As today marks the 25th year since the May 19th coup led by George Speight, the Prime Minister at the time, Mahendra Chaudhry ...

Heavily armed Fijian troops put up roadblocks throughout the capital Suva today as fears of a fourth coup in 20 years gripped… Heavily armed Fijian troops put up roadblocks throughout the ...

“God Bless Fiji.” Reports in Fiji said he would be ... s ethnic Indian minority and was soft on those involved in a coup in 2000. The president said that given the circumstances, he would ...

the scene of the coup. Speight, a failed businessman, stormed parliament with a group of armed nationalists on May 19, 2000, toppling the government of Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnic ...

Bainimarama staged Fiji's fourth coup on December 5 ... arguing his government was corrupt and soft on those involved in a 2000 coup.

SUVA - A former soldier who planned to abduct the Prime Minister of Fiji and senior civil servants ... charge of treason in relation to the May 2000 coup. Speight is scheduled to stand trial ...

As we remember the events of May 19th, 2000 this week, a call is being made for people to live in unity and people from all ...

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 ...

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 ...

But for Fiji, the reverberations continue to be felt. After the coup, the army seized power and ... before ending their armed rebellion in July 2000. The hearing of Speight's case lasted little ...

SUVA (Reuters) - Fiji's president reappointed former coup ... 1999 of a government led by an ethnic Indian. A civilian-led coup in 2000 was followed by elections in 2001 and 2006, but civilian ...