Burn the Witches!!!

thank you george w. bush, with your policy on terrorism you have clearly given a free pass to dictators and rouge states all around the world to prosecute anyone who stands between them and ultimate tyranny. how can the international media not even glance at this. last year the government was bombarded with criticism about the way they handled the protesters, this year nothing not even a wimp. than again what can the international community do? how can the international community question this government and in doing so bring out its very own double standard in dealing with issues of terrorism. gayoom has used the one tool that he was sure to get away with. for the international community the word terrorism has as much force as the word "heretic" had in the 16th century. thanks to bush and his neo con cabal. anyways enough bush bashing.

anni the main opposition leader has been charged- "an act to commit terrorism". word on the steet is that, someone gave a statement to the police stating that, anni in one of their conversations, to have said 'he would bring the current government down in 90 days... even if it means by using force' (this is a loose translation). i am no lawyer but does this account for an act to commit terrorism? if so, is it not a grave insult for all those people who are really dying around the world because of real acts of terrorism? secondly the "use of force" does not necessarily have to be physical force. by calling an election in 90 days a government can be forced to step down. anyways everyone in maldives except those delusional idiots who think they own this country knows that this is all a cover-up, a farce to dismantle the only real opposition to the current regime. through the use of its mighty "star force" the government is setting an example to the rest of the nation of what it can do to anyone who stand in its away. anni has yet again become the mannequin on display.

the whole mdp is in disarray, the switching of gasim over to drp (greedy coward), anni's arrest, dismantling of the meeting space of mdp, but most of all the PR war won by drp using the state controlled media and internet. i think anni will be prosecuted and jailed for not less than 3 years which will set him free after the general presidential election. mdp will start to see new faces at its very forefront. i do not think mdp will die as the government is hoping it would. I think mdp will survive but its very survival depends on the new faces that we will see in it. Although i bash the current administration, i do not support mdp either, simply because of the people at this party's top level. i am hoping that this whole fiasco will shake up the very center of mdp forcing them to give up its hidden agendas and root out those people with personal ulterior motives. mdp should start to seriously bank on the support it garnared from the most southern atoll- addu. looks like the mp's from this powerfull community are either asleep or bought out by the current government. mdp should hire a serious PR farm to bring its image back and revive its fight against tyranny.

what about the illegal gatherings and the violence and the mob and the fire and fear.. this is what the government is banking on to destroy the image of not only mdp but any opposition. unfortunately maldivians are more educated and literate (thanks to the current administration which deserves credit for such higher literacy rate in this country) to really fall for this. we all know that it is suicide for mdp or any opposition movement to even think of using violence to bring down an elected government. the people who created and propagated violence i will call the "violent third force" . they are neither government nor opposition.. here are some interesting links that we can reflect on and take notes about third forces

Mosnews
Africa files

politics aside, i truly hope that anni walks free for the sake of humanity, freedom and justice. the more the government flexes it muscle the more sympathetic i become towards mdp. who knows maybe the whole fear and intimidation tactic might backfire on the government and mdp might just win the hearts and mind of this nation through sympathy.

the above writing are my thoughts and is not intended to influence anyone’s thinking. this is not news nor can i guarantee the authenticity of facts in the writing. i urge the reader to seek the truth...

