(Malaysiakini) The Home Ministry has been asked to explain why 1,758 people who had been cared for in government-operated welfare homes have grown up to be designated as stateless individuals.…
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
'No birth certs for orphans in gov't welfare homes'
(Malaysiakini) The Home Ministry has been asked to explain why 1,758 people who had been cared for in government-operated welfare homes have grown up to be designated as stateless individuals.…
(Malaysiakini) The Home Ministry has been asked to explain why 1,758 people who had been cared for in government-operated welfare homes have grown up to be designated as stateless individuals.
PKR vice-president N Surendran said today that an immediate explanation is required from Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein."... This is supposed to be the responsibility of the Home Ministry and the government," he said when contacted.
Welfare organisation Pertubuhan Kebajikan dan Sosial Malaysia claimed last Friday that the Social Welfare Department had failed to sort out the birth certificates of Malaysian children abandoned as orphans.
Its president Muhammad Khairul Hafiz Abdullah - one of those affected - said he had been briefly jailed because he did not have personal documents, but later managed to get a blue Mykad and has since been acknowledged to be a citizen.
This, Surendran said, has also proved PKR's claims that a substantial number of people from the Indian Malaysian community do not have a MyKad and, by extension, citizenship.
"The NGO's statement has proved my previous allegation. These people do not have any parents, they're orphans (therefore do not have the documents or parents to prove that they are citizens).
"If
the (number of) stateless people registered under the NGO is already
1,758, certainly there are thousands more who were born here but do not
have a MyKad.”Surendran had previously claimed that there were at least 300,000 Indian Malaysians who hold a red or green MyKad, or do not have any documents to prove their claim to citizenship.
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France: Islamic holy man and his wife are jailed for mutilating the genitals of their four daughters
Even the sanitized translation of this Islamic legal manual makes it clear that Islamic law calls for female genital mutilation:
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Even the sanitized translation of this Islamic legal manual makes it clear that Islamic law calls for female genital mutilation:
"Circumcision is obligatory (O: for both men and women. For men it consists of removing the prepuce from the penis, and for women, removing the prepuce (Ar. bazr) of the clitoris (n: not the clitoris itself, as some mistakenly assert). (A: Hanbalis hold that circumcision of women is not obligatory but sunna, while Hanafis consider it a mere courtesy to the husband.)" -- 'Umdat al-Salik e4.3
Here is the actual translation:
"Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr 'clitoris' [this is called khufaadh 'female circumcision'])." -- Mark Durie, The Third Choice, p. 64
"Islamic holy man and his wife are jailed for mutilating the genitals of their four daughters," by Craig Mackenzie for the Daily Mail, June 3 (thanks to Alan of England):
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"Circumcision is obligatory (O: for both men and women. For men it consists of removing the prepuce from the penis, and for women, removing the prepuce (Ar. bazr) of the clitoris (n: not the clitoris itself, as some mistakenly assert). (A: Hanbalis hold that circumcision of women is not obligatory but sunna, while Hanafis consider it a mere courtesy to the husband.)" -- 'Umdat al-Salik e4.3
Here is the actual translation:
"Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr 'clitoris' [this is called khufaadh 'female circumcision'])." -- Mark Durie, The Third Choice, p. 64
"Islamic holy man and his wife are jailed for mutilating the genitals of their four daughters," by Craig Mackenzie for the Daily Mail, June 3 (thanks to Alan of England):
An Islamic holy man and his wife have been jailed for the genital mutilation of their four daughters. The case has shocked France and was branded by a female government minister as a 'grave crime' and an 'intolerable affront to women's dignity.'
All four of the victims, now aged between 11 and 20, were in court to hear the sentence and wept and cried out as their parents were led away from the dock.
The unnamed father was sentenced to two years and his wife got 18 months for allowing a 'doctor' to remove parts of their vaginas.
They were charged with ‘complicity in voluntary violence having led to mutilation by an older person of a minor under the age of 15 years’ , a crime punishable by a maximum of 20 years jail.
The father was said to be a ‘ marabout’ - an Arabic word for an Islamic ascetic holy man alleged to be endowed with magical powers.
The couple originally came from the west African state of Guinea where according to a 2007 study, 96 per cent of young girls have their genitals mutilated in the name of religion....
At the trial in Nevers, central France, the two youngest victims had declared themselves plaintiffs under French law but the elder girls withdrew their complaint and sided with their parents....
The two eldest girls defended their parents action, saying that they did not understand why they were appearing in court.
Sobbing in the witness box , the mother told the court that she now regretted what had happened .
‘Now I would be less passive, ' she said. 'Circumcision is not good.'
The former holy man, said to have been severely handicapped by a stroke, told the judge ,’ What is the most important thing for me is the wellbeing of my family. I am sorry for what happened.'
Moroccan- born Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, 35, Minister of Women’s Rights in the new government of François Hollande, has now pledged a crackdown on the illegal practice.
She vowed to track down what she called ‘ executioners’ who have performed covert surgery on an estimated 50,000 young girls in France....
Narowal village: Christian family pleads for justice after child rape, stillbirths
The rape victim said they drugged her, took her to the fields and raped her.
LAHORE: Police investigators in Narowal are siding with men accused of gang-raping a 13-year-old Christian…
The rape victim said they drugged her, took her to the fields and raped her.
LAHORE: Police investigators in Narowal are siding with men accused of gang-raping a 13-year-old Christian girl and then torturing her family and killing her two unborn cousins, say the girl’s family.
Though FIRs of both incidents have been registered, the police have already declared one of the three accused, a retired inspector’s son, innocent in the rape case. In the case for causing two stillbirths, the police are not arresting the accused even though a judge cancelled their interim bails.
The rape victim, a student of class six, told Civil Judge Mansoor Ahmed Warraich that Irfan, his employee Shahid and an unidentified man had kidnapped her as she walked past Irfan’s house on March 29. She said they drugged her, took her to the fields and raped her. She said she had been unable to cry out as her attackers stuffed some cloth in her mouth. She said that she woke up the next morning still in the fields, roused by family members who had been looking for her since she went missing. She said she had not gone to school since the day of the incident and never wanted to return.
Parveen Bibi, the family matriarch, told The Express Tribune that they had tried to lodge a case first at Domal police chowki, then Saddar police station, Narowal, but the police refused to register an FIR and instead urged the family to reach a settlement with the accused. They refused, and around 10 days later an FIR under Section 376 (rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code was finally registered at the police station.
A medical examination of the victim was conducted and established that she had been raped.
Parveen said that the accused and others then attacked the family to put pressure on them to reach a compromise and withdraw the case. She said on May 8 Irfan, his father Safdar Ali (the retired inspector), Salman Arshad, Asad Ali, Rashid Ali and Muhammad Boota invaded their home and beat up the family. She said women and children were also beaten. As a result of the attack, she said, her daughter-in-law Nosheen gave birth a day later to two stillborn girls.
She said that the police had registered an FIR against the six suspects under Sections 338-C (isqat-i-janin, abortion), 354 (assault on a woman), 452 (trespass), 109 (abetment), 147 (rioting) and 148 (rioting armed with a deadly weapon).
She said, however, that the police were favouring the accused. She said though a judge had cancelled the bails of some of the accused, the police were not arresting them.
In an order issued on May 29, Narowal Additional District and Sessions Judge Amjad Ali Shah also pointed out irregularities in the investigation. A part of the order reads: “…for the past seven days no recording in any case diary indicates either incompetency or clear malicious intent on the part of Investigation Officer SI Sarwat Hakeem. If any party is dissatisfied with the finding of the investigation, it can move an application for transfer of the investigation. The Investigation SP is warned not to interfere in this finding of the IO, otherwise a criminal case will be registered against him as well as against the IO for dishonest investigation.”
SI Sarwat Hakeem, the investigation officer in both cases, told The Express Tribune that the 13-year-old girl had gone to the fields with the three accused of her own consent. He said that she had a “friendship” with Shahid and they had fornicated “with her consent” He said the family had not found the girl in the fields; she had gone home on her own.
He also dismissed the family’s claim that Nosheen’s unborn baby girls had died due to being beaten. He said the stillborn children had been delivered 48 hours after the incident. He said that Section 338-C (causing an abortion) did not apply in this case and it might be removed from the FIR.
