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	Tupeni Baba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baba was a founding member of the Fiji Labour Party in the mid-1980s and was elected in 1987 to the House of Representatives as a candidate of the Labour-National Federation Party Coalition, which brought Timoci Bavadra to power.
		Baba returned to his academic career, taking a post as a lecturer at the University of Suva, where he remained until 1999, when he was again elected to Parliament and became Foreign Minister and one of two Deputy Prime Ministers in the government of Mahendra Chaudhry.
		Baba's departure was thought to be one of the reasons why the Labour Party lost the elections held to restore democracy in September 2001; its share of the vote among ethnic Fijians dropped to around two percent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tupeni_Baba (629 words)

	Tupeni Baba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is hought that Baba's departure is one of thereasons why the Labour Party lost the elections held to restore democracy in September 2001 ; its share of the vote among ethnic Fijians dropped toaround two percent.
		Baba was a founding member of the Fiji Labour Party in themid-1980s and was elected in 1987 to the House of Representatives as a candidateof the Labour - National Federation Party Coalition,which brought Timoci Bavadra to power.
		Baba returned to his post as a lecturer at theUniversity of Suva, where he remained until 1999.That year, he was again elected to Parliament and became one of two Deputy Prime Ministers in the government of Mahendra Chaudhry.
	www.therfcc.org /tupeni-baba-341363.html (252 words)

	USP Journalism Online: Wansolwara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dr Baba, who holds the foreign affairs and external trade portfolio, is one of four academics who have made USP history by being elected to the Fiji Parliament.
		Dr Baba and Dr Chand are from the Fiji Labour Party; Dr Cokanasiga and Mr Rabuno are from the Fijian Association Party.
		Dr Baba told his former colleagues stories about the short-lived Bavadra cabinet, deposed in the 1987 military coup, in which he was Education Minister.
	www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/wansol/baba.html (418 words)

	FLP responds to Dr Tupeni Baba's criticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dr.Tupeni Baba is being unfair and vindictive in blaming former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry for bad media relations with the People's Coalition Government.
		As for Dr. Baba, his jaundiced view of Mr.
		Chaudhry's government is understandable considering his own aspirations to take over the prime ministership and subsequently, the ignominious defeat of his New Labour Unity Party at the 2001 polls.
	www.flp.org.fj /n031007.htm (314 words)

	PM - Baba declares to take over prime ministership
		TUPENI BABA: Yes, I'm sure that I have the numbers on both sides of the House, both from the people's Coalition and from the other [inaudible].
		TUPENI BABA: We have asked, we have petitioned the President and Section 68 of the Constitution to recall Parliament.
		TUPENI BABA: I think, in the light of the Government of the Fiji Court of Appeal, that the only option is for us to convince Parliament so that we confirm the position of prime minister and we establish a government that has the confidence of the House of Representatives.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s257110.htm (604 words)

	Café Pacific: Asia-Pacific Network: Fiji
		Baba, an indigenous Fijian intellectual who was also incarcerated in Parliament at the hands of the gunmen along with his leader Chaudhry, the country's first Indo-Fijian prime minister, has emerged as a potential national leader.
		Baba made an abortive bid to have Parliament recalled and be sworn in as compromise prime minister.
		However, Baba's chances were dented by news media allegations that a Fiji-based Australian conman, Peter Foster, with convictions for a weight-reducing scam in Australia and Britain, had donated up to $200,000 to the NLUP campaign.
	www.asiapac.org.fj /cafepacific/resources/aspac/fijibaba.html (1832 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> Extremist parties a threat to Fiji: Former deputy PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Baba, who was deposed Indo-Fijian prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry's deputy, was reacting to reported threats of another coup by the Fiji Nationalist Party (FNP) if the 1997 multiracial Constitution was restored.
		Any party that cannot respect this should be removed," Baba said, adding that any political party making such statements showed that it could not work in peaceful co-existence with other political parties and therefore should not be allowed to exist.
		Baba said he was encouraged by the fact that Fijian military authorities were looking into the statements made by Waqabaca with the aim of charging him for inciting unrest.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2001/01/08/08extremists.html (270 words)

