Ceramah di Bukit Gantang yang dijadualkan pada malam ini terpaksa dibatalkan kerana pihak polis telah mengepung kawasan ceramah dengan menempatkan trak-trak FRU bagi menghalang kehadiran Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Sekali lagi, UMNO-BN menggunakan modus operandi yang sama untuk menghalang dan menyekat hak rakyat dari mendapatkan maklumat.
PEJABAT DATUK SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM
The Malaysian Insider | March 24, 2009
KOTA BAHARU, March 24 – Pas spiritual adviser Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat has given his blessing for former Perak menteri besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin to contest in the April 7 Bukit Gantang by-election.
He said Nizar who is the party’s deputy commissioner for the state was the right candidate to face Barisan Nasional in the constituency.
“I have contacted Nizar and bless his nomination to contest,” he told reporters after receiving a visit from Indian High Commissioner to Malaysia Ashok K. Kantha at his office here today.
The New York Times | March 23, 2009
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A slew of political scandals gripping Malaysia and a transfer of power fraught with uncertainty have shaken the elite here, with exquisitely poor timing.
As a major trading nation, Malaysia has been slammed by the global downturn. Its exports have collapsed by nearly one-third, and current projections show that its economy will shrink by as much as 5 percent this year.
Yet the main preoccupation of the government and opposition parties appears to be what analysts say is an increasingly dysfunctional political system. The man in line to become prime minister has been linked to the murder of a Mongolian woman whose body was obliterated with military-grade explosives.
—KENYATAAN MEDIA UNTUK EDARAN SEGERA—
24hb Mac 2009
Malaysia menyaksikan satu lagi kitaran kekerasan dan penindasan di bawah penguasaan Najib Razak. Belumpun secara rasmi dilantik sebagai Perdana Menteri, beliau sudah pun sanggup bertindak keras dan zalim ke atas rakyat.
Semalam, perhimpunan yang dihadiri 10,000 rakyat terdiri daripada pelbagai bangsa, telah dihujani dengan tembakan gas pemedih mata serta semburan air kimia oleh pihak polis. Kejadian tercetus hanya selepas beberapa minit saya memulakan ucapan diBukit Selambau. Dalam suasana gawat tersebut beberapa orang telah ditahan termasuk ketua staf pejabat saya dan beberapa Ahli Parlimen serta seorang pegawai kanan Menteri Besar Kedah.
Bagi menghalalkan tindakan zalim serta pencabulan hak rakyat malam tadi, pihak berkuasa telah mengistiharkan perhimpunan tersebut sebagai haram. Jelas ianya satu pencabulan undang-undang dimana perhimpunan tersebut telah diadakan di dalam kawasan milik persendirian.
Malam semalam kerajaan yang kini di bawah pengaruh Najib Razak telah menggunakan kuasa kuku besi bagi menyekat kebebasan dan hak rakyat. Semalam juga “Suara Keadilan” dan “Harakah” telah digantung permitnya oleh Menteri Dalam Negeri tanpa alasan yang jelas. Apa yang berlaku mutakhir ini mengingatkan kita kepada sikap dan ciri pemerintahan zalim yang pernah diamalkan beberapa tahun yang lalu, di mana pasukan polis bertindak seumpama gerombolan penceroboh. Media pula terus ditekan dan sesiapa yang ingin menyuarakan ketidakpuasan hati mereka disekat kebebasannya daripada melaporkan kebenaran melalui ugutan penahanan dan sebagainya.
Institusi pentadbiran negara dijalankan dengan cara melanggar garis sempadan undang-undang oleh mereka yang berkepentingan demi mempertahankan kekuasaannya.Sekiranya negara kembali ke era tersebut, ianya akan menyebabkan kemusnahan ke atas negara dan masyarakat antarabangsa pula akan mengecam tindakan zalim tersebut.
