SESSION 3: FINAL TASK
WRITE A COMPOSITION OF NOT MORE THAN 180 WORDS AND LEAVE IT IN THE BLOG AS A COMMENT TO SESSION 3. I WILL EDIT T IN THE BLOG SO THAT EVERYBODY CAN LEARN FROM OTHER PEOPLE´S OPINIONS.
Find out about Mohamed Nasheed and write a brief biography. Include in what points you agree with him. Do you think Nasheed´s measures as the president of this country are correct?
Mohamed Nasheed, also known as Anni, was born in May of 1967 in Maldives. Anni studied Secondary School in Sri Lanka and, after that he went to United Kingdom, at Liverpool's John Moores University.
ReplyDeleteIn 1991, he was being held in prison for a 1990 article in the political magazine Sangu in which he alleged the Maldivian government had fixed the 1989 general election and he became an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. He was released in June 1993, and then re-arrested in 1994 and 1995. In 1996 he was sentenced to two years imprisonment for an article he had written about the 1993 and 1994 Maldivian elections.
In 2000, he was elected as a member of the parliament, but six months later, in 2001 he was tried and sentenced to two and half years banishment for dubious charges.
In November 2003 joined with Mohamed Latheef to form the Maldivian Democratic Party while in exile in Sri Lanka, but it wasn’t until October 2008 presidential election, when he was appointed president of Maldives.
The president of Maldives is concerned about climate changes and how it can have a negative effect on the archipelago. So he has decided to buy land in other countries as an insurance policy for the worst possible outcome of that climate changes.
In my opinion it is a brave and coherent decision. Mr. Nasheed had lived deep experiences and he seems a person who is able to do things with enough maturity. Although, I believe that it will not be easy to carry that ideas out.
In spite of politician’s bad reputation, from time to time a reliable one appears in our world proving with his own way of life that it is possible, just using ideals as weapon, to defeat dictatorial governments.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading something about Mohamed Nasheed, I would say he is a good example of reliable politician who has working for many years against a dictator who sent him to prison several times. After hard times he and his new democratic party in Maldives won general election and they are trying to start new policies and to avoid big problems as climate warming effects or poverty.
From a western point of view, it is especially admirable to find a Muslim country with this kind of politicians and his way to be successful, since they usually have strict government which do not respect human rights.
I am not sure if his policies are right or no, but at least they give illusion and just for this Obama has got a Nobel Peace Prize.