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ASSIGNMENT: A RACIST REFORMED

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Series
ASSIGNMENT
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
1:00:00
Broadcast Date
06/05/1999
Production company
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND
Credits
Reporter: Mark Sainsbury
Director: Chris Harrington
Studio Director: Pene Thomas
Production Assistant: John Gillespie
Executive Producer: Phil Wallington
Camera: Atha Zoias
Camera: Leo Shekton
Editor: Andy Gibb
Sound: Andy Gibb
Researcher: Chris Harrington

“12 years ago the New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange ordered the defence force to prepare to intervene in Fiji. It was 1987 and we were all reeling from the shock of a military coup on our very doorstep. There was further outrage when Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka struck again, declaring Fiji a republic and adopting a bluntly racist constitution. But in the past two years Rabuka has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis, pushing through a new fairer constitution drawn up by our own Sir Paul Reeves. This week as Fiji goes to the polls Assignment asks the question: Is Sitiveni Rabuka on the level and has Fiji seen the last of the gun?” - (Assignment: A Racist Reformed)

Interviews: Lt Col Sitiveni Rabuka; Prime Minister David Lange.