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66th National Day Celebrations underway in Hulhumeedhoo

Following the recent upheaval over party politics in Hulhumeedhoo, people have started to come back to their normal lives. They have started to gather in national events like today’s, signifying their commitment for freedom and sovereignty. Predominantly women involvement in the national day parades today symbolized the importance and attention they pay on this sort of activities. However, few people are disgraced with the scale and unity of the activity in which hundreds of students took part from three schools.

“This is really symbolic in terms of preserving freedom, sovereignty and national integrity” a participant shared his feeling. He further stated that he was delighted to see such a huge turn up for the National Day Celebration which is something merely exercised recently.

Maldives national day is an important day, as it is observed to celebrate the victory of Muhammad Thakurufaanu over the Portuguese in the year 1573. According to the Islamic calendar, the National Day of Maldives falls on the 1st of Rabee ul Awwal, the third month. Read to know about the story of freedom of Maldives from the colonial rule of Portuguese. In the year 1558, Portuguese attacked Maldives and killed the then Sultan of this country and established their own rule. It was later in 1573; Muhammad Thakurufaanu arrived here along with his companions and succeeded in ending the fifteen-year colonial rule.

National Day has brought all of us together and feelings of preserving “freedom and sovereignty” are utmost. However one would wonder why there are huge differences in celebrating these incidents and how well the community responds to these sorts of national events. “I wonder why men keep themselves secluded from these kinds of national events” a woman told. She complained that men think more about politics and forget how to preserve what they had achieved.

Even though happiness overwhelmed many faces today, few, in reality, were excited over the preceding of today’s event. Egoism and feeling of promoting our own agenda was imminent from the root mach today. “Every school had tried to mark the event individually” stated a man. According to him ‘unity’ is mere a word that is found in books and is commonly used as a tool for attracting people today. He further told “Had three schools joined together to celebrate the event collectively, then the magnitude of the event would have been much better”.

Indeed, National Day is a very important day for any Maldivian to understand as our nation is always vulnerable to foreign invaders. We must educate all the children of the heroic event that took place in 1573 which gave us independence from 15 years of colonialism by Portuguese, and make them ready for next generation of Mohamed Thakurufaan. View Photos

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