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 swanning around Suva with impunity for 10 weeks, George Speight ... 10 days after his coup, to scrap the constitution under which Mr Chaudhry, Fiji's first Indian prime minister, was ...

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 ...

The man behind the 2000 coup in Fiji, George Speight, and the head of the mutineers, former soldier Shane Stevens, have been granted presidential pardons. In a statement, the Fiji Correction ...

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.

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 ...