Mayor Saud slams ‘forced’ migration to capital

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Thinadhoo mayor Saud Ali has slammed ‘forced’ migration of people living in islands to Male’, accusing President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu’s administration of employing similar policies as the one that led to brutal Thinadhoo massacre in 1962. In 1962, then-Prime Minister Ibrahim Nasirr ordered the depopulation of Thinadhoo to crush the secessionist United Suvadive Republic in the southern atolls. Government forces invaded,