Random Reflexions

excellento.

May i post this in my blog?

This article reflects the views of a lot of people out there, believe me.

Beautifully written, man. Great article.

Yea, it really shows how weak we are and how much we failed.....

Nicely written one...

Good work Simon !!!!

Its Great! You think like me.

after all, great people think alike.

Very true indeed. We failed ourselves.

So very true about the dead body. It just ended up being meat for the MDP grindhouse. Shameless display of the cold-heartedness of political machinations. Kudos to you, Simon, for pointing that out instead of posting links to the corpse (like bigger and better in hi-def or something).

nicely written, i wish all would have an understanding mind like yours (and a few others)...
this article should be given more popularity so that this can be brought to attention of people...wot do you say about mailing to Haveeru or some place?

Maldiveshealth, sure you are free to take whatever you want and use it as it appears here.

Typos, as I said above.

Hamza, this is out of topic but.. bloody Sanjaya is out!

Everyone else: thank you.

Let us all take this moment to condemn sensationalism and opportunists who are insensitive to a deceased human being, and pray for world peace.

Also, could this be an indication that there may be a fault in the source of ethics and morality in Maldives?

Simon: Yeah Sangina is gone at last!!! Bittersweet victory though. I promised all my friends (and even god) all kinds of stuff because I thought this day would never come. Now all I need to do is find a way to economize. If i give them a pint each instead of springing for a six-pack of stout, pretend I never said anything about bon'dibai and somehow wake up early enough to perform the most economical of prayers (which I hope god still pays attention to even though no one does it anymore).....

Displaying his corpse like that was truly a shameful thing; it’s something we Maldivian’s should lower our heads about, but perhaps if the situation was handled properly those pictures and videos wouldn’t have leaked out. A man was found dead in the ocean, they (government, media, DRP, whatever) should have known better than to leave him for the public to see. So what if it’s a free country? Does that mean that every dead body in this country should be held up for public display and ridicule? Has the meaning of freedom of rights been translated somehow into degeneration of privacy? We all know that each political party in this country is constantly on a hungry prowl for the slightest chance to shift any blame they can on their rivals, even if it’s something as measly as the increment of a local market price range! Why couldn’t they have understood a little earlier that they need to give the public all the accurate information at first FROM THEIR SIDE without trying to hide it or dismantle the entire situation? Why didn't they realize before this problem occured that we would sooner or later recieve a garbled version from others and then, even if they tell us the truth, we'd be hesitant to believe it?

There is one point that I don’t agree with you though. There are some of us out here in the general public who DO care about how or why it got there when a young man's corpse is found in the middle of the ocean. It doesn’t matter whether he’s a stranger or not. I’m not saying we need to see the autopsy being performed or constantly watch every drop of blood oozing from his skin, but ridiculous as it sounds in this 21st century world of ours, I believe that if it was really homicide, then the person/people responsible for it should be justly penalized.

took the words right outta my mouth ... or keyboard ... or whatever ...
beautifully written piece ... there just no end to the evil we can do ...
Let the dead rest in peace ...

madness. this is utter madness. fake autopsies? what next? virgins dying and floating in the sea? at least nobody is blaming me for this one LOL!

Excellent.

Cudnt be written better :)

Well it could've been written better. Way to overstate things...:P

I am not jumping out of my chair for the post. In fact, I think this is an appeasing post. I can understand why everyone is jumping out of the chair to applaud. Flattery is our national pastime.

Even Mr Rannamaari and Mrs Godzilla were tempted to say Hi.

It's a shame the way the dead body was treated and how the goverment and the opposition acted in the scandal. However we should note that the case should be properly investigated inorder to avoid such cases in the future. The government should be pressed to treat the criminals in a more civilised way and police should be taught this. I agree with you Suhail, as far as I'm concerned, the article is alright, not something I would give a triple A rating.

Yeah,sure there really is something rotten in the 'state' of Maldives.Its voluntary blidness, no materialism, postcolonialism? religion? freemasons and the Protocols of the zion effect? intellectual vaccume? genetics and fanditha? hidden curriculum? globalisation? political systems? development or transitional curse?
... how can one find an answer or a solution wen u dont know the right question. I hope we will start asking the right questions before the dust settles.

