Busted

Oh dear. The whole world now knows exactly what went on in this country during the years 1978-2008.

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, President Nasheed made the following revelation:

"I have spent many of the past General Assembly sessions locked in a hot, humid, damp cell with my hands shackled and my feet bound; imprisoned for my conviction that the 300,000 people of the Maldives should be free from fear, free from want and free to live their lives in liberty and in dignity."

TIME magazine has exposed the failures of the dictatorship that existed here before in its article on Heroes of the Environment 2009:

"At huge public cost, the previous regime of octogenarian Maumoon Abdul Gayoom erected a system of ugly concrete bulwarks and seawells around some of the country's major population centers. That project, imposed against the wishes of local islanders, has failed, and in some areas it has accelerated land erosion and killed stretches of once pristine coral reef."