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<p><big> Background </big></p>
<p><big>Ethnic tensions in Fiji</big></p>
<p>While Fiji was a <a href="page.php?w=Colony_of_Fiji">British colony</a>, the <a href="page.php?w=Colonial_Sugar_Refining_Company_%28Fiji%29">Colonial Sugar Refining Company</a> brought large numbers of <a href="page.php?w=Indian_indenture_system">indentured Indian laborers</a> to the islands to work on their sugar plantations. As of 2024, <a href="page.php?w=Indo-Fijians">descendants of these laborers</a> make up about a third of the population, but before 1987 they outnumbered <a href="page.php?w=Fijians">Indigenous Fijians</a>.</p><p>
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