As usual , you have a way with words. I am glad that this is how most maldivians feel. Being on the other side deosn't help you with knowing whats going on with the real people.

But time to move on, while you are moving on, take a moment to think about the poor family that has been played. They are still at a loss, feeling the loss, betrayed and manipulated. Shame on MDP for playing on their grief! We already know what the regime did, but what MDP did was play on their trust and grief, in the name of helping them. I am really disappointed and disillusioned by Human political Nature.

Feeling good about ourselves and slapping ourselves on the back for being the kind of people who goes against the norm is all well and good but that, I believe, shouldn't be the point of all this. If all we glean from an observation of the current political trends is a self-righteous, smug, holier-than-thou-y-ness that really doesn't change anything then we are bigger idiots than the MDP. Simon, you might wonder why I always seem so antagonistic towards your change-of-mentality creed. Well this is exactly why. This so-called change in mentality creates a super-stratum of pseudo-aware faux-intellectuals whose only goal in life is the occasional expression of their outrage at this and that without really getting involved. Politics may be dirty but if you want to make a change then you have to wallow in the mud. Or else, you really have no right to criticize any of the players or the game.

http://drmaldives.blogspot.com/2007/04/we-cant-no-more-leave-dead-resting-in.html

Jedi-x,

People know the right quesion to ask, but they are afraid to ask.

Hamza, you are right, we have no right to criticize others unless we have solutions to come up with. It is like killing Escobar of Columbia when he scored own goal during USA '94.

Athena, what should MDP do to help the poor family. Issue a press release and sit tight? If yor are disappointed in the human political nature then it is the fault of the creation or The Creator, Himself.

Suhail - You mean the creator HERSELF. and no, we cannot blame the political nature on the creator. She gave us the right to choose and free will. We have to take responsibility of our own actions.
As for MDP - what good did it come to the family from MDP's current actions? MDP just wanted to prove that, the government would act this way and on the way pick up some INTERNATIONAL coverage. WE all knew that this was the way that it would play out, those who thought that there was going be a miraculous change in the attitude of the governement towards its people, you guys deserve another 28 year rule!

I mean the creator ITSELF or HIRSELF or HEMSELF. You can be disappointed in individual performance for not choosing the right options.

But if you find fault in human nature the fault lies with creator, ITSELF.

International and internal coverage and pressure are the only means to make Maumoon and the regime step back, at least for a while. The stake here is not a single family's, but a nation's future.

And I have asked you, Athena, what MDP should do, otherwise.
You have not said anything about that.

MDP should, act civilised. Stop acting like barbaric, bloodhungry morons. Who's law is tit for tat without an ounce of wisdom to any of their actions.
MDP should find a decent spine to lead it. Not have confused, mentally handicapped people with an agenda of their own.
They should stop pointing the finger at the government when they truly know that it wasnt their fault and at the expense of the victims family and their feelings.
Anyone with half a mind would know that international coverage from only one side of the story isn't the way to go about it for any sort of pressure, we all know that bbc asia would buy anythng through good contacts and a free holiday.
MDP should stop focusing on just getting maumoon off the seat, it should explain to us people that they are about just more than a personal vendetta and issue.

Perhaps show us the discourse for a better country and state, and show us someone else with dignity, integrity and strength who will lead us instead of the ill mannered, uncivilised, violence embracing halfwits shown to us.

MDP should stop acting like the spoilt child, who no longer wants the candy but to punish the parent for refusing it to him at the first place. Revenge is an evil that consumes the soul and thats whats happened to MDP. and it now no longer cares what it might trample apon, it needs to fullfill its selfish evil uncontrolable desire to just Want it all by hook or by crook.

God help us all!

Suhail - I don't profess to have all the knowledge that MDP has or had regarding the case. But all I know is that whatever they did, We still don't know who the real murderer is, No proper Autopsey done and Salah is buried. In this process, Salah's family didn't even get the opportunity to give him a proper burial let alone time to grieve, without the media in their face.

I agree with Athena (wow what a kewl nick) - You have taken the words right out of my mouth.

