Police Brutality in Maldives: Will it stop?

From age old days, rulers of Maldives have used the armed forces and Police for defending themselves from the citizens. Every tenure of presidency ended when the uncontrollable brutality of the Police and the armed forces against its citizen became the impetus to a revolution to change the regime.

Recall when Anni (the current President) strategized to come to power not long ago. Police resorted to brutal force. He claimed they kicked him, punched him, imprisoned him, gave him food with glass particles, kept him in isolation etc. etc. the list goes on and on to an endless array of brutal activities in its greatest manifestation.

Police who brutally beat citizens will realize the pain only when we as citizens inflict pain on them Anni said then. For this statement the Police took up the case against him. His spokesman Zuhair said we would trap these brutal people and will hold them responsible for their actions.

Due to the uncontrollable police brutality towards the citizens, and the weakness of the previous regime to control the police, citizens rose against the former regime and brought about this change, hoping for a stop to police brutality and a more citizen oriented government. For all their efforts and sacrifices, what did the people get? A better equipped and a more brutal police force with more arsenals in their reserve, forcing more oppression and more open brutal enigma.

Why did this happen? Why did Anni change course? Why did he go back on his promises and re enforce them? Why has Anni allowed the perpetrators to enjoy better days with more perpetrations against their citizens? The answer is simple and easy to understand.

Anni is suffering from a decease called "Split Personality Compulsive Syndrome" (SPCS) Anni the victim and Anni the President are percieved by him as different people. Anni is an obsessed personality, obsessed by the incidence that he was put through as a child when his father was arrested sentenced and jailed for planning and stagging a coup to overthrow the Nasir regime. Anni was yet a kid then. As the President now he enjoys using and abusing the same strategies and methods used by previous regimes to consolidate and remain in Power.

Anni now supports Police brutality, he believes this will help him to continue in power. He encourages and turns a blind eye to the brutal actions of the Police against peaceful demonstrators. Consequently, the Police is reassured by the once there enemy Anni the victim now Anni the President to continue their Brutality and become even better at it.

So the legacy of Police brutality continues and will continue for ages to come like it has continued for ages till today. Victims die, people suffer and the brutality continues. A moral and principled citizen would ask but why should a sane citizen of the same country inflict pain and torture to another; his neighbor? The answer to this is also very plain and simple,
The Police force is brain washing and they are made to believe again and again that the enemy within is the citizens of the country. To serve and to protect is the Ruler against who? Against the citizens. Isn't this how dictators ruled? Isnt this how Phoraphs ruled? Isn’t this how we were ruled? You answer the questions within your subconscious.

Coming back to my question, will the Police brutality stop? I believe No!. MDP, DRP, PPM QP NQP or even if any other PP comes to power, the legacy will continue, if left as it is. People have a choice to accept the brutality and internalize it or do not accept it and be victimised and continue.

Police Brutality could be stopped only when the electorate (voters) leave behind their allegiance to the idiosyncratic politricians misleading’s, and hold them to account by voting in capable, dedicated and efficient fellows from among themselves to represent them to the legislature.

If Anni, the man who was vanquished on the streets, thrown and treated like dirt making us believe he will turn the table around, when in power actually only reinforced police brutality. It is very clear now then to us that Anni has failed as a leader, and it’s time for him to step down and for us to bring about change in 2013.

Hey Walla 2013

Do you remember the story about managing the Maldives and its economy and feeding all the people of Maldives with the income of a single resort? Do you recall the Magical Mystical trip in which Mohamed Nasheed would sail us to Anneh Dhivehi Raajje? Were rivers of blessed wine would flow beneath our feet and Ganjarettes would be served by Hooraleens? We were fooled, see what befell the fools. Instead of landing in Anneh Dhivehi Raajje, we landed in Anni’s Dhivehi Raajje.

The difference two characters can make in the life of a nation and its people is that of Prosperity and Poverty. We voted for “ANNEH” we got “ANNI”. The “Kanmathee Fihaara” was only a propaganda stunt. They were "Castles built in the air” (Hawaa gai elhi Ganduvaru) by President Mohamed Nasheed (Anni).

Having said that, I trust you will take this one even more serious. “There is, but only so much you can do about the circumstance you are in, mindful or wronged by a pseudo-principled, brutal regime whose repressive economic policies are annihilating the population.”

So having jumped from the frying pan into the fire, don’t justify the situation hoping the fire would someday be extinguished. Stop deceiving yourselves that it’s only your feet that will burn, and that those burns could be treated at IGMH. It’s a lot of BS. Instead say it hurts when it does. And try to do something about it; your two cents worth to rid this society from the menace of rip-off dealers , fly by night millionairs and swindlers and immature politicians playing politricks with our lives, lets make a solemn oath to vote the MDP out in 2013.

Take heed, we Maldivians have been ripped and rapped time and time again by invading pirates, colonial powers and poli-tricians from among ourselves, like the waves that batter our shows. But we survived. We survived as a nation and we survived as a people. Despite everything this government is and could do to hurt our Pride, Our Culture, Religious Values and National identity, we should survive. Just like those waves that drain back to the sea. Mr. Mohamed Nasheed and MDP must be back in the streets and dark alleys of Male, where they belong.