Bavadra calls for sanctions
NZPA-AAP Suva Fiji’s deposed Prime Minister, Timoci Bavadra, has called on the United Nations to impose punitive sanctions against the country’s current Interim Government which he says has sponsored “an unprecedented scale of racial discrimination and oppression”. In a seven-page submission to the United Nations, Dr Bavadra said a draft constitution, now before the present postcoup Cabinet, threatened to reduce Fiji’s ethnic Indians, who represent half the population, into second class citizens with few rights. He said that since his overthrow in May, 1987, and a second coup a year ago, racism had become progressively and systematically institutionalised contrary to a United Nations Anti-Rac-ism Convention signed by Fiji.
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Press, 15 September 1988, Page 6
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