According to a police media report, a police officer has been hospitalized in ADK Hospital in Male’ after being attacked by gangsters and was found “thrown into a lane” around Alikilegefaanu Magu. The report says that the officer’s face has been severely beaten. The Police Officer was in plainclothes according to the report.
The local print and online media who were “reporting 24/7 round the clock” are silent on the matter at this moment in time.
Rumors say that the people who attacked the police officer are known to authorities and will be apprehended shortly. It is hard to believe that anything will come of it. There is little hope that anything meaningful can be done to maintain law and order in this country, while the current August Constitution and unfinished business related to establishing the legal and judicial infrastructure remain as is.
And Ibra writes to the President on his blog, in a post published 4 hours from the attack – which I thought was related. He writes:
[…] The entire nation has to be mobilized if we are to get out of this hell hole. You can see the reaction of the Mob in relation to efforts by the police to establish the authority of the law. They will come after the Police, the Cabinet, the MPs and any other who will stand in their way. Only the unifying of the Public, across political divisions can combat this evil.
That brings me to the point of this letter, Mr.President. It is only you who can unify the nation on this one. It is your Constitutional duty to do that. The Constitution spells out in black and white that it is your Constitutional duty and obligation to promote unity among the people. You can’t do that by ignoring the majority of the people in this country and just acknowledging people of a certain political membership. You will be deepening the divisions even further.
Mr. President. You are the PRESIDENT of this country, elected by UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. You are not the PRIME MINISTER appointed by a majority party in the Majlis. The Maldivian Constitution does not provide for a Prime Minister yet, Mr. President. I remind you, lest you forget.
Read the full post here
Smile and Let Smile 
DCJ
March 13, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Shihab, thanks for bringing this news fresh and hot. Maldives at the moment do not have a media. I don’t think Haveeru qualifies as a media. MinivanNews.com is not the kind of “up to the minute” media: it is the kind that researches and brings comprehensive FEATURE REPORT type news.
Ibra
March 13, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Hey Shihab,I actually did not know of this attack on the police officer when I wrote my Post in the small hours of this morning. I was simply referring to the next logical term in the pogression.