Parveen Bibi said that the accused were also putting pressure on them to stop pursuing the cases by claiming ownership of a seven-marla plot in the village which belonged to the family. She said that they had had to stop construction on the plot because of the claim.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 4th, 2012.
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Jala admits failure to net ‘big fish’ a letdown to Malaysians
Jala
said the government’s efforts to fight corruption were not being seen,
as the public just “want to hang someone”. — File pic
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said the government’s efforts to fight corruption were not being seen,
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — Putrajaya has found it toughest to battle public perception of corruption in the country, Datuk Seri Idris Jala has revealed, saying this was because Malaysians want to see “big fish” netted.
Jala, who heads the government’s Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu), told BFM Radio this evening, however, that the fight against corruption was a matter that requires more time before better results can be achieved.
“Corruption is a tough one and the reason is that some of the things that we are doing today in dealing with corruption, we followed what was done in Hong Kong.
“So the lesson learned in Hong Kong is that we build basic building blocks... a bit like building a wall against corruption,” he told the business radio station’s “Talkback Thursday” programme, under its “You are the Government” series.
Jala explained that among the “blocks” put together by the government were the enactment of laws like the Whistleblower Protection Act and the introduction of transparency pacts and special courts for corruption.
But despite this, said Jala, public perception on the state of corruption in Malaysia remains at a low, owing to the lack of public figures being charged and convicted of corruption.
“Most people want the big fish. Now, while you are busy building the blocks... people just want to hang someone.
“But, of course, when that does not come through because the law must apply, then it is very difficult to deal with perception,” he said.
When asked by the show’s host, Ezra Zaid, if he felt that the failure to nab the “big fish” had caused disappointment among Malaysians, Jala agreed.
“It’s a disappointment. Most people think we have not caught any big fish. Nonetheless, when you at the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), we have slipped by one point from 4.4 to 4.3,” he said.
However, Jala said the slide could have been due to a new measure in the survey introduced by Transparency International, namely the “bribe payer index”.
“In this survey, they interviewed 28 countries... and this is to look at the propensity of Malaysians [to pay bribes] when they are outside the country.
“Apparently, we bribe when we are outside the country and our score on that was 2.7,” he said.
Jala also announced during the talk show that the government has achieved 60 per cent of its key performance indicators for its National Key Result Areas in the first five months of this year.
He said Pemandu was presently running eight simultaneous laboratories at present to prepare itself towards moving into the second phase of the Government Transformation Programme for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015.
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Hanif: No duplication with Suhakam probe
The ex-IGP says his panel, unlike Suhakam, is looking at a wider scope with regard to the Bersih 3.0 rally.
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The ex-IGP says his panel, unlike Suhakam, is looking at a wider scope with regard to the Bersih 3.0 rally.
KUALA LUMPUR: The independent advisory panel, tasked with probing the alleged abuses during the April 28 Bersih 3.0 rally, said its investigation will not be a duplication of Suhakam’s inquiry into the same matter.
Panel head, former inspector- general of police Hanif Omar, said his team – unlike Suhakam – would look into a more “wider scope of things beyond human rights abuses.”
“Our job scope differs from Suhakam,” he told reporters today.
“They (Suhakam) are merely looking into human rights abuse whereas we are looking into 10 issues and are inquiring into a wider scope of things… there will be no duplication,” he added, after charing the panel’s second meeting.
Among others, the panel would investigate if there had been “random, widespread and wanton physical assault and brutality by the police” on the public and media during the rally.
The panel was also investigating if the police were unlawful in confiscating and destroying photographs and video recordings of the rally.
Hanif said the panel was looking at consulting foreign experts from the UK, US and Canada on aspects of managing a large assembly of people.
There had been much criticism with regard to the panel headed by Hanif. The Bar Council had snubbed this panel as it did not see the necessity of two investigations into the same issue.
Despite this, the council said that it was still open to meeting Hanif to discuss the matter.
Hanif said he hoped the Bar Council would meet him for the “good of the country” and would like to meet a representative from the council soon.
Police briefs panel
Meanwhile, Hanif said the police briefed the panel over the rally today, adding that the police had 43 video clips totalling 73 hours.
The panel watched 40 minutes of the clips consisting of political speeches made on days leading up to the rally and some clips on the day of the rally itself.
“We will not look at all the clips as some are just recordings of the same incidents from different angles,” said Hanif.
He added that there were some seditious remarks seen in today’s clips and that the panel had asked the police to provide more information on the matter.
Hanif also revealed that these speeches were not just taken in Kuala Lumpur but around the country as well.
Asked if the clips showed a rowdy crowd which destroyed public property, Hanif said he would reserve his comments on the matter for now.
Bukit Aman criminal investigation division deputy director Abdul Samah Mat had briefed the panel.
Hanif also said that two members of the six-member panel had pulled out today.
The two were former chief justice of Borneo Steve Shim Lip Kiong who pulled out for health reasons and Petronas corporate affairs senior general manager Medan Abdullah due to work commitments.
Hanif said it was up to the panel’s secretariat to announce their replacements soon.
He also encouraged any party including the public who had additional information or complaints to come forward.
They could contact the panel’s secretariat at 03-8886 8110/ 8886 8112, fax their information to 03- 8889 4836 or email bilikgerakan@moha.gov.my
The panel would again next Monday.
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KUALA LUMPUR: The independent advisory panel, tasked with probing the alleged abuses during the April 28 Bersih 3.0 rally, said its investigation will not be a duplication of Suhakam’s inquiry into the same matter.Panel head, former inspector- general of police Hanif Omar, said his team – unlike Suhakam – would look into a more “wider scope of things beyond human rights abuses.”
“Our job scope differs from Suhakam,” he told reporters today.
“They (Suhakam) are merely looking into human rights abuse whereas we are looking into 10 issues and are inquiring into a wider scope of things… there will be no duplication,” he added, after charing the panel’s second meeting.
Among others, the panel would investigate if there had been “random, widespread and wanton physical assault and brutality by the police” on the public and media during the rally.
The panel was also investigating if the police were unlawful in confiscating and destroying photographs and video recordings of the rally.
Hanif said the panel was looking at consulting foreign experts from the UK, US and Canada on aspects of managing a large assembly of people.
There had been much criticism with regard to the panel headed by Hanif. The Bar Council had snubbed this panel as it did not see the necessity of two investigations into the same issue.
Despite this, the council said that it was still open to meeting Hanif to discuss the matter.
Hanif said he hoped the Bar Council would meet him for the “good of the country” and would like to meet a representative from the council soon.
Police briefs panel
Meanwhile, Hanif said the police briefed the panel over the rally today, adding that the police had 43 video clips totalling 73 hours.
The panel watched 40 minutes of the clips consisting of political speeches made on days leading up to the rally and some clips on the day of the rally itself.
“We will not look at all the clips as some are just recordings of the same incidents from different angles,” said Hanif.
He added that there were some seditious remarks seen in today’s clips and that the panel had asked the police to provide more information on the matter.
Hanif also revealed that these speeches were not just taken in Kuala Lumpur but around the country as well.
Asked if the clips showed a rowdy crowd which destroyed public property, Hanif said he would reserve his comments on the matter for now.
Bukit Aman criminal investigation division deputy director Abdul Samah Mat had briefed the panel.
Hanif also said that two members of the six-member panel had pulled out today.
The two were former chief justice of Borneo Steve Shim Lip Kiong who pulled out for health reasons and Petronas corporate affairs senior general manager Medan Abdullah due to work commitments.
Hanif said it was up to the panel’s secretariat to announce their replacements soon.
He also encouraged any party including the public who had additional information or complaints to come forward.
They could contact the panel’s secretariat at 03-8886 8110/ 8886 8112, fax their information to 03- 8889 4836 or email bilikgerakan@moha.gov.my
The panel would again next Monday.
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Palani challenger claims to have support within MIC
Sacked MIC man Rajen says that he had received backing from many in the party over his decision to contest against Palanivel in the next GE.
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PETALING JAYA: A former MIC leader who has decided to contest against MIC president G Palanivel in the next general election today said that he received wide support from the party for his move.
VT Rajen was sacked from the party by Palanivel for criticising the party leadership. Last Saturday, he announced that he would take on Palanivel at any seat the latter was contesting in the general election.
Todate, Palanivel has not announced if he would contest, let alone naming a seat for himself.
Speaking to FMT today, Rajen said that following his announcement on Saturday, he received support from even MIC’s central working committee members – the highest decision-making body in the party.
