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NEWSFLASH: Suva Situation Dangerous
The Great COuncil of chiefs will meet again later today to consider constitutional reform and the fate of George Speight.
At the Parliamentary compound in Suva Reports from Radio New Zealand's Barbara Dreaver this morning in Suva indicate George Speight is taking the news fairly badly.
After a scary night surrounded by hundreds of young men in the Parliamentary Compound Dreaver this morning left saying the mood had changed. "He is not a good man," Dreaver concluded her broadcast from outside the enclosure.
Reports this morning also indicate lawless elements have taken to the streets in Fiji again businesses have been burnt and families have been threatened.
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Alastair Thompson
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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