Inoke Takiveikata

Ratu Inoke Takiveikata (born 1949) is a Fijian high chief and politician. Since 1997 he has held the position of Qaranivalu, a senior chiefly title in Naitasiri Province. He served in the interim Cabinet of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase as Minister for Regional Development and Multi-ethnic Affairs, in 2000 and 2001, when he was appointed to the Senate. He remains a Senator, and a vice-president of the ruling United Fiji Party, despite having been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on 23 November 2004 for his role in the aftermath of the Fiji coup of 2000.

The conviction related to a mutiny at Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks that took place on 2 November 2000. Captain Shane Stevens had seized various buildings, including the armoury, and had attempted to arrest the Commodore Frank Bainimarama, commander of the Fijian military. In the battle that followed, four soldiers were killed. After being captured, four mutineers were subsequently beaten to death. Stevens was later to testify that Takiveikata had visited the barracks and given both moral and practical support, by supplying cellphones and other equipment to the mutineers.

Justice Anthony Gates found Ratu Inoke guilty on three counts of inciting mutiny and one count of aiding soldiers in an act of mutiny. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the first three counts, and eighteen months on the fourth; the sentences were to be served concurrently.