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Cyclone George (2000): "They dragged Mahendra Chaudhry out of his seat and…kicked the back of his knee. They kicked it so he was forced to kneel." This description of when George Speight's gunmen stormed the parliamentary chamber comes from one of the MP's Speight held hostage in his struggle for power. Who is this self-appointed Fijian leader? And has Speight gambled the future and the reputation of his nation with barely a thought for tomorrow? ABC Australia looks at the coup -from the early rumblings of anti-Chaudhry discontent to the fateful decision to ambush the parliament- in an attempt to understand this ethnic political struggle.

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