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Kōrero: South Pacific economic relations

Anti-coup protesters, 1987

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Anti-coup protesters, 1987

Several times since the 1980s political upheavals in Fiji have caused concern within New Zealand, especially among Indo-Fijian migrants from Fiji. In May 1987 this group of young people, calling themselves the ‘Fiji Freedom Fighters’, occupied the Fijian High Commission in Wellington to protest at a military coup that overthrew the government.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1987/2358/21

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Geoff Bertram, South Pacific economic relations – Aid, remittances and tourism, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24265/anti-coup-protesters-1987 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Geoff Bertram, i tāngia i te 12 April 2010.