15 Minutes with Sappe’
07 Jan 2005, 9:35 PM
Minivan News
Minivan News spends Fifteen Minutes with Ahmed Moosa (Sappe’), editor-in-chief of the Dhivehi Observer newspaper and one of 15 people elected to the Council of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP).
This interview was conducted on 23rd December.
Q1) You first spoke out, publicly, against the regime on the BBC’s Adam Mynott report in late 2003. You then had to leave the Maldives and you went to the UK and set-up the Dhivehi Observer. Has it been difficult to leave your homeland?
I had been away from home for many years before, 7 years in Kuwait and more than 8 years in UK, for my studies. And, also I was almost ready to leave to take up a job in London, working for Qasim Ibrahim’s Villa Company the very month of October 2003. So, I can’t say it was hard, it was certainly different because I was running for my life basically. It is harder for my family really especially my wife and kids. This does not mean that I do not miss Maldives and my friends, just that I am very used to staying away from home.
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