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	7.30 Report - 13/7/2000: Chaudhry conciliatory after Fiji hostage release
		MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY: Well, we sat down for two hours before we were realised with Mr Speight and the others and, you know, I have no ill-feeling towards anybody.
		MAHENDRA CHAUDRY: Well, there were some anxious moments, I must say that.
		MAHENDRA CHAUDRY: What we need to do is to -- it is a time for deep reflection and reconciliation and reconstruction of the country.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/stories/s151738.htm (555 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Fiji treason hearing begins
		Mahendra Chaudry and members of his government were held hostage for 56 days before a negotiated settlement led to Mr Speight's surrender.
		Mr Speight and 12 of his associates were brought to Suva early on Tuesday by a navy patrol boat from Nukulau island where they are being held in custody.
		Ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry was ousted in the uprising
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1356693.stm (394 words)

	Workers Online : International : 2000 - Issue 55 : The Unionist Who Sparked a Coup
		Mahendra Chaudry - the Fijian PM who is now being held hostage by terrorists in the Parliament House complex - is well known to many union activists in Australia.
		Chaudry was instrumental in developing the trade union movement in that country into one of the most vibrant institutions in the Pacific - especially because he was able to get the active involvement of people from all Fijian communities.
		Chaudry was also widely respected on the international stage because he played an important role on the executive of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and at the Public Services International.
	workers.labor.net.au /55/b_tradeunion_casey.html (1193 words)

	Handling of Veerappan
		Chaudry came to Indian in August to boost the support for restoring democracy in Fiji.
		Coming to the Rajkumar kidnapping, Veerappan demanded that about 50 members of a militant Tamil group in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu prisons to be released. He also demanded a few other conditions as well aimed at protecting Tamil Nadu interests, but lets focus just on the prisoners release demand. Since Mr.
		Chaudry might have come across the on-going Rajkumar kidnapping story. It seems hard to believe that he would have missed the parallel in the two cases.
	www.kumagan.com /editorials/veerappan.html (138 words)

	CHAUDHRY RETAINS SEAT, Elections 2006 - Fiji Islands
		Mahendra Pal Chaudry was declared the winner for the Ba Open Seat by the Returning Officer Western Savenaca Kaunisela.
		Chaudry was declared the winner after gaining the majority vote for this constituency.
		In addition, Chaudry won a total of 10,709 votes over six other candidates from the Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua (SDL), the National Federation Party (NFP), the National Alliance Party (NAP) and the Party of National Unity (PANU).
	www.elections.gov.fj /press/20060517-2.html (107 words)

	Permanent Revolution & the ‘Pacific Way’ : Trouble in Paradise
		Chaudry was able to form a government by picking up another 13 seats, largely from second preference votes cast by those whose first preference was for Rabuka’s more extreme ethnic-Fijian rivals.
		Chaudry’s success in maneuvering through the complexities of the new preferential electoral system meant that, for the first time, Fiji had an Indo-Fijian prime minister.
		Chaudry transferred intelligence collection to Indo-Fijian officers of the police Special Branch who were directly accountable to himself, in order to have a way of monitoring the military.
	www.bolshevik.org /1917/no23/Finfiji.html (6754 words)

	USCRI
		On May 19, Fijiâs democratically elected government, headed by Indo-Fijian prime minister Mahendra Chaudry, was overthrown by indigenous Fijian leader George Speight and his supporters (including some members of the military).
		Chaudry and several other members of Parliament were held hostage.
		Fijian military commander Frank Bainimarama appointed himself head of state, abrogated the 1997 multi-ethnic constitution that enabled Chaudry to be elected Fijiâs first ethnic Indian prime minister in 1999, and declared martial law.
	www.refugees.org /countryreports.aspx?id=758 (857 words)

