Democracy House NGO inaugrated

A  non-partisan organisation called ‘Democracy House’ was inaugurated last night at the social centre, with the objective of “working to ensure that all Maldivian citizens enjoy the rights provided to them in the Maldivian constitution”.

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, chief guest Mohamed Waheed-Deen claimed bringing democracy to a country “is nothing difficult.”

“Finally democracy has come to the Maldives. But to keep it going this way will be the real challenge,” he said.

Many people did “not understand” democracy and making them more aware was the “most important thing”, he added.

“We see one political party fighting with the other and saying: ‘this is democracy’. We want to make people aware of real democracy,” he said.

Waheed said many of people in the Maldives have had their rights abused, “and the pain of it will remain for a long period of time.”