Timbalan Presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu selamat menjalani pembedahan membetulkan ligamen lututnya yang terkoyak akibat dirempuh kenderaan Land Rover polis dalam perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 Sabtu lalu.
Menurut isterinya Normah Alwi, suaminya menjalani pembedahan itu di Hospital Pakar KPJ Selangor di Shah Alam pada jam 3 petang hari ini.
“Sekarang ini dia stabil, OK, sudah makan dan sedar,” katanya sambil menambah pembedahan itu mengambil masa kira-kira satu jam.
Ketika dihubungiMalaysiakini hari ini, Normah berkata, doktor memasukkan skru sepanjang 2.5 inci ke belakang pelipat lutut kanannya yang mengalami kecederaan. (more…)
PRESS STATEMENT: WILLIAM LEONG JEE KEEN 15TH JULY 2011
THE PRIME MINISTER MUST STAND BY HIS WORDS
AND RELEASE THE EO 6 IMMEDIATELY
I call on the Prime Minister Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak to immediately release the EO 6:-
1) Dr Jeyakumar Michael Devaraj Member of Parliament for Sungai Siput;
2) M Saraswathy Deputy Chairperson of Parti Sosialis Malaysia;
3) Choo Chon Kai Committee Member;
4) M Sukumaran Committee Member;
5) A Letchumanan Sungai Siput Branch Secretary;
6) Sarat Babu Youth Leader.
The police detained the EO 6 to deter the public from attending the Bersih 2.0 Rally. If the police have evidence the EO 6 committed a crime then the police should charge them and prove their case in a court of law. There is no justification for their detention. It is totally unwarranted and violates the universal principles of human rights.
I ask the Prime Minister to stand by the pledges that he made:-
a) To all Malaysians in his maiden speech on 3rd April 2009 when 13 ISA detainees were released and he pledged to conduct a comprehensive review of the ISA;
b) To Malaysian youth on 27th August 2010 at the Barisan Nasional Youth Lab programme when he said that the days of “scare politics” or using the ISA to wield power and show that one has full control were done;
c) To the International Community in his maiden speech on 27th September 2010 at the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly where he urged all nations to embark on a “Global Movement of Moderates”, to respect human rights and international humanitarian law;
d) To Malaysian and African leaders on 19th June 2011 at the Langkawi International Dialogue to practice transparency, accountability, integrity and to show strong values of good governance; and
e) To the United Nations that Malaysia as a Member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, is committed and pledged to cooperate, promote, support and protect human rights.
I ask the Prime Minister to stop using “scare politics” and to stop using the Emergency Ordinance and ISA. The Prime Minister must show he dares to practice what he preaches by releasing the EO 6 immediately. Otherwise it will confirm that what he practices he dare not preach. For the dignity and credibility of all Malaysians, I call on the Prime Minister to live up to his own words.
William Leong Jee Keen
Member of Parliament for Selayang
Pembentukan jati diri sesebuah negara bangsa bukannya satu proses yang mudah lebih-lebih lagi melibatkan negara ini yang merangkumi kepelbagaian etnik dan budaya.
Menurut Budayawan A Aziz Derawan yang dipetik daripada Berita Harian bertarikh 28/04/2011, menjelaskan betapa kehidupan berbangsa itu ditunjukkan sifat jati diri menerusi persamaan lambang, institusi nasional, perundangan, nilai kebangsaan yang dikongsi bersama, kesetiaan politik dan rasa keyakinan diri sebagai satu bangsa.
Menurutnya lagi, elemen nilai akhlak, moral, etika yang kukuh, demokratis, liberal bertoleransi dalam konteks penerimaan, adil dan saksama yang bermakna tidak semesti kesamarataan, progresif dan makmur, serta daya saing, daya tahan, tangkas dan dinamis.
Demokrasi dan Partisipasi Golongan Muda
Sistem politik sesebuah negara seharusnya menggalakkan golonga muda menyertai proses demokrasi dengan aktif.
Dalam konteks ini, penglibatan golongan muda dalam sistem politik berdemokrasi secara langsungnya melibatkan hak mereka sebagai rakyat Malaysia serta bentuk ruang yang diberikan untuk mengalakkan penglibatan mereka yang seterusnya mampu mempengaruhi keputusan yang dibuat oleh pemerintah atas dasar kepentingan masyarakat sivil.
