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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 ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Former coup leader George Speight ... Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnically Indian prime minister, and 35 other MP's hostage. The Mercy Commission, which has a constitutional ...
It took two months, but by the time George Speight freed ... places the same group has held power for decades. And they only think about advancing their own tribe or family, not the whole nation.” ...
has applied for a presidential pardon to Fiji's Mercy Commission. Speight and a group of Indigenous nationalists that included special forces soldiers sought to return political power to ...
At Suva’s Fiji Golf Club, George Speight ... no close allies of Speight-not even his nominee for Prime Minister, Adi Samanunu Cakobau, whose aristocratic family are rivals of former President ...
It was a failed coup that unleashed nearly two years of violent turmoil in Fiji — events that brought suffering still deeply felt by victims. Former businessman George Speight stormed the nation ...
Suva - Fiji's new president - a frail and elderly tribal chief - has named the country's new cabinet, which consists of at least two supporters of nationalist coup leader George Speight ...