The public angst is towards the government and the general administrative scheme in Maldives. Yet, the bombing (if it can be called that at all) happened in a public place, targeted at innocents. Who benefits from this? Either a right-wing political activist figured this was the right trigger (9/11?) or some left-wing idiot forgot that the fight for political plurality does not include tourists.

Whatever the political rigmarole that went awry to cause this, it is time that the government enforced better policing. After all, we are talking about a city covering no more than 5 or 7 square kilometers with under 70,000 souls. Policing a place like that cannot be that difficult, can it?

I am all for homeland security commissions and more extensive intelligence schemes. The only question is, will that help? Given that the expansions made to the existing Maldives Police (both in terms of human resources and budget) have not thwarted the rise in crime, how will this new threat be dealt with?