It was 62 years ago when the first president of the Maldives returned from overseas to find he had been usurped. Mohamed Amin Didi was immediately taken into detention before further intrigue and conspiracy among the country's elite resulted in his violent death just weeks later.
In the decades that have followed, the tiny atoll nation has changed almost beyond recognition. The capital of Malé has become a bustling metropolis of high-rise buildings, whose population dwarves that of the entire first republic. The country's economy was transformed under its second and third presidents from bare subsistence on fishing to comfortable prosperity via luxury tourism.
Yet, when the country's fifth Vice President Ahmed Adeeb landed on the tarmac of Hulhule island on 24 October 2015, he took the same journey, as Amin Didi had done all those years before, to the detention facility in Dhoonidhoo island. His charge: "High Treason", as the home minister tweeted.
President Abdulla Yameen, meanwhile, went on state media to say that his deputy had been actively obstructing the inquest into the 28 September explosion aboard his official yacht. He alleged Adeeb's undue influence over the police force, as well as his attempts to have the president impeached. The vice president, said Yameen, needed to be "isolated", to allow the investigation to proceed.