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	Fiji coup of 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fiji coup of 2000 was a complicated affair involving a civilian putsch by hardline Fijian nationalists against the elected government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry on 19 May 2000, the attempt by President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara to assert executive authority on 27 May, and his own resignation, possibly forced, on 29 May.
		His government's hints at land reform had caused further alarm, notwithstanding that indigenous ownership of five sixths of Fiji's land is guaranteed by a constitutional clause which cannot be amended without the agreement of 9 of the 14 Senators appointed by the Great Council of Chiefs.
		However, Mara's daughter Adi Ateca Ganilau, who is married to Ratu Ganilau, maintains that her father chose to resign and subsequently refused to be reinstated because he was upset at the abrogation of the constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fiji_coup_of_2000 (1619 words)

	fiji coup of 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On April 30, 2001, Fiji's deposed President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, publicly accused the police chief, Colonel Isikia Savua and former Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, of instigating the coup which removed Mara and the Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, from office and led to the abrogation of the Constitution.
		In what policians are calling a "coup within a coup," Ratu Mara was whisked away on a warship on May 28, where he was allegedly approached by a group of present and former military and police officers who ordered him to suspend the Constitution.
		After the coup had been quashed, the Supreme Court ruled that Mara's replacement was unconstitutional and ordered his reinstatement, but Mara decided to spare the country further constitutional trauma by resigning officially, with his resignation retroactive to May 29, 2000.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Fiji_Coup_of_2000 (904 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fiji coup of 2000
		Fijis Court of Appeal is chaired by the President of the Court of Appeal.
		Fiji was a British Crown Colony from 1874 to 1970, and an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth from 1970 to 1987.
		Fijis election for the House of Representatives held in March 1977 was the second since independence from the United Kingdom in 1970.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fiji-coup-of-2000 (2579 words)

	Notes on the 2000 Fiji Coup
		Excellent coverage of the 2000 Fiji coup at the Sydney Morning Herald, including a concise response by Brij Lal, the ANU historian who was a member of the Constitutional Review Committee.
		That is a tragedy for Fiji and the region.
		Coup figure-head George Speight has threatened to murder President Mara's daughter if there is any attempt by the military (the non-Speight faction, one assumes) to free the hostages.
	www.speedysnail.com /pacific/2000_coup.html (1569 words)

	The Militant - June 12, 2000 -- Fiji coup targets Labour government
		While opposing Speight's coup and calling for the hostages to be released, they seized the opportunity to press their interests, concurring that the Chaudhry government should be removed and replaced by a government dominated by "indigenous Fijians." The council, however, voted to continue backing Kamisese Mara as president.
		Ownership of the bulk of the land in Fiji was vested in the chiefs, and remains the source of their income and authority.
		Workers from the Indian subcontinent were brought to Fiji in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to work on the vast colonial sugar plantations, first as indentured laborers and later as tenant farmers.
	www.themilitant.com /2000/6423/642352.html (1220 words)

	Aftermath of Fiji coup of 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Constitution of Fiji, which had been abrogated by the Interim Military Government of Commodore Frank Bainimarama (who organized a counter-coup to neutralize the civilian coup d'état instigated by George Speight in May 2000), was reinstated by the High Court on 15 November that year.
		On 20 June, he was ordered to leave Fiji and return to his native Australia after Prime Minister Qarase vetoed a two-month extension of his contract.
		Forty-nine parliamentarians from the Fiji Labour Party and their People's Coalition partners in the 1999-2000 government have been suing George Speight and co-conspirator Timoci Silatolu for compensation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aftermath_of_Fiji_coup_of_2000 (1631 words)

	Fiji Coup News 2000
		On the 19th May 2000, the minority Indian government was taken hostage in the Parliamentary grounds by an extreme right wing individual and a gang of armed Fijian rebels.
		Fiji's population is split almost equally between indigenous Fijians and Indians (Hindus and Muslims).
		The military coups in 1987 by a military commoner, General Sitiveni Rabuka, was due to a newly elected government with a sympathetic Fijian Prime Minister leading a mainly Indian based government.
	www.fijivision.com /info/Political.html (583 words)

