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Jul

Najib Takut Rahsia Scorpene, Altantuya Dan Komisyen Ketiga Dibongkar

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Categories: Aktiviti, Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Kewangan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Program, Sidenotes and Umno

Keadilan Daily

Tindakan Datuk Seri Najib Razak menghalau peguam, William Bourdon takut rahsia rasuah Scorpene sebanyak RM540 juta terbongkar dan kaitannya dengan pembunuhan warga Mongolia, Altantuya Shaariibu.

Ini termasuk pendedahan mengenai satu lagi komisyen ketiga membabitkan pegawai kerajaan peringkat tertinggi di Malaysia dalam pembelian dua kapal selam berkenaan pada 2002.

Aktivis Suara Rakyat Malaysia, Cynthia Gabriel sebelum ini mendedahkan bukti baru ditemui bahawa komisyen tersebut “lebih besar” daripada yang dibayar kepada syarikat Perimekar Sdn Bhd.

Perimekar merupakan syarikat milik Abdul Razak Baginda, rakan baik Najib yang terlepas dari hukuman gantung kerana membunuh Altantuya- perantara bagi urusan pembelian Scorpene.

Pengerusi Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM), Badrul Hisham Shaharin berkata demikian mengulas tindakan pentadbiran Najib menghantar pulang peguam dari Perancis itu.

“Kalau tidak salah, kenapa dihantar balik peguam Perancis. Bourdon datang untuk jalankan tanggungjawabnya mendedahkan kontroversi pembelian Scorpene,” katanya yang lebih dikenali Chegu Bard kepada KeadilanDaily, hari ini. Continue reading ‘Najib Takut Rahsia Scorpene, Altantuya Dan Komisyen Ketiga Dibongkar’

Jul

In Malaysia, When in Doubt, Blame the Jews

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Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Pilihanraya, Politik, Program and Umno

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-abraham-cooper/malaysia-anti-semitism_b_903767.html
By Rabbi Abraham Cooper

On July 9, 20,000 Malaysians gathered in Kuala Lumpur to demand more transparency in electoral laws in connection with next year’s national elections.

Police unleashed tear gas and chemical-laced water on the demonstrators and temporarily detained nearly 1,700 of them. According to reports, authorities also detained six opposition activists without trial and accused them of trying to use the rally to spread communism. Police said they found T-shirts and other materials linked to communist figures.

Apparently, these measures didn’t suffice for some of Malaysia’s nervous ruling elite. The editors of Utusan Malaysia, owned by Prime Minister Najib Razak’s United Malays National Organization ruling party (UMNO), defaulted to a time-tested maneuver: When in doubt, blame the Jews!

The Jews? Most citizens of the overwhelmingly Asian economic giant have never and will likely never meet a Jew in their lifetime. And yet the folks at Utusan Malaysia, which is influential among Muslims in rural areas who rely on government-linked media to shape their worldview, are apparently confident warnings about a “Jewish plot” would resonate in a land without Jews.

To understand why, you need only look at the track record of the man who dominated his nation for a quarter of a century, Malaysia’s fourth prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad.

Mahathir was credited with engineering Malaysia’s rapid modernization and spectacular economic growth. He was a dominant political figure, winning five consecutive general elections. He also used his political clout and controversial laws to detain activists and political opponents.

And Mahathir is an anti-Semite.

Back in 1970, in his treatise on Malay identity, “The Malay Dilemma,” he wrote: “The Jews are not only hooked-nosed … but understand money instinctively. … Jewish stinginess and financial wizardry gained them the economic control of Europe and provoked antisemitism which waxed and waned throughout Europe through the ages.”

In August 1984, a visit by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra was canceled when his Information Minister demanded that music by composer Ernst Bloch be deleted from the program. His crime? He was a Jew and the selection chosen was based on Hebrew melodies.

In 1986, Mahathir charged “Zionists” and Jews with attempting to destabilize the country through allegedly Jewish-controlled media. He subsequently banned The Asia Wall Street Journal for three months describing the publication as “Jewish owned.” In the 1990s, Mahathir used the Malaysian news agency, Bernama, to accuse Australian Jewry of conspiring to topple him.

Mahathir, who made Islam a central component of Malaysian identity, made this chilling charge in 1997: “We are Moslems, and the Jews are not happy to see Moslems progress.”

