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	Mahendra Chaudhry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mahendra Pal Chaudhry (born 9 February 1942) is the leader of the Fiji Labour Party and currently the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament.
		Chaudhry helped to launch the Fiji Labour Party in 1985, and was elected to Parliament for the first time in the general election of 1987.
		Chaudhry's ancestral ties are with the village of Bahu Jamalpur in Rohtak District, in the Indian state of Haryana.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahendra_Chaudhry (2225 words)

	Fiji coup of 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For 56 days, Prime Minister Chaudhry and most of his cabinet, along with many Parliamentarians and their staff, were held as hostages while Speight attempted to negotiate with the President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who denounced the coup and declared a state of emergency, and with the military administration which took office on 29 May.
		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.
		Mahendra Chaudhry has supported the view that ethnic nationalism was only a mask to gain the support of nationalist Fijians, and that the true purpose was to loot the treasury.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fiji_coup_of_2000 (1572 words)

	7.30 Report - 31/7/2000: Chaudhry satisfied with Australian support
		MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY: Well, I don't know, because we regard the government that has been set up as unconstitutional and illegal and we are in the process of mounting a legal challenge to the installation of that government.
		MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY: Well, there were attempts at destabilising our government right from the very beginning, as you already know, and, but then things had settled down and it was not until about February or March of this year that they stepped up their campaign again.
		MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY: Yes, we had information to that effect which was passed down to the Ministry of Home Affairs and to the police for verification and appropriate action, but we were never advised that there was this kind of risk to our security.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/stories/s157782.htm (1295 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> Spotlight -> Fiji coup Crisis -> Odds were stacked against Chaudhry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Another dangerous enemy Chaudhry made was Apisai Tora, a former PANU leader who felt betrayed when Labor fielded a candidate in a western seat he was vying for and subsequently lost.
		Chaudhry was warned by some uneasy diplomats to heed the protest marches, but at that point little could be done.
		Chaudhry, Dutt adds, may have been perceived to be arrogant and confrontational and people may have had difficulties in accepting his personality, but this was a rather superficial reason for his removal.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /spotlight/fiji/13fiji2.html (909 words)

	Tevita Momoedonu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Cabinet Minister in the government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, Momoedonu was the only minister not present in the Parliament building when George Speight stormed the complex on May 19, 2000, taking Chaudhry and other government members hostage and staging a coup d'état.
		Mara moved to spare the country further constitutional trauma by resigning officially, retroactive to May 29, 2000 (the day on which he had been deposed), thereby validating the Iloilo regime, which was duly affirmed by the Great Council of Chiefs.
		He argued that defections from Chaudhry's Labour Party meant that he no longer had majority support in the House of Representatives, and therefore the President was not obliged to appoint him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tevita_Momoedonu (636 words)

	Pacific Journalism Online: News
		Chaudhry also said Fiji's military forces were "compromised" and an independent inquiry was essential to establish what actually happened in the wake of the first two military coups of 1987 and involvement by some soldiers in the May 19 coup.
		On the question that Chaudhry did not seriously take the unrest and protests that had been building for sometime, and the fact that some opposition Fijian politicians were calling for him to step down, Chaudhry said it was a question of getting advice from his Fijian counterparts in government.
		Chaudhry dismissed being insensitive to indigenous Fijians on the land issue, saying he wasn't trying to get land away from the Fijians and that it was a propaganda campaign by the opposition to destabilise his government.
	www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/news/2950chaudhry.html (988 words)

	RTE News - Chaudhry calls for reinstatement of Fijian government
		The deposed Fijian prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, who was held hostage by nationalist rebels for eight weeks, has called for the reinstatement of his multi-racial coalition government.
		Mr Chaudhry was released on Thursday when the army agreed to meet the demands of the rebel leader, George Speight, to establish rule by indigenous Fijians.
		But Mr Chaudhry, who is an ethnic Indian, said that the country could not give in to such threats and must uphold democracy and the rule of law.
	www.rte.ie /news/2000/0715/fiji.html (170 words)

