Thinadhoo repopulation celebrations postponed to December

Government has made the decision to postpone official celebrations to mark 50 years since G. Dh. Thinadhoo was repopulated to December.

The celebrations, were previously scheduled for August.

Media coordinator for Ministry of Home Affairs, Thazmeel Abdul Samad spoke to “Sun” on Tuesday and said that the government had made the decision to postpone celebrations to December, during year-old holidays so as to provide opportunity to people of Thinadhoo living in other parts of the country to join in on the celebrations.

The government has not yet declared a date for the celebrations, but said that people would be walked through how the people of Thinadhoo were banished from the island, how it was repopulated, how it developed and its culture and traditions.

Troops, led by Prime Minister Ibrahim Nasir had gone to Thinadhoo and banished the people off the island in an effort to quell rebellion in 1962.

PM Nasir had asked the people of Thinadhoo to surrender, and had invaded the island when they refused.

No official death toll of the invasion is available.

Thinadhoo was repopulated again in 1966.