Parliament adopts Government resolution condemning 9/29 bombing

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| DATE: 2007-10-18 | PRINT | BOOKMARK
MALE, October 18, 2007 (Haveeru News Service) -- The Parliament on Wednesday adopted a resolution submitted by the Government which strongly condemned the September 29 bombing of Sultan Park in Male which injured 12 foreign tourists.

The resolution was tabled on October 2 and it was approved on Wednesday with 32 MPs supporting the motion while one MP declined to cast his vote.

The resolution called on the people to refrain from any act which may directly or indirectly cause injury and suffering to locals and foreigners.

The resolution called on the Parliament to strongly condemn such acts and call on the Maldivian people to assist law enforcement authorities in ensuring that such negative acts do not occur in Maldives again.

At the sitting Home Minister Abdulla Kamaluddin said that the Government is taking measures to ensure that authorities monitor actions of offenders more closely. He also said that generally the Government is trying its best to minimize the crime rate in the country.

The People\\\'s Special Majlis, the interim constitutional assembly tasked with amending the Constitution by November 30, earlier strongly condemned the 9/29 bombing.

Some lawmakers criticized the government for been too slack in dealing with the rise of extremism. They alleged that this inaction by the Government facilitated extremists to carry out their attack against the tourism industry, the mainstay of the economy.

Many lawmakers questioned why the Government was not taking things seriously as exploding of home-made devices have occurred across the archipelago even before, sometimes causing injury to the bomb makers.