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	timoci bavadra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Timoci Uluivunda Bavadra (September 22, 1934 - November 3, 1989) was a medical doctor who served for one month as the Prime Minister of Fiji in 1987 and who founded the Fiji Labour Party.
		Bavadra was opposed to nuclear testing, and had hinted that visits by nuclear-armed warships of the United States Navy might not be welcome.
		Bavadra made a tour of Commonwealth capitals, attempting to rally support, but got little more than sympathy, and Queen Elizabeth, who had by this time formally abdicated as Queen of Fiji, declined to receive him.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /timoci_bavadra.html (387 words)

	Bavadra, Timoci - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bavadra, Timoci
		However, after only 32 days as prime minister, Bavadra was ousted in a military coup, led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka, who was concerned that the FLP–NFP government would favour ethnic Indians at the expense of the ethnic Fijian community.
		On Bavadra's death from cancer in November 1989, his widow, Adi Kuini Bavadra (1949–), took over as FLP president until 1991, and became president of the All National Congress (ANC) in 1995.
		Unlike her husband, who was a commoner, Adi Bavadra is of noble birth and related to Kamisese Mara and Penaia Ganilau.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Bavadra%2c+Timoci (248 words)

	Profile of Dr. Timoci Uluivunda Bavadra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Timoci Uluivuda Bavadra of Viseisei, Vuda, was the traditional head of i tokatoka Werecakaca from the chiefly yavusa (clan) in Sabutoyatoya, Vuda.
		Bavadra along with many of his colleagues and sympathisers are again arrested and held in detention at the Naboro Prison about 30 kilometres from Suva.
		Bavadra was keen sportsman and he excelled in rugby, cricket and athletics.
	www.flp.org.fj /bavadra_profile.htm (570 words)

	Colour, Class and Custom: Section Three
		Bavadra and his Coalition government were thwarted by a small handful of malcontents, allied with the military and able to exploit indigenous discontent to their own selfish ends.
		Bavadra and the FLP believed that Fiji's politics had come of age, and that the time was right to address questions of economic imbalance and workers' rights.
		Bavadra's government reflected its educated and modern origins in its class-based analysis of Fiji's problems and in its welfare-state solutions.
	www.speedysnail.com /pacific/fiji_coup/section3.html (2822 words)

	Timoci Bavadra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Contesting his first election in 1987, Bavadra forged an electoral coalition between his Labour Party and the much older, Indo-Fijian -dominated National Federation Party.
		Although much larger, the NFP agreed to play a junior role in the coalition, aware that much of the ethnic Fijian community was not ready to accept an Indo-Fijian Prime Minister; even a government with a significant Indo-Fijian presence was itself bound to stretch the patience of ethnic Fijians.
		The Labour-NFP coalition captured 28 seats, four more than the Alliance Party, thereby ending the twenty-year reign of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who, first as Chief Minister and subsequently as Prime Minister, had led Fiji since its pre-independence years.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Timoci_Bavadra.html (371 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fiji election of 1987 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the House of Representatives, the coalition won a total of 28 seats to the Alliance's 24, and Dr Timoci Bavadra, the leader of the coalition, became Prime Minister.
		Bavadra's 28 member Parliamentary caucus included only 7 ethnic Fijians, all of them elected with predominantly Indo-Fijian support from "national" as opposed to "communal" electorates.
		Effective Indo-Fijian domination of the government caused widespread resentment among the ethnic Fijian community, and after less than a month in office, the new government was deposed in on May 14, 1987 in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant-Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fiji-election-of-1987 (299 words)

	Mahendra Chaudhry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chaudhry helped to launch the Fiji Labour Party in 1985, and was elected to Parliament for the first time in the general election of 1987.
		He was appointed Minister for Finance in the coalition government of Timoci Bavadra.
		Chaudhry remained active in the Labour Party, and assumed leadership of the party in 1991 from Adi Kuini Bavadra, widow of Timoci Bavadra who had died in 1989.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahendra_Chaudhry (2225 words)

	Rob Kay's FijiGuide
		Although the Labor Party and NFP did form a coalition heading into the election, it was the Labor Party's Timoci Bavadra who was chosen to head the new government after the election.
		Although Bavadra was Fijian and the majority of his cabinet was made up of non- Indians, the coalition was labeled `Indian dominated'.
		At gunpoint, Bavadra and his entire cabinet were kidnaped from the floor of the parliament before the disbelieving members of the house.
	www.fijiguide.com /Facts/history.html (2247 words)

