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	Indo-Fijian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Differences between ethnic Fijians and Indo-Fijians complicated preparations for Fijian independence, which the United Kingdom granted in 1970, and have continued to define Fijian politics since.
		In the House of Representatives, each ethnic group was allocated 22 seats, with 12 representing Communal constituencies (elected by voters registered as members of their particular ethnic group) and a further 10 representing National constituencies (distributed by ethnicity but elected by universal suffrage.
		Indo-Fijians outnumbered indigenous Fijians from 1956 through the late 1980s, but by 2000 their share of the population had declined to 43.7 %, because of a higher ethnic-Fijian birthrate and particularly because of the greater tendency of Indo-Fijians to emigrate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indo-Fijian (1768 words)

	ipedia.com: Fiji Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A 1990 constitution guaranteed ethnic Fijian control of Fiji, but led to heavy Indian emigration; the population loss resulted in economic difficulties, but ensured that Melanesians became the majority.
		The population of Fiji is divided almost equally between native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (51%), and Indo-Fijians (43.7%), descendent of Indian contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
		Three official languages are prescribed by the constitution: English, which was introduced by the former British colonial rulers, Bau Fijian, spoken by ethnic Fijians, and Hindustani, the main language spoken by Indo-Fijians.
	www.ipedia.com /fiji.html (1457 words)

	Surita v. I.N.S., 95 F.3d 814 (9th Cir. 1996).
		She was robbed by ethnic Fijians on her way to and from work every day for about one week; she was thus robbed a total of ten to fifteen times.
		Ethnic Fijians inflicted suffering and harm on Surita because she differed from them racially and they regarded this racial difference as offensive.
		The ethnic Fijians never told Kamla Prasad why they detained him; the soldiers specifically told Surita that she was being robbed because of her ethnicity.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/refugee/Surita_v_INS.htm (3432 words)

	Fijian people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indigenous Fijians are overwhelmingly Christian, with the Methodist Church claiming the loyalty of 66.6 % at the 1996 census (the latest available).
		Fijians are predominantly of Melanesian extraction, with some Polynesian admixture; the Fijian language belongs to the Melanesian branch of the Austronesian family.
		This article related to an ethnic group is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fijian_people (174 words)

	Racial segregation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two military coups in Fiji in 1987 removed from power a government that was led by an ethnic Fijian, but was supported principally by the Indo-Fijian (ethnic Indian) electorate, which then made up approximately half of the population.
		A new constitution was promulgated in 1990, establishing Fiji as a republic, with the offices of President, Prime Minister, two-thirds of the Senate, and a clear majority of the House of Representatives reserved for ethnic Fijians, despite the fact that ethnic Fijians then comprised less than half the population.
		Ethnic Fijian ownership of the land (which was worked principally by Indo-Fijians) was also entrenched in the constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Racial_segregation (3282 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Children of female ethnic Fijians married to nonethnic Fijians are not entitled to registry in the document governing which persons share in income from communal ownership of native lands, and which persons who have the right to vote as an ethnic Fijian and hold ethnic Fijian-designated seats in Parliament.
		In a high- profile 1992 court challenge to the registration restrictions, the son of a Chinese father and ethnic Fijian mother won his appeal to be registered as an ethnic Fijian.
		Ethnic Fijians currently hold, communally, about 83 percent of land, the State holds another 8 percent, and only the remaining 9 percent is in the hands of nonethnic Fijians.
	www.terrorism.net /Pubs/dosfan-hr/asiapacific/Fiji.txt (4198 words)

	The fault-lines in Fiji
		The indigenous Fijians found it difficult to accept their loss of power in their homeland, especially to a coalition of Indo-Fijians and Fijians who did not belong to the traditional Fijian hierarchy of tribal chiefs.
		The Fijian Association Party served to split the ethnic Fijian vote and this forced the majority section of the Fijian representation to seek the help of one of the Indo-Fijian parties.
		Only indigenous Fijians could contest the Fijian seats and only ethnic Indians could contest the Indian seats, but candidates needed the support of all the ethnic groups represented in the common electoral rolls, in the 11 common seats to be contested by the two communities.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1712/17120110.htm (2161 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The population of Fiji is divided between native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (54.3%), and Indo-Fijians (38.1%), descendants of Indian contract labourers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
		Fijian proper is closely related to the Polynesian languages, such as Tongan.
		Religion is one of the faultlines between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians, with the former overwhelmingly Christian (99.2 percent at the 1996 census), and the latter mostly Hindu (76.7 percent) or Muslim (15.9 percent).
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Fiji (3044 words)

