Friday 8 April 2005

Local News

Gayyoom arrested 12 reformists early this morning
Male' - Confirmed sources say that 12 reformists were arrested in the early hours of this morning around 2am, including Ibrahim Shiham (M. Cool Grass), Ahmed Hameed (M. Rabee-ee Vilaa), Mufeed Hussain (M. Hiyama) amongst others. 
These activists were arrested for their present and participation in the gathering near the Tetrapod Square protesting against the brutal regime of Gayyoom.
Also, they are being intimidated to ensure that these people do not show up at Gayyoom's grand speech to mark the National Day on Sunday morning.
Ibrahim Shiham is still in custody and others have been released after giving them warnings not to protest against the Dictator. Some of them were questioned for more than 12 hours.

More people are expected to gather tonight at the Tetrapod Square. If you want change, be there! Please!
 

Local News

Democracy Campaigner Ibrahim Shiham Arrested by Police in Dawn Raid
Shiham arrested in early hours of this morning by police, his current location is unknown. "They came for him at two-thirty in the morning. There were eight policemen. They refused his request to attend a call of nature before he got on the bus saying he could go to the toilet at the police headquarters," said Mrs. Shiham in an interview given to Minivan Radio today.

Surf News
O'Neill Deep Blue Open to Return To The Maldives
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 07 April 2005: O'Neill Europe are pleased to confirm that the O’Neill Deep Blue Open, the 6-Star Prime Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) surfing event, will be returning for the 5th consecutive year to the Island Republic of the Maldives between the 6th – 12th June 2005. It is hoped that by staging the event in the Tsunami ravaged region it will help to send a clear message to the world that the Maldives is down but not out and very much open for business.
read more   

Tsunami News
Maumoon says he can only give shelter for tsunami victims in two years
Planning Ministry stated today that those victims of the tsunami which devastated Maldives last year who have lost their homes will be given permanent shelter in two years time. This is by far the most ridiculous and degrading thing that the government could do our brothers and sisters. read more

Fanditha & Politics
Ilyas Ibrahim and Presidential Fanditha - Maldives 1993
Dhon Didi, the daughter of Hakeem Didi, has admitted she did fanditha on behalf of Ilyas Ibrahim and his bid for the presidency.
At the request of the Minister for the President's Office, Ilyas Ibrahim was investigated over claims that he made fanditha to take over the presidency. Dhon Didi admitted to police during the investigation that she did the fanditha.
According to Major Abdul Shukoor Abdullah, the officer in charge of the Police Office, the case has been sent to the Ministry of National Security in preparation for court. read more

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Thursday 7 April 2005

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Haveeru Online

Asian Centre for Human Rights’ call for withdrawal of Gayoom’s reform agenda “does not make any sense”: Shaheed
MALE, April 5 (HNS) -- Responding to a call by the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) for the withdrawal of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s comprehensive reform agenda, the Chief Government Spokesman, Ahmed Shaheed has said that the call for the withdrawal of the President's reform agenda “does not make any sense.”  read more

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Local News

Pro-democracy demonstration in Addu tonight

Adduu - Confirmed reports from Addu that there will be a peaceful gathering in Feydhoo tomorrow night (07 April 2004). DO Addu reporter in Hithadhoo says that the gathering will be started at around 9:00 pm but still it is not confirmed where the gathering will take place.

DO recommends all Addu people who want freedom and democracy to take part in this demonstration and show Gayyoom how much you all resent and hate him.
 

Local News

Yameen's Parteys disgracefully attack a Nursery School

Male' - Ahmadhiyya school nursery is now run in the old Thaajuddeen School building and today 10 "Parteys" (drug addicts) sponsored by Yameen, Gayyoom's brother, broke into the school over the wall and took hostage a teacher of a nursery class (all pupils are all under 3 years of age) and mugged her. This is another of Gayyoom's brother's tactics to scare the people or perhaps the Parteys are taking the law into their hands knowing that they are protected by the illicit government of Gayyoom through his brother Yameen. Eye witnesses confirm that the little ones in the class were scared and shocked. Parents are worried but too scared to utter a word fearing imprisonment and torture.

Reliable sources in the Education Ministry are very concerned over this incident and request the "Parteys" not to repeat any such acts in the future. "It is certain that this news will not be published in local media so please publish this in DO so that everyone knows about it. This is a very serious issue," says the official from the Education Ministry. According to school teachers Mr. Nashid (Gahaa) is trying to cover up the whole story because Yameen is the President of the Machchangolhi ward. This is a serious matter and we advice Minister Shaugee and Director General Salih to investigate and look into this matter as this is not a matter of serious concern.

