Troops on streets in Fiji's "coup by strangulation"
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Heavily-armed soldiers remained on Fiji's streets on Tuesday and government cars were being seized, radio reports said, as the military increased pressure on the government amid fears of a fourth coup in 20 years.
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Fijian troops will quickly suppress any uprising, the military chief warned on Wednesday as the country's deposed prime minister called for non-violent protests after the South Pacific nation's fourth coup in 20 years.
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Fiji PM Laisenia Qarase is to meet military leader Frank Bainimarama, for talks aimed at averting a coup.
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Australia's armed forces said an army Blackhawk helicopter had been "lost" on Wednesday near Fiji, where navy ships have been positioned to evacuate Australians in the event of a coup. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Sri Lanka Special Task Force soldiers conduct a search operation on suspected vehicles and people entering the capital Colombo.Comment
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Fiji's prime minister went into hiding Friday in anticipation of a coup, but a deadline set by the country's defiant military commander passed without the threatened ouster of the government.
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Fiji's political leaders criticised the coup by military commander Voreqe Bainimarama but media censorship by the armed forces meant many Fijians did not hear their condemnations.
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SUVA - Fiji's extraordinary political crisis dragged on amid confusion over whether a military deadline to overthrow the government had been extended while government ministers scattered across the island nation on Saturday.
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The bodies of 40 men who were shot and had their hands and feet bound have been found in the capital over the past 24 hours, police said Thursday.
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Soldiers surround the home of Fiji PM Laisenia Qarase, as he tells the BBC that a coup is imminent.
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Fiji's military chief said on Wednesday his troops would quickly suppress any uprising, as the country's deposed prime minister called for non-violent protests against the South Pacific nation's fourth coup in 20 years.
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Sustained gunfire was heard coming from inside Fiji's main military barracks on Saturday, Reuters witnesses said, four days after the army overthrew the south Pacific island nation's elected government.
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Powerful tribal and church leaders in Fiji express growing opposition to Tuesday's military coup.
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Fiji's defiant military chief warned South Pacific neighbors to stay out of Fijian affairs as tensions rose after Australia said there was clear evidence a fourth coup in 20 years is being planned.
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Fiji's military took over running the country in a bloodless overthrow on Tuesday after confining the elected prime minister to his home in the South Pacific island nation's fourth coup in 20 years.
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Fiji's military commander said Tuesday that he had seized control of the country and dismissed the elected prime minister after a weeks-long standoff between the two leaders rooted in tension between the South Pacific nation's indigenous people and its ethnic Indian minority.
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Fiji's ousted prime minister says public anger against a military coup could force the new rulers to step down.