Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister of Indian ancestry, but in 2000 he and most his cabinet were held hostage for almost two months, after a civilian coup backed by a faction of the ...

Since the 1980s there have been four coups in Fiji - each with links to ethnic tension between Indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians. Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister of Indian ...

Fiji’s prime minister wound back the clock on Wednesday ... The former lieutenant colonel led two coups in 1987, earning the nickname “Rambo” by seizing power after troops took over ...