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	Inoke Kubuabola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ratu Inoke Kubuabola is a Fijian politician who served as Leader of the Opposition in 1999 and 2000.
		As Leader of the Opposition, Kubuabola was constitutionally empowered to choose 8 of the 32 members of the Senate.
		Kubuabola retained his seat, the Cakaudrove West Fijian Communal Constituency in the House of Representatives, in the parliamentary election of 1999 but lost it to his nephewRatu Naiqama Lalabalavu of the Conservative Alliance in the 2001 election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inoke_Kubuabola (573 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> Chaudhry on 'save democracy' mission
		He was replying to criticism from Fiji's interim Information and Communications minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, who said that Chaudhry's India visit and his meeting with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee must be as an ordinary citizen of Fiji.
		Kubuabola says the sanctions Chaudhry has been requesting are uncalled for and must be politely but firmly declined by those nations, which have the interests of Fiji as a whole.
		On claims by Kubuabola that he did not have the mandate to speak on behalf of the people any more, Chaudhry said his people's coalition won a huge majority in last year's elections while Kubuabola's SVT Party won eight "miserable" seats.
	news.indiainfo.com /2000/08/16/16mpchau.html (636 words)

	Scoop: Chaudhry hits back at Kubuabola's 'foolishness'
		"Ratu Inoke has been prattling on for the last few days, whinging and moaning about the fact that I've been having talks with various prime ministers in the region," said Chaudhry, who was held hostage for 56 days by George Speight's rebels.
		A number of groups have implicated Kubuabola in the Taukei Movement-led destabilisation and the May 19 coup and the Citizens' Constitutional Forum has called for a probe into the minister's alleged role.
		Kubuabola was an alleged conspirator in the 1987 military coups by Sitiveni Rabuka.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0008/S00090.htm (914 words)

	Marianas Variety On-Line Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Fijian high commissioner to Port Moresby, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, said two of the nine Fijians had talked to him via satellite phone and had indicated they were willing to come out.
		Kubuabola said, however, that the two men contacted had denied they were raising a militia force.
		Kubuabola said it was understood that the nine men were not armed and had not brought in any arms when they entered the country.
	www.mvariety.com /calendar/nov/21/pacific/pac08.htm (377 words)

	Multi-Party Government in Fiji : A Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Correspondence is exchanged between Ratu Inoke and the President regarding the 8 Senators to be appointed on the advice of the Leader of the Opposition under section 64 of the Constitution.
		The President writes to Ratu Inoke and Mr Chaudhry, advising that he intends to ask Cabinet to advise him to refer the question of how many Senate seats must be offered to each party under section 64 to the Supreme Court for an advisory opinion.
		Ratu Inoke commences legal action in the High Court to contest the exclusion of the SVT from Cabinet.
	www.ccf.org.fj /artman/publish/article_328.shtml (2936 words)

	Envoy in touch with ex-CRW troopers Fijilive - Fiji news breaking fiji news elections 2006 fiji government news fiji ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Fiji’s High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, says he has been in contact by satellite phone with nine former Fiji soldiers reportedly training rebels on Bougainville.
		There were claims that the men entered the country illegally by helicopter, but Ratu Inoke says the former soldiers travelled to the province via Honiara and their arrival cards were in the possession of PNG immigration officials.
		According to Radio New International, Ratu Inoke said he requested the men to leave the province and return to Fiji.
	www.fijilive.com /news/show/news/2005/11/16/1609.html (305 words)

	Pacific Journalism Review 1994 "Rabuka"
		Dimuri told the Post that the SVT appreciated the Prime Minister's sincerity and openness in the way he handled the matter and the party had rallied to support him.
		Kubuabola was also reported in the same story as saying he wasn't worried and that he would tell all if he was taken to court by Rabuka.
		Kubuabola countered that Dimuri's statement contained inaccuracies and claimed it was designed to discredit him [Kubuabola].
	www.asiapac.org.fj /PJR/issues/back94/94rabuka.html (868 words)

