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	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Dictator of the Month November, 2004
		Again, on 16 October 1998, President Gayoom was elected for an unprecedented fifth term of office with a clear majority of 90.9% of the popular vote.
		Gayoom has been harshly criticized by many for his autocratic rule, and he is widely considered to be a dictator.
		Similar to Hussein, some of Gayoom's critics allege that he is not a believer in Islam, and uses Islam as a political tool to increase support.
	www.dictatorofthemonth.com /Gayoom/Nov2004GayoomEN.htm (846 words)

	A sixth term for Gayoom
		ON October 17, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives, was re-elected to a sixth five-year term in power in a public referendum.
		Gayoom has much to deliver, particularly in the political sphere, according to his opponents, who feel that there is a need for greater freedom.
		As Gayoom starts his latest term as President, the main challenge he faces is the test of his own conviction that he would deliver upon the popular expectations, raised 25 years ago, of a spell of political and cultural freedom.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2023/stories/20031121000306100.htm (1023 words)

	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is the son of Abdul Gayoom Ibrahim (Maafaiygey Dhon Seedhi) and Khadheeja Moosa.
		In 1974 Gayoom was appointed as under-secretary in the Telecommunications Department.
		Gayoom has been harshly criticized by many for his autocratic rule, and he is widely considered to be a dictator and has been accused of nepotism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maumoon_Abdul_Gayoom (1938 words)

	:: Dhivehi Observer :: Peoples Press ::
		Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom, is no longer the strong man he once was, who had shackled us for so long in slavery.
		Dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom must have thought that the bomb explosion in Sultan Park would have buried the issue of voter fraud in the recent referendum for good.
		Several thousand years later, we Maldivians voted in Maumoon Abdul Gayoom as our President, believing that his only connection with Egypt is that he was educated there.
	www.dhivehiobserver.com /editorial.html (3042 words)

	A cry for democracy
		Gayoom, who was re-elected President last year, has promised far-reaching reforms, but his opponents are sceptical about it.
		Gayoom, now in his sixth five-year term, wants to change the election process and restrict the tenure to two terms of five years each.
		Gayoom held the view that these two "were not at cross purposes" and that one strengthened the other.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2120/stories/20041008000705900.htm (1510 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Maldives declares state of emergency
		Gayoom's office said police tried to "restrain" the crowds for 17 hours but that protesters torched a government building and stabbed two unarmed policemen.
		Gayoom began cautious reforms after an unprecedented riot in Male last September triggered by the death of an inmate at a nearby prison.
		Gayoom won a sixth five-year term as president in a yes-or-no referendum in October in which he won more than 90 percent of the vote.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/341282.htm (601 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International
		Diplomatic circles here believe that the decision to impose emergency in the Maldives is a desperate attempt by Gayoom to establish control in the face of rising demands by his opponents to restore democracy.
		Gayoom has been the President of Maldives — a country with more than 1190 islands — since 1978.
		Even though Gayoom’s methods of running the country has often been questioned, during the past few months he cracked down heavily on MDP members, jailing many of them and driving the rest out of the country.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040815/asp/foreign/story_3627835.asp (283 words)

	Maldives' Gayoom wins landslide for sixth term (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom won a landslide in parliament Thursday that is likely to give him a sixth five-year term leading the most expensive tourist destination in the Indian ocean.
		With the main parliament vote cleared, Gayoom will have to seek public ratification of his election at a nation-wide referendum by mid October to start his new term from November 11, according to the constitution.
		The Majlis, which consists of eight members appointed by Gayoom, used a secret ballot to choose who was to lead the atoll nation of 1,192 coral islands scattered across the equator.
	www.terradaily.com /2003/030925055410.73co0n3a.html (233 words)

	Setting the Record Straight - more Gayoom means no reform in Maldives
		Gayoom is fully aware that his uniformed goons mete out cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment to detainees and prisoners on a regular and routine basis.
		Gayoom, with his Baathist philosophy, seems fully convinced that to run an effective police state he needs to use such draconian methods to terrorise the citizens into submission, and at the same time he needs to protect and nurture the abusers.
		Gayoom’s need to retain capable people for the art of torture and terror, far outweighs his need to show the international community that he is seeking justice.
	www.maldivesculture.com /news/latheef_gayoom_manik.htm (1953 words)