	CNN.com - ASIANOW - Negotiations fail to resolve Fiji coup - May 19, 2000
		SUVA, Fiji -- A Fijian businessman was holding the prime minister and several cabinet ministers hostage in the national parliament on Saturday after overnight negotiations failed to end the crisis.
		Fiji's former prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka and several overseas governments have called on Speight to surrender, saying he does not have the backing of Fiji's police and military who remain loyal to the government.
		Fiji's population is 51 percent indigenous and 44 percent ethnic Indian -- the descendants of tens of thousands of laborers brought to work in sugar plantations when both India and Fiji were British colonies.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/australasia/05/19/fiji.04 (1059 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Fiji coup of 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charging corruption, Chaudhry revoked the contracts of two marketing firms, both chaired by Speight, that were involved in the country's lucrative timber trade, and by the time of the coup he was allegedly bankrupt.
		Commodore Bainimarama announced on radio and television that he had taken over the government, and declared martial law (The body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law) at 6pm.
		The mutiny resulted in the death of four loyal soldiers; four rebels were subsequently beaten to death after the mutiny had been quelled.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fi/fiji_coup_of_2000.htm (1109 words)

	RECONCILIATION BILL AN INSULT TO VICTIMS OF FIJI COUP - June 8, 2005
		The preamble of the Bill states that the political events of 1987 and 2000 were occasioned by a widespread belief among the indigenous Fijians that the 1970 and the 1997 Constitutions were inadequate in protecting and preserving indigenous rights.
		Section 21 of the Unity Bill is most interesting because there are a number of coup related civil and criminal cases pending as well as a number of Government Ministers charged, convicted or are yet to be convicted for their roles in the 2000 coup.
		Representations by concerned groups must be made to their respective Governments with diplomatic relations with Fiji and it must be communicated to the Government of Fiji that the international community will not tolerate efforts to violate the rights of the victims by rewarding coup makers with amnesty.
	archives.pireport.org /archive/2005/June/06-08-com1.htm (1344 words)

	Deal to settle Fiji coup crisis collapses
		The seeds of the May 19 coup that has destroyed Fiji's troubled experiment with democracy are traceable to Gwyn Watkins, a young British colonial officer.
		The coup began when the contract to exploit the highly valuable 36,000-hectare timber reserve was in the process of being awarded to the British Government-owned Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC).
		He was chairman of the Fiji Hardwood Corporation with special responsibility for selling off valuable hardwood assets under the previous government of Sitiveni Rambuka, leader of a 1987 coup.
	telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/06/04/wfij04.html (1012 words)

	CNN.com - Chiefs in western Fiji consider breakaway government - June 8, 2000
		SUVA, Fiji -- Influential chiefs in Fiji's western economic heartland who oppose coup leader George Speight were expected to decide Thursday whether to create a breakaway government.
		About 70 traditional chiefs from five western provinces met in Nadi, Fiji's economic center on western Viti Levu, on Wednesday to discuss a possible breakaway from the capital Suva, which is on the southeastern part of the large island.
		Adding to Fiji's economic woes on Thursday was a looming confrontation between the military and ethnic Indian sugar cane cutters, who are refusing to harvest this year's crop because of a failure of the military to end Speight's siege.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/australasia/06/08/fiji.unrest.02 (862 words)

	Fiji: Coup Threat / Unrest could effect travelling surfers... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Speight, the leader of the 2000 coup, is serving a life sentence and other key plotters are also in jail.
		Fiji’s military has warned it will ‘get rid” of the government of Laisenia Qarase if the controversial Reconciliation, Tolerance and Unity (RTU) Bill is passed in parliament.
		July 27, 2005;- AUSTRALIANS travelling to Fiji have been warned to beware of rising political tensions in the Pacific island nation caused by government efforts to pass laws giving amnesty to plotters of the 2000 coup.
	www.surfersvillage.com /news.asp?Id_news=17962 (759 words)

	CNN reporting about Fiji
		Fiji lurched toward another government crisis Wednesday as the swearing in of a new Cabinet was postponed indefinitely, a move coup leader...
		Coup leader George Speight and an armed gang claiming to be fighting for the rights of Fiji's indigenous majority are holding dozens of hostages,...
		Fiji's military rulers and coup leader George Speight were locked in talks on Sunday, seeking to break an impasse delaying the release of 31 hostages and an end to a...
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/events/cnn_log.htm (3128 words)

	Logbook about the May 19, 2000 coup in Fiji
		Coup leader Speight swore in Ratu Jope Seniloli as President of the self-proclaimed "Taukei Civilian Government".
		Fiji Times reporter is ordered back into the bure after trying to get to the parliamentary carpark.
		Fiji Sun photographer Sitiveni Moce is verbally abused by some of the bystanders near the office.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/events/coup_log.htm (4269 words)