“Almost a quarter of the CWC members have said that they back my move to challenge Palanivel,” he claimed. He added that he also had blessings from several top party leaders.
Rajen’s claim indicates a deep leadership problem in MIC with several leaders sharpening their knives against the president at his back.
“Since my announcement, I have been receiving numerous phone calls from MIC leaders who had agreed to support me covertly.
“I have also received support from many MIC members. It looks like many in the party are frustrated with Palanivel,” he said.
Rajen also pointed out Palanivel does not have the mandate to be the party president as he was appointed to the post following the retirement of S Samy Vellu in December 2010.
“As such, he is an illegal president as he was not elected by the members,” said Rajen.
He added that Palanivel’s weak leadership could cause loss of votes for MIC in the polls.
Rajen was sacked in March after he criticised Palanivel for allegedly attempting to convince Cameron Highlands Umno leaders to back him (Palanivel) to contest in the seat in the coming general election, and in the process sabotaging the chances of incumbent MP and MIC vice-president SK Devamany to retain the seat.
Vice-president hits out at cheap tactic
In an immediate reaction, MIC vice president M Saravanan rubbished Rajen’s claim, saying that the party leaders were solidly behind Palanivel.
“This is a cheap tactic by Rajen to create a rift in MIC. Speaking on behalf of the central working committee, I can safely say that we stand firmly behind Palanivel,” he told FMT.
“The central working committee has mandated Palanivel to lead the party and to select candidates for the general election. He has the unanimous support of all leaders in MIC,” Saravanan added.
He said that the party was working hard for the upcoming general election and was confident of doing well.
He also said the party was not concerned as to where Rajen wanted to contest and urged him to stop making claims that would cause a rift in the party.
“As far as I am concerned, Rajen is a sacked MIC man. If he wants to contest against Palanivel, or even against the prime minister, that’s his choice.
“However he should not make ridiculous claims of having the support from within the MIC for that,” said Saravanan, who is also the federal territories and urban wellbeing deputy minister.
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PETALING JAYA: A former MIC leader who has decided to contest against MIC president G Palanivel in the next general election today said that he received wide support from the party for his move.VT Rajen was sacked from the party by Palanivel for criticising the party leadership. Last Saturday, he announced that he would take on Palanivel at any seat the latter was contesting in the general election.
Todate, Palanivel has not announced if he would contest, let alone naming a seat for himself.
Speaking to FMT today, Rajen said that following his announcement on Saturday, he received support from even MIC’s central working committee members – the highest decision-making body in the party.
“Almost a quarter of the CWC members have said that they back my move to challenge Palanivel,” he claimed. He added that he also had blessings from several top party leaders.
Rajen’s claim indicates a deep leadership problem in MIC with several leaders sharpening their knives against the president at his back.
“Since my announcement, I have been receiving numerous phone calls from MIC leaders who had agreed to support me covertly.
“I have also received support from many MIC members. It looks like many in the party are frustrated with Palanivel,” he said.
Rajen also pointed out Palanivel does not have the mandate to be the party president as he was appointed to the post following the retirement of S Samy Vellu in December 2010.
“As such, he is an illegal president as he was not elected by the members,” said Rajen.
He added that Palanivel’s weak leadership could cause loss of votes for MIC in the polls.
Rajen was sacked in March after he criticised Palanivel for allegedly attempting to convince Cameron Highlands Umno leaders to back him (Palanivel) to contest in the seat in the coming general election, and in the process sabotaging the chances of incumbent MP and MIC vice-president SK Devamany to retain the seat.
Vice-president hits out at cheap tactic
In an immediate reaction, MIC vice president M Saravanan rubbished Rajen’s claim, saying that the party leaders were solidly behind Palanivel.“This is a cheap tactic by Rajen to create a rift in MIC. Speaking on behalf of the central working committee, I can safely say that we stand firmly behind Palanivel,” he told FMT.
“The central working committee has mandated Palanivel to lead the party and to select candidates for the general election. He has the unanimous support of all leaders in MIC,” Saravanan added.
He said that the party was working hard for the upcoming general election and was confident of doing well.
He also said the party was not concerned as to where Rajen wanted to contest and urged him to stop making claims that would cause a rift in the party.
“As far as I am concerned, Rajen is a sacked MIC man. If he wants to contest against Palanivel, or even against the prime minister, that’s his choice.
“However he should not make ridiculous claims of having the support from within the MIC for that,” said Saravanan, who is also the federal territories and urban wellbeing deputy minister.
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Indraf brothers assault: Three surrender to police
According to lawyer V Ganabatirao, who was one of those attacked, the suspects are also allegedly wanted for a muder case in Klang.
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According to lawyer V Ganabatirao, who was one of those attacked, the suspects are also allegedly wanted for a muder case in Klang.
PETALING JAYA: Three men sought over the the assault of Indraf 2.0 organisers, V Ganabatirao and V Pappa Raidu last Wednesday, turned themselves in at the Klang police last night.
In the incident, Ganabatirao and his brother Pappa Raidu, were attacked by three men as they were heading towards their car after attending a funeral in Taman Mutiara, Klang.
Ganabatirao suffered injuries to his nose. He was discharged on June 1 while his brother who required surgery for a broken hand was discharged yesterday from a private hospital in Klang.
“My sources told me that the three had surrendered themselves at Klang Utara police station last night. The police want us to attend an identity parade at 5pm today.
“Three weeks before attacking us, two of the three who assaulted us were arrested in connection to a murder case in Klang,” claimed Ganabatirao.
Ganabatirao, a former ISA detainee and practising lawyer, is currently a Shah Alam City councillor and a special officer to Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim.
Pappa Raidu, a businessman, is also a Shah Alam City councillor. Both the brothers are actively involved in Malaysian Indian – Voice (MI-Voice), an Indian NGO.
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PETALING JAYA: Three men sought over the the assault of Indraf 2.0 organisers, V Ganabatirao and V Pappa Raidu last Wednesday, turned themselves in at the Klang police last night.In the incident, Ganabatirao and his brother Pappa Raidu, were attacked by three men as they were heading towards their car after attending a funeral in Taman Mutiara, Klang.
Ganabatirao suffered injuries to his nose. He was discharged on June 1 while his brother who required surgery for a broken hand was discharged yesterday from a private hospital in Klang.
“My sources told me that the three had surrendered themselves at Klang Utara police station last night. The police want us to attend an identity parade at 5pm today.
“Three weeks before attacking us, two of the three who assaulted us were arrested in connection to a murder case in Klang,” claimed Ganabatirao.
Ganabatirao, a former ISA detainee and practising lawyer, is currently a Shah Alam City councillor and a special officer to Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim.
Pappa Raidu, a businessman, is also a Shah Alam City councillor. Both the brothers are actively involved in Malaysian Indian – Voice (MI-Voice), an Indian NGO.
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Hishammuddin: Pembangkang mungkin cetus huru hara
Tidak mustahil sekiranya pilihan raya umum tidak memihak mereka, mereka sanggup menghuru-harakan jalanan di atas nama hak.
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Tidak mustahil sekiranya pilihan raya umum tidak memihak mereka, mereka sanggup menghuru-harakan jalanan di atas nama hak.
KLUANG: Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein tidak menolak kemungkinan pembangkang akan mencetuskan huru-hara jika mereka tewas dalam pilihan raya umum ke-13.
“Apabila mereka sanggup memperalat dan memperkuda pelajar, tidak mustahil sekiranya pilihan raya umum tidak memihak mereka, mereka sanggup menghuru-harakan jalanan di atas nama hak, di atas nama kebebasan atau di atas nama hak asasi. Saya tidak tolak kemungkinan perkara ini berlaku,” katanya hari ini.
Hishammuddin yang juga Anggota Parlimen Semberong berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas melakukan tinjauan mesra di Taman Sri Lambak di sini.
Mengulas lanjut, Hishammuddin yang juga Naib Presiden Umno, bagaimanapun memberi jaminan kementeriannya tidak akan membiarkan perkara itu berlaku dan akan menguatkuasakan undang-undang sedia ada demi menjaga keselamatan awam.
Beliau diminta mengulas kenyataan bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dan Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yang dilapor berkata pembangkang akan mencetuskan huru-hara jika mereka kalah pada pilihan
raya umum akan datang.
