Fiji's High Court sentenced indigenous coup leader George Speight ... to life in prison. Speight, who overthrew the volatile and ethnically divided country's first ethnic-Indian prime minister ...

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 ...

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 35 other MPs hostage.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Speight ... Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister and his largely Indo-Fijian dominated administration was into its first full year of steering the country before months of simmering ethnic ...