The 2000 Fijian coup d'état was a civilian coup d'état by an armed group of indigenous Fijian nationalists supported by the Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit, against the elected government of Indo-Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, on 19 May 2000.

A group led by George Speight takes Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and others hostage in the Parliament building of Fiji in Suva. [1] Speight names Timoci Silatolu interim Prime Minister. The President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, denounces the coup, and declares a state of emergency.

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Dec 11, 2000 · Ethnic tensions have played a major role in Fiji in the two coups of 1987 and the political crisis of 2000. The two dominant ethnic groups are indigenous Fijians, who constitute 51% of the population, and Indo-Fijians, who make up 44%.

Sep 23, 2024 · A soldier guards the road to Nasova village after a soldier and a policeman were killed in an ambush by the last rebel supporters of coup leader George Speight in the Sawani area 25 kilometers north of the Fijian capital Suva 08 August 2000.

Aug 3, 2024 · The 2000 mutiny. Why has there never been a public inquiry into the 2000 mutiny, the most devastating internal event to occur in the history of the RFMF, which resulted in the deaths of three innocent soldiers during the attempt to kill Bainimarama?

In 1987, a military seizure of power in Fiji jolted the South Pacific. It was led by Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, who staged a further coup the same year before leaving the military to subsequently hold office as Prime Minister. In 2000, failed businessman George Speight spearheaded a further illegal seizure of power.

However, on 19 May 2000, an armed group of ethnic Fijians invaded Parliament and held hostage Mahendra Chaudhry, most of his Cabinet, and most other members of Parliament.

The coup crisis of 2000 The optimism inspired by the reform was soon brutally shattered. Eight of the 14 Fijian provincial councils opposed the GCC’s decision, and the disquiet was widened and intensified by a radical change of government in 1999.

May 19, 2000. Fiji’s democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight’s supporters gather on the lawns of the parliamentary complex, dancing, cooking food, celebrating the purported abrogation of ...