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Fiji faces martial law again

Coup plotters discussing make-up of new govt with president
SUVA July 20 : Fiji's military were on the verge of sacking another president and re-imposing martial law in a bld to All a worsening political vacuum in the Pacific nation, political sources said today.
The action is likely because newly-named President Josefa Iloilo is insisting representatives of coup leader George Speight have a more prominent role in an interim government, the sources told AFP.
Their warning came as Speight supporters held talks with the president on the make-up of a new administration that is supposed to guide Fiji back to democracy.
The country's elected government, headed by Mahendra Chaudhry. Fiji's first ethnic Indian premier, was deposed on May 19 when Speight staged a coup In the name of indigenous Fijians' rights.
An interim administration headed by a military-backed prime minister, Laisenia Qarase, and including only a handful of
Speight allies had been due to take office on Wednesday.
But the swearing-In ceremony was cancelled at the last minute after Iloilo failed to turn up. The rebels had warned of fresh civil unrest If the government was appointed.
In an unusual move on Thursday. the Official Secretary to Government House. Joe Brown, met Police Commissioner Islkla Savua at the Suva Central Police Station. Representatives of the Speight camp were also present.
Local radio said the meeting was about national security matters but no comment was made by any participants.
Tension was still strong in the country with fears that any break-down between Speight and the authorities, who have only a weak hold on power, will lead again to a law and order crisis.
The sole hydro power station remained in rebel hands and the northern town of Labasa appeared to be suffering continued anarchy as rebels from a nearby army base terrorise
streets.
Speight, accompanied by special forces officer Illsonl Ligairi, seized Parliament on May 19. taking Chaudhry and his government hostage.
The military declared martial law ten days later after rioting in Suva by supporters of the rebels.
President Ratu Sir Kamlscse Mara was deposed and an interim administration headed by Qarase appointed, despite opposition from Speight
Political sources told AFP Thursday that Iloilo was willing to give Speight greater say In the government line up. but Qarase was strongly opposed to it
Sources told AFP that one of the members of Qarase s line-up earlier Thursday visited Mara, who remains enormously influential here.
The member carried a message saying that if Iloilo gives in to Speight, the Qarase cabinet would ask the military to re-impose martial law.
Mara backed this course of action, the sources said.
Speight again Thursday vented his fury that Qarase was still in office along with the rest of the military-appointed interim cabinet
He noted that the accord he signed with the FMF stated that the ministers were deemed to have resigned once executive authority was transferred from the military to Iloilo.
Meanwhile, Fiji's nationalist rebels were Thursday holding talks with the South Pacific nation's president on the makeup of a new government, radio services here reported.
Coup plotters George Speight and Illsonl Ligairi seized parliament on May 19 and held the government of elected prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry hostage until Last week in the name of ethnic Fijians.
New President Josefa Iloilo Tuesday named caretaker Prime Minister Laisenia Qarasa as the new interim prime minister but when Qarasa named a new cabinet Speight s group threatened civil war.