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"This is the 5th day and I have no news of my family in Laamu Atoll Mundoo" said a worried Maldivian student in Australia
DO mails - 30th December 2004
A Maldivian student in Australia has written to DO expressing his utter disgust over the fact that the Maldivan Authority - Disaster Task Force - have to this day not provided him with the fate of his family members, Mother, Father, Brothers and Sisters and other close members of the family as well. The student who is scared to reveal his name or that of his family, fearing certain arrest and torture for complaining about Gayyoom's inability to help him and his family when he returns home, said that he has been on the phone to the Task Force but so far he still has no information about them. "You can imagine how painful this is for me, I really want to know how and where my family is, all I know is that people of Mundoo have been evacuated to Gan Island" said the student.
DO would like all its readers in Maldives to try and get detailed information about the situation in all Atolls, so we can help put the mind of our fellow friend (and others like him) at rest. The student also said "They are useless (Task Force), they know someone is missing, but they don't know whether it is a boy or a girl, male or female, isn't that odd? To document that someone is missing, it must have been reported by someone, right? Now, shouldn't that person know the sex of the missing person? This is outrageous!". He further added "By the way, what is the meaning of communication? Does that mean being able to contact by landline or mobile telephone? Can't the government communicate with islands through radio sets, or even by sending massagers or police to the island? Or at least to the capital island of each Atoll? These high speed boats can reach any island in Maldives in less than 12 hours now, so communication should have been established within 24 hours, with all the islands".
Residents of Male' who are originally from these faraway islands are disgusted. "We have just one advice for Gayyoom" said the DO informant who is assessing the public opinion over the handling of this disaster.
Laamu Atoll Mundoo was one of the worst hit by Tsunami on 26th December. No report of the Atoll was available to the public for 2 days. It is officially now reported that the people of Mundoo were evacuated to Laamu Gan. A women also had died and 7 children are reported missing.
People want Gayyoom to vanish into thin air so that the younger generation step in to manage this disaster.
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