Editorial
Gayyoom’s Tourism Master Plan is unprofessional and economically unsound
Winners of the 11 new resorts tendered last year was announced today but the basic mood amongst the bidders is that of disappointment and utter waste of time and money. As anticipated they were awarded to the same parties which scored the highest points in the controversial markings done by Ismail Firag’s “Angels” belonging to the unknown American firm who completed the evaluation is world record time. read more

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Wednesday 6 April 2005

BBC World News
Egypt students rally for reform
Thousands of Egyptian university students have demonstrated angrily against the government, in the largest such protest yet to be staged.
The students - mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood movement - marched at five campuses in Cairo and the Nile Delta.
Hundreds of police prevented them from taking their protests outside university gates onto the streets. read more

The Hindu – India
The Republic of Maldives is at a crossroads

THIRUVANANTHAPURAN, APRIL 4. – The Republic of Maldives is at a crossroads. The coming months should give an indication whether the island nation would be moving towards democracy from autocracy.
Member of the General Council of MDP, Ahmed Moosa, told The Hindu by email from London that Mr. Gayoom has promised sweeping reforms in the past also, but nothing had materialised. Mr. Gayoom was not adhering to the current constitution. "Hence, we cannot trust him to reform and stick to that (the proposed) constitution."
He also noted that the President did not let the people to be part of the debate on reforms and the news constitution. "He is ruling the country with a culture of fear and intimidation." read more

News
Maldives issues in the agenda of the 61st session, Commission on Human Rights, Geneva (14 March-22 April 2005)

By letter dated 10 June 2004, sent jointly with the Special Rapporteur on torture, the Special Rapporteur notified the Government that she had received information concerning the case of Rajan, Saravanan, and Kamal, three Indian nationals in possession of work permits, working in Male'. According to the information received, on 8 April 2003 they were arrested and charged with the rape and murder of a woman. It was also alleged that the three men were subjected to physical ill-treatment in detention. Saravanan was reportedly forced to sign a confession despite his demands for a forensic examination. It is reported that Saravanan subsequently died in detention as a result of a beating. The three men allegedly did not understand the local language, and the assistance of a translator or an interpreter was not
provided. read more

Time magazine - Jan. 12, 1953
Newest Republic
The familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne swelled up from a sprawling cluster of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean last week, but the singers were not celebrating the New Year; they were merely singing their own national anthem. After years of autocratic rule under Sultans known as the Golden Feet,* the Maldive (rhymes with small hive) Islands had just become the world's newest republic. Queen Elizabeth herself sent the Moslem islanders a message from another island, wishing them "good luck, fair winds and calm waters." A British cruiser stood by to fire a salute, and thousands of soft-eyed, coffee-colored Maldivians—the men in sarongs, the women in Mother Hubbards—crowded on to the main island of Male to join the festivities. read more

TIME magazine - Sep. 14, 1953
Didi-Dee & Didi-Dum
Most nations take years and shed much blood running the political gamut from monarchy to anarchy. But in the placid, unruffled Maldive Islands, which lie some 400 miles southwest of Ceylon in the Indian Ocean, these things are done more calmly. Last January, after centuries of autocratic rule under a sultanate, the Maldives became the world's youngest republic by simple popular vote (TIME, Jan. 12). There was no trouble whatever; the sultans had long since tired of their confining work, and Amin Didi, the man the Maldivians unanimously elected to serve as both President and Prime Minister in the new republic, was next in line for sultan anyway. Just to keep it all in the family, Ibrahim Mohamed Didi, a cousin, was elected vice president. read more

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Tuesday 5 April 2005

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Local News
Tsunami aid auctioned by Gayyoom
Male'- A Carrot container sent to Maldives as tsunami aid from Australia has been auctioned today for Mrf 75,000/-. The aid consignemnt was part of the MATI Tsunami Relief.
These are clear indications of total abuse of power and the extent of disregard by Gayyoom's government to help the needy people of Maldives. read more

Time Asia
The Essentials of Aid - An Australian doctor relates her experience
I was visiting my parents in Bihar, India, when I heard about the tsunami. I wanted to go to the country's battered southern coast to help, but I couldn't get a clear response from the local authorities. So I headed instead to the Maldives, posted by Britain's Commonwealth Service Abroad Programme to Buruni, an island 24 hours by boat from the capital, Male'. Coral reefs had protected the Maldives from the full force of the tsunami, sparing all but 108 people. But this nation of low-lying islands suffered terribly from the subsequent flooding. Although no one on Buruni died from the tsunami, and the worst damage was waterlogged houses, conditions there were primitive, and its isolation meant that getting prompt assistance was impossible. I was to be the only doctor on the island, looking after some 1,500 people. read more

