Look at the size of that island. Hard to believe that this is where a whole country in run from, and a majority of people live here. By any standards, thats a lot of people and power coming from one little island.
Now, almost all the politics which goes on around the country all are mainly generated from here. The president, the Majlis, they all are here. Going on about what should be done and what shouldn't. On the other hand, opposition tries to make sure that in the image of the people, the president and the current government are the devil and his henchmen. Typical isn't it.
However, the country does possess a lot of culture, both in tradition and in the way people live. Over the past years, of course, it changed, and it has brought more awareness and understanding of events to the people. When people say that Maldivians are now much more politically aware, I have to agree. They are aware.
Remember that phrase from Spiderman? "With great power comes great responsibility." Well, we the people, voted for the people currently running the country. By we, I don't include myself since I couldn't vote back then. So, basically, what I am trying to imply here is, the recent "fight" as we all love to call it, which went on in the battlefield of the Majlis, is our responsibility.
Let me go into what I heard from people on how this fight erupted. One member belonging to the opposition, said something to a member of the party in power (Opposition regards him as a traitor...I say the opposition are losers for saying that...seriously), and patted his back. Although the video on haveeru.com didn't work, I know how quickly the reaction from other members would be. Yes, we are talking about light speed here. That IS pretty fast!
I have read and heard about some peoples' opinions on this particular issue, and one of those opinions was that, since this country is becoming more democratic, these things happening is very normal. Then they point out examples in contrary, mainly India, as it is a seriously huge democratic country. That is true to some extent, as on youtube, you can see fights like this from all over the world. Normal, isn't it?
However, I go back to that, "we have a culture and tradition" part of my post. That culture and tradition, does not or will not agree with what went on that day. A majority of people usually will blame different parties for this issue, while others will point out faults of individuals, and suddenly, people like the president or a random judge comes into light. Another group of people will point out their faults in a different approach, mainly their discipline and reputation among people.
I think that that is exactly what these members showed us that day. They showed us, what they are really capable of. How much of a reputation they have, and how much of true "I work for the good of people" individuals they are. I feel that a lot of members who participated in this brawl, wanted to show everybody watching on television all around the nation, "what they are capable of." Even if they didn't deliberately feel it, or fully feel it, a part of them must have felt it IMO.
Again, it comes to the responsibility of us. Why did we vote for these people? To promote a particular party will be, usually the main answer. However, I always used to think that there are very young, free thinking and intelligent members among the newly-elect. A week later after they got their 60 something thousand rufiyaa jobs, my opinion of this changed. They were young, yes. Free thinking and intelligent, not really. They were working for the good of their own party, and to frustrate the others inside the Majlis. Their intelligence, is that of people who are like, owners to them. To me, they are all running towards the thinking of either just one or two people who lead their own parties.
I have to point out though, such clueless people are going to end up doing nothing. There is nobody in that Majlis, whom I can really trust with voicing out my opinion. Wait, when have they ever voiced out anybody's opinion. I hear them talking about building habours in some random island, and suddenly, everyone realizes that this person is trying not to point out the difficulties the inhabitants are facing due to lack of one, but he is trying to point out what the previous government failed to do. Also, this doesn't come as criticism, it comes as insults.
What we need now, in such a small country, desperately grasping onto whatever culture it has left, including the language, are intelligent, free-thinking youth, who will move forward to make this failing, yes, failing country something better for everyone. Not under the influence of a party, who just exist for the sake of insulting another party, but under their own influence, that some action needs to be taken, and taken fast, because a 350000 population is currently on a sinking boat.
Maybe such a day would never come, but hoping is what everybody can do. Even the ones like me, who think that there is not much hope left, for a blinded political battlefield.
