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 ...

Suva - Fiji coup leader George ... when Speight and a gang of special forces soldiers stormed the complex and said they were deposing Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnic Indian leader, in the name ...

SUVA, Fiji, July 27 (Thursday) -- George Speight, who toppled Fiji's elected ... elected government be overthrown and that the ethnic Indian community be stripped of political power in favor ...

An armed group of indigenous nationalists stormed Fiji's parliament and took the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudry, and several MPs hostage. Mr Chaudry was held for 56 days. George ...

SUVA, Fiji - George Speight ... renew his campaign of unrest. Speight, a self-proclaimed champion of the indigenous Fijian majority against the sizable ethnic Indian minority, was accused of ...

SUVA, Fiji (voa) – Fiji’s high court has sentenced coup leader George Speight to death for leading ... They ousted the ethnic Indian Prime Minster Mahendra Chaudhry and held him and members ...

Failed Fijian coup leader George Speight and six others were released from prison on Thursday after being granted a pardon by President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, who acted on the advice of Fiji’s Mercy ...

A failed coup leader originally ... receiving a presidential pardon. George Speight, a well-known former Fijian businessman, led an armed takeover of Fiji's government in May 2000, holding the ...