	Wansolwara (Print Edition)
		The Mahendra Chaudry led Fiji Labour Party of 1999 was a far cry from the Dr Timoci Bavadra FLP of the late eighties.
		But it seems Chaudry has learnt much from Major General Sitiveni Rabuka, resorting to communalism to acquire power, seeking the sanctuary of the rural vote, in tandem with a robust anti NFP - SVT campaign to galvanise the Indian vote behind the FLP.
		But the whole sale Indian support for the "us and them" rhetoric of Mahendra Chaudry was a hard pill to swallow.
	www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/wansol/6301/63014racepol.html (554 words)

	RTE News: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		However the president, the police and the army are all pledged to support the government.
		In another development, Rajendra Chaudry, the son of the prime minister, who is also being held by the gunmen, has reportedly resigned as his father's personal secretary.
		The prime minister, Mahendra Chaudry, and 45 parliamentarians were taken hostage on Friday by armed men who stormed the parliament building and declared they had taken control of the country.
	www.rte.ie /news/2000/0521/print/fiji.html (267 words)

	RTE News - Fijian court finds interim government illegal
		The court of five international judges said that Fiji's multi-racial 1997 constitution remained the law of the land.
		The ethnic Indian Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, who was overthrown in the coup, said that the ruling proved he was still the holder of the office.
		Mahendra Chaudry, Says ruling proves he holds office
	www.rte.ie /news/2001/0301/fiji.html (129 words)

	PM Qarase Losing Public Support in Fiji: Angus Reid Consultants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mahendra Chaudry of the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) keeps higher numbers.
		Chaudry served as prime minister from May 1999 to May 2000.
		The FLP leader was taken hostage after rebels led by George Speight took control of the parliament building on May 19, 2000.
	www.angus-reid.com /polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=7834 (290 words)

	CNN.com - Ousted Fijian prime minister says government should be reinstated - July 15, 2000
		SUVA, Fiji -- Fiji's deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudry is calling for his government to be reinstated and democracy restored to the island nation in the wake of an armed coup.
		Chaudry's comments came in his first public statement since his release on Thursday after more than seven weeks as a hostage of armed rebels led by Fijian farmer George Speight.
		Rajendra Chaudhry, left, son of ousted Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, is one of the final 18 hostages released in Fiji
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/australasia/07/15/fiji.unrest/index.html (1118 words)

	M-16s used in coup against union-aligned Fiji Labour Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The union-aligned Labour Prime Minister of Fiji, Mahendra Chaudry, and members of his Cabinet are being held in Parliament House by armed men with AK-47s.
		Apart from Prime Minister Chaudry about a third of the Fiji Labour Cabinet were former union officials — and many Labour Party backbenchers held senior union posts at the same time as being MPs.
		Earlier this week the Health Minister in Mr Chaudry’s Government claimed that the right-wing Opposition and a former member of the Fiji intelligence service were linked to plans by members of the Fiji Nurses Union to hold a national strike.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/20000521fijicwolau.php (808 words)

	LaborNET: Workers Online Live News Feed: Mara sacks Labour Gv't
		The Secretary of the Fiji TUC, Felix Anthony, began consulting with his union affiliates the moment the Fiji President announced he had sacked, Mahendra Chaudry, the democratically elected Labour Prime Minister of Fiji.
		Mahendra Chaudry, and 34 other members of his government, have been held captive for nine days inside Parliament as gun-toting coup-makers have 'negotiated' with the President the death of democracy in that country.
		Mahendra Chaudry was the immediate predecessor to Felix Anthony in the post of Secretary of the Fiji TUC.
	www.labor.net.au /news/266.html (266 words)

	Fiji Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		George Speight's party, the Conservative Alliance, was given two Cabinet positions but Mahendra Chaudry's Fiji Labour Party, which according to the power sharing provisions of the constitution seemed guaranteed of at least eight Cabinet posts, received none.
		Those unacceptable conditions were that Mr Chaudry would not abandon the Labour Party manifesto and adopt the manifesto of Mr Qarase's party, which is all about ensuring preferential treatment for indigenous Fijians and ensuring their political dominance of Fiji.
		FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry was reportedly preparing a statement in reply to Qarase's decision to exclude FLP members from his new Cabinet.
	www.antenna.nl /ecsiep/conflict/fiji/12-9-01.html (6174 words)

