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Radio New Zealand programme : Untold Pacific History.
Episode 5: Coup Culture (Fiji)

Available as both audio podcast and short documentary.
Podcast audio: 40 minutes.
Video: 17 minutes.

In this episode we will examine how and why Indian populations were brought to Fiji, and how the inequities under the colonial government’s ‘Girmit’ system, created a society of instability and countless coups.

Delving into the legacy of the colonial history that underpins much of the racial disharmony in modern day Fiji, this episode examines some of the fraught factors that have led to the migration of Indo-Fijian and indigenous Fijian communities to Aotearoa.