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Various of people looking at newspapers2. Sathin Chaudhry, son of deposed prime minister, hugging woman3. Sathin Chaudhry with press4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sathin Chaudhry, son of Mahendra Chaudhry , deposed...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSuva, Fiji - 14 July 2000\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of people looking at newspapers\u003cbr/\u003e2. Sathin Chaudhry, son of deposed prime minister, hugging woman\u003cbr/\u003e3. Sathin Chaudhry with press\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sathin Chaudhry, son of Mahendra Chaudhry , deposed Prime Minister of Fiji\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wideshot compound\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid shot people singing in hut inside compound\u003cbr/\u003e7. Closer shot men clapping\u003cbr/\u003e8. Speight holding decree\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Speight, coup leader\u003cbr/\u003e10. Speight standing near window - zooms out to reveal arms on floor\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of weapons laid out on floor\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid shot Speight kisses woman\u003cbr/\u003e13. Cutaway mid shot men at window\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid shot Speight embracing man\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide shot parliament\u003cbr/\u003e16. CU Speight - pan to CU army general\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide shot Parliament\u003cbr/\u003e18. Back shot press conference (part overlaid with UPSOT of Sitiveni Rabuka, Council Chairman)\u003cbr/\u003e19. Cutaway cameras\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sitiveni Rabuka, Council Chairman\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of arms being packed up and carried away\u003cbr/\u003e22. Arms being loaded into truck\u003cbr/\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eFiji's tribal chiefs picked a rebel supporter as vice president on Friday, paving the way for the man who launched a two-month national crisis to fill the new Cabinet in the shattered government.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Great Council of Chiefs installed Ratu Jope Seniloli as vice president, the day after appointing Ratu Josefa Iloilo president.\u003cbr/\u003eBoth men were nominated by coup leader George Speight.\u003cbr/\u003eThe appointments followed a two month parliamentary hostage crisis that has inflamed ethnic tensions in Fiji and ravaged the South Pacific nation's crucial tourist industry.\u003cbr/\u003eThe final 18 hostages were released on Thursday following a deal on Sunday.\u003cbr/\u003eThe military agreed to scrap the country's multiracial constitution, depose Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first prime minister of ethnic Indian descent, and grant Speight and his men amnesty.\u003cbr/\u003eIndo-Fijians, whose ancestors were brought to the islands by British colonialists over a century ago to work in the rich sugar cane fields, make up 44 percent of Fiji's 812-thousand people. \u003cbr/\u003eMany indigenous Fijians resent the Indo-Fijians' economic and political power.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Sathin Chaudhry, Mahendra Chaudhry's son, said on Friday that they were properly protected under the constitution.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The interest of all communities were adequately catered for and taken into account and represented in the composition of the cabinet and if there were any general grievances, they could have been taken to the appropriate authorities like the judicial system.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Sathin Chaudhry, son of Mahendra Chaudhry , deposed Prime Minister of Fiji\u003cbr/\u003eSpeight said he was acting on behalf of indigenous Fijians when he and an armed gang raided parliament on May 19, took dozens of lawmakers hostage and demanded the country's large ethnic Indian minority be stripped of political power.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a news conference on Friday, he celebrated his success.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeight held up the Fiji Government Gazette - the document providing immunity from prosecution for himself and the other hostage-takers.\u003cbr/\u003eOn the inside of this document was the decree transferring executive power to an interim government. \u003cbr/\u003eThat became effective at 5am Fijian time.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeight said it spelled the end of the country's military government.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The military government is finished and executive authority has been transferred to Ratu Josefa Iloilo. On the back of this is the oath that he will swear some time over the next few days so we're getting closer to the final conclusion. As you know the hostages have been released and after this I'm going to take you into the building just up the road here and have you photograph all the ammunitions and guns and machine guns and ouzies that will be handed back to the chiefs this afternoon in a special ceremony that we'll be inviting you to capture.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: George Speight, coup leader\u003cbr/\u003eAs promised, the weapons to be handed over were put on show for the press.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd there were congratulations all round following the successful release of the final 18 hostages, which included Mahendra Chaudhry.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Great Council of Chiefs installed Ratu Jope Seniloli as vice president, the day after appointing Ratu Josefa Iloilo president.\u003cbr/\u003eThe chiefs now want Iloilo to choose Fiji's next government without outside influence, said council chairman Sitiveni Rabuka.\u003cbr/\u003eAn announcement is expected within days.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The special meeting of the Bosoleo Buturana (?) concluded this afternoon and unanimously resolved the following. 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