Whether this and several other coups were due to race issues, greed or power struggles, Indian-Fijians who third, fourth and fifth generation Fijians, are forbidden to own land in Fiji or, it seems, to have any say in the running of their country, now realise their future lies beyond the country of their birth.

While the Fiji sugar industry has long been the basis of the Fiji's economy on the back of Indian labour, its influence is certain to decline.

The migration of Indian-Fijians to first world countries continues.