Maldives coup. 7 coup overthrew the countrys first democratically elected president mohamed nasheed. The 1988 maldives coup detat whose rescue efforts were code named operation cactus by the indian armed forces was the attempt by a group of maldivians led by abdullah luthufi and assisted by armed mercenaries of a tamil secessionist organisation from sri lanka the peoples liberation organisation of tamil eelam plote to overthrow the government in the island republic of maldives. Indias stand on maldives coup.
After the male coup at first indian governments stand was well treat the matter as an internal issue of maldives to be sorted out by themselves. Drama on high seas. By lasanda kurukulasuriya.
Nasheeds successor and opposition forces also stated that the transfer of power was voluntary. The president of the maldives said tuesday he ordered a state of emergency to investigate this plot this coup involving a supreme court ruling last week that ordered the release of imprisoned. In the maldives a country of hundreds of islands in the indian ocean a feb.
An attempted coup in the maldives is being investigated police said monday after revealing that bribes of more than us27million were exchanged as part of a plot to overthrow the government of president abdulla yameen. How 1988 maldives coup leaders were held 19 feb 2012 0908 am ist operation cactus indias military intervention at the request of then president gayoom of the maldives in 1988 was a spontaneous response swiftly executed. There has been a spontaneous outpouring of sympathy and expression of concern from many quarters with.
The unexpected ouster of mohamed nasheed from the presidency of the maldives last week seems to have stirred the collective conscience of people in the region and beyond. As a long time pro democracy activist nasheed was imprisoned 16 times and tortured under the previous gayoom regime. The coup interpretation was also backed by uk mp david amess chairman of the all party parliamentary group to the maldives but contradicted by uk prime minister david cameron who asserted that nasheed had resigned.
We recognize the newly sworn in president waheed as the head of maldives.
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