not a "cloud" in the sky

as i said before gasim has sided with gayoom. hmmm this may have come as a surprise for many people but i have been reiterating that gasim is not a true freedom fighter. Wakeup Maldives, don’t you all see that all these business people who have gotten rich are people who have been spoon fed by maumoon. These are the pillars that’s holding the current administration in power. now i don’t have anything personal against gasim, but lets deconstruct this somewhat mythical figure.. gasim grew up under illiyas- the first ladies brother-now the health minister - former convicted criminal. under the permission from the top brass of this country gasim was given the sole import/distribution rights for oil. he didn’t work for it nor sweat for it like true entrepreneurs, it fell right on his lap. anyways soon he was to become the richest man in Maldives through the money he amassed from the exclusive oil rights. like they say rich gets richer, soon his assets grew from a fleet of ships to a fleet of resorts. today he is the minister of finance, under the current administration. next on his list will be to create a media empire. this is a figure that’s starting to remind me of Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. unlike most other business figures in Maldives, gasim gave away hundreds of scholarships for Maldivian students under a prerequisite of the world bank loan that he took. often his supporters will table his scholarship scheme as a reason to support this figure. please people wake up!! here is a business figure who has taken so much of our money. open your eyes and look at the resorts and his assets. These business people have an obligation to its people. i am truely greatful for his scholarships but that does not mean he is a good leader. nor does that mean that he is forgivan for the money he took from the people of this country. anyways his supporters should come up with something better than saying "gasim gave scholarships"
i bet we will start to see hundreds of posts and articles appearing about how gasim will try to transform the current administration. how he will try to fight the people from the inside. come-on people this is a guy who has got his life at stake. i cant believe that all this time people were banking on this figure. its like putting all the eggs in one basket. with the snap of the finger maumoon can just take away his resort and fleet of ship and throw him on the street. all this time he was protecting his own assets and slowly feeding his hunger for power.
my guess is this- when maumoon leaves he wants to make sure they install one of their figures so that the money, their business interest, and post maumoon prosecutions will be protected. whola! enters gasim a figure that has blinded the public with his greens. gasim has been protecting his assets so either way in a post maumoon era his business will be safe. when i saw the news about gasim given the permission to establish a TV station i knew the deal between maumoon and gasim has been closed.
so how will this effect the mdp?? i think gasim going to drp will be a good thing for mdp. slowly this party will start to become a real peoples party. its time mdp weed out fake patriots and freedom fighters. we are in need of a party that has no hidden agendas and one who does not run on greens but rather on values.

i can not guarentee that the above writing is factual. these are what i see and what i hear. if i have given wrong facts you are welcome to correct them.

by the way,, i was just going through my previous posts and came across this post i wrote almost a year ago when gasim was jailed.. http://mymaldives.blogspot.com/2004/10/sleepless-in-maldives.html

To Kill a Mockingbird

its calm on the surface but i see an "unseen' tsunami rushing this way. prove me wrong but as i have been saying over and over again, majority of the people hate maumoon and most people want him to go. majority of the population of this country is youth and they are ready to stand up against the old guard. these young people are not all drug addicts and criminals as the government have been propagating. amongst them are young youths, fathers, mothers, sisters and bothers who are rising up against the current administration. its just a matter of time before the wave will sweep over the islands. just a matter of time. no matter what the current administration does the wave will get bigger and bigger, stronger and stronger. no matter what!!... the situation has gone beyond no return.. majority of the Maldivian hates any form of violence. its just too small and people are too closely related to really take up arms against each other. having said that this brotherly love and close connection also leads to a bonding amongst the people. one bad thing happening to someone will have a chain reaction that stretches to members of their extended families. over a quarter of century (cant believe its been this long) lot of bad things happened to a lot of good people. people have found the common enemy which the mdp is heavily banking on (no wonder they cant stop bashing maumoon). unlike mdp the current administration is scrambling hard trying to create their monster to rally against and bring the people together.. for them its the parteys and criminals. Unfortunately this is slowly backfiring at them, because the reason why a society has disintegrated in to the hands of parteys and criminals are living fact that this administration failed to fulfill its social obligation in terms of education and rehabilitation. the parteys and criminals running rampant on the streets are consequences of the current administration and not the work of mdp. it was not so long ago that the administration tried to create "wahabees" as a monster, for the people to rally against but they failed as a huge majority started to realize that not everyone with a beard are extremist nor violent.
i will not be surprised if more properties get damaged in the coming days and months. This administration needs to create fear and panic amongst the people to strip away what’s left of their freedom. there is a huge parallel between how maumoon plays his game and how bush is playing his game. both are stripping away liberties of its own people for supposed protection. media outlets in both countries are owned by big rich companies completely aligned with the administration. spying and collection of private data of its own people have been at an all time high. both parties in both countries are completely detached from its people and fighting for their own personal goods..what i am trying to say is that maumoon is the perfect pawn for the west. so mdp should stop having wet dreams about getting any real help from any outside country or any real media outlet for that matter.
at the moment mdp has very little choice. the government has shown burumaa and the rest of the people on the boarder that "You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror.." one reason for mdp to move so hastily in my view was that they feared that they were loosing buruma to drp. one of their biggest financiers. from the articles on factmaldives.com one can surely read that drp has already offered burumaa the vice presidency and last few days event should be deciding factors for buruma. secondly mdp through its fair and free election policy can never promise anything for anybody because people will be elected rather than selected. those people who are fighting for freedom right now have no guarantee that they will have a position when maumoon leaves. and frankly that’s how it should be, people who fight for freedom should do it for the love of the people and country. these freedom fighters are not necessarily good politicians nor leaders they are simply our heros and should remain like that. so burumaa and rest of the freedom fighters should not even dream of having an automatic place in the newly formed Maldives.


