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Kamisese Mara Quotes
I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
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| Birth: | 6th May, 1920 |
| Death: | 18th April, 2004 |
| Nationality: | Fijian |
| Profession: | Statesman |
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Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara is considered the founding father of the modern nation of Fiji. He was Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, the first prime minister from 1970 to 1992. He subsequently served as president from 1993 to 2000.
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