Hilath is challenging the child abuse defenders August 28, 2007

Way to go man. After a brief silence, he has come out strong, challenging the people who are defending the abuse that is happening to our children in this country. The approach he is  taking now is more likely to  make a difference than all others ( All the caws and donkeys and etc..) who are being lame about this issue. It is not that people  do not know what child abuse is. It is not that they do not know who tied the 15 year old girl who was tied to a tree. It is not that they aren’t aware of the proportion in which this calamity is happening in this country. It is what the silence and the inaction by the authorities that need to be tackled here. Once again. Good comeback Hilath.

Last night, as TVM usually does when I write a critical article against the government, it gave the “opportunity” to the Gender Ministry to counter the claims I made in a Dhivehi report last week titled “There should be no ‘special circumstances’ by which people can marry children” in which I exposed the Maldives’ government’s policy of marrying off raped children who got pregnant to the rapists themselves! This is the “culture” we see from Hindi movies where protecting “family honor” is of utmost priority.

I thought the Maldives’ government said that this is a 100 percent Islamic country and that we should be proud about it because the only other 100 percent Islamic country in the world is Saudi Arabia. So why is the Gender Ministry following Hinduism?

Whatever religion the Gender Ministry staff are practicing, I have to say that their policies are downright sick.

The buruga-clad staff of Gender Ministry “defended” everything I had written in the article, point by point it seems.

Ironically, she was now attacking the statement issued from her own ministry. In the article, I wrote only what the Gender Ministry revealed in a statement, a statement which exposed the ministry itself.

Immediately a friend called and said, “Hilath, are you seeing this? Once again they are only exposing themselves. And since they are demonstrating so much defensiveness, no one will believe them.”

Another friend, who works in the aiport called, “Man, these people are sick. Do they expect us to believe their shit? We all know how much child abuse is going in Maldives. If one in three women REPORTED they were abused, which is a high rate in itself, I am sure we can safely conclude that ALL Maldivian women must be abused. I am sick of this government and the country.”

I am disappointed in you Gender Minister Aisha. You should immediately resign if you cannot protect our children.