	Australian Parliamentary Library - Research Paper 7 1997-98
		Although the majority of Fijians were restricted to agriculture, from the 1930s the goldmining and stevedoring industries became an important source of waged employment for ethnic Fijians.
		The splits in the Fijian vote evident in the elections of 1992 and 1994 reflected the strains in indigenous Fijian society brought by rapid social and economic change and the growth of new political configurations.
		Within the indigenous Fijian community there would have to be acceptance that the presence of significant numbers of Indo-Fijians in government is not a threat to indigenous interests and the Indo-Fijian community would have to be willing to have their representatives take on a subordinate or non-leading role in government for the indefinite future.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rp/1997-98/98rp07.htm (8464 words)

	Stephanie Sienkiewicz Thesis: Chapter 3
		If the Fijian population is ever permitted to sink from its present condition into that of a collection of migratory bands of hired laborers, all hope, not only of the improvement but the preservation of the race, must inevitably be abandoned.
		A senior Fijian Association Party official told The Associated Press that Mara urged Chaudhry to install an ethnic Fijian as prime minister to reduce the risk of a backlash from the Fijians, who are half the country's 800,000 population.
		Fijians could take the "moral high-ground" and present the notion that their focus on community, sharing and tradition was more valuable than attaining wealth.
	www.union.edu /PUBLIC/ANTDEPT/fiji99/sienkiewicz/ssind3.htm (11955 words)

	USCRI
		The island of Fiji is comprised of 51 percent indigenous Fijians and 42 percent Indo-Fijiansâ”descendents of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent who were brought to Fiji as indentured laborers for the countryâs sugar plantations.
		Fijian military commander Frank Bainimarama appointed himself head of state, abrogated the 1997 multi-ethnic constitution that enabled Chaudry to be elected Fijiâs first ethnic Indian prime minister in 1999, and declared martial law.
		A Fijian military spokesperson said the military wanted the displaced to return to their homes, move on with their lives, and leave behind the incidents of May 19.
	www.refugees.org /countryreports.aspx?id=758 (857 words)

	Fiji Coup
		Fiji was declared a republic and created a new constitution that gave ethnic Fijians a disproportionate share of power in the new government.
		In 1997 the constitution was amended to give non-ethnic Fijians a more equal role in government (although the presidency was reserved for ethnic Fijians), it was also readmitted to the Commonwealth, and in 1999 Mahendra Chaudhry, an ethnic Indian, was elected prime minister, replacing Rabuka.
		The army appointed an ethnic Fijian- dominated government led by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and Ratu Josefa Iloilo as president.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/fiji.htm (427 words)

	Land Rights: The New International Powder Keg - ethnic nationalism errupts in Fiji USA Today (Society for the ...
		IN AN AREA of the world generally thought to be remote in the West, Fiji is fighting a surrogate battle that may have effects on much of the planet and many of the social and political processes that are a part of globalization.
		A constitution promulgated in 1990 gave ethnic Fijians greater representation in the government and required that the prime minister and president be ethnic Fijians.
		Since then, a sense of violation has festered among ethnic Fijians, who see a usurpation of the political rights and the politically based income that has been their base.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2664_129/ai_65230200 (944 words)

	CDNN :: From Paradise to Pariah - Apartheid Fiji
		Ethnic strife between indigenous Fijians and descendants of Indian migrants has been Fiji's tragic legacy ever since.
		In Hawaii, people now boast about their ethnic and cultural diversity and the Fijian concept of racial exclusivity is absolutely unthinkable and morally repugnant.
		Ethnic Fijians resent the success of Indo-Fijians who dominate commerce, not by inheritance or preferential treatment, but by the sweat and toil of their own hard work.
	www.cdnn.info /news/editorial/o001015.html (588 words)

	Moral Archive 17
		A further issue arising is that some of the ethnic Fijian lawyers providing the advice are lawyers for the terrorists, and some have also been sub-contracted by the regime to defend it in the constitutional case against it.
		She stated: "The call for [ethnic] Fijian unity at this time should be seen for what it really is - a racist political stunt to further the ends of a few at the expense of nearly all the people of Fiji, including nearly all indigenous Fijians.
		Fijians felt they had been cheated and they were looking for anything and/or anybody to shoulder the guilt of usurping what they thought to be rightfully theirs.
	members.fortunecity.com /omegatimes/moral_17.htm (17358 words)

