Kolinio Rokotuinaceva

{{Short description|Fijian chief and politician}}

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Ratu Kolinio Rokotunaceva ({{birth based on age as of date |72|2008|06|14|noage=1}} – 14 June 2008){{cite web |url=http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=92313 |title=Chief, 72, dies |publisher=Fiji Times |date=16 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616004238/http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=92313 |archive-date=16 June 2008}}{{cite web |url=https://fijisun.com.fj/2008/06/23/3000-farewell-late-chief/ |title=3000 farewell late chief |publisher=Fiji Sun |date=23 June 2008 |access-date=16 April 2023}} was a Fijian chief and politician, who served as a Senator from 2001 to 2006 as one of 14 nominees of the Great Council of Chiefs. He held the traditional title of Tui Levuka.{{cite web |url=https://www.fijitimes.com/back-in-history-installation-of-tui-levuka/ |title=Back in History: Installation of Tui Levuka |publisher=Fiji Times |date=8 July 2021 |access-date=16 April 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.fijitimes.com/back-in-time-installation-of-tui-levuka/ |title=Back in Time: Installation of Tui Levuka |publisher=Fiji Times |date=8 October 2020 |access-date=16 April 2023}}

Prior to his appointment to the Senate, Rokotunaceva served as Assistant Minister for Education in the interim Cabinet formed by Laisenia Qarase in the wake of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état.{{cite web |url=https://m.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0007/S00161/baba-says-new-interim-govt-unconstitutional.htm |title=Baba says new interim govt 'unconstitutional' |publisher=Scoop |date=31 July 2000 |access-date=16 April 2023}} He held office till an elected government took power in September 2001.

In 2001 he opposed Australia's proposal for a refugee resettlement centre in Fiji as part of the Pacific Solution, comparing it to Britain's importation of Girmityas to Fiji.{{cite journal |title=Australia's ‘Pacific Solution’: Issues for the Pacific Islands |last1=Warbrooke |first1=Walden |journal=Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies |volume=1 |issue=2 |year=2004 |page=341 }}

Following the 2006 Fijian coup d'état he opposed the military regime's People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress.{{cite news |title=Shock at chiefly about-face |work=Fiji Times |page=3 |date=13 May 2008 |via=EBSCOHost}}{{cite web |url=https://fijisun.com.fj/2008/06/18/chief-maintains-stand-on-legislation/ |title=Chief maintains stand on legislation |publisher=Fiji Sun |date=18 June 2008 |access-date=16 April 2023}}

In June 2008 he was part of a handover ceremony for the official Fijian translation of the 1874 dead of cession, which had been in the Levuka provincial administrator's office for 134 years.{{cite news |title=Historical document emerges from obscurity |work=Fiji Times |page=3 |date=7 June 2008 |via=EBSCOHost}}