	Printer Friendly Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahendra Chaudhry of the Fiji Labour Party was elected prime minister in 1999 as the leader of a coalition government.
		Chaudhry’s party took the prime minister to court and won a judicial order directing him to put the opposition members in his Cabinet.
		Chaudhry, who as finance minister was twice held hostage during two coups in 1987, is still angry at losing his post of prime minister.
	www.indianexpress.com /print.php?content_id=7550 (1236 words)

	PM - Mahendra Chaudhry in exile
		Mahendra Chaudhry spoke to Graeme Dobell in Lautoka on the West of the main island.
		MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY: Well I think they've done what they would have done in any situation of the type that we have here.
		MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY: Well that's a decision we'd leave to the Australian Government but most certainly the fact is that it is a trade agreement of sort and I think the Australian Government has indicated that it will use that as a weapon.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s154676.htm (960 words)

	PM - Chaudhry prepares to return to Suva
		MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY: It is the responsibility of the security forces and the police force to see that law and order is upheld and that there is no violence.
		MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY: Well everyone is concerned about his or her own safety and the situation that prevails there but I think that there has been an improvement in that.
		MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY: Well they ought to perform their Constitutional function - to protect the Constitution and safeguard the legal government of the day.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s253456.htm (899 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahendra Pal Chaudhry (born 1942) is the leader of the Fiji Labour Party.
		Chaudhry was later released and embarked on a tour of the world to rally support.
		He has challenged in the courts the refusal of the Qarase government to include his party in the Cabinet; on 18 July 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in his favour, saying that the exclusion of a party with more than 8 seats in the House of Representatives violated the Constitution.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Mahendra_Chaudhry (555 words)

	Developments in Fiji: Mahendra Chaudhry should review his policy
		Facilitator and chairman Dr. Sitiveni Halapua said that the meeting was very "successful." Chaudhry on his part made no commitment on any of the specifics in the discussion but said that the talks were a "step forward" but discussion was needed on land and the economy.
		While Chaudhry is still out of sorts and in no mood to accept the ground realities, Prime Minister Qarase is not only consolidating his position but is going in for policies which would hardly contribute to ease the social and political tensions facing Fiji.
		To us it looks that Mahendra Chaudhry should take the lead in putting forth strongly that any change in the Constitution to perpetuate the position of the Indo Fijians as second class citizens is not acceptable.
	www.saag.org /papers4/paper392.html (1021 words)

	Fiji Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chaudhry has described the interim government as unrepresentative, unconstitutional and undemocratic and he is calling for international help in restoring the 1997 Constitution, which has been effectively abrogated.
		Chaudhry presented a long and detailed history of the May 19 coup, as well as of a previous coup in Fiji, against the greater backdrop of ethnic relations there.
		Chaudhry's democratically elected government and was outraged by the repeal of the 1997 Constitution'' and that it considered it ''essential that the rule of law be
	www.antenna.nl /ecsiep/conflict/fiji/1-9-00.html (1959 words)

	Concern in Haryana
		Mahendra Chaudhry, who was elected Prime Minister in May 1999, is a third-generation Indian in Fiji.
		Mahendra Chaudhry studied at Tavua Indian School and Shri Vivekanand High School and was known as a good debater and an outspoken personality.
		With Chaudhry's rise in politics, relations appear to have been revived once again, but there is little genuine correspondence to show that Chaudhry was in regular touch with this group.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl1712/17120140.htm (933 words)

	Moral Archive 4
		Deposed prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry says that Fijians are ready to accept an Indian as a prime minister.
		Mr Chaudhry said their programmes for the poor and the landowners were misconstrued, particularly the Land Use Commission.
		He argued that Chaudhry, the first Indian prime minister in a nation where ethnic Indians are 44 percent of the population, was threatening the land holdings of the indigenous people.
	members.fortunecity.com /omegatimes/moral_4.htm (4942 words)

	rediff.com US edition: Qarase holds out a hand to Chaudhry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There have been increasing calls for Qarase to invite Chaudhry to be part of his cabinet, though both leaders say their conflicting ideologies make it difficult for such a government to function effectively.
		Earlier, Chaudhry had tried to reclaim the premiership snatched from him in a coup in May last year despite threats that Fiji would see more bloodshed if he returned to power.
		Chaudhry and his party are still considering their options.
	in.rediff.com /us/2001/sep/10fiji.htm (597 words)

