Editor: Brij V. Lal with Michael Pretes

Description: May 19, 2000. Fiji’s democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight’s supporters gather on the lawns of the parliamentary complex, dancing, cooking food, celebrating the purported abrogation of the constitution that brought the Peoples’ Coalition government to power. The country is plunged into darkness yet again, enduring the pain of three coups in a period of just thirteen years. This book gathers a handful of memoirs of those tragic events in Fiji. They were written while the gun was still smoking; personal, anguished reactions of people from all walks of life.

Location- Lautoka [1 copy]

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