	ABC Asia Pacific - News - Rebel MPs face dismissal from Fiji Labour party
		Labour leader Mahendra Chaudhry, has returned home from overseas, vowing to investigate actions of his members who were against his list of Senate nominees.
		Mahendra Chaudhry says section 7(2) of the FLP constitution is a mandatory provision for disciplinary action and the FLP National Council could use this to legally sack a parliamentary member.
		He's been suspended, and a meeting of the executive committee of his party branch is to consider calls for him to be expelled.
	abcasiapacific.com /news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1680660.htm (328 words)

	Fiji: Delimiting Communal Seats to Guarantee Ethnic Representation — ACE Electoral Knowledge Network
		One year later, on May 19, 2000, the Prime Minister and other high-ranking government officials were taken hostage in the parliament building by an armed group led by George Speight, a member of a radical group of indigenous Fijian nationalists.
		Chaudry’s government was dissolved, martial law was declared and the 1997 Constitution was abrogated.
		The FLP not only carried the open seats in which Indian voters were a majority (which the FLP usually won on the first count), but also number of open seats in which the transfer of votes (Fiji has an Alternative Vote System) ultimately led to a victory for the FLP [12].
	www.aceproject.org /ace-en/topics/bd/bdy/bdy_fj (3526 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Fijians in Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Elections held in 1999 were won by the Fiji Labor Party and once again the country was going to be ruled by an East Indian Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry.
		The FLP coalition won 52 out of 71 parliamentary seats and some native Fijians responded by engaging in arson attacks and anti-government demonstrations which included calls for the expulsion of the East Indians (PROT99 = 3; REB99 = 2).
		Ousted PM Mahendra Chaudry’s Labor Party won 27 seats.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=95002 (1271 words)

	ABC Asia Pacific - News - Fiji's Opposition Leader retains his seat in general elections - Text Only
		Fiji's opposition Labor party leader Mahendra Chaudry has easily retained his seat in the Fiji elections.
		Mahendra Chaudry won his seat of Ba in the first count with 63 per cent of the vote.
		Mr Chaudry told local journalists at the declaration of his seat he's confident the Labor Party will win.
	abcasiapacific.com /news/stories_to/1640171.htm (255 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Claims Fiji government never serious about multi-party cabinet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The leader of Fiji's newly-announced opposition Labor Party, Mahendra Chaudry, says he doesn't believe the government was ever serious about offering his party cabinet positions.
		Mr Chaudry this week abandoned negotiations with the government, instead announcing Labour will take up the position of official opposition.
		Mr Chaudry says the Prime Minister engaged in negotiations, but never had any intentions of having FLP representation in the cabinet.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1251875.htm (291 words)

	RaceandHistory.com - The Insurrection in Fiji
		Following elections in March 1999, Mahendra Chaudry became the first Indian prime minister.
		But after the 1987 coup, many Indians - especially professionals - left the country, and now 51% of the 800,000 population are indigenous Fijians.
		The coup leader, George Speight, says he wants to give indigenous Fijians control of their own destiny once and for all.
	www.raceandhistory.com /worldhotspots/fijicoup.htm (1272 words)

