SUVA, Fiji — The rebels who ousted this Pacific nation's elected leadership turned in their weapons Friday with a Fijian flourish: swapping whale's teeth and asking for forgiveness a day after they ended an 8-week-old hostage crisis.
Businessman George Speight and his rebels--all ethnic Fijians--stormed Parliament on May 19 and seized dozens of members of the government.
Saying the nation's large ethnic Indian minority had too much power, they managed to get the multiracial constitution scrapped and ousted Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister.