the views expressed here are my simple thoughts. they are not necessarily true and i urge the reader to seek the truth on their own.

Baagiverin

I am not here to bring any report on what’s happening in male because frankly, no one knows what is happening. Yes people did gather, how many on what location for how long, people don’t really know. Anyone who has lived in Maldives will know that its hard to differentiate between the spectators and the participants, so there are lot of discrepancies between the figures. At the same time the number of people who came out does not reflect the support of MDP nor the support of DRP. Those who refrained from coming out is not gauge to measure the support for the current administration. Those who did not come out, did so simply because they were scared of being prosecuted.
The whole thing turned out to be a mega blow for MDP. They played right in to the hands of the current administration. Slowly but surely the current administration is labeling MDP as a terrorist organization with premeditated attempt to over throw an elected legitimate government. Once this gets sold to the international media and organizations MDP will have a hard time convincing that they are not terrorist group. Under the present environment no international media will even think of giving a voice to such an organization. Under the pressure from the current administration the SARC countries might very well label MDP as a terrorist organization. This will be the end of MDP. The articles on DO and other documents produced by MDP and its supporters are written facts that this was a premeditated action to over throw a government. I bet more wepons and other proofs that this is a premediated attempt will be manufactured by the current administration. I wouldnt even be surprised if they even invent a word for terrorism if we dont have one already.
The arrival of Maumoon as a hero a savior was all orchestrated and planned. The current government played the game real smooth. I cant believe the heads of MDP did not see this. Were you all seriously thinking that Maumoon just fled to Singapore and left the country for takers. Or was MDP thinking that by spreading false news they could encourage people to come out. Maldives is different, the people of this country are the most passive peace loving people anywhere on earth, to think that the majority of them will come out was a huge miscalculation. The only way to boil the blood of "dhivehin" is during an incident like last years. Do you seriously think that Maldivians will remember what happened 12 months ago. We forget and forgive very easily, very quickly. So until there is an incident that would naturally drive the masses to gather there is no way people will come out on the street.
MDP is in serious trouble and unless mouth pieces like DO and minivan news get their act together the average people will start to loose trust in them. This is all a PR war between MDP and DRP most the Maldivians under the present leadership left the masses in the dark about what politics is, their right and what it means to be a citizen. If MDP continue to act like this they will loose the PR war easily to DRP.

Eye spy with my little I's

Someone commented on Factmaldives.com to my previous entry titled "messeged in a bottle".. here is his/her comment
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I refer my comments to opinion of EYE, dated 8th of August.

I would like to note that we as Maldivians had something no other country had - our faith in Islam and peace, the former and latter truly being demonstrated in reality. In retrospect we did enjoy it though we took it for granted! we do not have peace anymore, we do not feel secure anymore - merely lost due to some individuals motivated for personal justifications rather than for the true benefit of our nation - Can anyone really Quantify in Economic terms the benefit of having peace and stability that we have enjoyed yet have not even realised that we once had it - Well this country accompolished what it achieved due to the President and his administration.
Your comments now will be: what about our people and thier wealth, their
freedom, their social security and the list goes on!!!

Is there a perfect society, a perfect government, Do you really think MDP has the capacity to run a Government when they have self defeated themselves by displaying no strategic planning nor any discipline.

I am sure the current administration has room for improvement, like any other government and a society of this size needs stabilty and peace for our
progression rather than unsubstantiated arguments to further create unrest. Why not consider a much more civilized approach to harness your opinions. Talk Sense, talk reality.

Talk sense, Talk reality. - Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:17 PM
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Dear Talk sense, Talk reality.

Before I say anything let me point out a few words from your post "... unsubstantiated arguments to further create unrest. Why not consider a much more civilized approach to harness your opinions. Talk Sense, talk reality."

