The beautiful old palace which used to house the district government is almost completely destroyed - a shell surrounded by rubble.

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Its rule was barely a month old when Colonel Rabuka led troops into Parliament House, arrested government members and their leader, the late Timoci Bavadra, and imprisoned them.

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He suggested his party would not stick to the 60-year-old convention which says the House of Lords should not oppose plans from a government's election manifesto.

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