Cerita-cerita karut tentang daulat raja, tulah raja, jampi raja – semuanya tidak di percayai lagi. Anak-anak muda hari ini tidak lagi gempaq dengan daulat raja – mereka gempaq dengan penyanyi rock n roll. Anak muda hari ini akan gempaq dengan pemain bola, pemusik, pelakon, pengodam internet atau pembawa kounter culture yang melawan arus. Ini hakikat bukan sahaja di Malaysia malah inilah jalur pemikiran anak muda di seluruh dunia.
DARI JELEBU
Hishamuddin Rais Penghormatan di beri bukan diminta-minta. Individu dihormati bukan kerana paksaan undang-undang atau akta. Kalau ada sesiapa tidak ingin menghormati Tuan, Mador, Ketua Pejabat, Cikgu atau Raja - tidak ada apa-apa yang boleh di lakukan. Menangkap, merotan atau di masukkan ke dalam penjara - tidak akan melahirkan apa-apa penghormatan.
Che Guevera di hormati oleh anak-anak muda diseluruh dunia bukan kerana ada undang-undang dari Bangsa Bangsa Bersatu atau ada arahan dari IMF atau Mahkamah Dunia. Che diberi penghormatan kerana hati naluri anak-anak muda mahu menghormati. Che Guevera tidak pernah meminta-minta penghormatan ini kerana dia telah lama mati.
Penghormatan yang ditimbulkan melalui undang-undang, kuasa atau pangkat bukan penghormatan – ini penghormatan yang pura-pura. Mahathir satu ketika dahulu di hormati kerana dapat memberi habuan kontrek. Malah Mahathir sendiri sedar hingga dia membebel sesudah kalah untuk menjadi delegasi Kubang Pasu ke Perhimpunan United Malays National Organisation pada tahun 2006 dahulu. Dia membebel kerana tidak ada lagi orang yang datang mencium tangannya.
Lihat pula Abdullah Badawi – belum pun tamat menjadi PM – kerana tanda tangannya tidak lagi laku - tidak mendatangkan kontrek – tidak ramai menteri dan para pembodek yang datang berhari raya di Kepala Batas tahun lalu.
Berilah apa sahaja nama dan darjah penghormatan – dari Tun , Tan atau Tin.– ianya hanya tin-tin yang kosong tidak membawa apa-apa pengertian. Pakaikan baju kuning, merah atau kelabu – pasangkan lah tanjak tujuh tingkat – semuanya tidak ada makna. Hormat datang dari hati.
Pada tahun 1964 Jean Paul Sartre dianugerah Hadiah Nobel Sastera. Dia tidak pun datang mengambil hadiah ini malah Sartre langsung tidak ambil pot. Dia menolak penghormatan yang mengada-ada. Tetapi idea dan falsafah Jean Paul Sartre masih mengegarkan dunia. Idea dan falsafah inilah yang dinobatkan untuk dihormati dari segala bentuk penghormatan yang pura-pura.
Bagitu juga Le Duc Tho yang mendapat Hadiah Nobel Keamanan pada tahun 1973. Dia juga tidak pergi ke Stockholm untuk mengambilnya. Hingga ke hari ini Duc Tho masih di hormati dan diingati sebagai patriot Vietnam yang merangka dan membuka jalan damai untuk negaranya pada tahun 1972.
Justeru apabila ada gerombolan gerombolan yang meloncat mengambur meminta dan memaksa orang ramai agar menghormati raja maka permintaan ini kelihatan sebagai lawak bodoh. Meminta di hormati, memaksa di hormati atau melembagakan penghormatan bukan penghormatan namanya. Penghormatan datang secara sukarela dari hati suci yang ikhlas dan jujur. Penghormatan yang suci bukan kerana upah, dipaksa, atau dijanjikan dengan pangkat dan kontrek.
