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FIJI: Soldiers seize police station
Monday, 19 June 2000, 3:24 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Three armed Fijians, including the father of a soldier allegedly killed by an Indo-Fijian soldier awaiting courtmartial, today seized suburban Nabua police station in the capital Suva, according to media reports. More >>
Military regime agrees to some Speight nominees
Monday, 19 June 2000, 9:29 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's military regime says it will include some people nominated by rebel leader George Speight in a civilian interim government, according to media reports. More >>
Speight Spurns Press Conferences
Monday, 19 June 2000, 9:26 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji rebel leader George Speight called it a day yesterday when he announced that he would not be holding any more press conferences for the international media, the Fiji Sun reports. More >>
Pina Blasted Over Media Freedom
Monday, 19 June 2000, 9:15 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (PMW): The Pacific Islands News Association was bitterly attacked today in the letters column of the Fiji Sun for its alleged "silence" over violations of media freedom by rebel leader George Speight and his supporters during the month-old Fiji ... More >>
Fiji Unions Stand Firm In Spite Of Harassment
Monday, 19 June 2000, 9:10 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Trade union leaders in the Fiji Islands have warned that any "solution" to the Pacific country's political crisis based outside the 1997 multiracial constitution will lead to more economic sanctions. More >>
'Dear prime minister, I hope they'll free you'
Monday, 19 June 2000, 8:56 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: An 11-year-old Fiji Islands schoolgirl today appealed in a national newspaper for the rebels to free elected prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry and his government from their parliamentary prison. More >>
Daily Post Lashes Out Over Isolation
Monday, 19 June 2000, 8:47 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's Daily Post today lashed out at "bullying tactics" by Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth "friends" who were judging the Pacific country's attempts to deal with the month-old hostage crisis from a distance. More >>
Promised Peace To Be Restored
Friday, 16 June 2000, 11:09 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
HONIARA: The Solomon Islands militia group which controls the capital, Honiara, says peace will be restored following the resignation of the prime minister, Bartholomew Ulufa'alu. More >>
Chief Justice Defends Military Role
Thursday, 15 June 2000, 5:28 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's Chief Justice has defended the Pacific country's interim military administration as the only "viable alternative government" and says the judiciary's cooperation with the martial law authorities was necessary. More >>
Oti 'Disappointed' In Australia
Wednesday, 14 June 2000, 7:00 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Patterson Oti says he is disappointed Australia did not respond to the government's request for Australian peacekeepers to be sent to the Pacific country. More >>
PM Resigns Ahead Of Vote
Wednesday, 14 June 2000, 6:56 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu has resigned ahead of a no-confidence motion to be tabled in Parliament next week. More >>
The Voice Of The Churches
Wednesday, 14 June 2000, 6:25 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's churches have made belated appeals this week for their parishioners to refuse support for rebel leader George Speight's insurrection and for the 31 hostages to be freed. More >>
FIJI: The day of the parliamentary gunmen
Wednesday, 14 June 2000, 4:50 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
By Matelita Ragogo, a Fiji Times reporter who has won an AusAID/Pacific Media Initiative scholarship to complete her Diploma in Pacific Journalism at the University of the South Pacific in Semester 2, 2000 © USP Journalism Programme More >>
Bizarre Life In A Siege City
Tuesday, 13 June 2000, 6:00 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: It's an irony of this bizarre insurrection in Fiji, now in its fourth week, that the country has been "celebrating" two public holidays in two successive weeks: Today Fiji, which is on the verge of becoming a Commonwealth pariah, is celebrating ... More >>
Fiji Villagers' Bus Trip To Freedom
Tuesday, 13 June 2000, 11:09 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
USP Journalism online (UTS host): http://www.journalism.uts.edu.au/ Wansolwara Online: http://www.lookinglassdesign.com/wansolwara/wansol.html Have your say: http://www.TheGuestBook.com/vgbook/109497.gbook More >>
FIJI: RSF protests to USP over news website
Tuesday, 13 June 2000, 9:13 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Note: Reports on the Fiji political crisis by the USP Journalism Programme's website Pacific Journalism Online are being hosted by the University of Technology Sydney's Department of Social Communication and Journalism website in Australia until PJO ... More >>
FIJI: Troops fire on rebel cars
Tuesday, 13 June 2000, 9:08 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Tension is high after soldiers fired on Fiji rebel leader George Speight's motorcade yesterday, reports the Fiji Times. Nobody was hurt in the incident but one of the vehicles was hit twice. More >>
FIJI: Military open fire at rebel leader's convoy
Tuesday, 13 June 2000, 9:05 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fijian military forces opened fire today on a vehicle carrying rebel leader George Speight, according to local radio FM96. More >>
TIMOR: Military denies role in journalist's death
Tuesday, 13 June 2000, 9:04 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
JAKARTA (JP): Spokesman of the Indonesian Military (TNI) Rear Air Marshall Graito Usodo vouched on Thursday for Maj. Gen. Kiki Syahnakri, the former chief of the restoration command in East Timor, over his testimony on the death of journalist Sander Thoenes ... More >>
FIJI: Rebel leader gains more support
Monday, 12 June 2000, 2:31 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews) -- Intense negotiations are underway in Fiji today as coup leader George Speight claims majority support from the country's chiefs, Pacnews reports. More >>