	Pemerintah Fiji Dinyatakan Ilegal -- Jumat, 2 Maret 2001
		Namun, pengadilan menyerahkan kepada pemerintah untuk memutuskan apakah akan mengadakan pemilihan baru berdasarkan Konstitusi 1997 atau memulihkan kekuasaan Mahendra Chaudry, perdana menteri etnis India pertama Fiji.
		Sejumlah diplomat menyatakan keputusan itu dikhawatirkan akan menyulut lagi kekerasan politik yang pecah, setelah George Speight menyandera Chaudry dan merebut pemerintahannya, dengan membawa-bawa hak penduduk asli Fiji.
		Casey mengatakan, pengadilan menetapkan bahwa pemerintahan Buruh pimpinan Mahendra Chaudry sebelumnya telah diakhiri tanpa penjelasan pada 27 Mei 2000 selama enam bulan.
	www.kompas.com /kompas-cetak/0103/02/ln/peme03.htm (383 words)

	DFN: Leadership crisis in Fiji
		Coup leader George Speight, who declared himself prime minister after taking control of the parliament building, said he was acting on behalf of Taukei against the government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudry, the first ethnic Indian prime minister in the country's history.
		On June 1, Speight announced he was prepared to release Chaudry and other hostages in two or three days.
		He was scheduled to release them before the country's Great Council of Chiefs, a group of indigenous leaders that holds great weight in Fiji, meets on June 5 to try to resolve the crisis.
	bobsonwong.com /dfn/focus/fiji/coup.htm (616 words)

	FIJI: parliamentary elections House of Representatives, 1992
		Final results were announced on 31 May. The FPP won 30 of the 37 ethnic Fijian seats, while the NFP and the trade-union based FLP, led by Mr.
		Mahendra Chaudry, respectively, shared the 27 Indian seats.
		In return for the FLP’s agreement to participate in the new legislature, the FPP promised a review of the Constitution and other measures, including the rights of the work force.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2109_92.htm (323 words)

	LaborNET: Workers Online Live News Feed: Fiji PM needs more Goverment support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		ACTU President Sharan Burrow has urged the Australian Government to play a leading role in supporting deposed Fiji Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry's efforts to have Fiji's civil and political crisis resolved within the frame-work of the country's 1997 Constitution.
		Following a meeting with Mr Chaudry in Sydney today, Ms Burrow said that despite all he has been through, Mahendra Chaudry remains committed to seeing constitutional and democratic government restored in Fiji.
		Mr Chaudry has called for the Fiji President Josefa Iloilo to establish a Government of national unity made up of democratically elected members of the dissolved parliament to oversee an urgent process of constitutional review in Fiji.
	www.labor.net.au /news/499.html (323 words)

	DFN: News
		Chaudry made the comments at a press conference at his home after being held hostage for almost two months.
		Chaudry and 26 other people were taken hostage on May 19 by an armed group led by businessman George Speight, who seized control of Fiji's parliament building to demand that ethnic Indians be excluded from Fiji's government.
		Speight released the hostages on May 13 after winning concessions from the army, which seized control of the country on May 29, that scrapped the country's 1997 constitution and appointed an interim prime minister that Speight supports.
	bobsonwong.com /dfn/news/news000709.htm (3267 words)

	Demokrasi Kembali, Fiji Gelar Pemilu -- Minggu, 26 Agustus 2001
		Suva, Sabtu - Demokrasi kembali ditegakkan di Fiji dengan digelarnya pemilihan umum hari Sabtu (25/8) di seluruh negeri, setelah lebih setahun lalu negeri ini tercabik-cabik oleh insiden penyanderaan 56 hari atas PM (ketika itu) Mahendra Chaudry oleh pengusaha petualang George Speight.
		Pemilu yang diselenggarakan pemerintahan sementara-yang dikendalikan Angkatan Darat-ini juga diikuti oleh dua pribadi yang berseteru itu, Chaudry dan Speight.
		Ke-71 kursi itu telah dibagi sesuai dengan besar etnik yang ada di Fiji, yaitu 23 kursi untuk warga Fiji asli, 19 (India), 3 (etnik lain), 1 (Pulau Rotuma), dan 25 kursi terbuka.
	www.kompas.com /kompas-cetak/0108/26/UTAMA/demo01.htm (514 words)

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