"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 ...

Labour leader Mahendra Chaudhry made the comment after Rabuka did a u-turn on restoring a backbencher to Cabinet who he demoted after she appeared in a private video dancing naked. Rabuka told The ...