Images taken from a protest held in Maldives capital Male’ on Friday 9th of Jan 2009 to condemn the inhumane acts of Israeli troops on Gaza killing several children and women.
The protest was attended by several political figures of the Maldives from almost all the registered political parties and also members of different NGOs. Some key figures who attended the protest include human rights commissioner Ahmed Saleem and human rights ambassador Mohamed Latheef (Gogo Latheef). Also includes the DRP parliamentary leader Aneesa Ahmed. Several citizens also joined the protest with boards and banners condemning Israel.
The participants who addressed the crowd called for a boycott of all Israeli and American products and urged the government to denounce the attack at the rally. Also the speakers called for a ban of all Jewish investments in the Maldives. A fund was also opened in order to provide financial help to the Palestinians.
Source: CNN iReport
what nonsense! gathering and shouting wouldn’t do any good! why not give donations to UN relief agencies for Palestinian refugees! A very wrong reason to be on cnn iReport i beleive!
yo dhaitha
dont u see dat a fund is already open to provide financial support to Palestinin refugees?
bala dhaitha gadaaa, kaley moya veetha,
Why would i donate to a fund opened by UN to help Palestinian refugees when they still are giving helping hand to increase more refugees by ignoring our calls and protests. fc*ck the UN. fc*k ISRAEL, and f*ck who, pretend to be ignorant!.