Nasheed vilified at PPM Victory Day rally
Speakers at the rally sought to tie the opposition leader with the failed coup attempt by a group of Maldivians and Tamil mercenaries to overthrow former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom in November 1988.
10 Nov 2017, 9:00 AM
Former president Mohamed Nasheed was the target of vituperative speeches at a ruling party rally held to commemorate the failed coup attempt of November 3, 1988.
All the speakers at Thursday night’s rally sought to tie Nasheed with the violent attempt by a group of Maldivians and Tamil mercenaries to overthrow former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
Some of the coup perpetrators were appointed to top posts in Nasheed’s administration, which stopped marking Victory Day, they said. A video clip of Gayoom saying during the 2008 campaign that Nasheed’s family was linked to the coup was played repeatedly throughout the rally.
“There’s no doubt that President Maumoon should be ashamed to scheme with Nasheed and his associates who carried out this barbarous, dark act,” said Majority Leader Ahmed Nihan.
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