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IFJ 15 April 2021
Impunity for religious extremists threatens peace in the Maldives
A failure to prosecute past crimes by religious extremists in the Maldives is causing major problems for the future of democracy in the country. Fazla Abdul-Samad unpacks the situation.
Despite recent steps to put the Maldives back on the road to democracy, undoing decades of political patronage has proven difficult since the reign of the current Maldivian President, Ibrahim Mohammed Solih, started in 2018.
While there are no organised armed jihadi groups in the Maldives, past threats and attacks against journalists and bloggers have been linked to criminal gangs that hold Islamist beliefs and who have incited ideologically motivated violence. These groups are known to have ties to powerful politicians, who have allowed a culture of impunity to spread, seriously undermining the rule of law and the delivery of justice.