10 Questions for Mohamed Nasheed

Chiara Goia

Mohamed Nasheed

In February, you were forced to resign following what many say was a coup fomented by those loyal to the old dictatorship of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. Was there nothing popular about the movement against you?
Where are the flowers? Where are the people behind them? Let me see one person coming out on the street and being happy about it. And look at the amount of people coming out in our favor, in our support. There's no popularity in the coup. It's just a group of people who schemed it...

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