Prahara di 'Surga Dunia' Maladewa

Negara yang hidup dari resor-resor mewah ini kini tengah terguncang. Presiden Mohamed Nasheed terguling akibat kudeta. Nasheed mengatakan pada wartawan ia terpaksa mengundur- kan diri setelah ditodong senjata. Nasheed adalah pemimpin yang vokal menyuarakan isu lingkungan dan perubahan iklim.

Tourism officials in the Maldives have denied that health spas at luxury holiday resorts operate as brothels and sought legal redress to squash the government orders to shut the facilities

Police take cover behind their shields as a tear gas canister is thrown back towards them by supporters of ousted Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed during a clash in Male February 8, 2012. The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean island resort, said on Wednesday he was forced out of power at gunpoint, prompting clashes between police and angry supporters. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte (MALDIVES - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST) sedikit

Maldives soldiers raise their hands as they shout slogans in Male February 7, 2012. Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, widely credited with bringing democracy to the hideaway resort islands, resigned on Tuesday after weeks of opposition protests erupted into a police mutiny and what an aide said amounted to a coup. REUTERS/Stringer (MALDIVES - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST)

Former Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed, second left, sits before journalists at his residence in Male, Maldives, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. A criminal court in the island nation issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Nasheed, who stepped down from power earlier this week but later insisted he had been ousted in a coup. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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