- Bernama
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KLUANG: Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein tidak menolak kemungkinan pembangkang akan mencetuskan huru-hara jika mereka tewas dalam pilihan raya umum ke-13.“Apabila mereka sanggup memperalat dan memperkuda pelajar, tidak mustahil sekiranya pilihan raya umum tidak memihak mereka, mereka sanggup menghuru-harakan jalanan di atas nama hak, di atas nama kebebasan atau di atas nama hak asasi. Saya tidak tolak kemungkinan perkara ini berlaku,” katanya hari ini.
Hishammuddin yang juga Anggota Parlimen Semberong berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas melakukan tinjauan mesra di Taman Sri Lambak di sini.
Mengulas lanjut, Hishammuddin yang juga Naib Presiden Umno, bagaimanapun memberi jaminan kementeriannya tidak akan membiarkan perkara itu berlaku dan akan menguatkuasakan undang-undang sedia ada demi menjaga keselamatan awam.
Beliau diminta mengulas kenyataan bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dan Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yang dilapor berkata pembangkang akan mencetuskan huru-hara jika mereka kalah pada pilihan
raya umum akan datang.
- Bernama
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Hindraf’s challenge to Pakatan and BN
Only a fair and just Malaysia can make the real difference. That is what the new paradigm calls for. This what Hindraf calls for.
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By N Ganesan
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Only a fair and just Malaysia can make the real difference. That is what the new paradigm calls for. This what Hindraf calls for.
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By N Ganesan
Three significant characteristics of the system of Malaysian electoral politics make it inimical to the interests of the Indian poor. It is based on simple electoral majorities, it is ethnocentric and it works to provide moral cover for the Malaysian elite.
And it has become conventional wisdom that since Indians do not form a majority in any single constituency, and are an economically depressed community it will be nigh impossible to gain true representation for Indian socio-economic interests which implies that it will continue to be dependent on the largesse of the party in power.
Hindraf challenges these three assumptions and the first stones were cast with the 2007 Hindraf rally. Hindraf has been unrelenting in this challenge ever since.
Effectively what Hindraf is seeking for the Indian minority community is a more equitable power sharing formula that addresses these inherent weaknesses of the system as far as minorities are concerned.
What Hindraf is seeking is a more just Malaysia, where the citizens worth or rights is not determined by their ethnicity or their economic status, but by more fundamental and natural rights as citizens.
Hindraf works for the larger cause of a more just Malaysia, regardless of what Hindraf’s detractors have to say.
Given the workings of the electoral system the leading parties must yet win the Indians votes, so they can continue to rule. They therefore resort to a wide range of deception to garner the Indian votes.
One key technique is to have Indians in their ranks in the State Assemblies and in the Parliament and tout it as Indian representation. They try very hard with Makkal Sakthi, MIC and the latest addition to this motley list, Indraf to achieve this deception.
Truly representative policies for the socio-economic interests of the Indians are non –existent on both sides of the political spectrum. This has been de facto BN policy for 55 years and stated (yes, stated) Pakatan policy in the last 4 years.
Hindraf for its part wants to see changes to the forces driving the increasing criminalization of the Indian youth, the increasing oppression and marginalization of the Indian poor, the continuing denial of life opportunities, the chronic underemployment of Indian, the chronic poor life performance of the Indian poor.
Can anyone deny that neither BN nor Pakatan have stepped up to this plate?
Unimaginative deceptions
The Indians who are really crying out for fundamental change in the performance of the Malaysian socio-political system are the Indians in the lowest rungs of Malaysian society.
All the BN and Pakatan coalitions have done is to keep imitating each other in their approach to the problem. BN keeps on bribing and promising and asking for Nambikei. Pakatan touts cosmetic efforts such as the appointment of a Deputy Chief Minister or increases in allocation to Tamil schools or naming streets after Indians as their approach to the problem.
They both fail miserably with these unimaginative deceptions. They completely ignore the problem.
It is not that BN and Pakatan are missing the point. They just do not have it in their current political DNA to address issues of the working class Indian poor. The not so obvious truth is that both only represent interests of factions of the moneyed Malaysian elite.
BN represents the Malay elite, which has been on the ascendancy for the last 40 odd years. Pakatan by default now increasingly represents the Chinese elite and a smaller disgruntled section of the Malay elite.
Being the elite, their preoccupation is to get control of the levers of policy so that they can garner the resources of the nation disproportionately to themselves.
In the next GE, the choice for the Indians as Helen Ang puts it in her article (Hindraf in slipstream of two-race system- June 3, 2012 FMT) is not between the Chinese and the Malays, it is really between the Chinese elite and the Malay elite.
Being the elite, like elite everywhere else in the world, their primary preoccupation is to control the levers of policy, so they can usurp the larger part of the resources of this nation. Ethnicity matters only to the extent of gaining that control.
The contention between the Chinese elite and the Malay elite is intensifying. The period of post-Merdeka collusion between the two elites within the BN and the consequent marginalisation of the DAP is gone and now the Chinese and Malay elites are standing eye to eye in contention – why else have the towkays abandoned MCA and openly shifted their support to the DAP.
So it is between the Chinese elite and the Malay elite that the Indian poor have to choose from. The experience with the Malay elite has been one of systematic discrimination, racism and marginalisation for the Indian poor.
The experience with the Chinese elite and the smaller section of the Malay elite has been equally a disastrous for the Indian poor in a much shorter space of time – if you look at the experience of the poor Indians in Kedah, in Penang, in Perak, and in Selangor. If you have been watching the issues we have raised in Pakatan controlled states in these columns, the story is clear.
This experience suggests it makes no significant difference to the Indian poor either way. If things are not going to change, not voting for either is clearly an option for the Indian poor – why should they vote for either? What is the point? There is no religion here –only simple pragmatics.
What 1Malaysia?
The demands of the Indian poor are encompassed in the 18 point demand of Hindraf which Hindraf has persisted with, since its formulation. If either of the elite wants the votes of the Indian poor, they can have it in its entirety but they need to adjust the power sharing formula to accommodate these demands.
This effectively means creating a new paradigm for Malaysia. It does not matter that this sounds farfetched now.
When Galileo first suggested the earth was not the centre of the Universe no one gave him an ear but history does have its way of bearing out the truth ultimately.
There is no 1Malaysia, there are any number of Malaysias as there are ethnic groups in the country today. And there are as many impotent policies and programs as there are issues working against the social, economic and cultural development of Malaysia.
BN’s ETP is a pie in the sky program with little mooring in the political reality of a multiethnic, multicultural Malaysia. Pakatan’s program sounds good but can it even bridge the most obvious difference between the Islamic state agenda and the Malaysian Malaysia agenda of its component parties So is there really any substance here either.
The reality of Malaysia is that every ethnic group is here to stay. They are not going anywhere.
Every Malaysian will continue to live here and die here. Everyone must do well or no one will do well. Pushing and shoving is not going to cut it. Only a fair and just Malaysia can make the real difference. That is what the new paradigm calls for. This what Hindraf calls for.
If Pakatan or BN can indeed rise to this challenge they can have the Indian vote in-toto. But only if they can do this.
They now need to come up with a plan by which they are going to address the 18 point demand – which they know is bitter medicine, but they do know it is medicine. Medicine that our country so sorely needs.
Their political imperative requires they win the forthcoming elections and that imperative can certainly produce the necessary political will to accept the challenge that Hindraf is throwing at them.
If they think they can win it with their Makkal Sakthi parties and MIC and Indrafs they do so at their own peril. Plus if they have deception planned up their sleeves they are only postponing whatever it is that is that we raise here.
They need to come up with a binding and a real program, announce it and immediately begin work on it and there is a chance we will come out like we did in 2008 in favour of whoever does this.
Otherwise the Chinese elite and the Malay elite can fight it out and let the bloody mess continue. Let this go on for more years and maybe one day in the future they will find the wisdom in Hindraf’s challenge.
The writer is Hindraf’s national advisor.
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By N GanesanThree significant characteristics of the system of Malaysian electoral politics make it inimical to the interests of the Indian poor. It is based on simple electoral majorities, it is ethnocentric and it works to provide moral cover for the Malaysian elite.
And it has become conventional wisdom that since Indians do not form a majority in any single constituency, and are an economically depressed community it will be nigh impossible to gain true representation for Indian socio-economic interests which implies that it will continue to be dependent on the largesse of the party in power.
Hindraf challenges these three assumptions and the first stones were cast with the 2007 Hindraf rally. Hindraf has been unrelenting in this challenge ever since.
