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Friday, April 29, 2011
Sumpah laknat : Eskay tak hadir, masjid kecoh
Keadaan di Masjid Amru Al-As, Bandar Baru Sentul menjadi kecoh apabila penyokong PKR pimpinan ketuanya, Shamsul Iskandar Mat Akin mula melaungkan takbir serta ungkapan "kami mahu qazaf, bukan sumpah" selepas solat Jumaat hari ini.
Semalam, Eskay mengajak Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim melafazkan sumpah laknat atau bermubahalah bersama beliau di masjid berkenaan itu hari ini bagi merungkai isu video seks yang dikaitkan dengan pemimpin pembangkang tersebut.
Kumpulan trio 'Datuk T' bertanggungjawab menayangkan video seks tersebut kepada sekumpulan wartawan sebelum ini, yang memapar seorang lelaki yang didakwa mirip Anwar.
Dua lagi anggotanya ialah bekas ketua menteri Melaka, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik dan bekas bendahari PERKASA, Datuk Shuib Lazim.
Che Mat kemudian kelihatan keluar melalui pintu di belakang mimbar tetapi terdapat seorang penyokong PKR yang cuba mengejarnya untuk menyerah buku bertajuk Qazaf yang diterbitkan oleh Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim).
Selepas itu, kedengaran penyokong PKR bertakbir, dan keadaan menjadi bertambah panas apabila perkataan kasar, seperti 'bodoh' kedengaran di kalangan mereka yang berada dalam masjid.
Keadaan tolak menolak berterusan di kalangan 500 orang yang berada di dalam masjid yang bergerak keluar ketika penyokong PKR mengadakan solat hajat dan berdoa supaya orang yang membuat fitnah dikenakan hukuman.
Memandangkan keadaan kecoh tersebut, pengerusi masjid berkenaan, Abdul Razak Husin naik ke atas mimbar untuk menenangkan keadaan.
Beliau meminta semua orang keluar dari masjid bagi mengelak berlaku perkara yang tidak diingini.
Difahamkan terdapat wartawan yang mendapat kiriman SMS dari Eskay pada jam 2 petang tadi, memberitahu yang beliau bersolat Jumaat di masjid lain dan dalam perjalanan ke masjid di Sentul baru itu.
Sementara itu, Shamsul dan penyokong PKR telah keluar dari kawasan masjid sebelum mengadakan sidang akhbar.
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Speedy recovery wishes for Datuk Azhar Ibrahim
At the Dewan Undangan Negeri Pulau Pinang, Datuk Arif Shah has told a group of reporters that the Penang Opposition leader Datuk Azhar Ibrahim has been warded in the CCU in a private hospital in Penang.
Reporters asked CM Lim at a press conference and CM Lim send the wishes for his speedy recovery.
Guan Eng ordered fast action to alleviate flash floods
An extremely heavy downpour and high tides have caused flash floods in several parts of Penang. CM Lim told press members that he had ordered the MPSP to take immediate action to alleviate the flash flood problems.
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Video Seks : Malaysia Sudah Hilang Nilai Peradaban
Beliau menengaskan perbuatan Datuk Shazryl Eskay, Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik dan Shuib Lazim menayangkan video berkenaan kepada wartawan pada 21 Mac lalu
bertentangan dengan lunas agama.
Apatah lagi membuat tuduhan bahawa pelaku dalam klip video berkenaan adalah Anwar.
" Bukan sahaja Datuk Seri Anwar, kalau orang lain pun saya tidak setuju. Maruah keluarga dipermainkan. Sekarang saya begitu simpati dengan Datuk Seri Anwar dan kawan-kawannya. Macamana beliau hendak berdepan dengan masyarakat setelah ditohmah seperti itu?," soal Azizan
" Nampaknya negara kita ini telah hilang nilai-nilai tinggi apabila kita bercakap tentang perkara seperti ini. Dan memang sudah disengajakan memberikan fokus kepada Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Sedangkan kalau dalam Hudud, kita kena elak kalau ada keraguan.Kalau ada keraguan, sedikit pun sebenarnya tidak boleh. Kita pun tidak boleh laksanakan Hudud. Tapi ini belum ada apa-apa, mereka sudah katakan ia Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, "katanya lagi kepada Tv Selangor.
