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They are no longer ministers. I'm the only  government, only person who's  governing the country at the present moment  until I decide in the next few days how  many other people could help me carry out the duties.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fiji President\u003cbr/\u003eThe announcement came several hours after the rebels started a gunfight with Fijian  soldiers at a roadblock outside parliament in which two soldiers and a television  producer and cameraman were wounded.\u003cbr/\u003eMara said the timing of his announcement was not related to the shooting.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a news conference following the scuffle, Speight blamed the deployment of soldiers  at the roadblock for the violence and demanded that all troops withdraw to barracks.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"We want all the army removed immediately. We don't want any army  deployed  anywhere around the country because we don't see any reason why they should be  deployed. We are not in a siege situation publicly, this is  a situation that's here  amongst themselves as indigenous Fijians, we are not at war with anybody and for  them to start deploying the army in the public and restricting, I think the main reason is  they want to restrict  our supplies of food , and rations  coming into the site and also to   restrict  members of the public from coming into the complex.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: George Speight, Coup Leader\u003cbr/\u003eSpeight said the negotiations with the Great Council of Chiefs would continue despite  the confrontation with the army.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is  an ethnic issue. It has the potential to explode. There's the army raging out  there, or  portions of it - we've got portions of them in here and we  got the Great   Council of Chiefs on one side and there's me here on the inside, there's  battles going  on , we've got the leadership issues at stake, we've got His  Excellency Ratu Mara and  young upstarts like me saying \"hey, you've had your  day, go away ... so when you got  this whole mix of issues going on , just ,  really... try and be a bit ... be careful, just be  careful. \"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: George Speight, Coup Leader\u003cbr/\u003eAt the same news conference, Speight alleged that he and his supporters had  found  evidence that Prime Minister Chaudhry had plans for an ethnic Indian colonisation of  Fiji.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have come across documents within Mr. Chaudhry's office, and on computers, and  within Mr. Chaudhry's regime which confirmed that the Chaudhry-led  government, at  least the Indian portion of it, were embarking, were in the  process of implementing  what's called the Indian colonisation of Fiji  programme at all levels in our society.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: George Speight, Coup Leader\u003cbr/\u003eMara's decision to sack the government signaled that he was accepting two of  Speight's three main demands - a new government and immunity for the rebels.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Mara did not accept the third - that he resign as president.\u003cbr/\u003eSaturday's shootout, the first since the takeover began, occurred after about 200  supporters of the coup and at least three armed rebels left the parliamentary compound  and confronted about eight soldiers at a roadblock.\u003cbr/\u003eIn an effort to remove the roadblock, the rebel supporters tried to grab the soldiers'  weapons and pushed one of them to the ground.\u003cbr/\u003eThe other soldiers fired warning shots. \u003cbr/\u003eThe rebels shot back, setting off a brief gun battle before both groups dispersed.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials said one soldier was hit in the shoulder and the other in the leg.\u003cbr/\u003eJerry Harmer, 38, of Britain, a senior producer and cameraman for Associated Press  Television News, was shot in the right wrist.\u003cbr/\u003eDoctors at Suva's Colonial War Memorial hospital said his condition was good.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeight did not appear to be involved in the confrontation.\u003cbr/\u003e Suva, Fiji - 27 May, 2000 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of news conference by Fiji President Sir Kamisese Mara\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fiji President \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e4. Coup leader George Speight entering room \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Speight, Coup Leader\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of conference\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Speight, Coup Leader\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of conference\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Speight, Coup Leader\u003cbr/\u003e10. Speight leaving press conference\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide shot crowd\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of Speight speaking , showing documents which he claims is a programme  for the colonisation of Fiji\u003cbr/\u003e13. 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