Di Malaysia. partisipasi golongan muda dalam sistem berpolitik demokrasi masih terhad akibat dicengkam dengan pelbagai macam dasar dan undang-undang yang diimplementasikan oleh golongan pemerintah yang dalam erti kata tidak lain tidak bukan hanya semata-mata mahu untuk memastikan status-quo pemerintah tidak dicabar dalam apa cara sekali pun.
Akta Universiti dan Kolej Universiti (AUKU) 1971 merupakan bukti tunjang bagaimana para pembuat keputusan gagal dalam mengisythiarkan hak berdemokrasi di kalangan golongan muda di peringkat akademik.
Inilah yang akhirnya dilihat sebagai membantutkan penglibatan golongan muda dalam membangunkan masyarakat sivil di negara ini.
Di satu pihak, Bersih 2.0 membuktikan bagaimana semangat golongan muda mewarnai perhimpunan tersebut yang pastinya merupakan satu fenomena yang unik dalam sistem demokrasi negara ini.
Ini kerana golongan muda ini tidak mewakili mana-mana parti politik tetapi apa yang mereka mahukan ialah partisipasi mereka dalam sistem demokrasi di negara ini diiktiraf oleh pemerintah.
Menariknya, pemerintah selalunya hanya mendekati golongan muda secara agresif untuk mendapatkan undi semata-mata tetapi tidak pernah memberikan ruang untuk mereka berpolitik secara demokratik.
Bagi golongan muda ini, apa yang mereka mahukan ialah sebuah sistem kerajaan dengan sebuah pemerintah yang bukannya bersifat kebal dan kejam sebaliknya bertindak sebagai satu bentuk komuniti yang bukan sahaja mendengar luahan rakyat semata-mata tetapi mengambil berat akan isu tersebut. (more…)
When he allowed his forces to brutally attack thousands of peaceful marchers, who were calling for an end to corrupt practices over the weekend, Najib must surely have taken into account the effect on his international image?
Millions of dollars worth of expensive PR, positioned press and TV interviews have been swept aside by scenes that show exactly how BN have kept power in Malaysia for over 50 years, achieving their current status as one of the world’s longest-lasting regimes.
Genuine democratic governments do not attack peaceful marchers with acid-laced water cannon and tear gas. They do not unleash police charges; firing rubber bullets and lashing out with whips and truncheons. Their forces do not push peaceful women and hurl insults at them or arrest people for wearing yellow T-shirts.
Najib was determined to show his people that he is boss and that he does not appreciate complaints about rigged elections. However, in the process he also showed the rest of the world that he is just another nasty dictator like the Middle Eastern fellows, who are currently being shown the door by their own people and like Marcos and Suharto, who have already been chucked out by Malaysia’s neighbouring powers of Indonesia and the Philippines.
Embarrassing guest
It has made Najib an embarrassing guest for the British PM and Queen this week. Their briefing teams will have made them well aware of the issues – that BN have been in power for a very suspiciously long time and that people who have been criticising them have ended up beaten in the street and locked in jail without charge and without access to their lawyers under so-called Emergency Orders.
Morever, that in Malaysia people are being hauled into detention for wearing the colour yellow and people making polite requests to end electoral corruption are being treated as enemies of the state.
It was bad enough having Rupert Murdoch turn up in the middle of the biggest scandal in years over media corruption, but entertaining Najib must have been even more uncomfortable.
Flash demos
And, as our pictures above show, Malaysian sympathisers have been making sure throughout the week that Najib’s British hosts are constantly reminded of the real nature of their guest with ‘flash demos’ outside his various key engagements.
Today they were outside Downing Street, where Najib was due to have lunch with the UK PM, giving the crowds of tourists and passers by a thought-provoking insight into the real Malaysia away from the holiday advertisements.
UK police not so cooperative for BN
These hard-core demonstrators say they are not going away easily and infuriatingly for BN, the UK police have refused to do anything to budge them (see our photographs of a nice little chat they had with them outside Downing Street).
In fact the local Westminster Police have readily acknowledged to the demonstrators that they are being constantly pestered by the Malaysian High Commission, who have been asking for information about where protests are due to be held and for details about the organisers. The Malaysians have also tried to demand that the British police ban the protests form taking place!
