Maldives Democratic Party

The Commonwealth Should Threaten to Expel the Maldives

Mark Seddon | Posted 10.04.2012 | UK
Mark Seddon

As the world watched the Syrian regime roll in tanks to crush, kill and maim its own civilians in grotesque numbers, a bunch of corrupt gangsters staged a coup d'état in the small Indian Ocean state of the Maldives. The democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, was forced to tender his resignation.