Fiji Water, Fiji Coup?
Australia has been warning that it looked a lot like a coup attempt was going to be made in Fiji.
THE risk of a military coup in Fiji had become too close for comfort, the nation's police chief said today.
Small groups of armed soldiers patrolled the streets of the capital Suva today while others dressed in camouflage uniforms guarded the president's residence.
Fiji Police Commissioner Andrew Hughes, an Australian at the centre of a stand-off with the nation's defiant military chief, warned that the likelihood of a fourth coup in 20 years has become "too close for comfort".
"This week, I think, is going to be a critical turning point in the whole thing," Mr Hughes told New Zealand radio. "We just have virtually every date on the calendar in December circled …. it's very fluid."
The warning comes as police continue investigations into whether military commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama should be charged with sedition over his repeated threats to remove Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.
Commodore Bainimarama, who is in New Zealand on a private visit, has also called Mr Hughes to resign or be removed over the sedition investigation.
A spokesman for the Pacific Islands Forum said a meeting of the regional grouping's foreign ministers had been called at Mr Qarase's request in a bid to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
I just got a weird search query on my logs. Someone asked how far it was from the Fiji Water bottling plant to the docks. Has it started?