Editorial

Drug Abuse Widespread in Maldives
It is not hard to establish the correlation between drug addiction and Gayyoom’s rule in the Maldives. His education and vocational training policies were inadequately funded from the very beginning which meant that several thousands children have no or very little education and hence are unable to get a job and fend for themselves. So, the best thing Gayyoom could do was let the drug use be allowed and create a huge population of drug addicts, whose only need is drugs and will do anything to get it. In return, this will also allow him to mobilise these disgruntled youth to be used for his heinous policy of creating fear and insecurity amongst the population reinforcing the need for a ‘wild’ police force in the Maldives. read more

No procedure to discuss urgent issues submitted by MPs in Maldives Parliament
Male’ – In a report in Haveeru daily, the Speaker of the Majlis Ahmed Zahir has said that there have been a total of 4 urgent issues submitted by MPs, including 2 by Male’ member Ibrahim Ismail and one by Thaa Atoll Member Afeef.
He further clarified that all the issues have been included in the agenda for this session of the parliament but admitted that there were no rules of procedure to deal with issues submitted by MPs further reinforcing the allegation by many that the Maldives parliament has been a rubber stamp to endorse Gayyoom’s crimes including abrogation of the constitution for the past 27 years. No wonder Shaheen Hameed disagreed with Gayyoom about the freedom of voting in the parliament in his interview to Washington Post and said “ I have seen Parliament at work from the inside,” he says. “I would not like to go in there as a member the way it runs. It does not work as a Parliament. It legislates, but it legislates what the government wants it to legislate on.”

Letters
Letter to Attorney General Dr. Saeed

Please save these poor families from these painful punishments as they are innocent and they have committed no crime. Belonging to a non-influential family must not be considered as a CRIME, isn't it Dr Hassan Saeed, the Attorney General of the Maldives? read more
 

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Monday 4 April 2005

Lessons for Maldivians

Rise and fall of Indonesia's strongman Suharto after 33 years in power

The dramatic resignation of President Suharto on 21 May 1998 brought to an end the longest period of one-man rule in modern South-East Asian history.
His rule was founded on economic success, bolstered by a political system which displayed some trappings of democracy whilst ensuring that there could be no effective opposition.

In power, President Suharto consistently played on people's anxieties about social unrest, separatism and religious extremism to maintain his own grip on power and the overall domination of Java within the Indonesian archipelago.  read more

Editorial
Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom; the Hypocrite of the Millennium

Gayyoom embodies all the characteristics of a true hypocrite. He never delivers on his promises, says one thing and does the complete opposite. He was amongst the few graduates in Maldives at the time and significantly he was revered as an Islamic Scholar back in 1978. This was enough to convince the largely uneducated public at the time that he would be a good president. Nevertheless, he broke the law from day one. read more

Sunday 3 April 2005

Local News
Police keeping a watchful eye on the public – Tetrapod Square assembly set to continue
Male’ – Gayyoom’s street police is working hard to discourage people from assembling in public places and expressing their views. His Attorney General has issued a warning saying that the government can and will arrest and prosecute those who do so. Judging by past experiences, people have no doubt in their minds about the dire consequence of opposing Gayyoom’s rule but at the end of the day, this is the only peaceful means to an end to the dictatorship of Gayyoom.
Last night the crowd at the Tetrapod Square of Male’ was somewhat smaller than previous nights perhaps as a result of these intimidating announcements and other activities such as placing more street flood lights in the area. STELCO (State Electric Co.) was hard at work placing more lamp posts which is believed to be another sign of intimidation. “They are now going to film the gatherings as they always do and prosecute people using that as evidence but all we do is just sit or stand there and talk to each other” said Hassan, a Resident of Male’ from Addu Atoll, who has over the last 6 months lost all his livelihood, “thanks to Gayyoom’s new policy of sidelining the people of Addu,” he added.
More people are expected to assemble in the Square tonight in a show of solidarity and unity for the call of better government and upholding the rule of law.