Kalau seorang anak sekolah ditarik telinga dan di paksa menghormati Guru Besarnya maka untuk beberapa saat ( ketika telinganya sakit ) mungkin anak sekolah ini akan berkata bahawa dia menghormati si Guru Besar. Terlepas sahaja telinganya dari di pulas, anak sekolah ini bukan sahaja tidak akan menghormati si Guru Besar ini malah besar kemungkinan si Guru Besar akan di baling dengan najis. Ini hakikat.
Bila saya menulis ini - kita telah masuk ke bulan March 2009. Cerita-cerita karut tentang daulat raja, tulah raja, jampi raja – semuanya tidak di percayai lagi. Anak-anak muda hari ini tidak lagi gempaq dengan daulat raja – mereka gempaq dengan penyanyi rock n roll. Anak muda hari ini akan gempaq dengan pemain bola, pemusik, pelakon, pengodam internet atau pembawa kounter culture yang melawan arus. Ini hakikat bukan sahaja di Malaysia malah inilah jalur pemikiran anak muda di seluruh dunia.
Pergi lawati bilik anak muda – tidak mungkin akan di temui gambar Sultan, Raja atau Shah di dinding bilik. Besar kemungkinan akan di temui gambar sebuah kugiran rock, wajah seorang rock star atau mungkin poster Che Guevera. Belum pernah ada dalam dunia ini seorang anak muda yang akan bergadai bergolok untuk mendapatkan baju T gambar seorang Raja – tetapi mereka sanggup ke E-bay untuk membida baju arwah John Lennon yang ori. Ini hakikat kerana kerana kita telah sampai ke tahun 2009.
Raja Moroko, Ratu Elizebeth, Sultan Berunai, Raja Abdulah al-Saud atau Sultan Perak - jika tidak kerana protokol – jika pegawai-pegawai kerajaan tidak di arahkan, jika anak-anak sekolah tidak di paksa - dewan akan kosong. Tidak akan ada ramai orang yang datang memenuhi dewan untuk mendengar susuk-susuk ini berucap.
Sampai kiamat pun anak-anak muda tidak akan membayar harga tiket 200 ratu ringgit untuk mendengar mereka membebel. Tetapi anak-anak muda sanggup turun ke Singapura atau naik ke Bangkok untuk mendengar sebuah rock band datang bermain. Raja Gopal, Raja Kapoor atau Raja Perak, harus sedar diri, pada hari ini tidak ramai lagi orang yang ambil pot kerana nama mereka bermula dengan raja. Ini hakikat tahun 2009.
Masyarakat urban tidak lagi mencari makan dari hasil tanah. Mereka memburuh. Mereka membanting tulang di kilang dan di pabrik. Apabila mereka meninggalkan tanah, berhijrah ke bandar bererti mereka telah memutuskan hubungan dengan budaya feudal. Masyarakat urban melahirkan budaya mereka sendiri – budaya dan gaya hidup yang tidak lagi bergantung kepada raja atau sultan. Dalam budaya urban sistem feudal tidak memainkan peranan.
Memang ada wujud kumpulan kumpulan yang masih menganggap kaum feudal itu wajib dihormati kerana darah keturunan mereka. Kumpulan ini adalah mereka yang ingin menahan gerak dan arus pembudayaan dunia moden hari ini. Malah di Peranchis, sebuah negara Republik masih ada warga yang cuba membawa kembali sistem Beraja di Peranchis. Mereka bernostalgia terhadap zaman feudal yang telah terkambus.
Di Tanah Melayu juga masih ada kumpulan dan gerombolan yang percaya dengan ‘daulat’ raja. Sebenarnya, ini berlaku kerana kepentingan ekonomi mereka bergayut dengan kaum feudal. Mereka ingin memastikan yang kepentingan ekonomi mereka akan dapat dipayungi oleh kaum feudal. Justeru, mereka sanggup membeli derajat kebesaran agar mereka dapat juga dilihat ‘besar’.