Perhaps that would help explain the resounding ovation which greeted his screed at a Islamic Leadership Conference in 2003: “The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million … but today, the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.”

And just last year the elder statesman of anti-Semites said this at a conference: “Jews had always been a problem in European countries. They had been confined in ghettos and periodically massacred. But they still remained and still thrived and held whole governments to ransom. … Even after their massacre by the Nazis in Germany, they survived to be a source of even greater problems to the world.”

All this may help explain why Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and the infamous “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” are on prominent display at the Malaysian capital’s International Airport.

But there are some signs that in 2011 not everyone is drinking Mahathir’s toxic Kool-Aid. Maria Chin Abdullah, one of the organizers of the mass rally that sought to prevent electoral fraud, charged that Utusan Malaysia’s warning of an alleged Jewish conspiracy was “nonsense that is being spread in very bad taste,” adding, “To rely on this claim of Jewish support is to insult the people’s good intentions of seeking important reforms.”

Perhaps Kuala Lumpur hasn’t paid much attention to the Arab Spring. Maybe its time they did, especially since it was inspired by Muslims demanding more freedom and democracy. It isn’t world Jewry that is driving members of minorities to the streets of Kuala Lumpur, but the failure of a democratic government to provide equal rights and opportunities to all their citizens. It’s time for Malaysian leaders to grow up. Relying on big-lie Jewish conspiracies is no substitute for honest and transparent governance.

Jul

Isu Scorpene : Peguam Perancis Dihantar Pulang Tanpa Sebab

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Categories: Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Kewangan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Program and Umno

Dari http://www.tvsnews.net/

Peguam dari Perancis, Wiliam Bourdon yang mendedahkan skandal pembelian kapal selam Scorpene, akan dihantar pulang ke negaranya setelah ditahan Pegawai Imegresen di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) pagi tadi.

Bagaimanapun, tiada sebarang alasan diberikan oleh pihak imegresen terhadap tindakan menghantar pulang peguam tersebut.

Peguam Hak Asasi, Latheefa Koya ketika dihubungi Tv Selangor berkata, tindakan tanpa sebab itu menunjukkan kerajaan pemerintah takut dengan pendedahan yang dibuat Bourdon dan menguatkan lagi spekulasi yang timbul selama ini.

“Kerajaan nampaknya takut pada pendedahan yang bakal dibuat Bourdan bersabit penyelewengan dalam urusan pembelian kapal selam itu dan hubungkait dengan pembunuhan kejam wanita Monggolia, Altantuya Sharibbu,” katanya.

Latheefa mengutuk tindakan kerjaan yang menyalahguna kuasa yang ada dengan menahan dan menghantar Bourdan pulang ke negaranya, semata- mata mahu menghalang peguam hak asasi Perancis itu daripada mengetengahkan pelbagai penemuannya bersabit kes itu.

“Bourdon datang ke Malaysia secara sah. Kerajaan salah guna kuasa dengan hantar balik beliau untuk tutup dakwaan penyelewengan ini,” tegasnya.

Bourdon merupakan peguam yang dilantik Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM), untuk memfailkan kes itu ke mahkamah terbuka di Perancis.

Kapal selam Scorpene buatan Perancis itu dikatakan dicemari dengan penyelewengan yang melibatkan jumlah komisyen RM540 juta ringgit.

Ia juga dikaitkan dengan pembunuhan kejam wanita Monggolia, Altantuya Sharibbu.

Bourdon sebelum ini berkata, di Perancis apa- apa transaksi melibat komisyen dianggap perbuatan jenayah.

Bourdon semalam berada di Bayan baru, Pulau Pinang untuk membongkarkan kes berprofil tinggi itu kepada umum dan beliau sepatutnya dijadualkan berbuat demikian di Petaling Jaya malam ini.

Jul

Polis Tayang ‘Detik Terpilih’, Bukan Menyeluruh

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Categories: Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Politik, Program, Propaganda, Sidenotes and Umno

Harakah

Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) digesa menayangkan keseluruhan video perhimpunan Bersih 2.0 pada 9 Julai, bukan menayangkan ‘detik-detik terpilih’.

Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam, Khalid Samad berkata, video yang ditayangkan pihak polis semalam tidak menggambarkan secara keseluruhan situasi pada hari tersebut.

“Tayangan video itu tidak memberi apa-apa makna kerana yang ditayangkan hanya saat-saat dan detik-detik pilihan yang tidak menceritakan keseluruhannya.

“Sepatutnya polis kalau dah ada video tunjuk semua, jangan hanya detik-detik tertentu.Kita minta polis tunjuk semua, jangan hanya detik-detik pilihan yang nak tunjukkan mereka baik sahaja,” kata beliau ketika dihubungi Harakahdaily hari ini.

Beliau berkata demikian sebagai mengulas sesi tayangan dan taklimat selama satu jam 30 minit yang diadakan di Ibu Pejabat Polis Bukit Aman, dekat sini petang semalam yang dikatakan bagi menjawab segala dakwaan terhadap salah laku polis.

Video klip itu bagaimanapun hanya menunjukkan ‘layanan baik’ polis terhadap peserta himpunan termasuk menjawab dakwaan Timbalan Presiden PAS, Mohamad Sabu bahawa beliau dilanggar pajero polis.

“Saya nampak ianya tidak menujukkan apa-apa konklusi. Video itu tidak menunjukkan saat Mat Sabu jatuh, tak tunjuk sama ada dia jatuh, pajero undur dan langgar dia dan dia jatuh ataupun ada dua buah kereta waja yang langgar dia dan dia jatuh. Continue reading ‘Polis Tayang ‘Detik Terpilih’, Bukan Menyeluruh’

Jul

Peguam ‘Scorpene’ Ditahan Di KLIA

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Categories: Aktiviti, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen and Umno

Malaysiakini

Peguam Perancis William Bourdon, yang berada di Pulau Pinang malam tadi untuk bercakap tentang urusniaga kontroversi pembelian kapal selam Scorpene yang didakwa melibatkan sogokan berjuta ringgit kepada pegawai kerajaan Malaysia, ditahan Jabatan Imigresen di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA).

ops scorpene dinner 220711 willian bourdon Menurut Pengarah Suaram, Cynthia Gabriel, pegawai imigresen masuk ke dalam pesawat untuk menahan Bourdon (kiri) sebaik sahaja beliau mendarat di KLIA.

“Beliau kini dibawa ke pusat tahanan imigresen di KLIA,” kata Gabriel.

Pada mulanya, pegawai imigresen tidak membenarkan isteri Bourdon, juga seorang peguam, mengikutnya ke pusat tersebut.

Selepas beberapa rundingan, beliau dibenarkan menemani suaminya.

Menurut Gabriel, pegawai imigresen “menyoal Bourdon”.

Bourdon mendarat di Pulau Pinang semalam dan berucap mengenai ‘Ops Scorpene’ di Bayan Baru malam tadi.

Peguam Perancis yang berkhidmat dengan pertubuhan tanpa keuntungan – Sherpa – dan mengkhusus dalam membela hak asasi manusia dan jenayah menentang kemanusiaan.

Bourdon dijangka mendedahkan butiran kontroversial mengenai pembelian kapalselam negara dengan firma gergasi pertahanan Perancis DCNS.

NONE Syarikat itu didakwa membayar komisyen “yang amat tinggi” kepada pegawai kerajaan Malaysia yang terbabit dalam perjanjian yang dimeterai pada 2002 itu.

Bayaran komisyen kepada pegawai kerajaan dianggap satu jenayah mengikut undang-undang Perancis.

Suaram berharap dapat mengumpulkan dana sebanyak RM100,000 daripada majlis berkenaan yang juga dijadualkan di Ipoh dan Kuala Lumpur hari ini dan esok, bagi membiayai kos perundangan dalam kes yang difailkan di Paris yang akan dibicarakan di mahkamah terbuka pada September ini.

Kes berkenaan difailkan tahun lalu oleh Suaram, melalui Bourdon dan pasukannya mengenai dakwaan DCNS membayar RM540 juta sebagai komisyen kepada Perimekar.

razak baginda acquitted 311008 12 Perimekar adalah subsidari KS Ombak Laut Sdn Bhd, yang mana pemegang saham utamnya adalah isteri Abdul Razak Baginda (kanan).

