Ratu Kinijioji Vakawaletabua is a Fijian

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and former political leader. From 2001 to 2006, he represented the Province of Bua in the

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as one of fourteen nominees of the Great Council of Chiefs. While a Senator, Vakawaletabua called for an inquiry into the

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, saying that it had brought suffering, pain, national shame, disgrace, disaster, death and insecurity to indigenous Fijians.

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I-Taukei Fijian members of the Senate (Fiji) Living people Politicians from Bua Province Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Fijian politicians {{Fiji-politician-stub