I am against government torture and dictatorship as much as the next person. But the way MDP is going on is more gangster style that that of Yameen's young mob. There was a time to go out on the streets and yell in the beggning. But that time has passed. time for constructive criticism has come (unlike the personal attacking style and gossip of MDP). Its time for Policies. Its time to build an infrastructure that democracy can stand on. MDP still doesn't have a stable governing body within its party itself. High ranking members keep joining and resigning the next day. Funnily enough or maybe not as funny, the reason given most of the time is, a clash of mentality or thoughts or views or ideologies. That is something to think about and I find it very worrying. Don't you?

I do not know that MDP is doing the right thing or not. But what I can assure you is that they are getting things done.

And I also assure you the victim Soalh will be exhumed and his DNA will be sampled in not a very distant future for identification. If it was not for the MDP nothing of this nature will ever happen.

Time for constructive criticism and democratic infrastructure and policy planning are not even on the horizon. It is only the time for chaos and that is what is prevailing in Maldives. Law enforcement agencies are almost non-existent as far as the normal citizens are concerned.

I am worried and I do not expect to see a rosy future any time soon. Sorry to be the ever pessimist. All are not hopeless. I see prosperity and happiness in the unforeseeable and distant future. Amen.

I do not know that MDP is doing the right thing or not. But what I can assure you is that they are getting things done.

And I also assure you the victim Soalh will be exhumed and his DNA will be sampled in not a very distant future for identification. If it was not for the MDP nothing of this nature will ever happen.

Time for constructive criticism and democratic infrastructure and policy planning are not even on the horizon. It is only the time for chaos and that is what is prevailing in Maldives. Law enforcement agencies are almost non-existent as far as the normal citizens are concerned.

It is easy to say that "I am against the toture and dictatorship". And you know who loves to say that more than anyone else? The Dictator, himself. Not only says that but loves to implement it, but is not able to, because of unseeable factors.

You know I am worried and I do not expect to see a rosy future any time soon. Sorry to be the ever pessimist. All are not hopeless. I see prosperity and happiness in the unforeseeable and distant future. Amen.

Getting things done by hook or crook? sorry not my cup of tea.
What will be achieved by exhumiing a dead body and DNA testing? The only thing you could find is that its his body or not his body. The body would have been too far gone for forensic testing for the cause of death?

Nothing. My point is that could have been avoided.

The exhuming is to be done, to identify the body as the majority of the Maldivians believe that it was not his body that was in the coffin. So, to convince them, the government at some point will be forced to do that.

Everything is possible. Some 300 years after Napolean's death, some forensic experts now believe that he was poisoned by the British.

While a certain "woman speak at a rally held at the artificial beach about her concerns of the drug problem and how our very own young and adolescent are being systematically forced into addiction by unknown forces who benefit from the underground drug market" was effectively what you see as the right thing and everything that happened on this day when a young man was found murdered was brushed off as utterly propaganda rubbish?

I just don't get it. A man was found murdered. Has there been an investigation launched into the cause of his death up to this date? Has anyone been arrested. If i remember, this is the first time in Maldives where a man was found murdered and no arrest followed within the next 24 hours. All they did was try to cover up and show the public that they 'did not do' it.

And yes, opposition politicians took their part to do justice, albeit no success. Yes, they may have made mistakes, but rest assured, had it not been for them this would be just another murder swept under the bloody presidential carpet.

These are facts. Not opinions. Your rhetorics serve no purpose in my opinion. You seem to disgust the idea of politicians trying bring about a change to real problems, while you could applaud the same causes in other situations.

The only lesson learned on this day was that there exits a government who would go to any extend to justify and cover up their notorious crimes. And in doing so, they become smarter and smarter every time.

And you, mr. know-it-all sitting out there and just pointing fingers at others without having slightest idea as to how to solve this problem, does not help anyone at all.

Hakurey, surely you got more than a point there. I totally agree.

is Athena a DRP fanatic???

Dear hotsfor athena (I do like your nick - very kewl)

Unfortunately or Fortunately, I am not a DRP fan, and you can add MDP, IDP and Adhalath to that list. I haven't found a political party that matches my ideologies.

If you wanna make a hotfor athena party, I might join ;)

maybe ur looking for the communist party then? so lets form our own communist party here athena? what do u say?