What was operation cactus

File photo of Maldives. Photograph: Zee News Network. The operation forever etched in the India Maldives history of close cooperation shows how Indian Navy played a significant role, especially when it comes to security and stability of the Indian Ocean region. On the intervening night of 2nd and 3rd November around to armed mercenaries landed in the country's capital capturing key installations.

Indian Army's para brigade brought on IL 76 immediately brought things under control in the Indian ocean Island but it was the mid-ocean chase and rescue that was the most challenging part of the operation. Basket You have no items in your shopping basket. My Wishlist Login. Search: Search. Operation Cactus. The first detailed account of the Indian military intervention in the Maldives in , an operation prepared quickly and under immense pressure, but concluded successfully. Publication date:.

Add to Basket. Add to Wishlist. Overview -. T20 World Cup. Viral News. Home World. World Just Now. He had been high commissioner to the Maldives for over a year, since July 21, , and knew Gayoom well, even playing cricket with him regularly.

A mild-mannered man, Banerjee is a retired career diplomat who feels that he did not get his due from the government.

He told me that since four thirty that morning, there had been incessant shooting and the gunmen were on the streets. They had attacked the NSS office and killed several people. The Maldivians were retaliating but they were outnumbered and outclassed.

The gunmen, apparently Sri Lankan Tamils, were trying to capture the president and overthrow the government. Banerjee was stunned by this news. There was more news. Appeals had also gone out to other neighbouring countries including Malaysia and Pakistan. President Gayoom trusted Sattar implicitly and, years later, rewarded him by making him minister for defence and later still, high commissioner to India.

Pakistan, according to an Indian official who was privy to the deliberations among the military brass at Rawalpindi, was reluctant to move its troops so far, across the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, with no assured help from India.