I felt sad and shocked and dismayed when I saw the Audit Report of the FORMER Presidential Palace. It was disgusting to find out the lavish life style of Golhabo and his family. Well tears flowed from my eyes, and lot of memories flashed back. I remembered how I walked across the Shabnamee Goalhi next to the Palace. I was a child then, but was doing hard labor everyday, carrying loads of shopping on my shoulders across the small street. Back then I never knew I had any rights. I never felt how lavish my president and his family were living as I walk along this street starving and tired.
I was a malnourished skinny slave driven boy working like a donkey for some Male’ resident. I had to do all the chores of the house but was only given a place to sleep and adulterated food. But I was trying to get something which was my goddamn human right as a citizen of the Country. I was trying to get education. Alas! I just got tears in my eyes today. I never cried back then, as I thought my country was poor, like me and my family back in the island. But now my eyes are flowing with tears as I know while I was walking across that street everyday with heavy loads on my shoulders and starving, my president and his family and his friends unfairly took away my rights. Where was your sense of faith and human dignity and the kind heartedness in you then? This boy who desperately walked on the next street to your palace was starving yet had a dream to serve his nation and is proud to be doing it now. But what were you doing to his nation and his family and his society! You were ripping and looting it off with your family and friends. What has your regime given to him! Dear Mr Ex president, today I cried, and I’m happy you cannot make me cry anymore. Can you imagine my sufferings, yet you lived this lavish posh life on the backdrop of the slavery I have to undergo because you cannot even provide any education in my island. Where was my human rights, where was my dignity! Where were my rights as a child! It’s a shame that you still claim you’re the humble and kind leader. You have brainwashed us for too long. But the proofs are coming now and we will not get stung any more from your den. Today is the day I bury the respect I had for the whole of your family and your friends and your regime. Will you still say there is no proof! Will you still say that you don’t mind to be trialed in the International Court of Justice? Where is the Justice for this boy and many others like him? Who will pay for their sufferings? What was their fault other than being born to an island and a country you were ruling ruthlessly? I have no answers, but there is a day for you to answer all this. Can you say to GOD on the Day of Judgment that there is no proof of any atrocities done by you, like your saying to us now?
I was a malnourished skinny slave driven boy working like a donkey for some Male’ resident. I had to do all the chores of the house but was only given a place to sleep and adulterated food. But I was trying to get something which was my goddamn human right as a citizen of the Country. I was trying to get education. Alas! I just got tears in my eyes today. I never cried back then, as I thought my country was poor, like me and my family back in the island. But now my eyes are flowing with tears as I know while I was walking across that street everyday with heavy loads on my shoulders and starving, my president and his family and his friends unfairly took away my rights. Where was your sense of faith and human dignity and the kind heartedness in you then? This boy who desperately walked on the next street to your palace was starving yet had a dream to serve his nation and is proud to be doing it now. But what were you doing to his nation and his family and his society! You were ripping and looting it off with your family and friends. What has your regime given to him! Dear Mr Ex president, today I cried, and I’m happy you cannot make me cry anymore. Can you imagine my sufferings, yet you lived this lavish posh life on the backdrop of the slavery I have to undergo because you cannot even provide any education in my island. Where was my human rights, where was my dignity! Where were my rights as a child! It’s a shame that you still claim you’re the humble and kind leader. You have brainwashed us for too long. But the proofs are coming now and we will not get stung any more from your den. Today is the day I bury the respect I had for the whole of your family and your friends and your regime. Will you still say there is no proof! Will you still say that you don’t mind to be trialed in the International Court of Justice? Where is the Justice for this boy and many others like him? Who will pay for their sufferings? What was their fault other than being born to an island and a country you were ruling ruthlessly? I have no answers, but there is a day for you to answer all this. Can you say to GOD on the Day of Judgment that there is no proof of any atrocities done by you, like your saying to us now?
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http://www.audit.gov.mv/dv/download.php?f=Riyaasee%20Ganduvaru%202007-2008.pdf
I wonder what AtollCounsellor would have to say about this blog post of yours?! :-) Cheers.
I cried while reading this powerful post.
If only every victim of that regime will dare to speak out like you, DRP will be shattered, and those they educated with golden spoons i their mouth will not dare to take over the leadership of our country again. It will instead belong to those who slaved to become something on their own merit...
This post moved me. People like you and me, and a thousand others can relate to this. But just the other day I heard a person (on radio) defending Maumoon's words and his lifestyle, saying that he was the President, and that he had a RIGHT to have a more lavish lifestyle than us mortals. How some people are still so ignorant!
I came across a rally last night near the PA jagaha and a person was addressing the crowd how Mulee-age was "appropriate for the time" and therefore, for "modern times" how Maumoon build an "appropriate Theemuge to reflect the standards of the modern times."
I guess when one loves and follows a person blindly, one's mind will rationalise and justify even his evil actions because one wants to desperately and badly believe that one is love with an "angel." "Maumoon can do no wrong," I can almost hear their inner mind speak to them!
Cry not!
Be proud that you have worked for yourself. Gather all that you have learned and you will be a far better person in your judgment.
Be proud!
Be proud that you have not been fed, educated, with corrupt dollars and rufiyaas. Be proud that you worked to survive.
A moving post indeed.
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