	Why return to constitutional democracy
		The majority of indigenous Fijians just want to live peacefully with their neighbours and to have a government based on laws that are respected by all.
		This was evident in the ready agreement of most MPs in the S.V.T., including Ratu Inoke, to be included in George Speight's Cabinet and, later in the scramble to get into Qarase's administration.
		Mere goes as far as even to drag out the Davidson/Gallimore Study of income from the sugar industry to justify the illegal activities of the movement she was part of.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/docs_o/jd_inoke_14nov.htm (2319 words)

	Scoop: Opinion: What Should Happen If Speight Gives Up?
		I write here with some inside knowledge because I was once one of Ratu Inoke Kubuabola's close advisers on the Opposition sides between June and September 1999.
		It all began when Ratu Inoke said to the SVT Management Board Meeting on May 27th 1999 (in which I was present) that they must be prepared to fight and to shed blood if need be to return political power to the indigenous Fijians.
		Most of the members of the destabilisation committee I think were not members of Parliament but their activities last year were undertaken with the knowledge of Ratu Inoke Kubuabola.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0005/S00125.htm (1617 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Fiji coup of 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Ratu Timoci Silatolu was appointed Prime Minister, downgraded to Deputy Prime Minister two days later, when Speight himself was named to the post by Seniloli.
		Other appointments included Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu as Minister for Fijian Affairs, Ratu Rakuita Vakalalabure as Minister for Home Affairs, and Simione Kaitani, Isireli Leweniqila, Levani Tonitonivanua, Berenado Vunibobo, Ratu Tu'uakitau Cokanauto and Ratu Inoke Kubuabola as Ministers without portfolio.
		Some, including Seniloli, Lalabalavu, and Vakalalabure have since been convicted of coup-related offences, but whether all of the others had consented to their ministerial "appointments" as announced by Speight is not known.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Fiji_coup_of_2000 (1575 words)

	CNN.com - Fiji government calls on deposed PM to end international trips - August 14, 2000
		Chaudhry, whose year-old administration was toppled after a May 19 nationalist coup, no longer has a mandate from Fijian people to speak to foreign leaders, Fijian Information Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola said.
		Kubuabola spoke as Chaudhry prepared to leave Australia and appeal to authorities in India to maintain pressure on Fiji's new, unelected government to return to democracy.
		Kubuabola, who was leader of the opposition before Chaudhry's government was toppled, said the deposed leader would be better off talking to Fijians.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/australasia/08/14/fiji.unrest.ap (527 words)

	Pacific Media Watch
		And he was branded the "minister of misinformation" in the letters page of the rival Fiji Sun with a correspondent describing him as "grossly misinformed".
		Kubuabola, Opposition Leader in the deposed Parliament and a past information minister renowned for diatribes against critics, has fired blistering salvoes in the past few days against New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff, ousted elected Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry - and Sharon Burrows, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
		The editorial also reminded Kubuabola of his role in an unelected government that had a responsibility for "healing the wounds and paving the path towards democracy".
	www.asiapac.org.fj /cafepacific/resources/aspac/fiji2954.html (809 words)

	Chaudhry questions Police inaction in coup investigations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		These two, convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for their illegal activities connected with the May 2000 coup, have disclosed names of coup plotters and financiers with whom they had personal dealings.
		Indeed, Waqabaca has also implicated two senior ministers of the SDL government and has once again mentioned the involvement of Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, currently serving as Fiji’s High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea.
		The people of Fiji are entitled to more credible explanation from Police about what is happening to the investigations rather than being fobbed off with comments that much of the information contained in the statements of these two are matters already dealt with by the Police.
	www.flp.org.fj /n051224.htm (1185 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Sonia earns Fiji govt's ire for remarks
		Fiji's Information Minister, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, said those at home or abroad who think that the previous government can be brought back are deluding themselves.
		It will also be guilty of delaying the return of democracy as speedily the interim administration intends to," Inoke warned.
		He said that statements made by Chaudhry during his recent trip to India had made him even more unpopular with Indo-Fijians and quoted some letters to the local newspapers to support his claim.
	news.indiainfo.com /2000/08/30/30sonia1.html (640 words)