Ini juga jelas menunjukkan bahawa tawaran untuk berkerjasama itu adalah merupakan helah Najib semata-mata. Dua minggu lagi Malaysia sekali lagi berdepan dengan 3 pilihanraya kecil. Buat pertama kalinya kesemua pilihanraya kecil itu dijalankan serentak, penipuan dan pengundi hantu akan diupah oleh kerajaan UMNO-BN bagi menewaskan gagasan pembangkang. Namun demikian, kita tetap yakin bahawa rakyat Malaysia akan menyertai referendum ini,sama seperti yang telah ditunjukkan diPermatang pauh dan Kuala Terengganu dimana rakyat menolak penindasan yang diamalkan kerajaan sekarang. Gerakan perubahan kearah pembaharuan di Malaysia akan terus mara kehadapan dan menemui kejayaan
ANWAR IBRAHIM
Ketua Pembangkang
Liputan Majalah FORUM KEADILAN (edisi 16 Mac 2009) dari Indonesia tentang skandal pembunuhan Altantuya Shaaribuu yang turut mengaitkan Datuk Seri Najib Razak:
(sila klik pada imej untuk resolusi lebih jelas)
From Malaysia-Today
(The Edge) Despite the fact that he has all but thrown his weight behind the Opposition, former de facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim has thus far been coy about joining any Pakatan Rakyat (PR) party.
Yesterday, he sparked a flurry of speculation about this matter when he indicated he was keen to return to active politics.
Most analysts believe it’s just a question of when but the party in question is not really in doubt. Most likely it will be PKR, they say. (more…)
From Ninemsn Aussie
The murder of a stunning Mongolian model who moved within Malaysian political circles has been linked to an international arms deal.
Asian beauty Altantuya Shariibuu, 28, who was shot and then blown up with explosives in 2006, may have been killed to silence her demands for a share in arms profits, UK newspaper The Times reports.
The scandal erupted last week after French media alleged that the arms deal — involving three submarines sold to the Malaysian government — and the murder of Ms Shariibuu were connected. (more…)
From Wall Street Journal
By James Hookway
The Malaysian government suspended two opposition newspapers without explanation Monday, adding to fears that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is trying to silence the fledgling opposition movement as he prepares to become prime minister next month.
Opposition politicians and some political analysts say Mr. Najib has been working to sideline his potential rivals, including those within his own party, as the country — an important U.S. trading partner — begins to feel the full brunt of the global economic crisis.
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, left, and Anwar Ibrahim, a former deputy prime minister, are longtime rivals. (more…)
Dari Malaysiakini
PAS memilih Datuk Seri Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin sebagai calonnya untuk bertanding dalam pilihanraya kecil Parlimen Bukit Gantang.
Pengumuman tersebut akan dibuat malam ini.
Menteri Besar Pakatan Rakyat itu akan berdepan dengan calon BN Ismail Saffian, 49.
Ismail yang juga bekas ketua penerangan Umno bahagian, berasal dari Kampung Kubu, Bukit Gantang.
From The Australian
A FRENCH arms company is at the centre of a deepening scandal involving the sale of three submarines, the murder of a beautiful Mongolian interpreter and the man most likely to become prime minister of Malaysia next month.
All three have been linked in a sensational sequence of revelations that has convinced many Malaysians that the woman was killed to silence her claim for a share in the rewards of the transaction.
The scandal exploded last week after French newspaper Liberation alleged the submarines deal and the murder of Altantuya Shariibuu, 28, were connected.
A glamorous, cosmopolitan woman, Altantuya grew up in St Petersburg, spoke Russian, Chinese, Korean and English, moved in elite circles and has been dubbed “a Far Eastern Mata Hari”. She became the mistress of a Malaysian political fixer and was allegedly trying to extort money from him at the time of her violent death.
Dari malaysiakini
Polis melepaskan beberapa siri tembakan gas pemedih mata untuk menyuraikan orang ramai yang sedang mendengar ceramah Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim malam ini.
Sumber PKR memberitahu Malaysiakini, polis juga menggunakan meriam air untuk menyurai orang ramai yang berkumpul sejak awal lagi untuk mendengar amanat penasihat PKR bersempena pilihanraya kecil Bukit Selambau pada 7 April depan.
Kejadian itu dilaporkan berlaku tidak sampai lima minit selepas mantan timbalan perdana menteri memperkenalkan calon PKR bagi kawasan pilihanraya DUN itu kepada hadirin.
From Malaysiakini
Volleys of tear gas were fired into the crowd minutes after Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim took the podium in a ceramah tonight at Bukit Selambau, Kedah.
According to eyewitnesses, the police fired tear gas and unleashed chemical-laced water on about 5,000 people who had gather in a public field near the PKR election operation centre for the ceramah.
The ceramah, which kicked off at 9.30pm, was to feature a number speeches by top Pakatan Rakyat leaders including Anwar.
“After a 10-minute introduction, Anwar went up on stage and in less than a minute after he started speaking, the police fired tear gas and doused the people with water,” said Saiful Izham, who is Bukit Selambau PKR election director and party’s supreme council member. (more…)
