Inside Fiji's 2000 coup

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Speight of Violence

Inside Fiji’s 2000 Coup

‘This is a civil coup’

In May 2000 a gang of soldiers and failed politicians, with George Speight at their head,burst into Fiji’s Parliament and captured the nation’s government led by its first Indo-Fijian prime minister, Mahendra Chaudry. As the politicians were seized, hundreds of rebels ransacked Fiji’s capit…