Abdul Razak pula adalah rakan rapat Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak yang didakwa terbabit dalam pembunuhan penterjemah warga Mongolia Altantuya Shariibuu tetapi kemudiannya dibebaskan.

Jul

Firma Media ‘Diam-Diam’ Protes Putrajaya Bentuk Majlis Perundingan Media

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Categories: Aktiviti, Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Program, Sidenotes and Umno

The Malaysian Insider

Beberapa ketua organisasi media dijangka membantah cadangan Putrajaya yang mahu membentuk Majlis Perundingan Media (MCC) dengan tidak mempedulikan satu pertemuan bagi membincangkan terma rujukannya minggu depan.

Kementerian Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan telah menghantar surat kepada pelbagai organisasi, menjemput mereka hadir mesyuarat pertama di bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad di sini, Isnin ini.

Bagaimanapun satu sumber memberitahu The Malaysian Insider bahawa daripada mereka sendiri menghadiri pertemuan itu, beberapa ketua media telah bersetuju untuk memperlihatkan protes dengan menghantar editor-editor junior sebagai wakil.

Difahamkan ketua-ketua berkenaan termasuk dari organisasi media yang dikawal oleh Barisan Nasional, bimbang majlis seumpama itu hanya akan mengenakan lebih banyak halangan ke atas kebebasan akhbar di Malaysia.

Menurut surat kementerian itu, MCC yang disyorkan akan dipengerusikan bersama oleh Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim (gambar) dan Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.

Anggotanya termasuklah wakil dari kerajaan, media cetak, elektronik dan media baru serta pertubuhan-pertubuhan bukan kerajaan. Continue reading ‘Firma Media ‘Diam-Diam’ Protes Putrajaya Bentuk Majlis Perundingan Media’

Jul

Malaysia’s Political Awakening: A Call For US Leadership

By Anwar Ibrahim 3 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Catatan, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Pilihanraya, Politik, Program, Sidenotes and Umno

Malaysia Chronicle
Written by John Malott

A Malaysian recently wrote to me, “Most Americans don’t know or even care where Malaysia is.” Even among the so-called foreign policy elite, little attention is paid to Malaysia.

There are few American academics who specialize in domestic Malaysian politics, and except for hosting visits by senior Malaysian leaders, think tanks and universities hold few Malaysia-themed programs. US newspaper and magazine reports are few, with most articles focusing on tourism and the delights of Malaysian cuisine.

As a result, there is a tendency among Americans to hold an idealized (and outdated) image of Malaysia as a successful multi-racial and multi-religious paradise, an Asian economic dynamo, and a stable and moderate Muslim democracy.

As a result of this deficit of informed analysis of Malaysia, there has been a failure to notice the internal political and economic changes unfolding within Malaysia over the past few years. The reality today, as one Australian expert puts it, is that the situation is the “most fluid and dangerous” in Malaysia’s history.

The Events of July 9 – A Date for the History Books

Because of this attention shortfall, the events of July 9, 2011 came as a surprise. On that day, tens of thousands of Malaysians—who have been ranked on Hofstede’s Power Distance Index as the most submissive to authority of any people in the world—chose to defy their government and join a “Walk for Democracy.”

They heeded the call of Bersih 2.0, a coalition of 62 non-governmental organizations that calls for free and fair elections. In the days before the rally, the Malaysian government cracked down. It rounded up 200 leaders associated with the movement, claiming that they were “waging war against the King” and planning to overthrow the government. It declared both the Bersih coalition and the planned rally illegal, and in a truly bizarre action, it declared the color yellow—Bersih’s signature color—illegal.

Malaysian citizens were arrested for possessing Bersih literature or wearing yellow T-shirts. The police established roadblocks around the city and banned 91 Bersih and opposition leaders from entering the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. By the morning of July 9, the city was in total lockdown.

Then something remarkable happened. As Ambiga Sreenevasan, the distinguished attorney who leads Bersih put it, the Malaysian people showed that they no longer would be intimidated by their government. They chose to march, knowing that they would be met by tear gas, chemical-laced water cannon, and police batons.