Semalam negara sekali disajikan dengan politik sempit mainan Umno-Barisan Nasional apabila beberapa bahagian klip video lucah yang didakwa Anwar tersebar di Youtube dan blog-blog proksi Umno-BN.
Tidak cukup dengan itu, ratusan ribu risalah mengandungi gambar dari video lucah berkenaan ditabur di sekitar lembah Klang.
Menurut Azizan, adalah tidak mustahil usaha menggulingkan Anwar akan terus diperhebatkan dari semasa ke semasa berdasarkan kepada pengalaman sejak 1998 lagi.
" Bukan sekali mereka cuba lakukan perkara ini. Mereka telah cuba dari satu bab ke satu bab. Mereka cuba juga buat macam-macam. Jadi perkara ini, kita tunggu dan lihat sahaja. Dan saya rasa mereka akan berusaha lagi. Banyak lagi yang mereka akan buat,"katanya.
Jelas Azizan, Umno-Barisan Nasional selama ini yang sering mengelak daripada dipersoal tentang agenda ekonomi negara, kini masih dikongkong oleh taktik lapuk ala kampung untuk menjatuhkan seteru politik masing-masing.
" Ada pada satu-satu segi, kita rasa kita ini lebih hebat daripada New York dan England, cara kita dan kemudahan yang ada, tapi dari satu segi, kita masih berlagak seperti juara kampung, kita masih bermain dengan politik kampung," ujar beliau.
Karier politik Anwar sejak dahulu lagi tidak pernah sepi dari pelbagai fitnah yang mengaibkan.
Bukan hanya didakwa mempunyai citarasa seks songsang malah bekas mantan timbalan perdana menteri itu pernah dihujani dengan pelbagai gelaran termasuk agen
Yahudi, agen CIA, agen Cina, malah dilabel sebagai pengganas.
Namun pemimpin berjiwa kental ini berkata, walau apapun yang berlaku, beliau tidak akan tunduk kepada serangan Umno-BN yang disifatkannya akan diteruskan kepada ketua pembangkang selainnya.
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Sarawakians could die laughing
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| Idris Buang's defence of Taib Mahmud is definitely a laughing matter, say commentators. |
PETALING JAYA : Many Sarawakians are in stitches over PBB’s suggestion that they are willing to die for their Chief Minister, Taib Mahmud.
Borneo Research Institute (Brimas) director Mark Bujang laughed when he heard of the claim, made by PBB Supreme Council member Idris Buang.
“Most Sarawakians are dying to see Taib step down,” Bujang snickered.
Idris, in response to wide ranging criticism of Taib, said in an interview yesterday that “many Sarawakians are willing to die for him because of the good he has done for Sarawak and the nation as a whole.”
He said Taib was “the best chief minister Sarawak has ever had” and that the criticisms only hurt the state’s Bumiputera communities.
Bujang disagreed, saying many saw Taib as a liability to both the state and federal governments. “I don’t think anyone is willing to die for him.”
Many FMT readers were also tickled by Idris’s statement, and some denounced him as a bootlicker.
Reader Kchingite commented: “Mate, nobody wants to see you wank Pek Moh (a nickname for Taib) in public.”
Another commentator, Layar Guy, said: “Idris Buang needs to show his ‘apple polish’ because he wanted to stand in as Kota Samarahan MP replacement for Sulaiman Taib.”
Bewildered
Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian, however, displayed more bewilderment than mirth.
Speaking to FMT, Bian said: “That’s what he said? I’m very surprised. Very surprised that he can make this kind of statement.”
He said many natives in the Sarawakian interior did not have a high regard for Taib and might resent Idris for his presumption.
According to him, the natives see Taib as someone who has robbed them of their rights.
Bian, a native customary rights (NCR) lawyer, said: “As far as I’m concerned, the clients I represent in NCR will not agree with that statement.”
Bandar Kuching MP Chong Chieng Jen was equally sombre.
“Well, I think he’s entitled to his opinion, but obviously the election results show otherwise,” the DAP man said about Idris’s statement.
He said some Sarawakians had shown through the recent election that they wanted Taib to leave. “Most of the voters in the urban areas want him to go.”
