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Issue No: 844; 13 June 2001
Former Prime Minister and alleged mastermind behind the two attempted coups last year Sitiveni Rabuka is under investigation for his role in the 2 November failed mutiny. The media reports that investigators have been informed of Rabuka's involvement by the Counter Revolutionary Warfare (CRW) Unit soldiers who carried out the mutiny. Others who have been implicated are Bauan chiefs Adi Litia Cakobau and Ratu Epenisa Cakobau. Both the Cakobau's were also involved with the Speight terrorist group. The media also reported that Qarase's cabinet member and Leader of Opposition Ratu Inoke Kubuabola has also been investigated with the 19 May terrorism and that his file is with the prosecution office. Meanwhile the elected Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry has stated that the businessmen who financed the terrorists should also be charged as soon as possible. He stated that the police and other investigators had the necessary evidence to charge them, and the nation was waiting for the charges to be laid. Numerous businessmen, mostly ethnic Indians and supporting the
National Federation Party, were named by the terrorists as providing them funds
for the uprising. |
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