BHU JAMALPUR, India — Jostling crowds, dancers, flags and flowered arches welcomed deposed Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry on Thursday to the village of his ancestors. The people of Bhu ...

The deposed Fijian prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, fears that 300,000 Indo-Fijians - most of the ethnic Indian population - will leave because of the armed nationalist coup led by George Speight.

Deposed Fijian prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry has described the situation in the country as alarming with many people suffering. Mr Chaudhry, who was speaking shortly after being released from the ...

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SUVA - The deputy of ousted Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry said yesterday that the former leader was totally unsuitable for governing the country ...

Fiji's former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry is released on bail after allegedly breaching emergency regulations by holding public meetings.

On July 13, after 56 days as a prisoner of coup leader George Speight, Mahendra Chaudhry was freed into a new Fiji, without a Constitution or an elected government, and policed by martial law.

Fiji Labor Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry, who was ousted as prime minister in the 2000 coup, likens it to the eviction of white farmers in Zimbabwe by black nationalists who have let the farms ...

In May 2000, ultranationalist rebels stormed Fiji's parliament and took the country's first Indian leader hostage. For eight weeks Mahendra Chaudhry, a descendant of immigrant sugar-cane farmers, ...

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.