Fiji’s Bose Levu Vakaturaga or Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) has selected as its chairman an intriguing soldier armed with some of the nation’s darkest coup secrets and mysterious ambitions. New chair, former Lieutenant Colonel Viliame Seruvakula, is no political friend of Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, but nor did he side with traitor George Speight in 2000. It is his loyalty to Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama in 2006 though that changes the picture.
Coincidently, and under-scoring the ailing Fiji body politic, one of the darkest, most savage coup moments of them all, has re-emerged. Family of New Zealand rugby Black Fern Tanya Kalounivale have filed a report with police over the brutal murder in 2000 of her soldier father, at the hands of Bainimarama and his men. Perhaps Seruvakula can tell them directly why their father had to die.
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