	Fiji Citizens Forum Calls for Coup Inquiry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In a statement by the forum's executive director, Rev Akuila Yabaki highlighted Ratu Inoke's role in the 1987 coups and his close links with the Taukei Movement which mounted the destabilisation campaign leading to rebel frontman George Speight's hostage-taking in Parliament on May 19.
		The 16-nation Pacific Forum on Friday condemned the use of force to overthrow constitutionally-elected governments and hailed the move by Fiji authorities to charge the coup leaders with treason.
		He also called for the removal of Ratu Inoke from government as the minister's stand was inconsistent with his previous support for the 1997 constitution.
	journalism.uts.edu.au /archive/fiji_coup/0814forum.html (488 words)

	Fiji PM and 7 Cabinet ministers held hostage
		Criticism centers mainly on attempts by Chaudhry, who is of Indian descent, to persuade Fijian landowners to renew expiring leases on farm land held by thousands of ethnic Indian tenants who are the core of his political support.
		Opposition leader Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, a key figure behind a 1987 army coup that toppled a government in which Chaudhry was finance minister, earlier said the ban was "asking people to take the law into their own hands."
		The government "must be ready to face the anger of the people, an anger they created by their insensitivity and arrogance, and an anger that grows by the day," he said.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0500/48.html.31990.VINCLUDEFIX (510 words)

	Koreas Unification Church dipping its toe into South Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		This week Fiji Information Minister Inoke Kubuabola attended a World Media Conference (WMA) in Tokyo, sponsored and funded by the Unification Church.
		Meanwhile, in Fiji, the information ministry announced that Kubuabola, a strong critic of the local media, had gone to the church's World Media Conference along with Information Director Eliki Bomani and the editor of the part government-owned Daily Post, Mesake Koroi.
		"(Kubuabola) joins 300 other media professionals and political figures from over 60 countries who have gathered to consider the responsibility of the media in a rapidly changing world," the ministry statement said, adding the theme of the gathering was "A Unified Direction for the Media in the New Millennium."
	www.rickross.com /reference/unif/unif108.html (485 words)

	Marianas Variety On-Line Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Fiji Times reports that Fiji’s high commissioner in Port Moresby, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, says the mercenaries have been identified and their names sent to Suva.
		Ratu Inoke told the newspaper that he has assured the Bougainville president, Joseph Kabui, that the eight are no longer members of the Fiji military and that the Fiji government does not support their activities.
		Followers of the late separatist leader, Francis Ona, occupy the no-go zone around Tonu in the Siwai district where the Fijians are reportedly training youths on how to use high-powered weapons.
	www.mvariety.com /calendar/nov/16/pacific/pac06.htm (304 words)

	Pacific Journalism Online (USP): Ethics
		"Again the Leader of the Opposition, Hon Ratu Inoke Kubuabola was falsely accused by the paper to engineer the no-confidence motion in the President at the meeting of the Cakaudrove Provincial Council meeting of September 8th at Somosomo, Taveuni.
		"Hon Ratu Inoke was never approached nor his views sought with regards to the the article on the front page of Daily Post of 22/9/99 and therefore his rights, public reputation and dignity were injured by these inaccurate and offensive media reports."
		"Equally false are accusations directed at the Leader of the Oppsition and the Chairman of their Cakaudrove Provincial Council, Hon Ratu Inoke Kubuabola and his initiating and no-confidence motion against the Turaga na Tui Nayau at the last Cakaudrove Provincial Council Meeting."
	www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/ethics/fijimc89.html (717 words)

	SVT mobilised mobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		"I was the Chief Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola from June to September 1999 and I was privy to discussions which began the campaigns in the Provincial Councils for the agitations leading to the seizure of the Chaudhry
		The decision to campaign against the 1997 Constitution and to "shorten the life of the Chaudhry Government" (to quote Ratu Inoke Kubuabola) was in those early days of the S.V.T.'s defeat."
		I know this for a fact as I had worked with the S.V.T. Members of Parliament who made submissions to the Constitution Review Commission in 1996.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no970.htm (265 words)

	Kubuabola is envoy to Japan Fijilive - Fiji news breaking fiji news elections 2006 fiji government news fiji coup 1987 ...
		Kubuabola is envoy to Japan Fijilive - Fiji news breaking fiji news elections 2006 fiji government news fiji coup 1987 2000 Laisenia Qarase Mahendra Chaudhry SDL FLP fiji labour fiji paliarment political
		Former government minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola is the new Fiji High Commissioner to Japan.
		Former Commissioner Western Ratu Isoa Tikoca takes over from Ratu Inoke as Fiji's ambassador to Papua New Guinea.
	www.fijilive.com /news/show/news/2006/05/12/05Fijilive1220.html (94 words)

