We can't no more leave the dead resting in peace?

Our thoughts and prayers are with Hussain Salah, and with his family who have lost a loved one and been forced to endure such a terrible loss. The death of Evan Naseem and Salah did bring this nation to a stand still. Unlike the “natural” deaths and deaths that have occurred due to malpractice in our hospitals will be nothing compared with the previous killings of that of Mohammed Ameen. Ameens death and now these recent ones has and will be recorded as one of the worst brutal killings in the history of this tiny island nation.

Let us not forget that it has been a little more than three years only since Eevan was killed in a prison. Let us not forget the ones who are living in such sates where they cant move freely because they have been made disabled due to some ones misdoings. Let us not forget the babies and children who cant run around, play football and enjoy the things which every other kid enjoys.

Apart from all these brutal killings that happened outside the hospital settings, innumerous deaths has occurred which are suspicious of being caused by health professionals negligence or deliberate attempts in trying to hide the truth in our hospitals. This is the all known hidden secret.

In the coming weeks, even more details will emerge about the Salah case and how our weak justice system has allowed him such injustice. Pundits and politicians will offer condolences, caution against hasty action, and try to understand the pathology behind the murder and maybe murderers.

Instead of focusing only on the one incident, we all need to look toward the future and ask:

Can we just leave the dead rest in peace? No..Not untill...

It's long past time to have a serious national conversation about how we can achieve compensation from misdoings, either from the government, hospitals or others (killers). It's past time for us to agree that something is wrong when an individual has been inflicted with such obvious signs of brutality and discarded , it is high time to talk about the malpractice that is happening in our hospitals and no such system to deliver proper justice. Something is wrong when people are dying in suspicious circumstances, not only in the capital island Male' but every other island in this country and nothing being done to find the truth and deliver justice. That is the cause of concern here. Obviously, what we're doing now is not working.

Some people don't want to have this conversation. Forget the conversation, some even wish it does'nt even exist and would bury it live if they could. Due to utmost respect for the dead, others say. They're content to repeat platitudes, make excuses, nitpick proposals, and postpone taking action. They accuse the rest of us of “politicizing” the issue, while they hide behind the veil in utter ignorance.

The comments from President Maumoon, through a spokesman, were:

“If you are going to make accusations then you better be able to back it up, otherwise, shut up. We have attempted on various occasions to remove our politics from the gutter but it is the MDP that drags it back down. I don’t think it is a lack of trust in the state, I think it is the MDP being very happy to blame the government and milking any opportunity to incite public unrest. They saw it as an opportunity to recreate the circumstances of 2004. Accountability is something the government has to face up to, but also the opposition. I think the police should learn some lessons from this. They need to have more witness evidence but maybe we should also address the key issue here – drugs.”

He further says in minivannews that coroners services will inevitably come but,

“how soon we can do that is something I cannot say right now”

Isnt this the ample time to go forward with it? Isnt it their responsibility to deliver it?

It is not “politicizing” the tragedy to ask what we can do to make ourselves and our families safe from these happenings. When politicians and other greedy health professionals deny that a problem exists and that is susceptible to policy making and cling to their ideological mutterings instead of coming to the table with honest ideas, it is they who must stop the political posturing. They have to ask themselves how they can help keep our communities and our homes and our children safe.

We have to insist that we just cant leave the dead to "rest in peace” under these circumstances. No not now.