	Regime gives ethnic Fijians $ to buy personal items (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The cash is to come from a $10,000 per farmer allocation which the regime has made to help ethnic Fijians enter the cane industry.
		The media quotes from the letter and states that early this year $0.9m was given by the regime to the Fiji Sugar Corporation to be given out to ethnic Fijians taking up cane farming.
		But observers claim that this is an election gimmick which the regime's agriculture minister Apisai Tora is using to woo ethnic Fijian cane farmers in the western division to vote for his new political party.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no705.htm (224 words)

	Bankintroductions.com - FIJI
		The emigration of ethnic Indian Fijians is one of the main factors for the decline in Fiji’s economy.
		The ethnic Indians were originally brought to Fiji by the British to work the land for harvests primarily in sugar cane.
		The Fijian dollar was devalued by 20 percent on January 20, 1998 from the fallout of the Asian Financial crisis at that time and the corresponding higher inflation of 10 percent for 1998 as exchange pressure amounted due to a current account deficit hitting 30 percent of GDP.
	www.bankintroductions.com /fiji.html (1945 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Ethnic split haunts Fijian politics
		Ethnic divisions between indigenous Fijians and Indians have dominated the country's politics.
		There are still seats reserved for indigenous and ethnic Indian candidates, but 25 of the 71 deputies are elected from so-called open-race seats.
		Fijian politics had been controlled since independence by the Fijian-dominated Alliance Party of the man who is currently president, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/754876.stm (438 words)

	Fiji
		George Speight, a part-Fijian businessman, led the insurrection, and he demanded that the 1998 constitution be rewritten to allow dominance of ethnic Fijians.
		Interim prime minister Laisenia Qarase's Fijian United Party won 31 of 71 seats, and Qarase was sworn in as prime minister in September.
		The bill was supported by the Great Council of Chiefs and the ethnic Fijian establishment but vehemently rejected by the opposition (led by former prime minister Chaudhry, who was deposed in the coup) as well as the military.
	www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0107509.html (773 words)

	Fiji Government Information
		Ethnic Fijians have their own administration in which councils preside over a hierarchy of provinces, districts, and villages.
		It is established under the Fijian Affairs Act and recognized by the constitution.
		Today, 83% of the land is held by indigenous Fijians, under the collective ownership of the traditional Fijian clans.
	www.traveldocs.com /fj/govern.htm (662 words)

	Scoop: Ethnic Fijians lost respect for law
		The country's ethnic Fijians have lost the respect for the rule of law, says the spokesman for the Fijian Political Parties Forum, Esira Rabuno.
		The Fijian Political Parties Forum is an umbrella body of the SVT and 4 splinter political groups.
		The newspaper quoted Rabuno as saying that the paramount consideration for many ethnic Fijians was their right to govern themselves as a free and independent people.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0102/S00062.htm (866 words)

	Fiji and Hawaii Compared -- Racial Supremacy By Law in Fiji Resembles What Hawaiian Sovereignty Activists Are Seeking ...
		But in Fiji there are only two ethnic groups of any substantial size, with the Indians having about 45% of the population and a heritage as indentured servants and contract laborers on ethnic Fijian lands.
		This was particularly troublesome to indigenous Fijians because Indo-Fijians were a growing majority and continuing demands from the Indo-Fijian leaders on the issue was seen by nationalists as an attempt to disenfranchise indigenous Fijians and to alienate native land.
		Fijians are not happy that three prominent high chiefs — Ratu Jope Seniloli, the former Vice President, Tui Cakau and former Minister for Lands and Minerals, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu and the Turaga na Qaranivalu, Ratu Inoke Takiveikata — had been jailed together with those involved in the coup.
	www.angelfire.com /hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/fiji.html (12562 words)

	The Hindu : Govt. acceptable to ethnic Fijians must: Speight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A Government acceptable to rebels who want to boost ethnic Fijian rights over those of all other citizens alone would end the political crisis, the coup leader, Mr.
		Speight is pushing the military-appointed President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, to install a civilian government stacked with rebel supporters.
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	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/07/24/stories/03240008.htm (242 words)

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		Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by Walker, H. Wilfrid (1910), p.60B (Adi Cakobau (pronounced Andi Thakombau): The highest princess in Fiji, at her house at Navuso)
		Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by Walker, H. Wilfrid (1910), p.22B (At the Door of a Fijian House)
		Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by Walker, H. Wilfrid (1910), p.50A (A Fijian War-Dance)
	dlxs.library.cornell.edu /s/sea/browse_image/ethnic/f.php (7231 words)

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