	Thursday - Nov. 17, 2005 - Fiji Government Online
		Fiji’s High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea Ratu Inoke Kubuabola was last night awaiting the arrival of three men who are part of the alleged nine-member mercenary group hiding in the no-go zone of Tonu.
		Mr Tavola said Ratu Inoke and Papua New Guinea’s intergovernmental affairs minister would interview the men on the nature of their work in Bougainville.
		The general elections will be extended from three to seven days to allow the Elections Office to do a better ob of counting the votes.
	www.fiji.gov.fj /publish/page_5777.shtml (388 words)

	CNN.com - Fiji chiefs defer vote on president - March 8, 2001
		But council member and information minister in the interim government, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, said the adjournment would give the chiefs more time to make decisions crucial for the future of the country, according to the FijiVillage website.
		But Chaudhry told interim president Ratu Josefa Iloilo this week that fresh elections should be called to give his government a fresh mandate.
		Kubuabola said the council had discussed the issue of the president Friday morning.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/08/fiji.chiefs (396 words)

	Pacific Magazine: BOUGAINVILLE: Two Fijians "On Way Out"
		But Fiji's High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, said on Monday his Second Secretary Emosi Rakai on Sunday travelled to Tonu where he met the eight and Musingku.
		The pair were believed responsible for the recruitment of the former soldiers to work for Musingku and arrived at Bougainville's northern town of Buka with Rakai on Monday morning, he said.
		His office was working closely with the PNG government and Bougainville's new autonomous government to bring the men to Port Moresby on Tuesday where PNG authorities would interview them, Kubuabola said.
	www.pacificmagazine.net /pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=18547 (338 words)

	BAINIMARAMA VS. KOTOBALAVU - Who is Right? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Kotobalavu seems to have been responsible for other recommendations for Ambassadorial appointments that have rewarded people for their controversial activities during the events of 2000.
		These appointments were Ratu Tevita Momoedonu to Japan, Isikia Savua to the UN, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola to Papua New Guinea and Jeremaia Waqanisau to China.
		He was also (as reported in the newspapers) behind the attempt to persuade Frank Bainimarama to accept a diplomatic posting in 2002, which he refused.
	www.ccf.org.fj /artman/publish/article_152.shtml (1394 words)

	Fiji Troubles
		Kubuabola to return home as his "unofficial talks with foreign leaders
		Ratu Inoke said Chaudhry should return home as he no longer has the
		He also called for the removal of Ratu Inoke from government as the
	lookinglassdesign.com /fijicoupmay2000/august2000/814-news-pacnews.html (659 words)

	DFN: Pressure to reveal
		Regarding the arrest, the chairman of the Media Council said the detention was "unjustifiable" and asked the government to respect the legal procedures by referring the matter to his institution.
		On October 21, the Fiji Sun newspaper revealed that Fijian Minister of Information Ratu Inoke Kubuabola had sent a letter to the management of Fiji Television asking them not to interview former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry during the "Close-up" program.
		In a protest letter sent to Kubuabola, Robert Ménard, general secretary of Reporters without Borders, said that he was "really worried by the multiplication of pressure, by the authorities, on journalists of the private and public media who defend pluralism of information."
	bobsonwong.com /dfn/focus/fiji/fbc-arrest.htm (402 words)

	Pacific Magazine: BOUGAINVILLE: Anger Over Presence Of Fijian Mercenaries
		Ratu Inoke says he has assured the Bougainville president, Joseph Kabui, that the eight are no longer members of the Fiji military and that the Fiji government does not support their activities.
		Followers of the late separatist leader, Francis Ona, occupy the No-Go zone around Tonu in the Siwai district where the Fijians are allegedly training youth on how to use high-powered weapons.
		Ratu Inoke says Fiji is upset and embarrassed by their alleged activities and is pleading with them to return home to Fiji.
	www.pacificislands.cc /pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=18171 (410 words)

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