	PMag v03n6p09 -- Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was to reinstate the anti-nuclear policy that had been in effect from 1978 to 1984.
		Bavadra maintained that the coup had precipitated the racial tensions, not the other way around.
		The Taukei movement, associated with the former Alliance party, suddenly sprang to life between May 14 and September 25 with firebombings, murders, and intimidation of the Indian population.
	www.peacemagazine.org /archive/v03n6p09.htm (582 words)

	The Head Heeb: From Fiji to Rwanda Jai
		Between independence in 1970 and the 1987 general election, Fiji was ruled by the Alliance party, which was dominated by traditional chiefs from the minor islands east of Viti Levu.
		Timoci Bavadra's Fiji Labour Party swept to power and installed a mostly-Indian cabinet.
		The installation of the Bavadra government, however, was met with a military coup by then-Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/014985.html (769 words)

	FLP History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A delegation led by Prime Minister Dr. Timoci Bavadra left to lobby overseas for the restoration of democracy in Fiji.
		Timoci Bavadra led the Labour delegation while the defeated Alliance Party was headed by Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
		Deposed Prime Minister Dr. Bavadra along with many of his colleagues and sympathisers, and High Court judges were arrested and held in detention at the Naboro Prison about 30 kilometres from Suva.
	www.flp.org.fj /history.htm (2498 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Fijians in Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Supported by the Fijian Trades Union Congress, it was aimed at being a viable opposition in parliament and was led by Dr. Timoci Bavadra.
		Widespread racial violence, demands for the return of Bavadra, and protests against the interim administration were frequent.
		Former Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra formed an alliance with a faction of the nationalist Taukei Movement.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=95002 (3202 words)

	Kuini Speed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On behalf of the Fiji Public Service Association, she lead several delegations to the United Nations.
		The widow of Fiji Labour Party founder and former Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra, Adi Kuini became the leader of the Labour Party after her husband's death in 1989, but was deposed in 1991 by Mahendra Chaudhry.
		In 1995 she left the Labour Party, objecting to the direction in which Chaudhry was taking it, and became the leader of the short lived Fiji Labour National Federation Party, but later that year joined the Fijian Association Party (FAP) of former Finance Minister Josefata Kamikamica.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kuini_Bavadra_Speed (487 words)

	FLP History
		A delegation led by Fiji Labour Party Leader, Dr. Timoci Bavadra for the restoration of democracy in Fiji begins and discussions are held with Sir William Heseltine, the Queen's Private Secretary, the commonwealth Secretary General, Sir Shirdath Ramphal.
		The Fiji Labour Party Leader, Dr. Timoci Bavadra leads a delegation of his deposed colleagues in discussions with the defeated Alliance party headed by Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
		The Labour Party Leader, Dr. Bavadra along with many of his colleagues and sympathisers are again arrested and held in detention at the Naboro Prison about 30 kilometres from Suva.
	lawakibeqa.tripod.com /history.htm (2010 words)

	Colour, Class and Custom: Section One
		Bavadra looked around at his stunned colleagues, and at the 'immobile faces of the Alliance Opposition seated across the chamber' (Bain 1989:3).
		By then Ganilau had dismissed the released Bavadra government, dissolved parliament, granted amnesty from prosecution to Rabuka and his men, and sworn in a Council of Advisors almost all of whom met with Rabuka's approval.
		The anti-nuclear policies of the Bavadra government would obviously have been unpopular with the United States, but most question the evidence of US involvement as being too circumstantial.
	speedysnail.com /pacific/fiji_coup/section1.html (4192 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
		After a further decade as Prime Minister, Mara lost the 1987 election to a coalition headed by a Fijian, Dr Timoci Bavadra, but consisting principally of Mara's Indian opponents.
		The change of government offended extremist anti-Indian Fijians, and Bavadra and his Cabinet were kidnapped in an Army coup led by Rabuka, a Fijian commoner and a Wesleyan lay preacher.
		Following the exploration of alternatives by the Governor General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, Bavadra agreed to form a bipartisan caretaker government with Mara.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/20/db2001.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/04/20/ixportal.html (1154 words)

