Issue No: 715; 30 April 2001

Some of the coup plotters are still with the army, reveals today's Fiji Sun.

In its lead article today, the Sun says that according to the disbanded Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit, some senior officers who supplied the rebel soldiers with ammunition and weapons during the hostage crisis are still in the army.

The Sun also published a picture of members of the CRW unit, Apaitia Waqaniboro's picture prominent. Waqaniboro was found escaping the military barracks with Rabuka in Rabuka's official vehicle when the loyalist soldiers stormed the barracks on 2 November to contain the mutiny and that attempted coup.

Waqaniboro was also a prominent terrorist on the Parliamentary Complex until 13 July. Hostages claim that he used to sleep in the room next to where the ethnic Indian hostages were held captive.

Waqaniboro is related to Rabuka (see: http://www.pcgov.org.fj/archive/2000-11/no175.htm & http://www.pcgov.org.fj/archive/2000-11/no179.htm )