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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fiji's military will assist police in maintaining "security and stability", the country's police commissioner said in a social medi.
Fiji s military will assist police in maintaining "security and stability", the Pacific island s police commissioner said on Thursday, citing growing concerns of racial tensions after last week s
Opposition parties have disputed reports by police that businesses or homes of Fiji's large ethnic Indian population had been stoned in the wake of the election, and have called for evidence of this. COUP HISTORY The Pacific island nation, with a population of 900,000, had a history of military coups before constitutional reform in 2013 to remove a race-based voting system that favoured indigenous Fijians over ethnic Indians. Bainimarama has been prime minister for 16 years, taking power in a coup, and later winning two democratic elections in 2014 and 2018.