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26 July 2009

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Perkhabaran mengejutkan diterima lewat malam tadi, apabila sutradara filem tersohor Yasmin Ahmad diberitakan telah kembali ke rahmatullah rentetan serangan angin ahmar beberapa hari lepas.

Kreativiti Allahyarhamah di dalam seni layar nyata sekali sangat membanggakan. Tiada siapa akan lupa setiap iklan pendek arahan beliau yang menghiasi kaca televisyen saat menjelangnya sambutan hari kemerdekaan dan perayaan utama negara saban tahun. Iltizam Allahyarham untuk memupuk perpaduan tulen kalangan masyarakat melalui karya seni yang sinikal ternyata berjaya menaut sanubari masyarakat.

Saya berkesempatan menonton filem arahan Allahyarhamah, Gubra, beberapa tahun yang lepas. Meskipun setiap filem arahan Allahyarhamah agak kontroversial, sebermula Rabun, dan yang terakhir TaleNtime, tetapi masih tidak terlepas daripada kritik sosial yang wajar membuka mata masyarakat akan peri penting perpaduan dan persefahaman menjadi maudhuk utama semua pihak.

Menyantuni perbedaan agama dan bangsa dalam dimensi seni yang menyatukan, Yasmin boleh disifatkan berada di dalam kelasnya yang tersendiri.

Sekalung takziah di atas pemergian Allahyarhamah ke rahmatullah. Semoga Allah SWT mencucuri rahmat ke atas rohnya kelak, inshaAllah.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

26 July 2009

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From The Malaysian Insider
By Debra Chong

KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 — Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim succeeded today in bringing into PKR ex-MIC vice president Datuk S.S. Subramaniam and the members of 12 MIC branches.

The senior ex-MIC man brought with him his younger brother and some 2,500 members from 12 MIC branches within Petaling Jaya and Meru, Klang into the PKR fold.

The defections were touted as a boost for the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) but it is unclear how significant Subramaniam’s move is, considering he has little influence left in the Barisan Nasional (BN) party.

But coming on the heels of former MCA vice-president Datuk Chua Jui Meng’s defection into PKR last week, Anwar will be hoping to gain some momentum from Subramaniam’s decision to join PKR.

Besides Subramaniam and Chua, Anwar had also succeeded in attracting former Umno minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim into PKR as attempts to strengthen his party’s position as a lynchpin in PR.

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26 July 2009

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From The Malaysian Insider
By Kim Quek
JULY 25 — Both Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Attorney General (AG) Tan Sri Gani Patail have flopped miserably to justify the unjustifiable — the irrational and untenable decision to have both a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) and an inquest to deal with the boiling controversy of Teoh Beng Huat’s tragic death under custody of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.

In an immediate response to nation-wide protests against the government’s decision to allow the RCI to deal with only procedural matters while leaving the all important issue of cause of death to an inquest in a magistrate court, Najib said:

“We must adhere to the laws of the country. Please don’t take (political) advantage of the case. Our intention is to find out the truth”.

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