	Cairnsgroup Farm Leaders Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahendra Pal Chaudhry, 56 a trade unionist, is a founding member and general secretary of the National Farmers Union, a honorary post he has retained since the union's inception in 1978.
		Mr Chaudhry has been the driving force behind the unions current strength, building it up from a small regional organisation to the powerful national body it is today.
		Mr Chaudhry is also the general secretary of the largest public sector union in Fiji, the Fiji Public Service Association.
	www.cairnsgroupfarmers.org /mc/fiji/mah.htm (280 words)

	With simmering ethnic tensions, coup was imminent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the latest instance, the son of a local leader who is an opponent of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, an ethnic Indian, was the one who mounted the coup on Friday.
		Friday was supposed to have been a day of celebration for Mahendra Chaudhry, who hails from Rohtak, Haryana, to mark the first anniversary of his ascension to power.
		He later told Fiji Radio that Chaudhry was safe, that he was taking charge of the country on behalf of the 'indigenous people of Fiji'.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000520/ina20045.html (715 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chaudhry's party won 28 seats in the 70-seat parliament in 2001 elections, with Qarase's Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua party holding 33 seats.
		Chaudhry was elected Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister in 1999.
		Chaudhry was released 56 days later and the Fiji military installed an all-indigenous government led by Qarase, who won democratic elections in September 2001.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,206662-1-9,00.html (506 words)

	CNN.com - Chaudhry wants fresh elections for Fiji - March 7, 2001
		Chaudhry's action, reported on Fiji TV, is seen as a recognition that any return as prime minister would require a fresh mandate.
		On Tuesday, Baba said Chaudhry was "totally unsuitable" to lead the country and should quit politics for the sake of national unity.
		Chaudhry and other cabinet ministers were taken hostage for 56 days by Speight after he and an armed gang stormed parliament last May 19.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/07/fiji.chaudhry (409 words)

	India must play an assertive role
		They have left no one in doubt that India is proud of persons of Indian origin who have brought glory to the motherland by emerging as leaders in various walks of life and for playing a magnificent role in the development of the countries they adopted as their home.
		Chaudhry's offer to form a national Government does not seem to have any impression on the racist and fascist elements in Fiji.
		By treating Chaudhry as a Prime Minister on vacation the Government has sent the signal that it still recognises him as the head of the legal and constitutional government of Fiji.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0900/22.html (1296 words)

	Towards elections in Fiji
		SOME 15 months after an armed gang ousted the government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry in the South Pacific island-nation of Fiji, the country is holding elections to choose a new government.
		The armed gangsters had claimed that Mahendra Chaudhry was not protecting the rights of the ethnic Fijians, but once the hostages were released the Fijian chiefs of the western provinces come out in opposition to them.
		Baba claimed that the re-election of Mahendra Chaudhry would lead to another coup as the country was not ready for an Indian as Prime Minister.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1817/18170550.htm (2052 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> Spotlight -> Fiji coup Crisis -Chaudhry toppling prompts secondary ethnic battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		New Delhi: The armed seizure of the Mahendra Chaudhry cabinet in Parliament House on May 19 was aimed at overthrowing an ethnic Indian-led government.
		Ratu Mara's younger daughter, Adi Koila Nailatikau, holds the Tourism portfolio in Chaudhry's cabinet and is among the hostages being held in Parliament House.
		The emotional turmoil which the crisis has ignited may make it Difficult for Chaudhry to command the support of the House of Representatives if a no-confidence motion is moved against his government at this time.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /spotlight/fiji/chaudhry.html (956 words)

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