In this important South Pacific nation. Army officers have taken control of the Government in an attempt to secure the rights of the native Fijian ethnic group. This occurred after Indiandominated parties for the first time took the majority in Parliament. In Fiji. ethnic Indians who immigrated to Fiji for agricultural and commercial purposes during the period of the British protectorate now constitute nearly half the total population. They outnumber the Fijian ethnic group. which has dominated the Fiji Parliament since independence. The 1970 Constitutional Act of Fiji attempted to balance the political and legal claims of these two groups.
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