First the posts i create here are my own thoughts and is not intended to inflame, incite or anger anyone. If my wordings seem harsh and unjustified I take it back and apologize. However that does not mean I do not stand by what i have said in the previous posts. When you say "consider a much more civilized approach to harness your opinions..." I see nothing uncivilized about the way I write my posts. In every post I have reiterated that these are my simple thoughts. my opinions, my dreams.. What is the more civilized approach? Secondly I am not a supporter of MDP in fact I hate MDP as much as I hate DRP, again my previous posts will be witness to that. If you feel I have misrepresented facts I would appreciate if you could clear them out for me..
Yes. there are a lot of things that the current administration did right. For example I will commend the current administration and specifically presidents policy for controlling Islamic extremism. However having said that bare in mind this same policy lead to stereotyping and a lot of backlash against decent law abiding people too. There are other good policies and projects that the current administration did. Unfortunately I am not here to sing the 'sanaa" for the current administration simply because what good that’s done, they did because it is their duty as public servants. In my opinion if you chose to become a public figure, post like this and various other avenues of criticism is inevitable. If one cannot take that than he/she should refrain from becoming public servant or a public figure. I do not think or rather was my intention, for my posts to defame and character assassinates anyone.

Again- Yes the current administration did a lot of good to this country but that is not a free ticket to rule for life. Every government has its own problem but not every government deny its own problems. While the rest of the world grew around us, this administration left us bogged down on ever changing policies. Please do not point you finger at male' because that is a tiny dot from a whole nation. Ministers of this current administration misused funds over and over again for 27 odd years. Our public money. You walk around the streets of male'. Go to the market area and ask the people around, these are open secrets in this small community. You ask me to prove it.. I CAN'T... as an individual from the public, i do not have any obligation to prove anything.. but as public servants (the government) you have a huge obligation to prove to its people that no funds are/were misused. It is a governments obligation to keep on showing to the public what it is doing with the money and resources. Does anything get debated when huge amounts of our limited resources get used on projects. You see... the current administration works on the policy "TRUST US.. WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING.. " maybe its the right thing, but this is not how democracy works. Yes the president H.E Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom is the elected president and I have no doubt about it, and yes that means a lot of individuals vested a lot of trust on this person. But this does not mean that he is immune from judgment. He will have to answer for all his action before the public and in the end in front of GOD.
I do agree with you that there are no perfect societies or perfect governments but why is it so hard for the current government to say this publicly to its people. Why have they never in the last 27 years publicly come out and say "we were wrong and we will take responsibility for our actions" Never have i heard this. Ill thought policies and huge misappropriation of funds get swept under the carpet without any public acknowledgement. Seems like everyone in the current administration has some sort of a god given immunity. Too many bad things have added up under this administration to easily out weigh the goods. Too many people have been hurt.
You ask me to look at peace and security that this government has brought us. How can one admire peace and security implemented by stripping its people's freedom and liberty. Peace and security should come from protection not from restriction.


The above thoughts are not meant to hurt anyone or incite violence. My posts are based on what I see and what I feel. These are (as some people commented) unsubstantiated arguments so please do not agree to my posts at face value.

freeDAMN

FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS WHEN I HAVE THE FREEDOM TO SAY- THERE IS NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH…………….

Something interesting happened. I pasted a paragraph from my previous post on DO forum and guess what.. they have blocked me from posting on their forum. These are the people who are suppose to be our saviors from the present regime. It proves what I have been telling in all my previous posts that MDP is not acting in true faith. I guess I should refrain from making parallels between DOs forum moderators and MDP but still maybe this is a small reflection of what’s yet to come. I have read so many posts where people have been blocked or completely banned from DO's forum. The interesting thing about this is that DO is the kind of webpage that really has no boundaries or real ethics. If this is the style of this Internet paper than I see no reason why it suddenly creates boundaries and censorship when someone is critical of them. If Sappe the owner of Do ever read this I would appreciate if you could clarify how one could have no ethics or boundaries when writing articles yet have a problem when someone else criticize your website?.. If this is how the mouthpiece of MDP runs it sends shivers down my spine to think what they will do when they get the power. I seriously think that people like DO and its moderators should not try and fight for what they them self can’t uphold....