Repression mixes with tourism as a new generation seeks power
(NEWSER) - Luxury resorts coexist in the Maldives with claims of a darker reality: Censorship, political repression, torture, and recent terrorist bombings. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the longest-serving leader in Asia, is reneging on a promise to step down and instead will run for a seventh term. But now his own supporters are turning on him and three key ministers have quit, the Independent reports. More»
