Speight of Violence : Inside Fiji's 2000 coup
Field, Michael; Baba, Tupeni; Nabobo-Baba, Unaisi
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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 Chaudhry. As the politicians were seized, hundreds of rebels ransacked Fiji's capital Suva." "This was supposed to be a coup by indigenous Fijians angry at their loss of power. But as the drama unfolded and Speight's rebels continued to hold the politicians hostage, the spectacle turned...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Field, Michael | |
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dc.contributor.author | Baba, Tupeni | |
dc.contributor.author | Nabobo-Baba, Unaisi | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-29T10:57:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-29T10:57:35Z | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 1740761707 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/128824 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 Chaudhry. As the politicians were seized, hundreds of rebels ransacked Fiji's capital Suva." "This was supposed to be a coup by indigenous Fijians angry at their loss of power. But as the drama unfolded and Speight's rebels continued to hold the politicians hostage, the spectacle turned into a power struggle pitting Fijians against each other. This climaxed in a violent military mutiny." "Speight of Violence offers an insiders' view of what happened. Extracts from a secret diary kept by Deputy Prime Minister Tupeni Baba during his 56 days in captivity tell of Speight's behaviour, the conditions inside Parliament, and the beating of Chaudhry: and Red Cross letters between Tupeni and his partner Unaisi Nabobo-Baba reveal the distress and deprivations suffered by the hostages' families. Veteran Pacific reporter Michael Field, who covered the coup and the treason trials which followed, reports the barricade, court and media dramas and offers a powerful analysis of what it all meant. | |
dc.format.extent | 290 pages | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | Canberra, ACT : Pandanus Books | |
dc.publisher | Canberra, ACT : Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. | |
dc.rights | Author/s retain copyright | |
dc.subject.other | governance, conflict, Fiji | |
dc.title | Speight of Violence : Inside Fiji's 2000 coup | |
dc.type | Book | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
dc.provenance | Pacific Institute Digitisation Project | |
Collections | ANU Pacific Institute |
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