cuvu in Nadroga, where her mother was the Paramount Chief.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sitiveni Rabuka
Ganilau and Mara did not feel strong enough to dismiss Rabuka, but the public support they enjoyed as high chiefs was such that he did not feel strong enough to depose them.
He was forced to relinquish this post in 2001, however, in the wake of allegations made against him by former President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara of complicity in the Fiji coup of 2000, which deposed both Mara and the Indo-Fijian Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, on May 19, 2000.
Ratu Mara told the programme that within half an hour of Speight's forcible occupation of the Parliament, Rabuka had telephoned Government House (the official residence of the President) to offer to form a government.
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 Permanent Revolution & the ‘Pacific Way’ : Trouble in Paradise
Adi Samanunu Cakobau is Fijian High Commissioner in Malaysia, and her sister Adi Litia Cakobau is Deputy Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs.
Unwilling, or unable, to attempt a military solution, Mara and Nailatikau engaged Speight in lengthy negotiations, attempting to drive a hard bargain while letting him think he was winning important concessions.
Nailatikau himself was briefly appointed acting prime minister, but he could no more play the mediator than Mara, and the military replaced him with a colorless commoner banker, Laisenia Qarase.
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 Pacific Islands
The captives included one of Mara's daughters, Adi Koila Mara-Nailatikau, who was tourism minister in the captive cabinet of prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry.
Mara went to the naval ship after being warned that some of the violent militants supporting the coup intended to attack Government House.
Before the coup Mara issued a libel writ against Rabuka after the publication of a biography in which Rabuka claimed that as an army officer in 1987 he had mounted a coup in the belief that Mara, then opposition leader, had told him to.
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 New Zealand News - World - Nation builder who lost his way
But it was Ratu Mara's innate leadership which saw him guide not only his young country, but also steer the other newly independent states in forming their own organisation, now known as the Pacific Islands Forum.
Although Ratu Mara quickly agreed to take up the role of head of an interim council on the night of the coup, he always vigorously denied that he was a protagonist.
Although Ratu Mara was to assume the presidency the same year, he was never again able to exert his chiefly calm upon his nation in the same way.
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 Indiainfo.com - News - Fiji President declares emergency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New Delhi: President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara has declared a state of emergency in Fiji and asked the coup leaders to hand the leadership back to the elected government, according to news reports.
Mara's daughter Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, who is the Tourism Minister in the Chaudhry government, has also been locked up at the Veiuto Parliament Complex with the rest of the government members.
Former army commander Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, who was ousted by former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in 1987, has also been asked to come to Parliament, possibly to take over as army commander, according to latest reports.
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 Fiji Coup 017   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
reports that Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, a former army commander and husband of Chaudhry government Tourism Minister, Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, is expected to be interim Prime Minister in the new military government.
Both Ratu Epeli and his wife Adi Koila have kinship links to other Pacific nations.
Those links are very important, and combined with his diplomatic skills, and his abilty to relate to peoples of all cultures, make him the ideal person, in my opinion, to guide Fiji into a new future, with the goodwill and assistance of Pacific nations.
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 Fiji Troubles
In 1987 Ratu Mara, unlike a decade ago, began to assert paramounty rights on behalf of the Fijians in the new post-coup Constitution, saying that 'special rights for indigenous peoples are not something new and are provided for under international law'.
From these arguments, Ratu Mara concluded that Fijians must be awarded majority representation in Parliament and control of the government as 'an affirmative action to guarantee and protect the rights and aspirations of the Fijian people against other communities'.
Ratu Mara, the keynote speaker at Pacific Vision, a four-day conference, said that, "This is a conference of the Pacific communities in New Zealand, yet the Pacific Vision literature I have read appears to have an omission.
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 Koila Nailatikau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Después de una porción su país como diplomata en los años 80 y los años 90, Adi Koila decidido para seguir en los pasos de su padre, y fue elegido a la cámara de representantes en 1999 como candidato del partido democrático cristiano.
El 25 de septiembre 2004 Adi de Koila rechazó los esfuerzos de Speight y de sus cómplices Ratu Timoci Silatolu y Josefa Nata de ofrecer una apología a los parlamentarios que habían sujetado a rehén en el coup 2000.
El Adi Koila agregó que su denegación para aceptar cualquier tentativa política en la reconciliación fue motivada por su creencia que la "cultura de coups" debe ser desalentada.
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 Council Unaware of Bill’s Contents-Adi Koila   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The daughter of the late Turaga Na Tui Nayau, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara said the Lau provincial council only endorsed the Reconciliation Bill due to a lack of understanding and misinformation.
Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau said it’s obvious that the council members did not have any background on the consequences of the proposed legislation.
Meanwhile Adi Koila also reveals that some of the provincial council members raised the issue that she should not mention her father's name to get people to oppose the bill.
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 Lala Mara - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Lala Mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lala Mara - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Lala Mara.
Here you will find more informations about Lala Mara.
Ro Lady Lala Mara, maiden name Lalabalavu Litia Katoafutoga Tuisawau (January 4 1931 – July 20 2004) was a Fijian chief, who was better known as the widow of the late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, modern Fiji's founding father who served for many years as Prime Minister and President of his country.
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