FIJI | Friday, 21 November 2014 | Views [587] | View Larger Image
The arson-scarred ruins of Naria Primary School- a relic and reminder of Fiji's racial tensions. The school was burned down in 1987 and again in 2000, each time on the night following a government coup. Fiji was a British colony for almost 100 years, and the indentured Indian laborers that the British brought to work in the sugarcane fields still have descendants in Fiji. However, tensions between the Native and Indo-Fijians are thinly veiled, as Naria Priimary School stands as a testament to. The school was torched because it was built on native Fijian land but the students were primarily Indo-Fijian.
Naria Settlement, Viti Levu, Fiji.
