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Paperback The Maldives: Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy Book

ISBN: 1849045895

ISBN13: 9781849045896

The Maldives: Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy

The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country of contradictions, where tourists sip cocktails on the beach while on nearby islands local women are flogged for extramarital sex and blackmarket vodka costs $140 a bottle.

Until 2008 the Maldives also hosted Asia's longest-serving dictator, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. A former political prisoner, Mohamed...

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