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Speight was the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, in which he kidnapped thirty-six government officials and held them for approximately three months in an attempt to overthrow the constitutional government. Speight found a sizeable number of sympathizers among the ethnic Fijian nationalists, but he was arrested on July 27th along with 369 of his followers. He was tried for treason and is now serving a life sentence. What is thought to have motivated the coup?