Fijian Governor-General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penaia_Ganilau" id="mw0w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Penaia Ganilau">Penaia Ganilau</a> is overthrown in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Fijian_coups_d'état#September_coup" id="mw1A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1987 Fijian coups d'état">coup d'état</a> led by Lieutenant colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitiveni_Rabuka" id="mw1Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sitiveni Rabuka">Sitiveni Rabuka</a>.<link about="#mwt49" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"cn","href":"./Template:Cn"},"params":{"date":{"wt":"September 2023"}},"i":0}}]}' href="./Category:All_articles_with_unsourced_statements" id="mw1g" rel="mw:PageProp/Category" typeof="mw:Transclusion"/><link about="#mwt49" href="./Category:Articles_with_unsourced_statements_from_September_2023" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/><sup about="#mwt49" class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" id="mw1w" style="white-space:nowrap;"><span typeof="mw:Entity">[</span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i><span typeof="mw:Entity">]</span></sup>