	Fiji election of 1987 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the House of Representatives (Fiji)House of Representatives, the coalition won a total of 28 seats to the Alliance's 24, and Timoci BavadraDr Timoci Bavadra/, the leader of the coalition, became Prime Minister.
		Bavadra's 28 member Parliamentary caucus included only 7 Fijian peopleethnic Fijians, all of them elected with predominantly Indo-Fijian support from "national" as opposed to "communal" electorates.
		Effective Indo-Fijian domination of the government caused widespread resentment among the ethnic Fijian community, and after less than a month in office, the new government was deposed in on May 14 1987 in a Fiji coups of 1987coup d'état led by Lieutenant-Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka/.
	www.infothis.com /find/Fiji_election_of_1987 (465 words)

	Commonwealth Yearbook Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Elections in April 1987 resulted in victory for a coalition consisting of the NFP and the Fiji Labour Party (FLP), led by Dr Timoci Bavadra and supported by both ethnic Fijian and Indo-Fijian trades unions.
		Bavadra, an ethnic Fijian, became prime minister, but there were Indo-Fijian majorities in both the House of Representatives and the cabinet.
		Mediated by the governor-general, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, negotiations between Mara and Bavadra resulted in the formation of an interim government of unity.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /Templates/YearbookInternal.asp?NodeID=145155 (656 words)

	A colossus who died lonely
		By the time I reached Fiji, the election campaign for 1987 had already begun and Mara was facing the biggest challenge in his political career, when a Fijian, Dr Timoci Bavadra, became the leader of the Labour Party, which was aligned to the Fiji Indian party, the National Federation Party.
		He was sore that the Indians wanted Bavadra, rather than him as the prime minister and told me each time I met him that no one had done more for Fiji Indians than him.
		He was the greatest loser in the election and he was the bitterest enemy of the Bavadra government.
	inhome.rediff.com /news/2005/feb/14spec1.htm (1711 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Fijians in Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The FLP went on to win the 1987 elections with Timoci Bavadra becoming the country's first East Indian Prime Minister.
		Bavadra's rule was to be short-lived as his government was overthrown in a military coup by Lt-Col. Sitiveni Rabuka, who alleged that his actions were undertaken to preempt communal violence.
		What followed was widespread communal violence along with demonstrations pressing for the reinstatement of Bavadra.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=95002 (1120 words)

	Fiji: May Elections and the New Government (Current Issues Brief 17 1998-99)
		Dr Timoci Bavadra and his Fiji Labour Party and Indian dominated cabinet was ousted from office and steps taken, including a new constitution in 1990, to ensure the subservience of the Indo-Fijian community to the Fijian majority.
		In the April 1987 elections, Fiji voted for a new government led by Dr Timoci Bavadra (a traditional leader from western Fiji, where the country's gold mining industry is based) of the multiracial Fijian Labour Party (FLP).
		Formed in 1985 by the late Dr Timoci Bavadra and its current leader, Mahendra Chaudhry (who was the General-Secretary of the Fiji Public Service Association and National Farmers Union) after the NFP supported the government's decision to freeze wages.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/cib/1998-99/99cib17.htm (7019 words)

	The trouble with Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ratu Mara’s leadership draws on his own chiefly title, Tui Nayau; his wife’s, the Roko Tui Dreketi, from the confederacy of Burebasaga, is the highest chiefly title in the islands; and his close association with a tight elite cohort of European, part-European and Indo-Fijian business interests.
		The late Dr Timoci Bavadra, Prime Minister in the predominantly Indo-Fijian Labour/National Federation Party coalition government, was consistently described in the media as a ‘commoner’ even though he came from a noble Fijian background.
		The problem with Dr Bavadra’s political genealogy in 1987 was not because of his Labour ideology or his ‘commoner’ status; it was because powerful sectors of indigenous Fijian society - in the east - were not ready for a Prime Minister from a western province.
	www.twnside.org.sg /title/2083.htm (971 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was founded by Dr. Timoci Bavadra, and formed its first government (in coalition with the National Federation Party) after elections in April 1987 gave the coalition 28 of the 52 parliamentary seats.
		Its election was overwhelmingly supported by Indo-Fijians, but resented by many ethnic Fijians, only 9 percent of whom had voted for the coalition.
		Bavadra's widow, Kuini (now Adi Kuini Speed) took the leadership of the party after her husband's death in 1989, but was deposed in 1991 by Mahendra Chaudhry.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Fiji_Labour_Party (459 words)

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