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Lynching of
Mohamed Amin
The closing scene of a previous and more barbaric transition
of power in the Maldives. The president of the first republic
Mohamed Amin Dorhimeyna Kilegefan was lynched by the mob
pictured above, with the active encouragement of the regime
that seized control from him in 1953. This Kilegefan died of
the brutal injuries sustained in the attack. Following
prolonged assaults on a horrific scale, his bloodied and fully
naked body, still alive and reduced to a bag of broken bones,
was thrown into one of the boats pictured above. He survived a
few weeks and in that time he was tried by a self-appointed
kangaroo court and sentenced to be put in irons for life. He
was shackled and died in that sorry condition- a testament to
how Maldivians treat their deposed leaders. -
Majid's Royal
family
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