	South Asia Monitor
		MALE: Maldives' President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Asia's longest-serving head of state who last month imposed a state of emergency following public protests by pro-democracy dissidents and resorted to large-scale arrests of his political opponents, says he wants to replicate the economic miracle on the political front.
		COLOMBO: The chief political opponent of Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Friday (Sept 3) accused Asia's longest serving ruler of continuing to stifle democracy despite his pledges of reform.
		COLOMBO: Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has given up key political portfolios he has held for the past 26 years and put civilians in charge of the police, his government said on Thursday (Sept 2), in steps towards long-promised democratic change.
	www.southasiamonitor.org /maldives/2004/dec/maldives-index.shtml (847 words)

	Maldives Mission to the United Nations
		President Gayoom has indeed, in a manner which has preserved and enhanced the country's spiritual and cultural heritage, ushered in a hitherto unknown period of social and economic progress and political stability.
		Indeed, President Gayoom, the politician and national leader, is every bit as much an intellectual as he is an able practitioner in government.
		He is both a man of the people and a family man. Madam Nasreena Gayoom takes a keen personal interest in the public life of her husband and appears with him on many public occasions.
	www.un.int /maldives/gayoom.htm (470 words)

	The Hindu : International : Maldives ready for change, says Gayoom
		President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom during the interview to The Hindu.
		Gayoom (66) imposed a state of Emergency following public protests by pro-democracy dissidents and political opponents.
		Gayoom: I have explained my reform proposals to the general public on June 9.
	www.hindu.com /2004/09/05/stories/2004090501771400.htm (2168 words)

	Human Rights in the Maldives
		Reporters without Borders (Reporters sans frontieres) called upon the Maldivian President, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, to demand the immediate release of those four people, whose only crime was to exercise their right to freedom of speech.
		Gayoom was last elected president for a five-year term in October 1998, polling 90.9 percent of votes.
		Control over both public and private media wielded by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, his family and supporters was a flagrant violation of Article 25 of the Constitution that guarantees “the right to express ones conscience and ideas verbally, in writing or by any other method”, it said.
	www.acharya03.org /aiusamaldives.htm (2990 words)

	Dhivehi Observer News \| South Asia \| Maldives \| News
		Gayoom, who has ruled the Maldives since 1978, said there was “no scope for political parties” under the existing constitution.
		Gayoom has been in power for 26 years, and this time he promised to start an ambitious reform agenda to make it a modern and mature democracy.
		Gayoom said in February he had presented a 31-point reform package to the People’s Special Majlis or the Constitution Assembly, and requested it to complete the work of amending the Constitution in about one year.
	dhivehiobserver.com /index30March-1April2005.html (2437 words)

	Maldives Mission to the United Nations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives, at the reception held at Theemuge (Presidential Palace) on the occasion of the United Nations Day - 23 October 2000
		Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Republic of Maldives, in the Condolence Book opened at the British Council Office in Male', in connection with the death of Princess Diana
		Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Republic of Maldives, to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in connection with the death of Princess Diana
	www.un.int /maldives/press.htm (174 words)

	“I think I’ve done my job” - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
		Since President Gayoom’s definition of a job well done greatly contradicts most people’s, it is also necessary to examine his definition of liberal politics.
		The liberal politics of President Gayoom are not the ones which need to be established in today’s Maldives.
		Open mindedness is needed for reform, the President cannot continue to practice his old policies, hoping that it satisfy the people, for it is proving that it doesn’t.
	www.minivannews.com /news/news.php?id=1539 (659 words)

	MALDIVES: Is Gayoom’s Government getting more autocratic?
		Gayoom’s government consists of family and friends who appear to have no other obligation except to strengthen Gayoom’s position.
		Gayoom’s family exhibit such power that people in Maldives fear them and go out of their way to please them by any means, these includes the businessmen as well as the underprivileged Maldivians.
		Gayoom claims to be the leader of a new modern democracy but we can see that the present situation in Maldives has not changed in any meaningful way.
	www.saag.org /papers12/paper1195.html (780 words)

