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'Tale Of Horror' Deaths Shatter Military Rep
Tuesday, 7 November 2000, 11:36 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Execution-style killings of unarmed Fijian soldiers during last week's mutiny have led to bitterness and tension in the military, reports the Fiji Times. More >>
Tears And Sadness With Fiji Arts Delegation
Monday, 6 November 2000, 1:29 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
NOUMEA: Tears and sadness hit the Fiji delegation at the Eighth Pacific Festival of Arts in New Caledonia after the participants received the news of the mutiny in the Suva's military barracks. More >>
FIJI: Goff stands by comment over mutiny
Monday, 6 November 2000, 1:04 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff has refused to retract his statement against the alleged involvement of senior Fiji military officer Lieutenant Colonel Filipo Tarakinikini in last Thursday's mutiny in the Fiji military headquarters that ... More >>
Colonel Lashes Out At New Zealand Minister
Monday, 6 November 2000, 11:09 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's former military spokesman in the wake of the May coup, Lieutenant-Colonel Filipo Tarakinikini, has lashed out a New Zealand minister and hinted at leaving the military as a probe began into the causes of the mutiny. More >>
Fji In Limbo Over 'Financial Mess'
Monday, 6 November 2000, 11:07 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Salesh Kumar and Nazreen Bibi report on the fate of Fiji's media industry training institute. USP's Wansolwara newspaper More >>
Fiji Journalists 'Underpaid'
Monday, 6 November 2000, 11:06 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Student journalists graduating from Pacific universities are being paid far lower than other starting media graduates in the region. More >>
Another Rebel Soldier Captured
Monday, 6 November 2000, 11:01 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji Government troops hunting for escaped mutineers in the suburbs of the capital of Suva have captured another soldier, taking the total of prisoners in custody to 12 in the wake of yesterday's mutiny. More >>
Nimacere Dies As Military Crackdown Continues
Monday, 6 November 2000, 10:59 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Notorious prison fugitive Alifereti Nimacere has died after being captured by Fiji military forces hunting rebel soldiers on the run after Thursday's mutiny, military authorities confirmed today. More >>
Fiji Human Rights Body Pledges Full Investigation
Monday, 6 November 2000, 10:58 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's Human Rights Commission today promised to carry out a full investigation into the deaths of rebel soldiers and of prison escapee Alifereti Nimacere in the mutiny and subsequent military manhunt, according to local media reports. More >>
Military Speak Out On Nimacere's Death
Monday, 6 November 2000, 10:56 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Prison fugitive Alifereti Nimacere reached for his gun and tried to flee from his hideout house when Fiji military forces searching for him opened fire, a military spokesperson said today. More >>
Wounded Rebel Names Chiefs
Monday, 6 November 2000, 10:55 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Three members of Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs and a senior army officer have been identified by a wounded rebel as the masterminds behind Thursday's mutiny against military chief Commodore Frank Bainimarama, the Sunday Post reports today. More >>
Military Chief Briefs Ministers On Mutiny
Friday, 3 November 2000, 2:16 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's military commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, today held an urgent meeting with the interim administration, according to local radio reports. More >>
Fiji Military Hunt Renegades After Failed Mutiny
Friday, 3 November 2000, 10:51 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Loyalist Fiji troops were early today searching bush areas in the suburbs of the capital of Suva for renegade special force soldiers who failed to kidnap the military commander in yesterday's mutiny in the main barracks. More >>
Visitors Slam Usp Security
Friday, 3 November 2000, 10:14 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Several complaints have been raised with University of the South Pacific authorities over an aggressive attitude of some security officers on campus in the wake of Fiji's political crisis. More >>
Two Die, Nine Wounded In Mutiny
Friday, 3 November 2000, 10:12 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Two soldiers are dead and nine wounded following a shootout today at Fiji's main military barracks on the outskirts of the capital of Suva, army sources reported today. More >>
FIJI: Shootout wounded rises to five
Thursday, 2 November 2000, 6:23 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Five soldiers were wounded as shooting continued today at the Fiji military headquarters at Queen Elizabeth Barracks on the outskirts of the capital of Suva. More >>
Shooting breaks out at Fiji military barracks
Thursday, 2 November 2000, 5:23 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: One soldier was shot and wounded today in a shootout at the Fiji military headquarters, according to local radio reports. More >>
Pacific Countries Told: 'Face Scrutiny'
Thursday, 2 November 2000, 4:58 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: New Zealand journalist Michael Field missed his first South Pacific Forum last month in more than a decade. He was shut out by a sensitive Kiribati government annoyed with some unflattering past reports. More >>
Bougainville Vessel Sankamap Still Stuck In Cairns
Thursday, 2 November 2000, 4:43 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PORT MORESBY: The North Solomons provincial government-owned vessel MV Sankamap is stranded in Cairns, Australia, with some A$30,000 (K47,000) worth of donations bound for the children of Bougainville still awaiting for shipment. More >>
'Identify With State', Pleads Ravuvu
Thursday, 2 November 2000, 4:18 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Until indigenous Fijians identify with the state, division will always remain because of loyalty to chiefs, tribal leaders and other forms of leadership, says the academic heading Fiji’s constitutional review. More >>
