Definitely India has been eyeing on the domination of the Indian Ocean. Fact is that the Americans are in Diego Garcia, south of Addu. Hanimaadhoo is the closest they can get to install radars to monitor movements in the Indian Ocean. Where is the interest of the Maldives in all this. Pity the politicians (so called saviours of the nation) for paving the way for repetition of history.

We have lost Diego Garcia (Foalhavahi), Minicoy Islands (Maliku) now what ?

Further to your article on Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Maldives and his proposed visits to Indian investment sites under President Nasheed’s privatisation program, I understand that the President is going to visit Hanimadhoo island in the Northern Province with Rahul Gandhi where an Indian company plans to build an international airport. The tragedy is that their is a hidden agenda behind all this and that is that the Maldivian government in its haste to privatise anything and everything that is publicly owned has agreed to hand over the whole of Hanimadhoo to the Indian company and move the inhabitants to another island. How democratic is this? The Vice President talks about things that happened about 50 years ago and that also without studying the events that led up to those events.I wonder what he has to say in this situation where a government in which he is the Vice President is going to physically remove the inhabitants of an island in the name of development and hand it over to a foreign party.

What a farce this is! I wonder whom they are fooling, maybe themselves since nobody believes these politicians any more.

Regards.