SUVA, Fiji -- The would-be defense counsel for Fijian coup leader George Speight is facing his own ... now deposed ethnic-Indian prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry and his government were held ...

"George Speight now faces a sentence of life imprisonment ... During his coup, Speight held the then Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and most of his multi-racial government hostage at parliament ...

Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister ... after a civilian coup backed by a faction of the military and led by George Speight stormed parliament. Since the 1980s there have been ...