The Island President Deposed
Film maker Jon Shenk crafted an extremely moving 6 minute documentary about Mohamed Nasheed, the now ex-president of the Maldives (Nasheed was forced out of office by gunpoint on Tuesday). The short film walks through Nasheed's rise from political prisoner to first democratically elected leader of the Maldives. As a vulnerable enclave of islands, Shenk follows the president's push to make the islands the first carbon neutral country in the world. His fight against international business pressures leads up to this week's unrest. To visually experience Nasheed's rise and fall, watch the short film above or read Shenk's written chronicle of the Maldives president.
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