	Maldives president's promises of democracy met with skepticism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom said he is pursuing an ambitious reform agenda to turn the Maldives into a modern democracy.
		Gayoom's promise of change has been met with skepticism by human rights groups, who accuse him of repressing those who challenge him.
		President Gayoom denied allegations that his government targets pro-democracy campaigners and is responsible for human rights abuses.
	www.perspicacityonline.com /Articles/2005/03/Maldives050330.htm (530 words)

	HIMAL SOUTHASIAN \| January - February 2006
		This was followed quickly by the registration of Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP, or Maldivian People’s Party), led by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and consisting of top government brass and business leaders; an Islamist party called Adalat (Justice); and more recently, the Islamic Democratic Party, spearheaded by a former military officer.
		Addressing the nation via radio and television late that night, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom claimed that the authorities were forced to shoot as the rioting in the jail was threatening national security!
		But the conservative political culture and the strong grip on society by President Gayoom, with his eight appointed members in Parliament, and 16 appointed members and whole cabinet in the Constitutional Assembly, throttles the opposition voice.
	www.himalmag.com /2006/january/opinion_2.html (1414 words)

	Asian Centre for Human Rights
		On 7 March 2005, Strategic Communications Unit of the President’s Office unveiled much-vaunted proposals of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of Maldives for constitutional reforms.
		Though on 31 December 2004 President Gayoom declared the withdrawal of charges of high treason and public disorder offences against persons including former Secretary General of SAARC for participating in the demonstrations on 12-13 August 2004, none of the detainees has received individual notices so far.
		President Gayoom’s proposals remain silent on the present constitution of which 60% is concerned with the powers and immunities of the President, while 40% deals with the responsibilities of the state and the rights of the Maldivian people.
	www.achrweb.org /Review/2005/66-05.htm (990 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Profile: President Maumoon Gayoom
		Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is Asia's longest-serving leader.
		President Gayoom, they say, silenced domestic dissent to steer the Maldives along a course of his own choosing.
		Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was born in the Maldivian capital, Male, in 1937, and studied in Sri Lanka and Egypt.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/3140826.stm (378 words)

	INDOlink - International News - State Of Emergency Slapped In Maldives After Protests
		However, the gesture failed to pacify the pro-democracy activists who started to demand the immediate resignation of hardline ministers in the Maumoon Abdul Gayoom cabinet and the Male police commissioner.
		According to observers the recent incident appears to be another sign of increasing frustration with the slow pace of political reform in the Maldives.
		President Gayoom has suggested changes to the constitution which would limit his powers and permit political parties in the country.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=081404015008 (441 words)

	Maldives President's Promises of Democracy Met With Skepticism
		President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom says he is pursuing an ambitious reform agenda to turn the Maldives into a modern democracy.
		In a report released Wednesday, the Asian Center for Human Rights says arbitrary arrests, detention and torture of political activists is widespread in the Maldives.
		The government says they were "rioters" threatening law and order, and that they have since been released under a general amnesty.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-03-30-voa18.cfm (468 words)

	Maldives Government - Maldive Government Judiciary Courts Parliament
		President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom takes the oath of office on 11 November 1978.
		Chief of state: President Maumoon Abdul GAYOOM (since 11 November 1978); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government
		Adhaalath (Justice) Party or AP [Abdul Majeed Abdul BARI]; Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (Maldivian People's Party) or DRP [Maumoon Abdul GAYOOM]; Islamic Democratic Party or IDP [Omar NASEER]; Maldivian Democratic Party or MDP [Mohamed NASHEED]; note - political parties were allowed to register in June 2005
	www.maldiveisle.com /government.htm (271 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom today held talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and briefed him about the recent developments in Maldives, including the initiatives for reforms undertaken by him.
		President of the Republic of Maldives Maumoon Abdul Gayoom with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday.
		On the economic issues, it was felt that the joint commission between India and Maldives, which has not been held since the year 2000, should be held soon and it should be used to reprioritise the economic agenda between the two countries, foreign office spokesman said.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050329/nation.htm (3525 words)

	Maledives
		Thus President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom reminded the public in a speech in July 2000 that no other religion than Islam is allowed on the Maldives.
		Islam, which is the state religion for the approximately 250,000 inhabitants, would be the guarantor of the country's sovereignty.
		President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who has governed the country dictatorially since 1978, is, according to the constitution, "the supreme authority in the dissemination of Islam."
	www.ishr.org /press/pr2002/jul02/020724maledives.htm (306 words)

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