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Government sponsored terrorism in Maldives

By A. S. I. Moosa (Sappe'), 7 January 2006

Gayyoom has never been more unpopular than he is today. People around the country absolutely hate him and resent him with the exception of the few cronies and his close friends who directly benefit from his terrorist regime. Yet, instead of trying to win back popular support he is terrorising the people of Maldives. Instead of healing the wounds, he is putting salt in it.

It is not really difficult to work out why Gayyoom is so evil and so power hungry. He is born that way, it is in his blood. His father was also an evil man, who used his powers to gain riches and favours from people. As a judge, he ruled unjustly. He passed on that gene to Gayyoom, whose prime objective has always been to live like a powerful king as we all know. If it wasn't for the attention we now get from international community, this murderer will butcher our people and burn them alive.

Despite mounting pressure on him to ease his iron grip on our nation, he continues to commit atrocities and terrorise the innocent people, like those in Fares-Maathoda just to show that he is still very much in charge and brutal as ever. He had absolutely no right nor any excuse to assault them with such brutality. However, we can be sure of one thing. That these crimes further assert our views on him and is bound to increase international pressure on his illegitimate government, which most political analysts believe are now in its final months.

Striking as it may sound, he certainly lacks the ability to foresee consequences of his actions. Any sensible person will agree that there was absolutely no need for him to assault and terrorise the people of Fares-Maathoda. It was an illegitimate act which can only amount to treason. He cannot violate the oath he is supposed to have taken to protect the people of Maldives. If an investigation was necessary after the uprising in Fares-Maathoda, he could have arrested people with a more humane mechanism. However, he chose the brutal method and carried on with his terrorist plan. He wanted to show other islanders that he will not allow people to raise their voices and criticise him or demand things to be done by him, regardless of the fact that it is his duty to provide basic public services as the self proclaimed head of government and it is a constitutional right of the people to demand for things. For this evil man, his mission in life is to remain in power for as long as he can and enjoy the riches of the nation at the expense of basic human rights of the Maldivian people.

There is no doubt that with the increased efforts to expose the tyranny of Gayyoom in Maldives, the world at large have now taken notice. It is certainly helping Maldivians convert to a democracy despite heavy resistance from the dictator.

Those who had any doubt about Gayyoom's style of government can once again be certain of one thing today. He is a terrorist and he uses extremely brute force to terrorise the peace loving and innocent people of Maldives.

The brutal assault on the innocent people of Fares-Maathoda can only be classed as an act of terrorism engineered by an illegitimate government.

Once again, we must reaffirm our commitment to oust this regime. We must all be united to bring an end to this terror campaign. Together we can do it.