{"id":161752,"date":"2023-07-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=920686"},"modified":"2023-07-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T00:00:00","slug":"after-india-out-protests-maldives-government-issues-condemnation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/07\/01\/after-india-out-protests-maldives-government-issues-condemnation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"After \u2018India Out\u2019 protests, Maldives government issues condemnation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a group of protestors staged an anti-India demonstration in Maldives, the country\u2019s foreign ministry on Friday issued a statement denouncing the agitation.
\nAt the demonstrations that took place on Thursday, some of the protestors wore masks depicting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while others held banners that read, \u201cIndia Out\u201d.
\nIn its statement, the Maldivian foreign ministry blamed the country\u2019s Opposition parties for the protests. The demonstration did not \u201conly provoke hatred, but also promote hostility with the objective of tarnishing the country\u2019s long-standing cordial ties with India\u201d, the Maldivian government said.
\nThe immediate trigger of the protests on Thursday is not clear, but Opposition parties in Maldives have been using the \u201cIndia Out\u201d campaign since 2020 to target the government.
\nIn April last year, such protests had been banned after they gained traction under the leadership of former President Abdulla Yameen. At that time, the protestors had alleged that the government had become \u201ca puppet of New Delhi\u201d and was allowing India to have a military presence in the island country.
\nIn 2018, the Maldives government had issued a clarification after media reports claimed that India was planning to offer it a loan of $1 billion in exchange for permanent deployment of Indian troops in the country. The reports had cited unidentified Indian officials saying that the loan was conditioned on Male distancing itself from China as well as on allowing India to deploy its security personnel to the island nation.
\nThe roots of the \u201cIndia Out\u201d campaign are in the change in Maldives\u2019 foreign policy since Ibrahim Mohamed Solih took over as the president in 2018. The previous dispensation led by Abdulla Yameen was seen to have been closer to China than India. During Yameen\u2019s tenure between 2013 and 2018, Maldives was estimated to have borrowed US$ 1.5 billion (over Rs 12,000 crore) from China, according to a paper published by the Observer Research Foundation.
\n\u201cIn 2018, his [Yameen] government asked India to withdraw its helicopters and operatives from the country, accusing them of espionage and violating sovereignty,\u201d the paper noted.
\nHowever, after Solih came in power, he shelved a number of Chinese projects in the country. He also undertook \u201cIndia First\u201d as a stated policy. Since then, India and Maldives have signed deals across sectors like defence, roads, agriculture, sanitation, education and maritime security.<\/p>\n

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