In the past few days, villagers around Fiji have set up roadblocks, taken over a police station, shut down the country's main hydroelectric station, and seized a number of hostages.
Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs is again being called in to resolve the political hostage crisis.
IRN political editor Barry Soper says the rebel leader
has promised to release the hostages on Thursday morning before the chiefs meet.
The move follows the signing between Fiji's coup plotters and martial law authorities of an accord which
gives almost total amnesty to George Speight and his supporters.
The agreement states its immmediate objectives are the
release of the political hostages held at Parliament, and the restoration of law and order as soon as possible.
