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Anni: A brief HistoryAnni was born on the 17th of May 1967, in Male’. His father was a well known businessman and terrorist ( Keneri Abdul Sattar, who in 1974 tried to assassinate the then president of the Maldives Mr Ibrahim Nasir, with the help of would be assassin Abdulla Luthfee).
Anni had a disturbed childhood, as his father’s company Safari Tours went bankrupt and all their possessions had to be auctioned off to pay Abdul Sattar’s creditors (here lies the famous buffulhi story). Anni was also brutally abused systematically by his uncle Abdul Jaleel (abujee).
Anni attended Majeediyya School from 1974 to 1981. As he wasn’t a particularly bright student and his progress was not satisfactory his father decided to ‘banish’ him off to a boarding school in Sri Lanka so that the Male’ locals would not know how poor a student Anni was. Hence Anni attended the Overseas School in Colombo from 1981 to 1982. His father’s laundered money also made sure that he was able to afford schooling in England. Anni attended Dautsye’s School in Wiltshire from 1982 to 1984. Where he scraped through his A Levels.
Anni certainly took his time in attaining a degree, as he spent five years, (not the normal three) from 1984 to 1989 at John Moore’s University in Liverpool attaining a degree in Maritime Studies. Part of the reason for this was the fact that Anni spent a lot of time (1985 to 88) planning the terrorist attack on the Maldives that took place in November 1988. This attack was financed by Anni’s uncle Sikka as was later revealed during the investigation that followed (Sikka was sentenced to death, for his part in murdering 19 innocent Maldivians). As can be expected from a mediocre son of a rich father, he did not manage to attain his degree with honours. Part of the reason being that
The problem with Anni (as with all such inadequate personalities) lied in the fact that he tried to prove to his family that he was not such a failure. He tried his best to win back the respect and love of his father and abusive uncle. Anni thought that the best way to achieve this was to achieve political power. Something his father, grandfather and uncles on both sides have always longed and lusted for. He thought if he achieved what they could not, he would in fact be treated as an equal. “These thoughts were formulating in his mind in the last months he spent in Liverpool”, says a close friend of Anni who wished to remain unnamed. His political cravings increased as he witnessed the civil unrest and riots that took place in Liverpool at the time. Anni began to believe as he does today that his road to political power was through rioting and violence, as the MDP has been demonstrating on the streets of Male’ in the recent past.
Soon after his return to Male’, Anni began working on his ambition of attaining political power. He started off by co founding a political Magazine that published utter lies and slander, in January 1990, called “Sangu”. Anni was sued, taken to court and subsequently put under house arrest for slander, as he could not prove his derogatory remarks and accusations in the court of law. The magazine was bankrupt as a result of this legal battle and unpaid damages. Hence the Government then withdrew the publication licenses for the magazine. Anni started inciting violence through hand printed leaflets that his cronies distributed all over the capital. He started to call for the people to come out on the streets, set fire to public property (as a result there were a lot of arson attacks in Male’ carried out by a group answering to Dr Waheed, who fled the country to avoid prosecution) and to try and breach the gates of the headquarters of the National Security Service. As a ploy to legitimise his actions Anni lied to a number of foreign journalists (such as Chris Morris of the BBC) whom he contacted and offered interviews to. Anni was arrested and detained at Dhoonidhoo Island for inciting violence and was considered as a threat to National Security (for his part in planning the attack in November 1988 and) as he was openly calling people to ‘attack’ the headquarters of the National Security Service in his leaflets. After a long court case Anni was sentenced to three years and six months on the 8th of April 1992. He was later pardoned (as always) in June 1993.
On his release Anni spent sometime at home, relaxing before resuming his clandestine activities. Anni flew to Madras India. Anni was in constant contact with a certain Professor Suriyaa Naryan (South Asia Department, University of Madras). “We planned to get the support of the Indian Government to overthrow Maumoon by force through Professor Naryan” revealed Sikka during a recent meeting in Sri Lanka to a group of MDP hardliners. Professor Naryan refused on the spot when he realised what Anni was actually asking of him. The Professor in turn informed the Indian authorities and Anni was told that he was no longer welcome in India (at that time). Anni flew to London, UK in August 1994. During his visit Anni gave an interview to the BBC, again lying about his true motives and making allegations about the Maldivian Government. He also met with a lot of prominent people in the UK, spreading his made up stories. He was awarded the Hamish Hamilton Award for Human Rights as a result. He was also made an honorary member of PEN although he was never a journalist. He spent four months in the UK spreading his lies to anyone who would listen (on the orders of his uncle, Sikka). He then returned to Sri Lanka where his family own a number of villas and holiday homes. He worked (without a visa or a work permit) as a journalist for the Sri Lankan newspaper The Island, as a cover while his actual objective was to recruit another mercenary group to overthrow Gayoom by force (as his uncle Sikka, hired the Peoples Liberation Organisation for Tamil Ealam, PLOTE, in late 1985 to carry out the attack in November 1988). Anni tried to open dialogue with the leaders of JVP who at the time were running a terror campaign at the time. Both the Sri Lankan and Maldivian authorities suspected Anni’s clandestine activities and Anni found out that his cover was blown when he was informed by James Lanrol (owner of the Island Group in Sri Lanka) that he was no longer welcome in Sri Lanka.
