“I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never ever again come back.”

— Kamisese Mara

(Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).

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