DNA tests conducted in Thailand match the age and death date of human remains found in Gaamaadhoo jail with that of Abdulla Anees of Bashigasdhosuhge/Vaav atoll Keyodhoo, who allegedly went missing while in the prison, President Mohamed Nasheed said Sunday.
The president made the comment at the special ceremony held at Nasadura Palace Hotel to release historian Abdulla Shafeeq’s memoir “A Day in the Life of Ahmed Shafeeq.”
President Nasheed also said when interrogated by police, the then prison guard Mohamed Naeem of Muraka/Gaaf Dhaal atoll Hoadehdhoo confirmed that Anees died in prison. The case can now be sent to the Prosecutor General’s (PG) Office, he added.
“I want to help such 111 people in Shafeeq’s diary. I want to determine who those 111 people are and to investigate their murders,” he said.
A document obtained by Haveeru on Sunday quoted the police as saying that mitochondrial DNA analysis was conducted on the remains, as it lacked bone marrow. However, mitochondrial DNA analysis only shows the mother’s genes, making it impossible to cross-match samples of the father’s DNA. Anees’s mother had died, the document says.
The document also notes that the police operation in Vaav atoll on April to search for a relative of Anees’s mother to take MT DNA samples failed so far.
Police interrogated Abbas Ali of Huvadhooge/Gaaf Alif atoll Kondey, Abdulla Naseem of Blue Side/Gaaf Alif atoll Dhaandhoo, Abdul Majeed of Aroma/ Gaaf Alif atoll Villingili and Mohamed Naeem of Muraka/Gaaf Dhaal atoll Hoadehdhoo, the document added.
In the investigation, Naeem claimed that he saw Anees from the boat that took prisoners to Gaamaadhoo jail and no injury was visible when he talked with him on the second day of imprisonment. Naeem recalled that Anees was never seen from the jail when reports claimed that he was hiding in a nearby island. The prison division guard, however, denied the report and said no one missing from the jail was found. Anees went missing in 1984 or 1985, he added.
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