Let them Hate as long as they Fear

What kind of a sick mind would commit an atrocity on a harmless group of poor islanders? The kind that believes in the motto of Caligula, ‘Let them hate as long as they fear’. Here is the video.

Asian Centre for Human Rights had the following piece recently on the trial of the opposition leader in the country;

“…The trial is not so much about Nasheed who has been accused of “sedition and terror” but in reality, it is a trial of President Gayoom and his false proclamation about the democratic reforms. President Gayoom and his seasoned advisers should know that conviction will not make Nasheed a terrorist but will expose the State terrorism in Maldives where President is the judge and jury. The conviction will expose that President Gayoom, the longest serving dictator in South Asia, has no plans to give up power and much vaunted “Roadmap for the Reform Agenda” announced on 27 March 2006 is nothing but a ploy to buy time and to pave the way for convicting Nasheed….

First, President Gayoom and his cronies should be taken to Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan where sit-in-protests and clashes (more violent than in Maldives) with police is a common place and part of the democracy irrespective of how illiberal the countries might be. The best place at the moment is Delhi where hundreds of medical students have been holding protests against anti-reservation and there have been many violent clashes…”