SUVA, Fiji -- The would-be defense counsel for Fijian coup leader George Speight ... a Singapore-born ethnic Indian, came to Fiji from the United States to defend Speight against a charge of ...

After floating in political limbo for 10 weeks, Fiji finally has a new civilian government, but it is unelected, racially based and contains only one ethnic Indian. After floating in political ...

In a saecond coup he proclaims Fiji a republic 1999 - Mahendra Chaudhry is elected Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister but is overthown a year later when bankrupt businessman George Speight ...

Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister of Indian ancestry ... after a civilian coup backed by a faction of the military and led by George Speight stormed parliament.