Even after Bersih’s leadership was arrested, Malaysians of all ages, races and religions continued their “Walk for Democracy” through the streets of Kuala Lumpur. They locked arms, they sang their national anthem and “We Shall Overcome,” they blew bubbles and carried flowers. They were peaceful. The only muscle seen that day was the heavy hand of the police. Human Rights Watch later called the use of force excessive, the 1,670 arrests unwarranted, and the police attacks on marchers unprovoked. Continue reading ‘Malaysia’s Political Awakening: A Call For US Leadership’

Jul

Waran Tangkap 13 Individu, Termasuk Anwar Tidak Sah Tanpa Notis- Surendran

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Categories: Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Pilihanraya, Politik and Program

Keadilan Daily

Naib Presiden KEADILAN, N.Surendran berkata, waran tangkap yang dikeluarkan kepada 13 individu termasuk Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim tidak sah kerana mereka tidak pernah menerima sebarang notis sebelum ini.

Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Ismail Omar hari ini berkata pihak berkuasa itu mengeluarkan waran tangkap ke atas individu penting tersebut kerana pembabitan mereka dalam perhimpunan Bersih 2.0, 9 Julai lalu.

Ismail berkata waran itu dikeluar ekoran mereka gagal memberi keterangan pada 11 Julai lalu selepas diarah berbuat demikian bagi membantu siasatan polis.

Namun Surendran mempersoalkan mengapa waran itu dikeluarkan tanpa sebarang pemberian notis di bawah Seksyen 111 Kanun Acara Jenayah.

“Kita dapat tahu tidak seorang pun antara mereka diberitahu atau mendapat mana-mana notis daripada polis,”

“Kita tidak faham kenapa waran tangkap boleh dikeluarkan walaupun tiada notis. Walaupun kita tahu polis berat sebelah, tetapi jika dipanggil beri keterangan (dengan notis), kami tetap hadir,” kata Surendran, yang juga seorang peguam kepada Keadilandaily.

Justeru itu katanya, beliau menuntut Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Ismail Omar supaya bukan sahaja memberikan penjelasan berhubung perkara itu, malah meminta maaf kepada semua individu tersebut.

“Ketua Polis Negara perlu beri penjelasan dan meminta maaf kepada 13 individu tersebut.

“Ini salah dari segi undang-undang, langsung tidak ada sebab untuk mereka hadir (beri keterangan),” katanya sambil menyifatkan polis mempunyai niat jahat terhadap pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat dan Bersih 2.0.

Berita Harian hari ini melaporkan polis akan mendapatkan waran tangkap ke atas 13 individu, termasuk Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, berhubung penganjuran himpunan Bersih yang lalu.

Selain Anwar, mereka yang lain adalah Sasterawan Negara Datuk A Samad Said, Naib Presiden PAS Datuk Husam Musa, Timbalan Pengerusi DAP Perak V Sivakumar, aktivis Bersih 2.0 Wong Chin Huat, pengendali blog Haris Ibrahim, peguam Latheefa Koya dan aktivis Badrul Hisham Shaharin.

Sementara anggota parlimen Pakatan Rakyat pula yang termasuk dalam senarai itu R Sivarasa (Subang), Nurul Izzah Anwar (Lembah Pantai) dan Dr Hatta Ramli (Kuala Krai).

Husam Musa dan Dr Hatta dalam laporan Malaysiakini hari ini menyatakan mereka tidak dihubungi oleh polis berhubung perkara itu.

Jul

Bad News For Najib: French Police Have Found “Crucial” Scorpene Documents

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Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat and Parlimen

Malaysia Chronicle

French police have obtained “quite crucial documents” in the Scorpene submarines probe on whether French arms giant DCN had paid kickbacks to Malaysian officials, including Prime Minister Najib Razak, to secure the deal.

The 58-year old Najib had been the Defense minister sanctioning the acquisition in 2002. Even then, there had been much public unhappiness over the price which was seen as too expensive, and furthernore, the high-tech submarines considered as unsuitable for patrolling the country’s shallow coastline. Right now, both ships are docked in Sabah and hardly used. There have also been reports of system malfunctions due to the unsuitability of the territorial waters.

“It is likely that in September we should have access to the first police conclusions from all the investigations that have taken place over the last 18 months. We know that the police seem to have obtained quite crucial documents,” Asia Sentinel reported Paris-based lawyer William Bourdon assaying.

