Although the colonial government maintained the status quo of native chiefly authority it changed and institutionalised hierachial powers 2. ... Robertson and Sutherland also contend that the coups of 1987 "left a legacy of distrust, human rights abuse, corruption and economic decline still fresh in the minds of Fiji's citizens in 2000 29." ... The Coups were physically damming both socio-economically and internationally. ...

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