	CNN.com - Fiji deputy calls for Chaudhry to quit - March 5, 2001
		Tupeni Baba, right, listens to coup leader George Speight, left, after the hostage-taking episode last May.
		Baba was briefly detained by police in Suva Monday after they broke up a meeting of members of Chaudhry's five-party coalition.
		Baba, an indigenous Fijian, said a meeting of senior members of Chaudhry's Labour Party on Monday called for Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister to quit, and for a government of national unity led by an indigenous Fijian.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/05/fiji.baba (470 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> Chaudhry's party hits out at S.Pacific body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Former Deputy Prime Minister Tupeni Baba told an African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) delegation that the Forum, a body of South Pacific island states, does not have any mechanism to deal with armed overthrow of governments in the region.
		Baba said the forum had wanted to help in resolving the Fiji crisis, triggered off by the overthrow of Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister, by an armed group led by failed businessman George Speight.
		Baba told the delegation, "If international calls for full restoration of the constitutional government have not been heeded, we request the EU to formally suspend the application of the Lome Convention with the EU-ACP Charter."
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/08/17/17fiji.html (451 words)

	Baba's Gang to sue FT,TV over conman story
		Disgraced politician Tupeni Baba's political party the New Labour Unity Party has stated that it will sue the Fiji Times and the Fiji TV for the coverage of the party's financier, conman Peter Forster's background.
		However Dr Baba denied that Foster was a "substantial contributor" to the hip new party aimed at urban Fijians that he launched a month ago after an acrimonious split with Fiji's ousted prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry earlier this year.
		Baba was sacked from the Fiji Labour Party.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no1014.htm (575 words)

	Labour responds to Baba claims in coup book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Labour says it is not surprised that a frustrated Baba should try to discredit its Leader Mahendra Chaudhry in his book Speight of Violence.
		Understandably, Tupeni Baba is a frustrated, embittered person who had always harboured ambitions of taking over leadership of the Labour Party but never had grassroots support to make a successful bid.
		As for the authors' claims that should FLP win the 2006 elections, there would be another coup as Labour lacks substantial backing from the Fijian community and Fijian institutions, Labour is a multiracial party which has always advocated whatever was in the best interests of the indigenous community.
	www.flp.org.fj /n050513.htm (478 words)

	Fiji Update
		Dr Baba said it was not race that became an issue between Mr Chaudhry and him but his behaviour which creates instability in the country.
		Tupeni Baba, leader of the New Labour Unity Party, was deputy prime minister to Chaudhry and was held hostage with him.
		Yet Mr Jale Baba, the General Secretary of the SDL, in a recent interview with the Fijian weekly in Fijian Nai Lalakai (lotulevu, 9th Okosita, 2001), clearly contradicts his party's electoral promise to the nation by saying that the 1997 Constitution is unsuitable for Fiji and therefore needs to be changed.
	www.antenna.nl /ecsiep/conflict/fiji/24-8-01.html (6289 words)

	Towards elections in Fiji
		But Chaudhry was then facing a challenge to his leadership within his party, from his deputy Dr. Tupeni Baba.
		Since that time, Dr. Tupeni Baba and several influential Fiji Labour Party (FLP) members (both Indians and Fijians) left the party to form the New Labour Unity Party (NLUP).
		Baba claimed that the re-election of Mahendra Chaudhry would lead to another coup as the country was not ready for an Indian as Prime Minister.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1817/18170550.htm (2052 words)

	Wansolwara Online: News (USP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Deposed Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tupeni Baba last night accepted his defeat in the Fiji general election —; but blamed it on the politics of extremism.
		Remaining hopeful for the future, Dr Baba said: "Maybe after the people have seen the consequences of politics of extremism, with a strong overlay of racism, they will begin to realise that promises will not be delivered.
		Dr Baba said the future for the country lay in the moderate direction and that’s what his party would keep fighting for.
	www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/news/wansolnews/wansol0709011.html (374 words)

	Hon Phil Goff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dr Tupeni Baba was at the time Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Fiji.
		Just a couple of months before the coup, as newly appointed Foreign Minister of New Zealand, I had met Tupeni in Suva to lay the basis for what I anticipated would be a strong relationship between us as foreign ministers of two countries that have a close and friendly relationship.
		Tupeni was on his feet speaking in Parliament when armed men burst into the chamber announcing a coup.
	www.michaelfield.org /phil_goff.htm (1194 words)

