It demands a long and arduous struggle, peppered with sacrifice, blood, sweat and tears. Nurturing a democracy demands much more.
Every struggle for democracy has had its own DNA, its own challenges, and its own martyrs – all natural to the environment in which the seed of the idea first took root. It requires a people to have long suffered oppression, tyranny and injustice. It yearns for the freedom to dream and achieve. It feeds on aspirations and a belief that tomorrow can be – and must be – better than today. That the next generation deserves more, that the new dawn may bathe them in new light.
The Maldives need to find their way back to democracy, good governance and accountability. Let’s join together to bring back lost democracy.
