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A race for rights / directed and produced by Larry Thomas.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science.
- Coups d'état--Fiji.
- Coups d'état.
- Fiji--Politics and government--20th century.
- Fiji.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (54 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Fiji : Privately Published, 2001.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- This film documents Fiji's constitutional history and provides a background to the coup of 17 May 2000 led by George Speight. In 1999 Fiji had it's first democratically elected Indo-Fijian prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry. There were issues of race, power, religion, loss of land, indigenous rights. The coup shook the deeply spiritual country to the core and had huge economic and social impacts from which Fiji is still recovering.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed September 16, 2014).
- Recorded Fiji 0000.
- OCLC:
- 891667578
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