Whatever has gone wrong with our humanity?
We bring in foreign workers do the work that the Maldivians are unable or unwilling to do. Therefore, foreign workers come in as our guests and it is our responsibility to take care of them and to provide them safety.
The Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Maldives has threatened to withdraw his country's 25,000 workers if our government cannot guarantee their security. This comes after a reports of twenty five Maldivians who broke into quarters shared by one hundred and fifty Bangladeshis working for the Municipality’s Road Construction team.
These street gangs are beating up and causing harm to the most vulnerable people in society.
If the foreign workers leave our shores because of the actions of a minority of Maldivians, it will paralyse our economy- we may not even able to look after our aging parents.
This matter is especially painful to the Bangladeshi community as one of their brethren was brutally murdered in Kulhudhufushi. It was a heinous crime. Reports coming out from Maldives suggest that it is a crime of passion involving another Bangladeshi.
Our society is in serious trouble and is falling apart.
Our state must respect international human rights obligations and guarantee equal protection of the law to all persons, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.
The way things are happening in Maldives, long before the rising sea level can ever claim maldives as its victim, we could destroy ourselves into extinction.
My heart goes out to the Bangladeshi workers who pay so much money to come and work in Maldives, and in our land of the 100 per cent Muslims we exploit and abuse our trust.
This is really sickening. Our social apathy shows the level of our hypocrisy. In any civilised society, there will be such public outrage the politicians will be forced to listen and act.
The greedy capitalists only know how to make more money at the expense of decent human beings and every good human value.
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It is a really appalling situation and quiet sad and frightening too. What i do not understand is the media. The lack of coverage of these issues in the media. The lack of in depth criticisms. The lack of ideas and opinions. It is a SHAME indeed.
i agree with maldiveshealth. It's a bloody disgrace.
maldiveshealth.
Sadly, every social aspect of our life is in shambles.
The media has an important role in a free society to act as a watchdog, to decipher government and corporate actions, to critique and provide in depth analysis to the public.
This is not happening becoz our media just opened up recently and those traditions have not set in yet.
Example: Recent article in haveeru talks about fishing drought (the main livelihood) in South. It only reported what the fishermen said.
No effort was made to find about the continued after effects 2004 Tsunami or possible El Nino or any other factor that may contribute to this.
It seems we never get over the learning curve.
there's one solution...
we need to enforce justice...
the whole fucking system is infested with corruption...if you need to get our society back to a safe level...we need to correct that...
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