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...light inside, this $A100 million cultural complex succeeds by placing art at the service of the architecture, then ever so gently shifting our view of it. Nowhere can this be better seen than with the opening Asia-Pacific Triennial, where the arts of Oceania shine on center stage. Suva, Nuku'alofa, Apia and Avarua hardly announce themselves as capitals of the avant-garde. But as the accompanying "Pacific Textiles Project" wonderfully shows, their gentle transformations of tradition are every bit as radical as the conceptual fireworks of the Chinese or any of the 37 artists whose works comprise this regional...
...During the mutiny by members of the elite Counter-Revolutionary Warfare unit, three loyalist soldiers were shot and-in an experience which some officers say has haunted him ever since-Bainimarama was hunted by armed rebels through a jungle-choked valley behind Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks. After the barracks were retaken, loyalists rounded up CRW soldiers regardless of whether they had taken part in the mutiny. Selesitino and the other soldiers allegedly fell victim to a violent paroxysm of revenge...
...OUSTED. Laisenia Qarase, 65, Fijian Prime Minister; in a coup-the island nation's fourth in 19 years-led by Fiji's top military leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama; in the capital, Suva. The bloodless coup, prefaced by weeks of rumors and military movements, is widely attributed to a feud between Qarase and Bainimarama over amnesty for the leaders of a 2000 coup, which Bainimarama had helped quell. Bainimarama placed Qarase under house arrest, dissolved Parliament, imposed a state of emergency and installed Jona Senilagakali as interim Prime Minister. Senilagakali, a military doctor with no political experience, told reporters that democratic...
...Tuesday it appeared as if Prime Minister Qarase might be able to defy his nemesis Bainimarama. Holed up in his official residence in the suburb of Domain in the hills above the capital of Suva, Qarase seemed undaunted as he conducted media interviews and gave orders to his cabinet by cell phone. But by late afternoon, Bainimarama had named himself as president and declared he had taken control of the government...
Commander Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama, the top military man of the idyllic island nation of Fiji, is haunted by the memory of the day in 2000 when 30 of his own disgruntled soldiers came to kill him in his office at Queen Elizabeth Barracks in the capital of Suva. The military chief escaped the black-clad invaders and their gunfire, but he lost face as his flight was captured by video cameras. The would-be military assassins were allies of the men who had tried to overthrow the government the same year. During the past six years, Bainimarama has neither forgotten...