{"id":3126,"date":"2006-11-30T14:49:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T21:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/fiji-coup-in-everything-but-name\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T21:49:51","slug":"fiji-coup-in-everything-but-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/fiji-coup-in-everything-but-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji: Coup in Everything BUT Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it amusing that Fiji&#8217;s military chief, Frank Bainimarama, gave the prime minister a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6158619.stm\">deadline<\/a> to conform to the military&#8217;s demands before he would set a coup in motion. &#8220;I think I&#8217;ll schedule the coup for Friday&#8230;mmm&#8230;sometime after lunch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The demands include the nixing of new laws, one of which would forgive participants in the <em>last <\/em>coup. Bainimarama has even produced a new demand: that Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase sack his <em>entire<\/em> government. It seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,20848041-5005961,00.html\">the PM has agreed<\/a> to all the military&#8217;s demands, in order to stave off a coup. But isn&#8217;t giving in to all demands a de facto coup, whether or not the leader changes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it amusing that Fiji&#8217;s military chief, Frank Bainimarama, gave the prime minister a deadline to conform to the military&#8217;s demands before he would set a coup in motion. &#8220;I think I&#8217;ll schedule the coup for Friday&#8230;mmm&#8230;sometime after lunch.&#8221; The demands include the nixing of new laws, one of which would forgive participants in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}