However, the UK is a free country and the police have politely told the Najib’s people that they are not prepared to harrass citizens or remove their freedom of expression in order to spare the blushes of a visiting ‘dignatory’, who has just spent the past weekend harming and injuring people in his own country.
The demonstrations have passed peacefully in London and a result and there will be more during the remainder of Najib’s visit.
Sasterawan Negara Datuk A Samad Said menyifatkan Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak sebagai perdana menteri yang “memang kejam” berbanding dengan beberapa perdana menteri sebelum ini.
“Kalau tengok (perdana menteri) yang sudah-sudah itu, (Najib) memang kejamlah,” katanya ketika diminta membandingkan pentadbiran Najib dan dua penyandang sebelumnya – Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dan Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Menceritakan kembali “kebengisan” polis dalam menangani perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 Sabtu lalu, A Samad (kiri) mendakwa pentadbiran Najib sekarang mengarah kepada menjadikan Malaysia negara kuku besi.
Ketika diwawancaraMalaysiakini di sebuah restoran di Bangsar hari ini, A Samad berkata, perkara itu boleh dilihat melalui rakaman video dan gambar di internet yang mana kerajaan “berantakan dengan orang awam”.
“Youtube siarkan, kita boleh lihat semua dan (dia) tak boleh tipu. Cuma, malangnya dalam akhbar-akhbar (dan) media utama, sudah tentu kamu nampak berat sebelah,” katanya yang mesra dengan panggilan Pak Samad.
“Tapi kalau (di) Youtube, tak boleh tipu. Kamu kata tidak jentik-jentik, (itu) pun nampak (di Youtube). Kamu kata tidak ada orang yang dipijak, (tetapi ada) yang ditendang berulang kali,” katanya.
Kepimpinan ‘bangsawan’
Sehubungan itu, A Samad mendesak Najib meletakkan jawatan, selaras dengan kempen sama di Facebook yang kini sudah digemari hampir 200,000 orang.
“Ya, saya mahu (beliau letak jawatan). Saya ikut (perkembangannya) dalam Facebook, amat bagus (kempen itu). Kalau di Jepun, orang lain buat salah pun, menteri itu tunduk depan orang.
“Ada perdana menteri Jepun tidak sampai satu penggal pun, (letak jawatan). Tapi di sini tentu, orang sangat mengidam kuasa,” katanya sambil menambah kerajaan tidak lagi memerintah “dengan sukaan umum”.
Bagaimanapun, ditanya tentang perdana menteri mana yang yang paling bagus, A Samad tidak menjawabnya secara langsung, sebaliknya menyebut tentang penguasaan “bangsawan” bagi jawatan itu.
Katanya, sepanjang lebih 50 tahun kemerdekaan, kecuali Dr Mahathir, kesemua perdana menteri disandang oleh golongan itu yang disifatkannya “hidup mudah”.
“Laporan-laporan yang sampai ke telinga (mereka) itu, semuanya yang cantik sahaja. Jadi, mereka tidak merasakan (kesusahan rakyat).
“Saya merasakan sudah waktunya, kepimpinan harus datang dari bawah, bukan dari atas,” tegasnya lagi.
Ditanya berapa lama BN boleh bertahan untuk memerintah negara ini, sasterawan yang membiasakan dirinya dengan panggilan “bapak” berkata beliau sukar untuk meramalkannya.
“Tetapi bapak harapkan dalam pilihan raya akan datang, mereka undur ataupun jatuh. Itu harapan saya,” katanya.
“Sekarang ini dia stabil, OK, sudah makan dan sedar,” katanya sambil menambah pembedahan itu mengambil masa kira-kira satu jam.
Menceritakan kembali “kebengisan” polis dalam menangani perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0 Sabtu lalu, A Samad (kiri) mendakwa pentadbiran Najib sekarang mengarah kepada menjadikan Malaysia negara kuku besi.
“Ada perdana menteri Jepun tidak sampai satu penggal pun, (letak jawatan). Tapi di sini tentu, orang sangat mengidam kuasa,” katanya sambil menambah kerajaan tidak lagi memerintah “dengan sukaan umum”.
