Abdulla Yameen’s narrow win over Mohamed Nasheed in the 2013 Maldives election was greeted with scant celebration, both on the streets of Male and in the victor’s camp.
The Maldives’ Commission of National Inquiry report is a history written by the victors, but it forces all parties to look to the future, not the past.
While Islamisation of the Maldives is currently making news, the nation's history shows that Islam has often been used as a means to gain political power.
Near the two-year anniversary of Mohammed Nasheed’s election in the Maldives, democracy in the atolls continues to experience growing pains, made more difficult by an increasingly bipolar polity.
The one who has smashed tyranny
Broken the back of untrammelled authority
The horse that pulls the chariot of destiny
That one cannot be destroyed.
That one will never die.
