Armed rebels who have been holding Fiji’s prime minister and dozens of legislators hostage in Parliament for a week knocked down a military barricade today so that more of their supporters could enter the complex. Rebel leader George Speight and about sixty gunmen have been holding Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and more than thirty members of his government hostage since storming Parliament May 19th. Speight has declared himself prime minister and appointed his own cabinet. Chaudhry, who was elected prime minister last year in Fiji, is the first leader of Fiji from its ethnic Indian minority. Speight claims to be acting on behalf of the Pacific island nation’s majority, ethnic Fijians.