WRAP Military take control of country, Qarase, supporters, Commonwealth comments

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(5 Dec 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Pan from supporters to troops outside Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase's house
2. Child sitting by barrier
3. Troops putting out barbed wire
4. Qarase's supporters sitting by barrier
5. Various of people drinking kava - a local root drink - on Qarase's back porch
6. Qarase sitting on a stool, talking to reporters
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Laisenia Qarase, Fijian Prime Minister:
"We do have tremendous support. Now because of that I do expect some reaction from the people. I've been pleading to them that whatever reaction should be within the law and be peaceful."
8. Cutaway of Qarase talking
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Laisenia Qarase, Fijian Prime Minister:
"I did not invite foreign intervention. I was trying to consider the various options that would be available to me under the circumstances and I was making enquiry (enquiries) because it's a serious thing and it's a complicated thing. It has implications for Australia, implications for Fiji."
10. Pan from Qarase and Qarase's wife Lembe with friends sitting around table
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Laisenia Qarase, Fijian Prime Minister:
"We are a very close-knit family, I have very strong support from my wife, who is here of course and my children and my grandchildren. We never feared for our lives. We don't fear the military. We only fear God."
12. Wide of Qarase being interviewed with family in foreground
13. People gathering in the back of the house
++Night Shots++
14. People walking through gates outside Prime Minister's home
15. Various of troops in street outside Prime Minister's home
16. Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon speaking at news conference
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Don McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary General:
"Clearly it has happened and the Commonwealth unreservedly condemns any military action against a democratically elected government. This is a serious violation of the broad principles of the government, the broad structures of democracy in which we believe in and it's a value shared by 53 other countries. We believe this is a very unpopular, I say, unpopular overthrow of a democratically elected government."
18. Cutaway of reporters
19. Wide of McKinnon at conclusion of news conference
STORYLINE
Fiji's Prime Minister told AP Television on Tuesday that he had not sought foreign intervention when military forces attempted to seize power of the South Pacific nation.
Earlier on Tuesday the country's military commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama announced he had taken control of the country from the elected government, confirming Fiji's fourth coup in less than two decades.
Bainimarama announced the move in a national broadcast and said he had invoked special powers under the Constitution to assume some powers of the president, and was using them to dismiss Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase from office and appoint an interim replacement.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Qarase had asked Canberra to send troops to try to prevent the coup, but that he had rejected the request.
But Qarase denied reports that he had asked for military help.
"I was trying to consider the various options that would be available to me under the circumstances and I was making enquiry (enquiries) because it's a serious thing and it's a complicated thing. It has implications for Australia, implications for Fiji," Laisenia Qarase told reporters at his home.
Earlier he said the government set up by Bainimarama was totally illegal.
Soldiers had been making frequent visits to his home the last few days.

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