On Friday, Nepal’s government formally told the deposed monarch Gyanendra to vacate the royal
palace within two weeks. The Nepalese TV is broadcasting video of trucks being driver from the palace to the deposed monarch’s private home and the government has setup a committee to audit palace property prior to nationalisation (read BBC report Eviction notice for Nepalese king).
Reading this piece of news, I just can’t help but wonder when it will our day in the Maldives. Surely, it will be wonderful to see the demented dictator Gayyoom being chased out of Theemuge – Riyaasee Ganduvaru and his stuff taken to the storerooms in Kimbigasdhoshuge. Perhaps, he can live temporarily at his in-laws. Anyway, unlike the Nepalese deposed king, I doubt if the Maldives public will agree to let the dictator live like a normal citizen without being tried in a court of law for all the crimes he had committed over the last 30 years. He must clear his name and that is near an impossible task considering the number of times he has unlawfully detained people and even killed. Furthermore, he must be tried for treason for undermining the constitution, Interesting times lie ahead.
