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Fiji Coup: Great Council Of Chiefs Backs President
Following a meeting of the Great Council of Chiefs in Suva today Chairman Sitiveni Rambuka has declared that the chiefs support the President and that they want the hostages taken by Coup Leader George Speight released immediately.
However, the chiefs will meet again to consider constitutional reform.
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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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