Anni immediately flew to Singapore where he met up with his girl friend, Laila (daughter of Billionaire Ali Abdulla) who was coming back to Maldives after living in Germany for a while. They came back to the Maldives together and got married. Anni had found another strong ally and financial backer for his clandestine activities, in his rich father-in-law. On orders from uncle Sikka, Anni started work in Male’ to covertly recruit as many people as possible to start up a new wave of rioting and violence. He worked for Inter-Press Service (IPS) on a sub contract basis as a cover. Anni was also simultaneously seeking a foreign mercenary group for hire. He had finally identified a potential group in Nepal, and flew to meet with them. His cover for this trip was that he was ‘attending’ the Journalists Conference held in Nepal at that time (he did attend a few sessions to meet with well known journalists to once again try and sell his lies). The Nepalese secret police were aware of Anni’s meetings with a known militant group and had consequently passed the information to the Maldivian NSS. Anni was detained on arrival on 30th November 1994 for questioning. Again after a long court case (during which Anni was NOT held in custody) he was sentenced for his planning of terrorism. Anni completed his sentence in 1997.
As soon as he was released Anni started his work on looking for ‘hired help’ as he referred to them to over throw the Government by force. He had vast amounts of money at his disposal as both his uncle (Sikka who owns several Island resorts in the Maldives) and father-in-law were willing to finance the whole operation. In the meantime Anni also asked by Sikka to stand for parliamentary elections as one of the MPs for Male’. Sikka and Abdulla spent over 10 million dollars for Anni’s campaign. They offered voters money in return for votes. As a result Anni was elected 2nd member for Male’ as Mr Ilyas Ibrahim had far greater votes (as Ilyas is a well known, and honourable man) and was elected 1st member for Male’. Anni started off and Internet magazine called “Sandhaanu” to “take care” of his political enemies in Parliament by publishing lies and slander about them. Anni was later arrested for breaking and entering as he tried to steal something from the house of the former president (whom his father tried to assassinate in 1974). He was sentenced on 8th November 2001. He was also disqualified as a member of parliament due to this. He was banished to Angolhitheemu. He was again pardoned on 29th August 2002. After his release, on the orders from Sikka Anni went about writing articles and books to publish in Sri Lanka (funded by Sikka and Ali Abdulla) to ‘fine tune’ Maldivian history so it favoured Anni’s family in foreign eyes (to hide the truth about Anni’s father’s attempted assassination of Ibrahim Nasir etc etc).
Then arose the case of Hassan Evan Naseem. Who was a young boy who was tortured and killed by some sadist wardens at Maafushi prison (these wardens have been tried, and sentenced to death). Anni saw this as a political opportunity and paid, a gang of drug addicts and hooligans to come out on the streets and riot. Burning public buildings and police vehicles. It was like music to him. It was what he had been dreaming for, for such a long time. It was like being in Liverpool again. It was like being in Colombo during the JVP terror campaign. But as all dreams come to an end this one did as well. When the situation in Male’ calmed down, the police began arresting those who were involved and those who planned it. Anni was taken in for questioning, and allowed to go home for a while. He fled the country taking this opportunity on the very same day to Sri Lanka.
He resumed his clandestine activities in Sri Lanka straight away. By this time Anni had formed the MDP. Although the international community was given the impression that the MDP is a democratic organisation. Its is in fact far from it. Sikka sits on the thrown. He finances all the activites. By this time Anni was able to recruit “white” people (as he referred to them) to promote MDP’s agendas in Europe, this included one David Hardingham. Hardingham, who ran a couple his mother’s shops (one in Salisbury, another in Southampton) Hardingham also recruited Paul Roberts as the editor of mini van news.
Sikka and Anni had realised that although they had the finances to achieve political power in the Maldives, they lacked the brains to plan another military attack. Hence Anni’s number one priority was to find and employ someone who had the know-how of planning and implementing destabilising operations before the military attack took place.
Anni left Sri Lanka for the UK on the 17th of February 2004. Spun a cock and bull story and acquired political asylum in the UK (I say cock and bull story as I know the facts, think, would he have ever returned to the Maldives? If not). Anni did not waste anytime after his arrival in the UK. He worked tirelessly meeting MPs and anyone else who would listen, spreading his lies. He also managed to hire the guy to plan all destabilising activities carried out by the MDP (Nick Grace).
Since his return to Male’ Anni has been inciting hatred as instructed by Grace. He has rallied MDP thugs, and carried out acts intimidating anyone who said anything against the MDP.