Jone Baledrokadroka

Colonel Jone Baledrokadroka is a Fijian academic and former career soldier who served for 25 years. Baledrokadroka, who joined the Army in 1981, was briefly the Acting Land Force Commander in January 2006. He was dismissed from this position on 13 January 2006, after only two days in the post, in which he oversaw Infantry Regiments, the Engineer's Regiment, the Logistics Support Unit, and the Forces Training Group. He was also in charge of United Nations peacekeeping missions. During the Nov 2000 attempted takeover of Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Baledrokadroka was Chief Staff Officer Operations and commanded the troops who put down the insurrection. Prior to his appointment as Acting Land Force Commander Baledrokadroka had attended the Defence and Strategic Studies Course at the Australian Defence College, Canberra in 2003.

Baledrokadroka is an Old Boy of the Marist Brothers School in Suva and De La Salle College Auckland New Zealand. He has a PhD in Politics from ANU, Masters degree in Strategic Studies from Deakin University and a post grad diploma in Defence. He is a fellow of the Australian Defence College, Land Warfare Study Centre of the Australian army,the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and the Asia Pacific Center for Strategic Studies in Hawaii.

The Fiji Live news service reported on 12 January 2006 that Baledrokadroka had confronted the Military Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, a harsh critic of some government policies, telling him to either submit to the authority of the government or else resign, but this was initially denied by Army spokesman Captain Neumi Leweni and later by Commodore Bainimarama. Bainimarama had been making increasingly strident pronouncements against certain government policies, including the early release of prisoners convicted of involvement in the Fiji coup of 2000, and had recently threatened to depose the government.True to Baledrokadroka's allegations's on 5 December 2006, the Commander did depose the SDL government in a military coup d'état.

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