Holidays Turn to Horror in Mauritius

Why Mauritius can't protect tourists and their children while on holiday? International media are talking about horor holidays in Mauritius.

Mauritius Must Confront Its Darkest Truth: When Children Are Not Safe, Justice Is Already Dead

Two children. A family holiday. A hotel in northern Mauritius that has now become synonymous with holiday horror.

What should have been a memory of joy has turned into trauma, as allegations of sexual abuse against two minors have exploded into the public sphere. Their parents, desperate for justice, filed a police complaint before leaving the country.

And here is the bitter truth: no one believes the police will deliver justice.

Mauritius has lived for years with the poison of police corruption till the day of today. Files vanish. Investigations stall. Victims are pressured into silence. The guilty often walk free, while the powerless are left abandoned. How can a country claim to protect its children when its law enforcement is widely seen as an enabler of injustice?

“As long as corruption is the rule, not the exception, justice for these children will remain a fantasy,” one human rights defender told us.

This case is not just about two young victims. It is a mirror held up to an entire nation. A nation that signs international treaties on child protection while allowing its police force to rot from within. A nation that promises investigations, yet rarely delivers convictions when power and money are at stake.

Let’s be brutally clear: when children cannot rely on the state for protection, the state itself has failed.

Mauritius stands at a crossroads. Either this scandal becomes another forgotten file buried under bribes and excuses, or it becomes the moment the country finally admits: the police cannot be trusted until corruption is torn out by its roots.

Anything less is complicity.