Hakikanya - kumpulan dan gerombolan pro-feudal ini dari sehari ke sehari semakin berkurangan. Pengurangan kumpulan dan gerombolan ini bukan di rancang. Pengurangan ini muncul dengan sendiri kerana asas ekonomi telah berubah.
Dalam konteks asas ekonomi kapitalis moden - keupayaan individu dinobatkan bukan kerana darah keturunan. Barack Obama, Micheal Jackson atau Colin Powell berada ditempat mereka berada hari ini bukan kerana mereka cucu kepada Raja Buganda dari Afrika tetapi kerana fikrah dan keilmuan mereka. Ini hakikat.
Ini bukan bermakna kita tidak meghormati Raja Gopal, Raja Kapoor atau Raja Perak. Sebagai sesama insan kita wajib menghormati satu sama lain. Kita juga wajib beradab dan bersopan terhadap mereka. Penghormatan, adab sopan yang kita tunjukkan kepada mereka bukan kerana mereka Raja. Mereka berhak menerima penghormatan dari kita jika mereka memiliki keintelektualan dan fikrah yang unggul.
Perhormatan yang ikhlas dan dilakukan secara sukarela tidak berhujung dan tidak bernoktah. Seperti Che Guevera dari zaman berzaman susuk ini akan terus di muliakan walau pun telah lama mati. Tidak seperti Mahathir yang terpaksa membebel untuk di hormati. Atau seperti Ghazali Shafie atau Muhamad Rahmat yang seperti tunggul pergi tersepak dan pulang terlanggar.
I am posting an article which is not able to publish in Malaysia due to security reason. Today morning, I was shocked because Malaysian government is still controlling our local medias and they keeping us like a frog in a well. Lets see what does the local media wrote about it:-
"Malaysiakini is unable to reproduce all the details of the document due to possible legal complications that could arise as a result of the on-going murder trial."
Lets read the article together so that we can get some clue of a Mongolian lady who was killed for their own purpose. The following article was published in Liberation French newspaper on 5th March 5009.
English Version
By Arnaud Dubus (in Kuala Lumpur, Ulaan Baataar and Paris)
The Altantuya Shaaribuu's Case :How and why she was killed?
(First published in Liberation French newspaper, 5thof March 2009)
Shaaribuu Setev is a bitter and disappointed man. Yet behind the saddened face of this Mongolian lies a fierce determination. Seated in a sofa in the lobby of an Ulaan Baataar hotel rattled bygushes of a freezing wind, this sixty years old man is ready to fight. His face features, hardened by the suffering and the stern climate, and his intense gaze tell all. “My daughter has been murdered by Malaysians on Malaysian territory. And they did not have even offer a word of apology,” states this professor of psychology at the National University of Mongolia. The assassination of his daughter, Altantuya Shaaribuu, took place in October 2006. This was a murder unlike others in a region where business conflicts or petty politics are often settled with a gun. Everything in this case,which started in 2002 when the French Spanish company Armaris concluded the sale of three submarines to the Malaysian government for the amount of one billion Euros, is out of the ordinary. The impact of the “Altantuya case” in France, Malaysia and Mongolia has yet to reach its climax. The murder of the 28 year old Mongolian was the result of a “commission” at the price of 114 million Euros by Armaris to its Malaysian counterpart. This “commission,” which was acknowledged by the Malaysian government in front of the Parliament in Kuala Lumpur, has triggered a chain of events that has led to the assassination of Altantuya and the disappearance of several key witnesses in the case.
A report from the Malaysian police, written on 19th november 2006 and which has been kept secret until now, reveals dry and precise descriptions as to how this young woman, a member of Asian high society, has been killed. In this document, one of the killers, a policeman of the Malaysian Special Branch named Sirul Omar, replied to the questions of an officer at a police station close to the murder scene. “When the Chinese woman saw that I was taking a gun, she begged me to spare her, saying she was pregnant. Azilah (the commanding officer of Sirul) grabbed her and [threw] her on the ground. I immediately shot the left side of her face. Then Azilah took off her clothes and put them in a black plastic bag. Azilah noticed that her hand was still moving. He ordered me to shoot again, which I did”, said Sirul. This is the first confirmation of Altantuya's assassins’ identity. “Then we carried her body into the woods. Azilah wrapped the explosives around her legs, her abdomen and her head, and we exploded her.”
