Fortunately on Sunday evening, the Commonwealth ministerial action group concluded its emergency meeting by expressing "solidarity with the Maldivian people to select a government through democratic means".
Still, shareholder governance experts are likely to view CommonWealth's actions as over the top.
As a member of the international body for the non-governmental Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) since 1989 he was constantly urging the Commonwealth to take action on Nigeria, while the CHRI was just as constantly trying to get him out of prison.
"The journalists were not incidental casualties in the fighting: they were captured then deliberately killed despite protesting their status," wrote deputy state coroner Dorelle Pinch, who recommended the commonwealth attorney general take action.
So far, the current Australian government has been strong on speaking up about the threat of multinational corporate tax avoidance or evasion to the Commonwealth budget, but its actions have been modest at best, and in some cases downright pathetic.
They said Cameron should not underestimate "the concern that many of us feel in Sri Lanka and, we understand, across the Commonwealth because of the actions of the British government", after the Queen approved a royal charter that would oversee a new independent press regulator.
Gillard asked the inspector general of intelligence and security (IGIS) in June to examine the actions of commonwealth agencies "in respect of an Egyptian irregular maritime arrival who arrived in Australia in May 2012, was placed in immigration detention and was the subject of an Interpol red notice".
He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions in the First Battle of El Alamein.
Harvey was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions at the height of the Battle of Jutland.
Six Victoria Crosses were awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces for actions using the PIAT: On 16 May 1944, during the Italian Campaign, Fusilier Frank Jefferson used a PIAT to destroy a Panzer IV tank and repel a German counterattack launched against his unit as they assaulted a section of the Gustav Line.
