15 Minutes with Stab Victim Hameed Shiruhan

Minivan spends 15 Minutes with Hameed Shiruhan, Vice President of MDP’s Kudahenveiru Gofi, who was stabbed on 18 January in Male’.
Shiruhan was interviewed from his bed in ADK Hospital, Male’, on 19 January shortly after undergoing surgery for his knive wounds.
MR: Shiruhan, can you please tell us what you can recall of the incident?
Shiruhan: Yes, around 2pm [on the 18 January] I was having lunch at the Dynamo I heard that some people had come to my house and had begun a serious fight with one boy. So I went there along with four others. I parked my motorbike near Henveiru Cemetery and walked to the spot to see what was happening. Within no time I felt that someone was running towards me and then as I turned I was attacked. At first I thought I had received a shot with a fist, and I felt numbness in my chest. Suddenly I felt warm and discovered blood gushing out.
At once I got onto the motorbike and asked someone there to help ride the vehicle. We came straight to ADK Hospital. In the dressing room they tried to stop the bleeding. However even after an hour the bleeding was not stopped. When I was taken into the operating theatre it was still bleeding. There they tried to sew the wound, and I also remember vomiting into the oxygen mask. Thereafter I was kept in the ICU. I was unable to sleep throughout the night. And now I have been transferred to a private room.
MR: Can you tell us if the doctor revealed the seriousness of the injury?
Shiruhan: The doctor said that it is a deep cut. He said that I am very lucky that no nerves have been affected, although he mentioned an artery being damaged. Since I had bled profusely I have received about three pints of [transfused] blood. I received two pints while I was in the ICU.
MR: I can see that there is a pipe connected and blood is oozing into it…can you explain?
Shiruhan: It is the blood that had come out of the wound…and gathered outside…the pipe was connected during the time they tried to sew the wound…excess blood is seeping into the pipe even now…
MR: What I would like to ask then is…as I walked in there were some police investigators and I heard what they were saying…do you have any hope of getting an investigation conducted on this attack?
Shiruhan: I don’t even hope that this incident can be investigated. That is because these attacks are being conducted by people who are connected to the DRP. Therefore I don’t see a process within this present system that will allow any investigation.
And, he [the police investigator] said even before beginning an inquiry that they don’t have any evidence to justify the arrest of those who did this. So he says even if the case is taken to any senior judge no arrests can be made. And I am a victim…so maybe, my word will not be believed…but, there are friends who had witnessed the attacks and reported to the authorities yet he has said just now they have no evidence received to justify an arrest.
My question is the statements put forward by my friends who witnessed these attacks…is that not enough evidence? I think that there is a very strong support being given to the DRP people in order to protect them.

Minivan spends 15 Minutes with Hameed Shiruhan, Vice President of MDP’s Kudahenveiru Gofi, who was stabbed on 18 January in Male’.

Shiruhan was interviewed from his bed in ADK Hospital, Male’, on 19 January shortly after undergoing surgery for his knive wounds.

MR: Shiruhan, can you please tell us what you can recall of the incident?

Shiruhan: Yes, around 2pm [on the 18 January] I was having lunch at the Dynamo I heard that some people had come to my house and had begun a serious fight with one boy. So I went there along with four others. I parked my motorbike near Henveiru Cemetery and walked to the spot to see what was happening. Within no time I felt that someone was running towards me and then as I turned I was attacked. At first I thought I had received a shot with a fist, and I felt numbness in my chest. Suddenly I felt warm and discovered blood gushing out.

At once I got onto the motorbike and asked someone there to help ride the vehicle. We came straight to ADK Hospital. In the dressing room they tried to stop the bleeding. However even after an hour the bleeding was not stopped. When I was taken into the operating theatre it was still bleeding. There they tried to sew the wound, and I also remember vomiting into the oxygen mask. Thereafter I was kept in the ICU. I was unable to sleep throughout the night. And now I have been transferred to a private room.

MR: Can you tell us if the doctor revealed the seriousness of the injury?

Shiruhan: The doctor said that it is a deep cut. He said that I am very lucky that no nerves have been affected, although he mentioned an artery being damaged. Since I had bled profusely I have received about three pints of [transfused] blood. I received two pints while I was in the ICU.

MR: I can see that there is a pipe connected and blood is oozing into it…can you explain?

Shiruhan: It is the blood that had come out of the wound…and gathered outside…the pipe was connected during the time they tried to sew the wound…excess blood is seeping into the pipe even now…

MR: What I would like to ask then is…as I walked in there were some police investigators and I heard what they were saying…do you have any hope of getting an investigation conducted on this attack?

Shiruhan: I don’t even hope that this incident can be investigated. That is because these attacks are being conducted by people who are connected to the DRP. Therefore I don’t see a process within this present system that will allow any investigation.

And, he [the police investigator] said even before beginning an inquiry that they don’t have any evidence to justify the arrest of those who did this. So he says even if the case is taken to any senior judge no arrests can be made. And I am a victim…so maybe, my word will not be believed…but, there are friends who had witnessed the attacks and reported to the authorities yet he has said just now they have no evidence received to justify an arrest.

My question is the statements put forward by my friends who witnessed these attacks…is that not enough evidence? I think that there is a very strong support being given to the DRP people in order to protect them.

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