“3 February 2012 – A United Nations political team heads to the Maldives next week for talks on how to help support the Indian Ocean archipelago in its transition to democracy. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s spokesperson Martin Nesirky told reporters today that a mission from the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA), headed by Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, is slated to arrive in the Maldives on 9 February. The mission will meet with Government officials, opposition leaders and civil society representatives to both discuss the current situation and identify opportunities to support the democratic transition, Mr. Nesirky said. In November last year UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay visited the Maldives and said the country had made “significant advances” during the first few years of its transition, but a gap still existed between the rhetoric and the reality on the ground…”
Dictator Mohamed Nasheed and his party; to consolidate his power and perhaps to rig the 2013 election easily came up with the idea that he has to take control over the Judiciary of Maldives. To do so as fast as possible, he ordered the Military to arrest Judges of the Judiciary, lock them up, suspend the judicial functions and withhold the salaries of the Judges.
As a man who bought Parliament members paying them millions of dollars from the state coffers; to change his party’s minority status in the parliament to a majority despite of country wide protests; Nasheed thought that his takeover of the Judiciary will be as easy as the Parliament.
However he has another thing coming. This time the protests against the Dictators attack on the Judiciary that started over 2 weeks ago will not stop. It has been going strong for a 3rd week. Meanwhile all the opposition, NGO’s of the country, every civil society organisation joined the protest and kept a vigil in the streets of the Capital Male’ protesting despite their fate having sealed with severe beating, pepper spray and gas attacks and mass arrests by a heavy handed Military and a Police force that only listens to Dictator Nasheed’s commands. More than 400 arrests were made over the last three weeks.
The Dictator and his uncle who is also the Foreign Minister ignored the repeated calls from his own people, spreading propaganda in overseas newspapers against the people calling them fundamentalists and also labelling the Judiciary corrupt even though there is not even a single case of corruption that they can pinpoint.
This meant the only solution to the problem obviously is international pressure against the dictator or at least advocacy by the international community that is non-bias unlike the British Conservatives which visited and spent time with the MDP party members and came back to UK to repeat Nasheed’s poor excuses to as why he is behaving like a Dictator worse than Hitler holding Judges under lock and key and also by saying that he will use force even if it means killing the people that are calling for him to respect their freedom and liberty.
Denying that there is no international pressure despite statements by the Canadian Government, the EU and many other’s the Dictator kept his assault on the people, and it was only last night former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience Sandhaanu Ahamaidhee suffered a heart attack and is still in the ICU after the Military attacked his face with excessive amounts of an unknown kind of spray.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the United Nation for listening to the pleas of the Maldivian people and take the initiative to come and help restore peace and stability in the country and we would like to appeal to the developed countries of the world as well as other’s to do the same instead of protecting their mistake.
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