Effectively what Hindraf is seeking for the Indian minority community is a more equitable power sharing formula that addresses these inherent weaknesses of the system as far as minorities are concerned.
What Hindraf is seeking is a more just Malaysia, where the citizens worth or rights is not determined by their ethnicity or their economic status, but by more fundamental and natural rights as citizens.
Hindraf works for the larger cause of a more just Malaysia, regardless of what Hindraf’s detractors have to say.
Given the workings of the electoral system the leading parties must yet win the Indians votes, so they can continue to rule. They therefore resort to a wide range of deception to garner the Indian votes.
One key technique is to have Indians in their ranks in the State Assemblies and in the Parliament and tout it as Indian representation. They try very hard with Makkal Sakthi, MIC and the latest addition to this motley list, Indraf to achieve this deception.
Truly representative policies for the socio-economic interests of the Indians are non –existent on both sides of the political spectrum. This has been de facto BN policy for 55 years and stated (yes, stated) Pakatan policy in the last 4 years.
Hindraf for its part wants to see changes to the forces driving the increasing criminalization of the Indian youth, the increasing oppression and marginalization of the Indian poor, the continuing denial of life opportunities, the chronic underemployment of Indian, the chronic poor life performance of the Indian poor.
Can anyone deny that neither BN nor Pakatan have stepped up to this plate?
Unimaginative deceptionsThe Indians who are really crying out for fundamental change in the performance of the Malaysian socio-political system are the Indians in the lowest rungs of Malaysian society.
All the BN and Pakatan coalitions have done is to keep imitating each other in their approach to the problem. BN keeps on bribing and promising and asking for Nambikei. Pakatan touts cosmetic efforts such as the appointment of a Deputy Chief Minister or increases in allocation to Tamil schools or naming streets after Indians as their approach to the problem.
They both fail miserably with these unimaginative deceptions. They completely ignore the problem.
It is not that BN and Pakatan are missing the point. They just do not have it in their current political DNA to address issues of the working class Indian poor. The not so obvious truth is that both only represent interests of factions of the moneyed Malaysian elite.
BN represents the Malay elite, which has been on the ascendancy for the last 40 odd years. Pakatan by default now increasingly represents the Chinese elite and a smaller disgruntled section of the Malay elite.
Being the elite, their preoccupation is to get control of the levers of policy so that they can garner the resources of the nation disproportionately to themselves.
In the next GE, the choice for the Indians as Helen Ang puts it in her article (Hindraf in slipstream of two-race system- June 3, 2012 FMT) is not between the Chinese and the Malays, it is really between the Chinese elite and the Malay elite.
Being the elite, like elite everywhere else in the world, their primary preoccupation is to control the levers of policy, so they can usurp the larger part of the resources of this nation. Ethnicity matters only to the extent of gaining that control.
The contention between the Chinese elite and the Malay elite is intensifying. The period of post-Merdeka collusion between the two elites within the BN and the consequent marginalisation of the DAP is gone and now the Chinese and Malay elites are standing eye to eye in contention – why else have the towkays abandoned MCA and openly shifted their support to the DAP.
So it is between the Chinese elite and the Malay elite that the Indian poor have to choose from. The experience with the Malay elite has been one of systematic discrimination, racism and marginalisation for the Indian poor.
The experience with the Chinese elite and the smaller section of the Malay elite has been equally a disastrous for the Indian poor in a much shorter space of time – if you look at the experience of the poor Indians in Kedah, in Penang, in Perak, and in Selangor. If you have been watching the issues we have raised in Pakatan controlled states in these columns, the story is clear.
This experience suggests it makes no significant difference to the Indian poor either way. If things are not going to change, not voting for either is clearly an option for the Indian poor – why should they vote for either? What is the point? There is no religion here –only simple pragmatics.
What 1Malaysia?
The demands of the Indian poor are encompassed in the 18 point demand of Hindraf which Hindraf has persisted with, since its formulation. If either of the elite wants the votes of the Indian poor, they can have it in its entirety but they need to adjust the power sharing formula to accommodate these demands.This effectively means creating a new paradigm for Malaysia. It does not matter that this sounds farfetched now.
When Galileo first suggested the earth was not the centre of the Universe no one gave him an ear but history does have its way of bearing out the truth ultimately.
There is no 1Malaysia, there are any number of Malaysias as there are ethnic groups in the country today. And there are as many impotent policies and programs as there are issues working against the social, economic and cultural development of Malaysia.
BN’s ETP is a pie in the sky program with little mooring in the political reality of a multiethnic, multicultural Malaysia. Pakatan’s program sounds good but can it even bridge the most obvious difference between the Islamic state agenda and the Malaysian Malaysia agenda of its component parties So is there really any substance here either.
The reality of Malaysia is that every ethnic group is here to stay. They are not going anywhere.
Every Malaysian will continue to live here and die here. Everyone must do well or no one will do well. Pushing and shoving is not going to cut it. Only a fair and just Malaysia can make the real difference. That is what the new paradigm calls for. This what Hindraf calls for.
If Pakatan or BN can indeed rise to this challenge they can have the Indian vote in-toto. But only if they can do this.
They now need to come up with a plan by which they are going to address the 18 point demand – which they know is bitter medicine, but they do know it is medicine. Medicine that our country so sorely needs.
Their political imperative requires they win the forthcoming elections and that imperative can certainly produce the necessary political will to accept the challenge that Hindraf is throwing at them.
If they think they can win it with their Makkal Sakthi parties and MIC and Indrafs they do so at their own peril. Plus if they have deception planned up their sleeves they are only postponing whatever it is that is that we raise here.
They need to come up with a binding and a real program, announce it and immediately begin work on it and there is a chance we will come out like we did in 2008 in favour of whoever does this.
Otherwise the Chinese elite and the Malay elite can fight it out and let the bloody mess continue. Let this go on for more years and maybe one day in the future they will find the wisdom in Hindraf’s challenge.
The writer is Hindraf’s national advisor.
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On the spot PR offer to German Businessman but 100000 over stateless Indians still waiting for citizenship
Senator S. Ramakrishnan,
4/6/2012
In was reported in the media that the prime minister offered permanent residence status to a German businessman on the spot upon request. The German lived…
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Senator S. Ramakrishnan,
4/6/2012
In was reported in the media that the prime minister offered permanent residence status to a German businessman on the spot upon request. The German lived in Malaysia for the past five years and made the request during the prime minister’s dialogue session with investors. While we welcome more investment to flow into the country, there are also about 4 million legal and illegal workers in Malaysia. Millions from Indonesia who land on Malaysian shores illegally have become citizens within short periods. But 100000 over Malaysian Indians either born or residing in Malaysia before independence are denied citizenship by the BN government. Why the double standard Mr. Prime Minister?
Since becoming prime minister in 2009 Datuk Najib
has promised to resolve the Indian’s citizenship problem. An Indian
task force was created for this purpose. But till date only about 2500
Malaysian Indians have received blue identity. The recipients are all
elderly people who have suffered all these years without citizenship.
To these people citizenship at this stage of their life is of little
use except for medical help in local hospitals. There are many children
and youngsters born in Malaysia still holding red identity card. Why
the drag and delay in processing citizenship for Malaysian Indians but
for German businessman it was on the spot decision. Why the double
standard sir? Malaysian Indians are voters whom you are trying to win
them over. But your administration is refusing to provide citizenship.
Is it because you only want the Indian votes but not willing to provide
equal rights to them? Please change the divide and rule policy Mr PM.
An attempt to submit
citizenship application to the prime minister’s office by PKR leaders
recently was sabotage by MIC youth. Gangsters were deployed to block
the PKR leader’s submission and these gangsters started a fracas in
which PKR members were injured. UMNO uses MIC youth gangsters to dent
and deny the demand for Indian right to citizenship. With MIC around
Malaysian Indians don’t need enemies. They will help UMNO to keep
Malaysian Indians downtrodden and stateless. They are UMNO stooges and
not Indian representatives in BN.
Malaysian Indians are given false promises of citizenship just to win over the Indian votes. We need a political solution to this problem. Under the BN regime UMNO will never accept Indians getting more rights. Indians need a regime that provides equal opportunity and equal rights. Indians should not ever accept the denial of citizenship by UMNO/BN government. We are not second class or third class citizens to UMNO. For that to happen we need to dump UMNO and their cohorts once and for all. Malaysians have equal voting rights to bring about a more equitable and fair government. It’s now or never.