The revelation of this report in the French newspaper Liberation is the latest chapter in this colorful and dramatic saga featuring French weapon sellers, Mongolian Shaman, and Malaysian politicians. This case is explosive not only for the Malaysian government, since the deputy Prime minister and Finance minister Najib Razak (who is scheduled to become Prime minister at the end of March) is suspected of having links to the case, but also because it could embarrass the DCNS, this French company specialising in military shipbuilding. The French Spanish company Armaris, which sold two Scorpène and one Agosta submarines to Malaysia in June 2002, was boughtby DCNS in 2007.
With her magnetic beauty and sophistication, Altantuya is reminiscent of the troubling image of a Far East Mata Hari. She grew up in Saint Petersburg (Russia), then studied at the Institute of Economic Management in Beijing. Besides speaking English, she is fluent in Russian, Chinese and Korean. The fateful cycle for Altantuya came into gear when she met Abdul Razak Baginda in Hong Kong in 2004.Baginda is a security expert and the director of the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre, a pro-government think tank. The two quickly became romantically involved. Altantuya, nicknamed Tuya by her friends, proved to be a useful assistant, helping Baginda translate from Russian to English.
Whereas Altantuya is young and beautiful, the rich and alluring Baginda is a well known figure of the Kuala Lumpur’s elite, notably because of his proximity to the Malaysian Deputy Prime minister and, until 2008, minister of Defense Najib Razak (he is also his security affairs adviser).Baginda parades in the most exclusive circles of Kuala Lumpur, sometimes accompanied by his legitimate wife.
In March 2005, Altantuya and Baginda departed for Europe, touring France, Germany, Italy and Portugal in the red Ferrari of Baginda, staying in posh hotels and dining in the finest restaurants of the old Continent. This trip, however, was not only for tourism:the contract for the sale of the submarines had been signed in 2002, but important details had yet to be settled. “We knew that Baginda was used by Deputy Prime minister Najib Razak as an intermediary for weapons systems deals, especially the high level ones,” says a regional security affairs expert.
At the end of March 2005 the couple was in Paris, where they met with Najib Razak. A picture shows the threesome in a Parisian private club. “Tuya showed me the pix. She said that one of the men was her boyfriend, Abdul Razak Baginda, and the other the “big boss”, Najib Razak. I asked her if they were brothers because of the names, but she said no, and that Najib Razak was the ‘prime minister’”, said Amy, Altantuya’s best friend (Najib Razak has sworn on the Koran that he has never met Altantuya). According to a private detective, now in hiding in India, the beautiful Tuya was also the occasional mistress of the deputy Prime minister, who was introduced to her by Baginda at the end of 2004.
The story became dramatic when, in October 2006, Altantuya was informed that the commission paid by the French-Spanish company Armaris had arrived on a Kuala Lumpur bank account. It had been paid to Perimekar, a company owned by Baginda. Altantuya rushed to Kuala Lumpur, in order to claim her share of the commission from Baginda ; she said she was entitled to 500,000 dollars.Baginda and Altantuya broke up prior to this. A jealous Rosmah Mansor, the feared businesswoman and wife of Najib Razak, objected any payment to Altantuya. Altantuya arrived in Kuala Lumpur with two other Mongolian women, one of them was a Shaman responsible for putting a spell on Baginda if he refused to pay. For several days, Altantuya harassed her ex-lover. On the 18thof October, Baginda could no longer tolerate the daily scenes made by Altantuya in front of his house. He contacted the Director of the Special Branch, Musa Safrie, who happened to also be Najib Razak’s aide de camp.
