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Fiji High Commission occupied

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Fiji High Commission occupied

A group calling itself the Fiji Freedom Fighters briefly occupied the Fijian High Commission in Wellington in May 1987 after the first coup in Fiji. Many Indo-Fijians left Fiji after the coup. New Zealand was one of four countries (along with Australia, Canada and the US) to which 96% of those leaving went.

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

Reference: EP/1987/2358/21-F

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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Jon Fraenkel, Pacific Islands and New Zealand – Fiji and Tonga, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/36871/fiji-high-commission-occupied (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Jon Fraenkel, published 12 June 2012.