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In was reported in the media that the prime minister offered permanent residence status to a German businessman on the spot upon request. The German lived in Malaysia for the past five years and made the request during the prime minister’s dialogue session with investors. While we welcome more investment to flow into the country, there are also about 4 million legal and illegal workers in Malaysia. Millions from Indonesia who land on Malaysian shores illegally have become citizens within short periods. But 100000 over Malaysian Indians either born or residing in Malaysia before independence are denied citizenship by the BN government. Why the double standard Mr. Prime Minister?
Malaysian Indians are given false promises of citizenship just to win over the Indian votes. We need a political solution to this problem. Under the BN regime UMNO will never accept Indians getting more rights. Indians need a regime that provides equal opportunity and equal rights. Indians should not ever accept the denial of citizenship by UMNO/BN government. We are not second class or third class citizens to UMNO. For that to happen we need to dump UMNO and their cohorts once and for all. Malaysians have equal voting rights to bring about a more equitable and fair government. It’s now or never.
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Lese majesty is no longer relevant in 21st century Malaysia
Sharifuddin Abdul Latiff, President MCLM The Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) is appalled by the punitive sentence passed on Chan Hon Keong for insulting the Sultan of Perak online three…
Sharifuddin Abdul Latiff, President MCLM The Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) is appalled by the punitive sentence passed on Chan Hon Keong for insulting the Sultan of Perak online three years ago. To single out one person from the thousands who went online to express their anger and outrage at Barisan Nasional’s shameful coup d’etat in Perak with the sultan’s apparent complicity, is most unjust.
Chan was charged under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, that is, improper use of network facilities or service. But his crime is one we would call lese majesty, that is, to insult the dignity of the ruler. For that, he was given the maximum sentence which is a one-year jail term and RM50,000 fine.
That being the case, Malaysia would be one of a small handful of countries in the world to recognise lese majesty as a crime. MCLM is very concerned about this on three counts:
First, that the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 has been used to stifle free speech. It is very obvious that Chan is being made an example of by the Barisan Nasional government to deter other Malaysians from expressing their criticisms online, not just of the Malay rulers but also Barisan Nasional.
Furthermore, none of the sycophantic BN-friendly mainstream news coverage on the sentencing had reported Chan’s actions in the context of the Perak crisis.
Second, we are also concerned about the selective use of lese majesty. In 2008, after the 12th General Election, there was a crisis in Terengganu when the Sultan of Terengganu, Tuanku Mizan, decided not to reappointed Idris Jusoh to a second term as Menteri Besar, and appointed Ahmad Said instead.
During the three-week crisis, Umno members were extremely disrespectful to the sultan, to the extent of displaying banners referring to Tuanku as “natang”, which is the Terengganu vernacular for “binatang” or animal. Despite the public uproar over this insult, there was no charge of lese majesty brought against the perpetrators of this insult.
Third, the recent amended Evidence Act which includes the proviso for “presumption of fact in publication” under section 114A represents a double jeapordy for online dissenting voices. A person may get maligned through impersonation and suffer the consequences of two overlapping legislations passed recently in parliament.
MCLM would like to state that lese majesty is an outdated crime that has no place in modern Malaysian society. Ours is a democracy derived from the aspirations of participatory politics, and no longer a feudal state of old. Rulers (and political leaders) must earn the respect of the rakyat by the way they conduct themselves and fulfil their responsibilities.
While the court of law had made its judgment (pending appeal), the court of public opinion will not remain silent especially if a donation initiative of RM1 per person to garner 50,000 supporters in solidarity with Chan gathers steam.
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EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW
2. Now, about equality before the law that democracy is said to uphold. It is not upheld at all. Some people are actually above the law and some are far below it, i.e. they don’t really get the benefit or the protection of the law.
3. I will deal with those who do not benefit first. The democratic legal system gives the power to the courts to decide on disputes between individuals or organisations. The courts are presided over by legally qualified but very human judges. The contestants have to convince the presiding judge of their innocence.
4. Not being conversant with the laws the complainant and the defendant hire lawyers to argue their cases for them. Now some lawyers are clever and smart, but some may be just plain stupid. But both cost money. The smarter lawyers would naturally cost much more than the not-so-good ones.
5. Some lawyers have great reputations. In fact some may even be great politicians. Some of these political lawyers can be frightening to the judges.
6. The result of the inequality of representation by brilliant and fearsome lawyers on the one hand and the ordinary run-of-the-mill lawyers is most likely to be victory for the highly paid, brilliant and fearsome lawyers. The rights and wrongs of the case are of little consequence.
7. Effectively the law almost always favours the rich and not the poor. There is clearly no equality before the law. Get a good expensive lawyer and you can get away with murder. Get a bad cheap lawyer and you may be hanged for someone else’s murder.
8. International law is no better. If you lead a powerful country you can massacre a few millions and all that happens is a statue, as a war hero, will be put up in your honour.
9. If you lead a poor weak country and you act against violence by the opposition, then you may be accused of oppression and tolerating police brutality. The opposition, when they are clever enough to promise a variety of freedoms, can do no wrong even when they use violence to provoke the police into so-called acts of brutality.
10. If you are a favourite candidate of foreign powers for regime change, you can do what you like, and any Governmental action against you would be labelled as uncalled for oppression. If an election is near and the favourite is going to be a candidate and bring about regime change, then Government action against this privileged person would be regarded as attempts to undermine his chances of overthrowing the Government.
11. That the favourite purposely timed his violence just when elections are near would be ignored. That the provocation of the police is deliberate and meant to elicit “police brutality’” will also be ignored. That the police are beaten up, that police cars have their glass windshields smashed and the police car is overturned in full view of TV cameras – all these are inconsequential.
12. The main thing is the action against the favoured opposition by the Government will be deemed political rather than an exercise in legal equality by the Government.
13. The clamour is for the police to be charged for crimes against the people. Actions by the police to enforce the law must not be allowed. These must be regarded as criminal acts.
14. But blatant criminal acts by the opposition leaders must be regarded as permissible. In law they must be considered as privileged people.
15. There really is no equality before the law. Instead there is blatant inequality; there is bias in favour of some people especially the aspirants for regime change.
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Perang psikologi: Sandiwara Muhyiddin untuk halalkan keganasan BN
KUALA LUMPUR 4 Jun: "Kita khuatir kenyataan Muhyiddin itu hanya justifikasi atau sandiwara mereka (BN) untuk membuat pelbagai muslihat dan keganasan seperti yang banyak berlaku sejak kebelakangan ini," kata Naib…
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KUALA LUMPUR 4 Jun: "Kita khuatir kenyataan Muhyiddin itu hanya justifikasi atau sandiwara mereka (BN) untuk membuat pelbagai muslihat dan keganasan seperti yang banyak berlaku sejak kebelakangan ini," kata Naib Presiden KEADILAN, Tian Chua.
Beliau berkata demikian mengulas kenyataan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin bahawa kedudukan BN pada Pilihan Raya Umum Ke 13 (PRU 13) kini dalam bahaya dan menyeru jentera BN agar bekerja keras bagi memastikan mereka tidak tewas.
Tian menyifatkan, peringatan Muhyiddin kepada jentera pilihan raya BN bahawa PRU 13 kali ini adalah penentu 'hidup dan mati' parti tersebut menggambarkan sandiwara Umno untuk membenarkan keganasan bagi mempertahan kuasa.
Ini disebabkan Muhyiddin dilaporkan berkata, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) berkemungkinan turun ke jalan raya dan mendakwa keputusan pilihan raya sebagai tidak bersih serta menggulingkan kerajaan jika kalah dalam pilihan raya akan datang.
Beliau juga mendakwa, Pembangkang kononnya sengaja melancarkan perang psikologi untuk memanipulasi pemikiran rakyat supaya menjatuhkan kerajaan BN cara ala 'Arab Spring' atau 'kebangkitan rakyat'.
"Jelas di situ, mereka (BN) yang mempunyai niat sedemikian jika kalah (PRU 13), sedangkan kita PR tidak pernah menunjukkan niat sebegitu," tegas Tian yang juga Ahli Parlimen Batu.
