The Maldives were far from being a peaceful paradise last week, as pro-democracy islanders suffered the effects of brutal police repression.
From the super-luxury thatched and stilted beach villas of the £1000 a night Villingili Resort, you look out from palm-fringed white sands, across the cobalt tropical lagoon to Gan, one of the Maldives paradise islands, barely a stone's throw away.
You can hear the gentle lapping of the water, the discreet whirr of speedboat engines, but not the sound of angry mobs torching police stations in response to the coup against the country's first ever democratically elected president last week - or of the brutal revenge beatings inflicted by the riot police who overthrew President Mohamed Nasheed. Full story...
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From the super-luxury thatched and stilted beach villas of the £1000 a night Villingili Resort, you look out from palm-fringed white sands, across the cobalt tropical lagoon to Gan, one of the Maldives paradise islands, barely a stone's throw away.
You can hear the gentle lapping of the water, the discreet whirr of speedboat engines, but not the sound of angry mobs torching police stations in response to the coup against the country's first ever democratically elected president last week - or of the brutal revenge beatings inflicted by the riot police who overthrew President Mohamed Nasheed. Full story...
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