Who's Who
Maldivian student in a team pinpointing threat from sea
Mohamed Shareef, a Maldivian engineering student was amongst a team of researchers at the University of Liverpool (UK) aiming to predict the threat of coastal flooding.
The sea not only erodes the coastline, but large waves can cause flooding, wreck buildings, disrupt transport and, in extreme cases, result in the loss of human life. The mainstream scientific consensus on global warming is clear: changes in our climate are real and will raise sea levels and increase storminess, escalating the threat of flooding and subjecting more land to wave-driven erosion. read more

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Local News
A new wave of intimidation in Maldives
Male’ – As people started gathering near the Tetrapod Square in Male’ protesting against the brutal regime of Gayyoom, he has instructed his pawns like the Attorney General Saeed to scare people of by flouting the very basic rights enshrined in the constitution. Everything nowadays seems to be about how good Dr. Saeed can revise and review the laws of the land with total disregard for what is in the constitution. read more

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Saturday  2 April 2005

Local News
Chinese foreign minister arrives in Maldives
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing arrived in Male Friday afternoon on an official visit to the Maldives at the invitation of Maldivian acting Foreign Minister Ahmed Abdulla. read more

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The Independent - UK

Torture and repression exposed in holiday paradise of Maldives
Behind its picture postcard facade, the Maldives are being run as a "secret dictatorship" engaged in "arbitrary arrest, detention and torture", according to a human rights report.
The Indian Ocean archipelago, a favourite luxury holiday destination for well-heeled Westerners, relies on a culture of repression and fear to prop up a brutal regime, said the report by the Asian Centre for Human Rights, entitled Maldives: The Dark Side of Life. read more

 

Press Release
Arbitrary Arrests and Detention Justified by Maldives Law says Attorney General Press Statement
It has been noticed in these days that it is being reported among the public through the media that the obstruction of preventing the increase in criminality in society is because the parties executing the Law are not conferred by the laws and regulations of the Maldives, the authority or the power to detain or arrest offenders. Explanation henceforth is given in order to notify the Public how the matter is stipulated in law. read more

 

Press Release
Maldivian Democratic Party calls for President Gayoom not to use violence against reform oriented assemblies
Members of the public have been peacefully assembling in growing numbers for the past three nights in Male’, Maldives. Estimates indicate that more than one thousand persons are now attending these assemblies.
The last peaceful assembly of this magnitude was violently dispersed on 13 August 2004. Despite international opprobrium at the crackdown, members of the public, including eleven Members of Parliament, were beaten, detained without charge or legal representation and held for over three months in conditions Amnesty International described as cruel, inhumane and degrading. read more

Local News
More reformists assembling in Male'
Male' - More than 1600 reformists assembled near the Tetrapod Square in Male' last night in an attempt to show their dissatisfaction against Gayyoom. This was the fourth night in a row and the momentum appears to be getting stronger.
Also, last night there was no direct harassment from the police which many saw as a positive move by the authorities. Reformists have requested the government not to interfere in such peaceful gathering which are only aimed at expressing public sentiments.
More people are expected to gather tonight.

Local News
Abdull Hameed's Addu visit aims to derail the reform process
Addu - Atolls Miniters Hameed (Gayyoom's brother) has been touring Addu over the last 3 days. According to local sources he is said to be furious over the results of the last elections in which government candidates were rejected by the people of Addu. He has specifically told island chiefs and other government officials in Addu that he does not want Husnu Al-Suood to be elected for the vacant seat of the Constitutional Assembly. The bi-election has not yet been announced but it appears that Hameed is as usual above the law.
Hameed has also suspended 3 island chiefs, including Maradhoo Island Chiefs, Abdul Latheef Mohamed and Abdulla Saeed as well as Hulhudhoo Junior Island Chief Ahmed Shafeeu, this is believed to be in relation to their failure to support government candidates in the January parliamentary elections.
Hameed is staying in the government mansion Dhoogas in Gan island and is always accompanied by his favourites in the islands.




Local News
Political activist Billoori Moosa still in detention
Male' - Bolloori Moosa from Addu has been in custody for over 24 hours now. He was reportedly taken from the Tetrapod Square for taking part in the public gathering there on Thursday night. Some other have also been summoned to the police and threatened with arrest and detention if they do not stop gathering in public.

Moosa was badly injured by Addu Parteys in January during campaigning for reformist candidates.

PRESS RELEASE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DELEGATION VISITS MALDIVES
The European Parliament's Delegation for relations with countries of south Asia and the SAARC visited the Maldives 25-28 March 2005. This is the first time ever the European Parliament comes to the country. read more

 

Reader's Review
Gayyoom resorts to Mugabe-style intimidation in Maldives
Members of BG, a pro-government vigilante group in Maafannu, Male', have in the last week intensified their campaign of 'street justice'.
Their activities involve catching alleged thieves and drug-addicts, most of who are undernourished adolescent males, stripping them naked and severely beating them up in full view of hundreds of spectators. read more

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