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If a government falls in paradise, does anyone hear?

by Thom Woodroofe

20 Mar 05:35am

Filed under: Coups, Government, Islands, Maldives, Military

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A month ago a radical coup in an island string nation in the Indian Ocean passed with the world barely noticing.

If that's the presidential palace down there, then we'd take it at gunpoint too. Pic: maldivestourism.net

To most people the Republic of Maldives is nothing more than a glorious tourist resort. Nestled some four hundred kilometres off the Indian coastline it is home to over one thousand coral islands that collectively form the smallest Asian country in both population and land mass.

But on Tuesday 7th February just after noon, the country’s first elected President, Mohamed Nasheed, was ushered into his office and forced to resign at gunpoint according to his own account.

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rod sexton says:

06:31pm | 20/03/12

It wont be a ‘glorious tourist resort’ for much longer. It will be full sharia law from now on. Read more »
Utopia Boy says:

05:07pm | 20/03/12

The fact is, the Maldives is already pretty much under full control of Saudi and the Wahibists. A week or two before the coup, all day spas on all resorts in the Maldives were banned from operating. A couple of days later, the ban was repealed and the Wahibists illegally… Read more »

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