Document #1045331
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Please find attached the following
documents which contain information on Timoci Bavadra's death and
related events:
-From East Asia Daily Report - Australasia, (Washington,
D.C.: Foreign Broadcast Information Service): "Deposed leader
Timoci Bavadra dies of cancer" and "Indian Ambassador discusses
expulsion", 3 November 1989, pp. 56-57; "Foreign media banned from
Bavadra's funeral", 7 November 1989, p. 75;
-"New Turns in Racial Rivalry", in Asiaweek, 17 November
1989, p. 32;
-"India's ambassador in Fiji expelled", The Link
(Vancouver), 1-14 November 1989, p. 14.
In brief, the attached articles state
Timoci Bavadra died on of cancer soon after his return to Fiji, in
the Western town of Viseisei. Indian temples were attacked with
fire-bombs in Lautoka, Fiji's second largest city, and other
places, while the Indian ambassador to Fiji was expelled following
a speech considered controversial by the government of Fiji. [ Also
reported in The Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 November
1989.]