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 (PAColl-7327)
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EP/1987/2358/21
Photograph by Ross Giblin
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