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Maldivian
Presidents
Maumoon
Abdul Gayyoom (1978 - present)
General Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom, Commander-in-Chief of the
National Security Service and president of the republic of
Maldives is Asia longest
serving leader. Considered by many to be a ruthless dictator
who would do anything at the expense of the Maldives people to
remain in power. Allegations of torture, murder, corruption,
mismanagement, nepotism and cronyism are growing everyday.
Gayyoom re-wrote the constitution to have all powers of the
country to be vested in him perfecting his "secret
dictatorship". Transferred the Maldives into a police state.
Manipulates the media to maintain total control of all aspects
of Maldivian live. Projects himself to the public as the
"father of development" of the country. Vilified all previous
leaders before him and labels all forms of political
opposition as a threat to "national security". Arbitrary
detention of the public comes like second nature to him.
Ibrahim Nasir (1968
- 1978)
1st president of the second
republic. The
eternal hero of Maldive independence. He ranks alongside the
only other such hero in the recorded history of the Maldives,
the King Kula Ran Meeba Audha Keerithi Katthiri Bavana (Dom
Bandaarain) who ended the occupation by the forces of the Ali
Raja of Cannanore in the 18th Century.
Mohamed
Amin (1953 - 1954)
The president of the first
republic Mohamed Amin Dorhimeyna Kilegefan. Energetic,
reforming and controversial, Mohamed Amin dominated Maldivian
politics from 1944 until his mutilation and death in 1954 by a
lynch mob, with the active encouragement of the regime that
seized control from him.
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