VIP personality

William is one of the French lawyers appointed by Malaysian NGO Suaram, which lodged a complaint on behalf of taxpayers against DCN for corruptly sealing the contract. It is illegal in France to offer bribes to secure a deal and if found guilty, DCN may have to pay compensation to Malaysian taxpayers for overcharging on the final price paid by the Malaysian government.

The French lawyer is due to arrive on Thursday, where he will speak to a Penang audience and brief them on the latest developments in the case. Suaram has already hinted that William will touch on the identities of several ‘new’ personalities involved in the kickbacks.

It is also believed that French investigators have managed to pin down a very important personality, who travelled with submarines negotiator Razak Baginda and murdered Mongolian translator, Altantuya Shaariibuu, to Macau as part of the complex negotiations.

There is red-hot speculation that this person is Najib himself. If true, it will blow away the PM’s previous denials he never knew Altantuya, who is believed to have been his lover before he “passed” her onto Razak, who was his confidante and representative. Such evidence paves the way for the re-opening of her murder trial, which had ended with two of Najib’s former bodyguards being sentenced to hang for her 2006 killing. However, the ‘mastermind’ is believed to be still at large.

Lesser personalities involved in the sprawling deal have also been traced and their identities likely to be revealed as well.

William is also expected to drop a new bombshell – previously unknown commissions that have just been uncovered by the investigators. This will add to the growing list of murky details shrouding the shady acquisition engineereed and pushed for by Najib years ago, when he was the Defense minister directly in charge of key military procurements.

No more secret places left for Najib

It looks like unless the French government is willing to help him out and muzzle the case, Najib may have run out of hiding places. Whatever time that he can buy will not last long either.

And to pundits familar with all the ramifications both at the Malaysian and French ends, it is impossible for him to escape scot-free. One way or another, they say he will have to explain to his people the true extent of his involvement, not just in the kickbacks but also in the Altantuya murder.

In fact, not even his UMNO party can save him. With the Scorpenes trial expected to be heard in the French open court in August or September, many of the party warlords are already gearing up to push him out and slam the door on his administration, which has been scarred by non-achievement, gutter politics and extensive corruption.

It does not help that in recent months, Najib has felt the pressure and added to his own discomfort by making several disastrous decisions. The most recent was ordering a violent crackdown on a citizens rally for free and fair elections two weeks ago. His fast-fading popularity and plunging credibility makes him an easy target now.

Rightfully, the BN government should have immediately lodged a compliant with the French authorities when news reports about the huge Scorpene kickbacks first came to light. However due to Najib’s influence, no one in the Malaysian government has dared to call for a public probe so far.

Even a suspicious 114 million euros (RM570 million) side-deal granted to Baginda’s firm, Perimekar, has been whitewashed in Parliament as a “services” and “maintenance” contract, when it is obvious that the obscure firm has no experience or track-record in such a high-tech industry.

Numerous reports have also been lodged by Malaysian citizens, who are alarmed that the RM7 billion price tag is still climbing. It is now apparent Najib may have hidden the full cost to Parliament, opting to gradually seek additional budget allocations to maintain the ships rather than to reveal at one-go the full ‘damage’ to taxpayers. Yet till now, Malaysian police as well as the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission have refused to initiate any investigation into the file at all.

Seamy details in a sordid deal

Numerous questions are likely to be asked by those attending the Suaram-organised sessions with William on 21, 22 and 23rd Jruly. Apart from the status of the case, the latest ‘dirt’ dug out so far, the greatest interest will surely centre around the beautiful but tragic Altantuya, who acted as translator for Baginda.

Uppermost on Malaysian minds are exactly what sort of relationship Najib had with her. Not that they are voyeurs and wish to nose out all the seamy details of the love affair the two allegedly had, but because they want to know how much and to what extent their PM – who was then the DPM – was willing to lie and may have lied just to become prime minister.

“If you want to know all these details, you have to come for the dinner, listen and ask,” Suaram director Cynthia Gabriel told Malaysia Chronicle.

Jul

Malaysia’s PM Establishes Diplomatic Relations With Vatican, Despite Religious Turmoil

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Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Politik, Program, Propaganda and Umno

The Washington Post
By John L. Esposito and John O. Voll

Prime Minister Najib Razak met with Pope Benedict XVI on 18 July, and it was announced that the Vatican and Malaysia agreed to establish diplomatic relations.

