<P> Early on 1 May 2011, protests began in the Maldives as thousands of protesters demonstrated in Male demanding that President Mohamed Nasheed step down . Police were sent in to break up the protests . Dozens were injured and many people were arrested during the demonstrations . Protests continued the following day too . The main causes for the protests were soaring food prices and rising unemployment . The main opposition party in the nation, the DRP (Maldivian People's Party), said that "currency devaluation has increased the price of essentials". Protests continued for a week but temporarily died down . </P> <P> Protests again began late in the year and led to the resignation of the president in February 2012 which is debated amongst legal experts and in the diplomatic arena as a coup . A report by an independent team of international lawyers and human rights experts headed by Associate Professor of International Law at Copenhagen University Anders Henriksen is available . </P> <P> A protest campaign to "attempt to emulate the democratic revolution in Egypt that was sparked by a Facebook campaign" started in Myanmar on 13 February 2011, coordinating via a Facebook page titled "Just Do It Against Military Dictatorship". Anti-government material was distributed in several places around the country, including Mandalay and Taunggyi . More than 1000 activists support the campaign . An intense series of anti-government street protests had earlier taken place from September to November 2007 . </P> <P> The South Korean military dropped leaflets with information about the protests in Egypt and Libya into North Korea, in an attempt to induce political change in its northern neighbor, with whom it has technically been at war (the Korean war ended in an armistice without a peace treaty) since the 1950s . North Korea threatened to take military action if South Korea continued to drop leaflets fomenting revolt, Korean Central News Agency reported . According to reports in the South Korean media, there have been small pockets of protests in North Korea . </P>

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