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Timeline of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état

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May 19, 2000

May 20, 2000

  • The military and police pledge loyalty to Mara.

May 26, 2000

  • Fifteen soldiers and two officers defect to the coup.

May 27, 2000

  • The rebels try to break the siege. Gunfire is exchanged.
  • President Mara dismisses Mahendra Chaudhry and appoints Ratu Tevita Momoedonu as Prime Minister in his place. Momoedonu holds office for only a few minutes: he is appointed in order to "advise" the President to assume emergency powers, something that Chaudhry, in captivity, is unable to do. Mara claims to be following the Great Council of Chiefs. Mara offers Speight a pardon, which Speight rejects. (Mara later accused the Great Council of Chiefs of deception: according to him, they had lost confidence in him also, although that did not become apparent until two days later).

May 29, 2000

  • Commodore Frank Bainimarama declares himself head of an Interim Military Government, with the claimed backing of the previous president, and declares martial law. (In an interview on 29 April of the following year, deposed President Mara denied that he had given Bainimarama his support. His resignation had been, he said, extorted from him, following his refusal of their request to abrogate the constitution).

May 30, 2000

June 7, 2000

June 20, 2000

  • Speight rejects an ultimatum demanding he sign an accord.

July 4, 2000

July 6, 2000

  • Rebels cut off Suva's power supply.

July 7, 2000

July 9, 2000

  • Speight and the military sign an accord.
  • There is rioting in Levuka

July 12, 2000

  • Speight's group release 9 hostages.

July 13, 2000

July 27, 2000

  • Speight is arrested in contravention of an earlier accord granting him immunity from prosecution, an accord agreed to by the military, according to Bainimarama, only "under duress."

November 2, 2000

November 15, 2000

  • The High Court declares the interim government to be illegal, orders the reinstatement of the 1997 Constitution, of Mara as President and of the Chaudhry government. Mara resigns, backdating his resignation to 29 May. The government appeals the ruling.

March 1, 2001

References

  1. ^ "Fiji's leaders held hostage in 'ethnic' coup | | the Guardian".

Bibliography

  • Trnka, S. (2011). State of Suffering: Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji. United States: Cornell University Press., ISBN 9780801461880 Read
  • Pretes, M. (2008). Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji. United States: ANU E Press., ISBN 9781921536373 Read
  • Baba, T., Nabobo-Baba, U., Field, M. (2005). Speight of Violence: Inside Fiji's 2000 Coup. Australia: Pandanus Books., ISBN 9781740761703 Read
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