Malaysia, where Muslims make up 60 percent of the population, has long been cited as an example and model of a progressive multiracial and multiracial Muslim country. However, its peaceful coexistence has been strained by interreligious tensions and conflicts between the Malay majority and the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities who are mostly Christians, Buddhists and Hindus. Decisions taken by the prime minister’s Department Religious Affairs have exacerbated the situation. A leading example is the ruling that Christians stop using “Allah, the Malay term for God, despite the fact that this has been an accepted practice in Malaysia as it is in Indonesia and the Middle East. Malaysia’s Home Ministry prohibited Catholics from using the word in their Malay-language publications since 2007. Customs officials seized 15,000 Bibles from Indonesia because they used the word “Allah” as a translation for God. However, Malaysia’s High Court overturned a government ban, ruling that the word Allah is not exclusive to Muslims and that others, including Catholics, who had been prohibited by the Home Ministry from using the word in the Malay-language edition of the Catholic monthly the Herald, can now use the term. Incensed by the decision, militants attacked several churches and pledged to prevent Christians from using the word “Allah.” In the aftermath of the attacks, the Malaysian High Court in response to a government appeals granted a stay order on Jan. 7; the government appealed to the higher Court of Appeal to overturn the ruling.

News reports of the eeting between the Prime Minister and the pope have emphasized the importance of the visit in terms of domestic Malaysian politics. The New York Times noted that analysts say the visit “is intended to signal a wish to mend ties with the country’s Christians” and BBC reported that it is “intended to reassure Christians in his country, who have long complained of discrimination.” Most reports also note some of the current tensions, giving as an example the attempt to prohibit Christians from using the word “Allah” when referring to God in the Malay language.

This example highlights one of the ironies of Prime Minister Najib’s meeting with the pope, because the ban on the use of the word “Allah” by Malaysian Christians is in fact an action initiated by the Najib government. As noted above, when the Kuala Lumpur High Court overturned the government ban, the Najib government appealed the decision. Currently the government is involved in a case dealing with the Home Ministry’s confiscation of Christian CDs using the word “Allah.” This government policy has been opposed by major opposition leaders including those leading Muslim organizations who are viewed as more explicitly Islamic in their policy orientation. Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister and a leader of the Malaysian opposition, for example, put it simply: “Muslims have no monopoly over ‘Allah’.” (Wall Street Journal, 15 January 2010).

If Prime Minister Najib wants to assure Malaysian Christians of his desire for a united Malaysia, the solution would seem simple. Rather than going all the way to Rome to talk with the pope, his government could bring to an end its support for policies like banning the use of the word “Allah.” The recent rough suppression of opposition demonstrations, which included Christian demonstrators, does not help to create a sense of security for Malaysian religious minorities.

Jul

Bukti Bergambar Penemuan Daftar Pengundi SPR Yang Meragukan

By Anwar Ibrahim 11 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Pilihanraya, Politik and Program

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Selangor Lancar Slogan Baru ‘Selangorku’ Ahad Ini

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Categories: Aktiviti, Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Pilihanraya, Politik, Program, Selangor and Sidenotes

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Kerajaan Selangor diterajui Pakatan Rakyat, yang pentadbirannya kini masuk tahun keempat, akan melancarkan slogan baru — Selangorku Ahad ini – dilihat mendekatkan rakyat menjelang pilihan raya umum.

Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim (gambar) berkata pelancaran slogan itu adalah kesinambungan kepada program “Merakyatkan Ekonomi Selangor” dan “Hasil Negeri untuk Rakyat” yang telah dilaksanakan semenjak Pakatan Rakyat mengambil alih kerajaan negeri pada Mac 2008.

Kerajaan negeri mengambil pendekatan itu ketika spekulasi menyebut bahawa pilihan raya umum akan dipanggil bila-bila masa selepas Ramadan ini.

“Slogan ini mengajak seluruh rakyat Selangor agar bersama sama bertanggungjawab dan mempertahankan usaha yang dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan negeri melalui pentadbiran yang telus dan bertanggungjawab. Continue reading ‘Selangor Lancar Slogan Baru ‘Selangorku’ Ahad Ini’