	CTV.ca \| Leader of 2000 Fiji coup sentenced to death
		SUVA, Fiji - A Fijian nationalist was sentenced to death Monday for leading a coup two years ago that plunged the Pacific island country into political and economic turmoil.
		With the armed takeover in 2000 came riots, arson, looting and the overthrew of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry.
		The country is slowly recovering from the effects of the coup.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1024895423240_20304623 (542 words)

	Fiji Coup 2000: Rod Ewins notes and essays
		This is a short series of notes and essays initially written and emailed to concerned friends and anthropologist colleagues during and following the crisis in Fiji that followed the kidnapping, on 19 May 2000, of Fiji's Prime Minister and his parliamentary colleagues, by a group of 7 armed men.
		John F.Wilson, one of the architects of Fiji's 1997 Constitution, analyses in some depth the issues raised by the Speight-led coup.
		Coup: reflections on the political crisis in Fiji.
	www.justpacific.com /fiji/fijicoup2000 (263 words)

	CBS News \| Fiji Coup Leader Warns Of Reprisals \| July 5, 2000 23:28:56
		Speight and his rebels come from Fiji's indigenous majority; 44 percent of the nation's population are ethnic Indian.
		The rebels want Chaudhry, Fiji's first prime minister from the Indian minority, removed from power and Fijians of Indian ancestry barred from leadership of this nation 2,250 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia.
		A group of tribal leaders said Wednesday that Fiji's influential chiefs should be called upon to resolve the crisis.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/06/02/world/main202011.shtml (425 words)

	Pacific Journalism Online: News
		WHILE most of the 5000 students at USP rushed home for safety on the day of the seizure of Fiji's elected government by rebel leader George Speight and his gunmen, student jounalists chose to be on the job.
		FOR a student journalist at state-owned Radio Fiji, it was a baptism of fire.
		Fiji crisis coverage by the University of the South Pacific j-students at UTS
	www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/news/cpunews.html (1785 words)

	CNN.com - ASIANOW - Treason charge filed against Fiji coup leader - August 11, 2000
		SUVA, Fiji -- Fijian officials on Friday charged coup leader George Speight with treason, a crime that carries a death penalty, for leading the May 19 raid on Parliament that plunged the country into political crisis.
		The coup began on May 19 when Speight and a group of gunmen stormed the nation's parliament and took dozens of hostages, including then-Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry.
		Fiji's military declared martial law 10 days later, Commodore Frank Bainimarama assumed executive power and the subsequent military government eventually gave in to most of the rebels' demands.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/australasia/08/11/fiji.unrest (514 words)

	August Coup on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Claiming that Gorbachev had been removed from his position as president due to illness, the leaders of the coup formed an eight-man Committee of the State of Emergency and attempted to assume control of the government.
		Gorbachev was released from detention and flown to Moscow.
		The August Coup resulted in a minimal loss of life (3 deaths in Moscow and 3 in the Baltic States), the end of the CPSU's dominance, and hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/AugustC1o.asp (712 words)

	Fiji on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's uncertain return to democracy: John Henderson comments on the outcome of the recent general election in Fiji and its implications for New Zealand's relations with Fiji.
		The Fiji Coup: Clash of Ethnic Nationalism and Multiculturalism.
		Fiji: the limits of ethnic political mobilisation.(Fijian political developments seen from a wider perspective than ethnic conflict)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/Fiji.asp (370 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Fallout from Fiji's 2000 coup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fiji's new United Nations representative, former police commissioner Isikia Savua, will reportedly face a renewed investigation into his alleged involvement in the country's 2000 coup.
		The Fiji Times newspaper quotes acting police commissioner Moses Driver as saying that based on information police have, there are grounds for suspicion that need to be investigated.
		The 2000 coup ousted the first government of Fiji's first Indian Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_795206.htm (133 words)

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		I personally have not been affected by the coup and look on with a mixture of amusement at the antics of various political factions, with sympathy for the people of Fiji and in horror at the behaviour of Western Governments.
		The net result is that, at the end of the day, the poor and needy have been made to suffer first and unemployment is set to bring more trouble, driving people to crime in order to survive.
		Fiji is a South Pacific island nation consisting of over 800 islands and islets, of which approximately 100 are inhabited.
	www.yachtvoyages.com /News_Jul2000.htm (904 words)

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