Thursday, 1 March 2012

Fresh violence in Maldives


01.03.2012
Fresh violence erupted in Maldives including inside the parliament that was scheduled to open today with supporters of former President Mohammed Nasheed attacking the police and preventing President Mohammed Waheed Hassan from making his opening address.
Nazim Sattar, Nasheed's younger brother has been arrested along with 17 other protesters.
Even before Waheed came to parliament chambers', Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) members removed his chair as well as that of his cabinet ministers and shouted slogans asking for his resignation.
The session, which was to be opened with Waheed's speech, has been delayed.
Heavy police deployment was made inside the People's Majlis (Parliament) premises and outside but some MDP protesters got inside the security zone after tearing through the barriers.

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