Dipercayai, kenyataan Muhyiddin itu bersangkut paut kejatuhan rating keseluruhan Perdana Menteri yang juga Presiden Umno, Datuk Seri Najib Razak daripada 69 peratus pada Februari kepada 65 peratus pada Mei 2012.
Menurut kajian Merdeka Centre, kejatuhan ini disebabkan kemerosotan sokongan di kalangan responden belia dan bukan Melayu.
Rating Najib merosot sehingga 19 peratus bagi sokongan kaum Cina dan penurunan 8 peratus sokongan India.
Menurut kaji selidik itu, penurunan tersebut tidak dapat diimbangi kenaikan lima peratus sokongan daripada masyarakat Melayu.
Sokongan untuk Perdana Menteri di kalangan pengundi berusia di bawah 40 tahun juga turut merosot, dengan rating bagi mereka di bawah umur 30 tahun sehingga 61 peratus.
Pengendali kaji selidik itu berkata, kemerosotan populariti Najib tersebut berlaku tiga minggu selepas perhimpunan Bersih 3.0.
Dalam himpunan pada 28 April lalu itu, kerajaan, menteri dan polis telah membenarkan keganasan dilakukan ke atas peserta dan sehingga kini tiada tindakan diambil malah kerajaan berterusan menyalahkan kesemua mereka terbabit termasuk penganjur dan Pembangkang.
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Beliau berkata demikian mengulas kenyataan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin bahawa kedudukan BN pada Pilihan Raya Umum Ke 13 (PRU 13) kini dalam bahaya dan menyeru jentera BN agar bekerja keras bagi memastikan mereka tidak tewas.Tian menyifatkan, peringatan Muhyiddin kepada jentera pilihan raya BN bahawa PRU 13 kali ini adalah penentu 'hidup dan mati' parti tersebut menggambarkan sandiwara Umno untuk membenarkan keganasan bagi mempertahan kuasa.
Ini disebabkan Muhyiddin dilaporkan berkata, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) berkemungkinan turun ke jalan raya dan mendakwa keputusan pilihan raya sebagai tidak bersih serta menggulingkan kerajaan jika kalah dalam pilihan raya akan datang.
Beliau juga mendakwa, Pembangkang kononnya sengaja melancarkan perang psikologi untuk memanipulasi pemikiran rakyat supaya menjatuhkan kerajaan BN cara ala 'Arab Spring' atau 'kebangkitan rakyat'.
"Jelas di situ, mereka (BN) yang mempunyai niat sedemikian jika kalah (PRU 13), sedangkan kita PR tidak pernah menunjukkan niat sebegitu," tegas Tian yang juga Ahli Parlimen Batu.
Dipercayai, kenyataan Muhyiddin itu bersangkut paut kejatuhan rating keseluruhan Perdana Menteri yang juga Presiden Umno, Datuk Seri Najib Razak daripada 69 peratus pada Februari kepada 65 peratus pada Mei 2012.
Menurut kajian Merdeka Centre, kejatuhan ini disebabkan kemerosotan sokongan di kalangan responden belia dan bukan Melayu.
Rating Najib merosot sehingga 19 peratus bagi sokongan kaum Cina dan penurunan 8 peratus sokongan India.
Menurut kaji selidik itu, penurunan tersebut tidak dapat diimbangi kenaikan lima peratus sokongan daripada masyarakat Melayu.
Sokongan untuk Perdana Menteri di kalangan pengundi berusia di bawah 40 tahun juga turut merosot, dengan rating bagi mereka di bawah umur 30 tahun sehingga 61 peratus.
Pengendali kaji selidik itu berkata, kemerosotan populariti Najib tersebut berlaku tiga minggu selepas perhimpunan Bersih 3.0.
Dalam himpunan pada 28 April lalu itu, kerajaan, menteri dan polis telah membenarkan keganasan dilakukan ke atas peserta dan sehingga kini tiada tindakan diambil malah kerajaan berterusan menyalahkan kesemua mereka terbabit termasuk penganjur dan Pembangkang.
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Hishammuddin’s assurance of “order during and after GE” quite meaningless if not coupled with public pledge by Najib and key UMNO Ministers that BN will leave Putrajaya peacefully if it loses election
After prolonged silence, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has given the assurance that the authorities would maintain peace and order at all costs should there be attempts to create…
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After prolonged silence, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has given the assurance that the authorities would maintain peace and order at all costs should there be attempts to create chaos during and after the next general election.
He said the police would act impartially and according to the law to maintain order, declaring “Anyone who violates the law will be prosecuted to ensure the safety of the innocent. The safety of the people is of paramount importance.”
However, Hishammuddin’s statement failed to achieves the effect of giving full assurance to Malaysians for two reasons, viz:
• The inaction/indifference of the Prime Minister, Home Minister and the police authorities to the recent escalation of the political culture of aggression, thuggery and violence targeting Pakatan Rakyat and Bersih 2.0 leaders, including Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Nurul Izzah, Datuk Ambiga Sreenivasan, Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin and most recently, the vicious attacks on DAP Selangor State Committee member V. Ganapathirao and his brother Papparaidu in Klang last Wednesday.
• The threat by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak when invoking the language of “crushed bodies, lives lost” for UMNO to defend power at any cost in Putrajaya at the 2010 UMNO General Assembly.
Hishammuddin’s assurance of “order during and after GE” is quite meaningless if it not coupled with a public pledge by Najib and key UMNO Ministers that BN will leave Putrajaya peacefully if it loses the 13 general election – especially after his “crushed bodies, lives lost” speech at the UMNO General Assembly two years ago.
Is Hishammuddin prepared not only to give a personal assurance as Home Minister that UMNO and BN would leave Putrajaya peacefully if they lose the general election, but to get the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the UMNO/Barisan Nasional Supreme Councils to make such a public pledge?
This has nothing to do with whether Pakatan Rakyat is confident of winning Putrajaya in the next general election, but whether the UMNO/BN leaderships can pass the supreme test as Malaysian democrats who are prepared to accept the fundamental rights of Malaysian citizens to change the national government through the ballot box – one of the prerequisites for a country to claim that it is a normal democracy before any pretension to want to be the world’s best democracy!
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He said the police would act impartially and according to the law to maintain order, declaring “Anyone who violates the law will be prosecuted to ensure the safety of the innocent. The safety of the people is of paramount importance.”
However, Hishammuddin’s statement failed to achieves the effect of giving full assurance to Malaysians for two reasons, viz:
• The inaction/indifference of the Prime Minister, Home Minister and the police authorities to the recent escalation of the political culture of aggression, thuggery and violence targeting Pakatan Rakyat and Bersih 2.0 leaders, including Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Nurul Izzah, Datuk Ambiga Sreenivasan, Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin and most recently, the vicious attacks on DAP Selangor State Committee member V. Ganapathirao and his brother Papparaidu in Klang last Wednesday.
• The threat by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak when invoking the language of “crushed bodies, lives lost” for UMNO to defend power at any cost in Putrajaya at the 2010 UMNO General Assembly.
Hishammuddin’s assurance of “order during and after GE” is quite meaningless if it not coupled with a public pledge by Najib and key UMNO Ministers that BN will leave Putrajaya peacefully if it loses the 13 general election – especially after his “crushed bodies, lives lost” speech at the UMNO General Assembly two years ago.
Is Hishammuddin prepared not only to give a personal assurance as Home Minister that UMNO and BN would leave Putrajaya peacefully if they lose the general election, but to get the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the UMNO/Barisan Nasional Supreme Councils to make such a public pledge?
This has nothing to do with whether Pakatan Rakyat is confident of winning Putrajaya in the next general election, but whether the UMNO/BN leaderships can pass the supreme test as Malaysian democrats who are prepared to accept the fundamental rights of Malaysian citizens to change the national government through the ballot box – one of the prerequisites for a country to claim that it is a normal democracy before any pretension to want to be the world’s best democracy!
Grave repercussions for internet users
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by Foong Cheng Leong
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As published in LoyarBurok on 24 Apr 2012
Dissecting the presumption of fact relating to publication in the controversial new Bill.
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by Foong Cheng Leong
As published in LoyarBurok on 24 Apr 2012
Dissecting the presumption of fact relating to publication in the controversial new Bill.
The Evidence (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 was
one of the bills rushed and passed by the Parliament recently. Minister
in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz, when
winding up the Evidence (Amendment) Bill 2012, said the use of
pseudonyms or anonymity by any party to do cyber crimes had made it
difficult for the action to be taken against them. Hence, the Evidence
Act 1950 must be amended to address the issue of Internet anonymity.