	Forum Ministerial Committee on New Caledonia
		The Forum Ministerial Committee comprised of Honourable Dr Tupeni Baba, MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Fiji, Honourable Patterson Oti, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Solomon Islands and Honourable Anthony Audoa, MP, Minister for Justice and the Environment of Nauru.
		The Leader of the Ministerial Committee, Hon Dr Tupeni Baba noted that this was the fifth visit of the Committee since its establishment in 1990, at the kind invitation of the Government of France.
		Hon Dr Baba said the Committee’s mission in New Caledonia involved meetings with, and being provided with the detailed briefings by, a broad cross-section of the New Caledonia community, including the principle players of the Noumea Accords, namely the Government of France, FLNKS and the RPCR.
	www.sidsnet.org /pacific/forumsec/news/1999/aug06.htm (586 words)

	Post calls on Baba to reveal plot
		The Daily Post has called on Tupeni Baba to reveal any plot to depose an elected government if the Fiji Labour Party won the election.
		Baba had stated earlier that a victory for the FLP will result in another coup.
		For someone who is campaigning to be the next prime minister making such a prediction has not given voters the confidence they are looking for.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no995.htm (392 words)

	Reviews of Speight of Violence
		Deputy PM and Fiji's Foreign Minister, Dr Tupeni Baba, was on his feet speaking that awful Friday morning, and, like most of the Chaudhry Government, was held hostage for 56 terrifying days.
		With them was Mrs Unaisi Nabobo-Baba, Dr Baba's partner, like everybody else, stunned and deeply worried when they heard the news of the coup, she with a deeply personal grave fear for her husband.
		This contribution, coming from New Zealand, where Mike, and the Baba's, are based, is essential reading for anybody wondering just what went so terribly wrong in Fiji, hopefully with a view to it not erupting again.
	www.michaelfield.org /reviews_of_speight_of_violence.htm (836 words)

	CNN.com - Baba to form breakaway party in Fiji - May 17, 2001
		SUVA, Fiji -- Fiji's former deputy prime minister Tupeni Baba is expected to announce the formation soon of a breakaway New Labour Party, signalling a split with his leader Mahendra Chaudhry.
		Baba has been unhappy with Chaudhry's leadership of the Fiji Labour Party for some time.
		Baba is likely to join forces with other political identities such as Adi Kuini Speed, former prime minister (and leader of two coups in 1987) Sitiveni Rabuka and union leader Mick Beddoes.
	cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/asia/05/16/fiji.baba.biz/index.html (351 words)

	CNN.com - New man 'poised to become Fiji PM' - March 12, 2001
		SUVA, Fiji (CNN) -- Speculation is mounting that Dr Tupeni Baba of the Fiji Labour Party may soon be appointed Fiji’s prime minister by acting president Ratu Josefa Iloilo.
		Baba, an indigenous Fijian, was deputy prime minister in the government of Mahendra Chaudhry, who was deposed after a coup attempt last year.
		Media reports in Suva late Monday suggest that if Baba is named prime minister, the Great Council of Chiefs would then be able to consult him on the appointment of a new president when it resumes its deliberations Tuesday.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/12/fiji.pmmove (421 words)

	Fijian chiefs split over political crisis
		Chaudhry's deputy prime minister Tupeni Baba, an ethnic Fijian, openly challenged Chaudhry's leadership of the Peoples Coalition last week and urged Iloilo to form a unity government without elections.
		Baba called on Chaudhry to resign after a meeting of the Peoples Coalition caucus attended by three of the coalition's five parties.
		But Baba, who met Iloilo separately, declared that the president was not obliged to accept Chaudhry's advice and could appoint an alternative prime minister.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/mar2001/fiji-m13.shtml (1463 words)

	"Fiji Events @ Eventpolynesia.com" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His wife Unaisi Nabobo Baba was seven months pregnant and Pacific media specialist Michael Field, as always, was on the spot when the events unfolded.
		Fiji parliamentarian Dr Tupeni Baba and wife Unaisi Nabobo Baba are the other two of the three authors of the book ‘Speight of Violence’: Inside Fiji’s 2000 coup.
		As I read her letters and stories I could hear not only the voice of a mother a mother expecting a baby, I also hear the voice of the feminine, liga ni magiti (the hand that provides): the underside in Fiji's situation of our common humanity.
	www.eventpolynesia.com /events/fiji/NZ3_page_speightviolence.htm (695 words)

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