SUVA, Fiji --Fiji coup leader George Speight has ... support of the parliament. Speight led an armed assault on Fiji's parliament in May 2000 and overthrew ethnic Indian prime minister Mahendra ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Former coup leader George Speight ... armed men led by businessman Speight held then Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnically Indian prime minister, and ...

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 ...

Fiji coup leader George Speight ... on Tuesday that Speight's guilty plea meant the truth behind the May 2000 coup that overthrew the country's first ethnic Indian Prime Minister would never ...

Rebel leader George Speight ... backlash," Speight said. Speight and his rebels come from Fiji's indigenous majority; 44 percent of the nation's population are ethnic Indian.

Police in Fiji say they have uncovered a plot ... which they claimed had been eroded by the country's ethnic-Indian minority. In last September's parliamentary elections - the first since the coup - ...

SUVA: Fijian authorities have re-arrested a supporter of coup leader George Speight over reports that ... bakoso's arrest comes after a warning from the fiji military forces on thursday that ...

SUVA - Fiji coup leader George Speight's treason trial ... into 46 communal Fijian and ethnic Indian seats and 25 mixed race or "open" seats. Speight's coup has hit the Fijian economy hard.

Fijian former coup leader George Speight was granted a presidential pardon and freed on Thursday, after spending 24 years in jail on treason charges. Fiji Corrections Service said that the ...