People & Power Special: Maldives Rising - 08 Aug 07 -Part 1

Reporter Juliana Ruhfus travels to the tourist paradise of the Maldives to assess the pace of democratic reform. She encounters a rise in religious parties, a drug epidemic, meets President Gayoom and finds a people who are impatient for change.

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[darthguy009]

maumoon should risign he is a dictator and ruling the counry with a iron fist

[shuaau]

all who are non maldivians and dont knw shit abt what is happening please STFU

thank you ^^

[miyanxxx]

Maumoon was a dictator... i was very sure once... but now am having doubts... If this is what real democracy feels like as Nasheedh promised he will show us then i am more than happy to be living in Maumoon's Dictatorship.... beleive me it was so much better.... whoever died in his regime and recieved punishment were the people who sent this country in to a turmoil of gangviolence drug abuse and acts of inhumanity.... More people are dying on the streets today than in jails...

[br3akit]

Maldives politics is full of lies, on both sides. Dont listen to the propaganda from either side.

[MeTaLiXe]

Maldives will never be democratic with fagging liars everywhere. and Majority of the Maldivians are fucking stupid. only thing better about Maldives is Tourism.

[lyingpresident1001]

We need foregn currency to import goods from other countries. These are things we require for our basic needs. How many people in our country lives under poverty. More than 70 percent of our country shares there income within their family for their basic needs. 60 percent of their income is spent for rent in Male and 1/3rd of the population of entire country lives in male.

[lyingpresident1001]

Nasheed wants to get attention and popularity of international media. He does not want to do things beneficial to the maldivian community. He should be ashamed of himself representing "Maldives" and people of the country.How much aid did he get from the international community to protect our environment. How much did he get from leasing our international airport. It must be more than 1.3 billion dollars. Where are these dollars why had the dollar rate increased to 15.42 from 12.85.

[lyingpresident1004]

Nasheed vowed that he would lower the price of the dollar to 10 rufiya(maldivian currency) on the campaign. But it is 15 now. He vowed that he would build 10000 housing units in maldives. But still not a single one is built. He vowed that he would have a mid term election.But still there isn't any. He have gone to more than 192 islands in the maldives and told all the impossible things he can not do.

[lyingpresident1004]

He vowed that he would built an airport in Thimarafushi(Inhabited Island). He told he would built an airport in fuvahmulah(Inhabited Island). He is the biggest lieing president the world have ever seen. . He is a pretty much of jerk than a president.

[YanZi9134]

mohamed nasheed is now president