On October 19th, 2006, a little before 9 pm, two police officers of the Special Branch, Azilah Hadridan and Sirul Omar, were sent in front of Baginda's house where Altantuya was gesticulating and shouting. They had the order of “neutralizing the Chinese woman.”They kidnapped her, and drove her ten kilometers away and shot her several times. Then, they destroyed her body with C 4 explosives, a type which can only be obtained from within the Defense Ministry. Her entry into Malaysia was erased from the immigration records. It would appear that Altantuya had never come to Malaysia, because there is no trace left of her.
There is no perfect crime. The taxi driver hired by Altantuya for the day did not appreciate that his passenger was kidnapped under his eyes without payment for the fare. He took note of the registration plate of the kidnapper’s car and filed a complaint at the local police station. In a few days, the police identified the car and realized that it was a government vehicle. Events unfolded that even the Deputy Prime minister Najib Razak could not impede. He tried to cover the case. A few hours before the arrest of Baginda, he sent him a SMS : “I will see the Inspector General of Police at 11 am today... The problem will be solved. Be cool”. A few hours after, Baginda was arrested as well as the two police officers of the Special Branch, Azilah and Sirul.
After a trial considered dubious by many observers, Baginda was acquitted with the accusation of having ordered the murder and released in November 2008. Accused of having perpetrated the murder, Azilah and Sirul appeared in front of the Court last month. If convicted, their sentence is death. The verdict is scheduled for the 9thof April.
Thousands of miles from there, in the Mongolian capital city Ulaan Baataar, Shaaribuu Setev, Altantuya's father, is trying to control his anger. To him and his family, the acquittal and release of Baginda is symbolic of the unfairness of the Malaysian judicial process: “The Malaysian government is not even answering to the letters from the Mongolian Foreign Affairs Ministry,” he says. When Shaaribuu came to the Malaysian parliament to meet Najib Razak, the Deputy Prime minister had to escape through a back door in order to avoid an embarrassing encounter. The Altantuya case has become a key element of the Malaysian political game between Najib Razak (who is expected to become Prime Minister after the United Malay Nation Organisation (UMNO) Congress in March) and the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. So far, Najib Razak has navigated around the obstacles, but the murder of the young Mongolian remains a sword suspended over his head.
One of the most obscure aspects of the Altantuya case is the role of the Armaris company. In October 2007, the Malaysian Deputy Defense minister, Zainal Abdidin Zin, acknowledged in front of the Parliament that Armaris had effectively paid 114 million Euros in commission to Perimekar.He maintainedthat it was not a bribe, but a payment for “support and coordination services.” Was there corruption as in the case of the Taiwanese frigates in which the French DCNS was also implicated ? DCNS, a private company with public financing, has declined our request for a meeting. “Nobody can comment on this case,” was the sober reply of the DCNS Press relations officer in Paris. A document, which could establish a link between Altantuya and the French company is the guarantee letter written by Abdul Razak Baginda so that his mistress could obtain a visa to enter the Schengen zone (of whom France is a member country). The French embassy could not refuse this service to a man decorated with the Legion d'Honneur. But the role of Altantuya in the submarines negotiations is still not clear. Intelligence agencies find her background intriguing and the Russian FSB (ex-KGB) is following closely the case.
In Ulaan Baataar, Mungunshagai, the eldest son of Altantuya, who is 12 years old, is traumatized by the death of his mother. Altanshagai, the youngest, who is five years old and mentally handicapped, has not understood that he will never see again his mother. “He is asking for her all the time and is staying the whole day prostrated on his chair. Every evening, I bring him sweets and I tell him that his mother gave it to me for him”, says Shaaribuu Setev, the grandfather of the two boys. As for Baginda, he settled down in the United Kingdom with his family.He never uttered a word of regret on the deadly fate of the one who shared his life for two years.
They are not doing this with East- timor delegates but it is just piece of low class mentality that they want to show other. This country will appear as Pakistan , Sudan and Somalia one day.