Australian intervention in Fiji (1987) (AH)

Created by ZDR (all)
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AI: Prod 2.0 with randomness
Went public on 5/1/2025
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Record holder: j0j0H in 17 turns on 5/1/2025

Description

Note: this is an alternate history scenario based on elements of real life events.

After the Indian-led Fijian Labour Party won the Fijian elections and came to power in April 1987, the Indigenous-led Fijian Armed Forces (FAF) swiftly overthrew the newly installed government in a coup in May 1987. The coup caused a nation-wide uprising by the Fijian Liberation Army (FLA), an underground communist paramilitary wing of the Fijian Labour Party backed by China with weapons, supplies and equipment. Violent clashes between the FAF and FLA began happening throughout Viti Levu and Vanu Levu, throwing the nation head-first into a civil war. The situation was quickly escalating into an ethnic conflict between the Indo-Fijians siding with the FLA and Indigenous Fijians siding with the FAF.

Fearing a full-scale escalation of ethnic violence and potential communist takeover of Fiji, Australia organized the Australian Defense Force (ADF) for an intervention in the Fijian civil war. To de-escalate the civil war and stabilize the situation, by pacifying both the FLA and to a lesser extent Fijian military (FAF).