The
amendments introduced s. 114A into the Evidence Act 1950 to provide for
the presumption of fact in publication in order to facilitate the
identification and proving of the identity of an anonymous person
involved in publication through the internet. In simple words, s. 114A
introduces 3 circumstances where an Internet user is deemed to be a
publisher of a content unless proven otherwise by him or her.
Although
it is stated that the amendment is to cover anonymous persons on the
internet, the effect of the amendment is quite wide. You see, we,
especially social media network users, generally do not use our real
names on the Internet. We use nicknames and pseudonyms. Our home
addresses do not appear on our account. We sometimes use fictional
characters or even digitalized images of ourselves as our profile
picture. All these are done to protect our own privacy. So, if none of
my personal details appear on my account, does this mean I am anonymous?
If someone’s identity cannot be directly ascertained from his account, I
would think that he would be anonymous.
The
new s. 114A(1) states that “A person whose name, photograph or
pseudonym appears on any publication depicting himself as the owner,
host , administrator, editor or sub-editor, or who in any manner
facilitates to publish or re-publish the publication is presumed to have
published or re-published the contents of the publication unless the
contrary is proved”. In simple words, if your name, photograph or
pseudonym appears on any publication depicting yourself as the aforesaid
persons, you are deemed to have published the content. So, for example,
if someone creates a blog with your name, you are deemed to have
published the articles there unless you prove otherwise. If you have a
blog and someone posts a comment, you are deemed to have published it.
If you have a Facebook page and an user posts something on your wall,
you are deemed to have published it!
Subsection
(2) provides a graver consequence. If a posting originates from your
account with a network service provider, you are deemed to be the
publisher unless the contrary is proved. In simple terms, if a posting
originates from your TM Unifi account, you are deemed to be the
publisher. In the following scenarios, you are deemed to be the
publisher unless you prove the contrary:-
(1)
You have a home network with a few house mates sharing one internet
account. You are deemed to be the publisher even though one of your
house mates posts something offensive online.
(2)
You have wireless network at home but you did not secure your network.
You are deemed to be the publisher even though someone “piggybacks” your
network to post something offensive.
(3)
You have a party at home and allows your friends to access your PC or
wireless network.You are deemed to be the publisher even though it was a
friend who posted something offensive.
(4) Someone use your phone or tablet to post something offensive. You are deemed to be the publisher.
As
for subsection (3), you are presumed to have published a content if you
have custory or control of any computer which the publication
originates from. Here, you are deemed to be the publisher so long your
computer was the device that had posted the content. So if someone
“tweetjacks” you or naughtily updates your Facebook with something
offensive, you are deemed to be the publisher unless you prove
otherwise.
Admittedly,
the amendments certainly saves a lot of the investigator’s time. It is
very difficult to trace someone on the Internet. It will make
prosecution for, among others, defamation, offences under the
Communication and Multimedia Act 1998 and Computer Crimes Act 1997 and,
election offences much easier. But it is not impossible to trace
someone. There are many cases where perpetrators are caught and charged.
I
do not see the logic to deem someone to be a publisher. If an
investigator is unable to trace the anonymous internet user, then why
should the innocent Internet user take the rap? The onus of proof should
always be on the prosecuting side. In the English case of Applause Store Productions Limited & Anor v Grant Raphael [2008] EWHC 1781 (QB),
the claimants were awarded £22,000 in damages against Raphael, an old
school friend, who had created a false personal profile of the claimants
on Facebook. The claimants convinced the Court that Raphael was the
person who created the fake profile even though he claimed that he had a
party at his house and someone in that party created the account.
In
summary, the new amendments force an innocent party to show that he is
not the publisher. Victims of stolen identity or hacking would have a
lot more problems to fix. Since computers can be easily manipulated and
identity theft is quite rampant, it is dangerous to put the onus on
internet users. An internet user will need to give an alibi that it
wasn’t him. He needs to prove that he has no access to the computer at
that time of publication and he needs to produce call witnesses to
support his alibi.
Clearly,
it is against our very fundamental principal of “innocent until proven
guilty”. With general election looming, I fear this amendment will be
used oppressively. Fortunately, the amendment is not in force yet. I
strongly hope that the government will relook into this amendment.
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Government Emphasises Understanding And Unity Of Race And Religion - Najib
JOHOR BAHARU, June 5 (Bernama) - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun
Razak says the government emphasises understanding and unity of race and
religion especially when it involves fellow Muslims.…
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JOHOR BAHARU, June 5 (Bernama) - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun
Razak says the government emphasises understanding and unity of race and
religion especially when it involves fellow Muslims.
He said the government had never closed cooperation and negotiation with individuals, parties or non-governmental organisations.
"We also don't impose conditions as Muslims and the people are our priority compared to the interest of certain groups.
"Closing the door of understanding and negotiation will make Muslims lose out. We will end up like Pak Pandir who won applause but lost the kampung.
"When this happens, the loss will not only be the kampung but also the religion," he said when opening 55th National Quran Recital Competition at Persada Johor International Convention Centre here Monday night.
The ceremony was also attended by the prime minister's wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom.
He said that the theme "Unity The Foundation Of Unity" is in line with Allah's 'firman' in verse 13 of 'surah al-Hujurat'.
The verse called on Muslims irrespective of race and ancestry to know each other and establish a good understanding as well as strengthen ties.
"The government is always trying to strengthen unity and understanding through the 1Malaysia Concept."
Islam has been enshrined in the constitution as official religion and religion of the federation.
"The government always uphold the agenda to champion Islam since achieving independence," said Najib.
He expressed surprise with some people who made the holy land as venue to express their sentiments on the order of certain parties and condemned them for tarnishing the country's good image.
A total of 27 reciters from all states, except Kelantan which did not a female reciter, will recite the Quran over five days starting Monday night.
Monday night saw two contestants, namely Abdul Khair Jalil of Selangor and Sarina Che Yahya of Perlis reciting the Quran.
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He said the government had never closed cooperation and negotiation with individuals, parties or non-governmental organisations.
"We also don't impose conditions as Muslims and the people are our priority compared to the interest of certain groups.
"Closing the door of understanding and negotiation will make Muslims lose out. We will end up like Pak Pandir who won applause but lost the kampung.
"When this happens, the loss will not only be the kampung but also the religion," he said when opening 55th National Quran Recital Competition at Persada Johor International Convention Centre here Monday night.
The ceremony was also attended by the prime minister's wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom.
He said that the theme "Unity The Foundation Of Unity" is in line with Allah's 'firman' in verse 13 of 'surah al-Hujurat'.
The verse called on Muslims irrespective of race and ancestry to know each other and establish a good understanding as well as strengthen ties.
"The government is always trying to strengthen unity and understanding through the 1Malaysia Concept."
Islam has been enshrined in the constitution as official religion and religion of the federation.
"The government always uphold the agenda to champion Islam since achieving independence," said Najib.
He expressed surprise with some people who made the holy land as venue to express their sentiments on the order of certain parties and condemned them for tarnishing the country's good image.
A total of 27 reciters from all states, except Kelantan which did not a female reciter, will recite the Quran over five days starting Monday night.
Monday night saw two contestants, namely Abdul Khair Jalil of Selangor and Sarina Che Yahya of Perlis reciting the Quran.
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Euro exit: First Greece, then Spain…?
Exiting the Eurozone may be painful for Spain, but it may have little choice.
Spain has been running persistent current account deficits. As writer Micheal Pettis says: “Its fundamental problem,…
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Exiting the Eurozone may be painful for Spain, but it may have little choice.
Spain has been running persistent current account deficits. As writer Micheal Pettis says: “Its fundamental problem, in other words, has been the process by which its savings rate has collapsed, its cost structure forced up, its debt levels soared, and a great deal of investment directed into projects, mostly real estate, that were not economically viable.”
See the full article in Economonitor.
Meanwhile, get ready for the Spain banking bailout, which may only buy the country some time.
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Spain has been running persistent current account deficits. As writer Micheal Pettis says: “Its fundamental problem, in other words, has been the process by which its savings rate has collapsed, its cost structure forced up, its debt levels soared, and a great deal of investment directed into projects, mostly real estate, that were not economically viable.”
See the full article in Economonitor.
Meanwhile, get ready for the Spain banking bailout, which may only buy the country some time.
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