A Race for Rights (2001)

Overview

This film documents Fiji’s constitutional history and provides a background to the coup of 17 May 2000 led by George Speight. In 1999 Fiji had it’s first democratically elected Indo-Fijian prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry. There were issues of race, power, religion, loss of land, indigenous rights. The coup shook the deeply spiritual country to the core and had huge economic and social impacts from which Fiji is still recovering.