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SUVA, Fiji — At least one person was reported killed today as Fiji’s military began a crackdown on supporters of rebel leader George Speight after his arrest on suspicion of arms offenses.
The rebel leader in Fiji, George Speight, says he is ready to release more than 30 hostages, including the country's elected prime minister, in two or three days. My plan is to release them before the ...
After swanning around Suva with impunity for 10 weeks, George Speight, the Fiji coup leader, was behind bars last night for refusing to relinquish his gang's stolen weapons. After swanning around ...
Supporters of Fijian rebel leader George Speight have seized control of one of the ... The move comes days after a peace deal was signed by Mr Speight and Fiji's military government aimed at bringing ...
As the army continued operations to round up his supporters, who have been terrorising Fiji's Indian community, George Speight said he and his key allies had been assaulted by government soldiers. In ...
Rebel leader George Speight warned ... hostage for three weeks. Speight's threat came after a burst of automatic gunfire shattered the morning calm around Fiji's parliament complex, where the ...
Fijian coup leader George ... Speight's sentence "was signed by his excellency the president this afternoon. That is now the legal position," Bale said. People sentenced to life in Fiji normally ...
It took two months, but by the time George ... left Fiji’s hotels almost empty and forced the rest of the world to rethink its tourist-brochure image of a tranquil, unchanging Pacific. Speight ...
SUVA, Fiji, July 27 (Thursday) -- George Speight, who toppled Fiji's elected government in a two-month hostage standoff, was arrested Wednesday and accused of threatening the island nation's new ...
Suva, Fiji - Rebel leader George Speight said on Friday he expected Fiji's political hostages to be freed by Monday. "I am confident this whole crisis or crusade will come to an end in the next ...