Friday 13 March 2009

It is time to address gang violence in Maldives in a comprehensive way

Maldives research is one organisation which had proposed to do research on gang violence in maldives following the initial occuring of this behaviour in Maldives, but ....why is it not being done?
Read about the proposed research on Maldives research website;http://www.maldivesresearch.org/policy/research.html

"Gang violence is a new phenomenon for the Maldives. The proliferation of gangs and its overt emergence in Maldives is increasingly highlighted by media and police reports. Gang culture and gang violence has have already caused deaths on the streets of Male, something which was previously unimaginable in the country......"to read the rest follow the link.

Unless we understand the core of it, we will make blunders in how we manage the situation and i strongly recommend the concerned authorities to follow up research such as these .
The current situation of day light murders is totally unacceptable and we all have to unite to fight this without any delay. That also means we have to develop comprehensive interventions to deal with victims, their families, other gang members...their families .
We must arrest those who are causing this violence, those who are operating from behind and go beyond putting them in jail ..we must unite as a society to fight this situation before it is too late!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

But..but...lets wait for the next gang leaders' press conference to hear their take on this!

Anonymous said...

arresting and puttin em in prison creates more gangs. things will get worse b4 gettin better. immediate detention (president voted off) can help coz these guyz fear one day widout a shot. non-violent drugs must be legalized and smugglin controlled. Fightin against proven utter failure in US, Mexico...

The Shadowrunner said...

Naah, just get them together in a news conference, and detonate a 4000 Kg truck bomb under them.

I hear fireworks are real crowd pleasers nowadays.