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PAS warns fans of oath-taking
Responding to the latest challenge by businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah on Anwar to join him at a mosque in Sentul to take an Islamic oath declaring innocence, the Islamic party's vice president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said the taking of oath is something to be formalised in the presence of a recognised Shariah judge and is done to guard one's dignity.
As such, he said, an accuser who resorts to such a method is not only triviliasing it, but also undermining Islamic laws.
"An oath must be taken in a court of law and by the instruction of the Shariah judge.
"What happens nowadays is that it has denegrated into a sort of trend and as a tool to accuse someone of wrongdoing.
"We cannot use the Islamic oath to legalise slander, something which is haram," Tuan Ibrahim told Harakahdaily, reiterating that the accusation against Anwar was under the category of qazaf (false accusation) due to failure by Datuk T to bring forward four witnesses as required by Islamic criminal law.
'Adhere to Shariah'
Tuan Ibrahim said Anwar should not bow to such demands and must only take instruction from a judge in a proper Shariah court.
"So what if Anwar takes the oath, does that mean the accusations against him are dropped?" he asked.
Muslim scholars, including Perak mufti Harussani Zakaria and former Perlis mufti Asri Zainul Abidin, have been unanimous that there was no need for Anwar to swear his innocence.
“In this (pornographic) video, we don't even know who the person is. Even if (Anwar) were to take an oath, there should be first evidences. And without the four witnesses, Anwar is innocent," explained Tuan Ibrahim.
'Oath's value depends on oath-taker'
"He has been driven to announce this stunt because he knows that the general public disbelieves his claim that the person in the video is Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
"Eskay and others who make this scandalous allegation against Anwar Ibrahim have utterly failed to produce believable evidence in support of it," he said in a statement to Harakahdaily.
He reminded that an oath was meaningless if the person doing it lacked integrity.
"What is the value or reliability of an oath? It is only as good as the integrity and honesty of the person who makes the oath. Since the trustworthiness of Eskay is itself a key question here, an oath is a circular and meaningless way of trying to demonstrate that trustworthiness," said Surendran, adding that even if Eskay took "twenty oaths tomorrow, it would not make his allegation against Anwar any more believable."
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Mat Sabu : Video seks isu peribadi, PAS tetap bersama Pakatan
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| Mat Sabu: Kita tunggu siasatan polis selesai dulu, selepas itu baru kita akan berbincang. Lagipun Anwar tidak boleh dibuktikan bersalah kerana dalam Islam kita perlu empat saksi. |
KUALA LUMPUR, 29 April — Ahli jawatankuasa kerja PAS pusat Mohamad Sabu berkata parti Islam itu akan terus kekal bersama Pakatan Rakyat jika pun rakaman video seks yang melibatkan pemimpin kanan parti perikatan itu terbukti Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Menyifatkan ia sebagai pandangan peribadi, Mohamad berkata sekiranya rakaman video itu Anwar, PKR perlu membuat keputusan berhubung pendirian parti itu dan kedudukan Ketua Umum PKR itu.
“Ini masalah parti, apa kena dengan Pakatan Rakyat pula? PAS akan kekal bersama Pakatan Rakyat, ini pandangan peribadi saya tapi keputusan itu hanya akan kita buat lepas siasatan polis selesai.
“Ini melibatkan individu, bukan Pakatan Rakyat. Kalau betul, parti yang terlibat perlu buat keputusan,” katanya pada sidang media di sini hari ini.
Bagaimanapun tegas bekas naib presiden PAS itu, pendirian rasmi parti itu berhubung rakaman video seks yang didedahkan “Datuk T” pada 21 Mac lalu hanya akan diputuskan selepas siasatan kes itu selesai.
Tambah Mohamad, Anwar tidak boleh dibuktikan bersalah dalam kes itu kerana rakaman video seks tidak boleh dijadikan bahan bukti di mahkamah.
“Kita tunggu siasatan polis selesai dulu, selepas itu baru kita akan berbincang. Lagipun Anwar tidak boleh dibuktikan bersalah kerana dalam Islam kita perlu empat saksi.
“Saya tidak mahu ulas mengenai perkara ini. Apa yang berlaku sekarang adalah spekulasi dan kita tak mahu percaya kepada spekulasi.
“Kita tunggu siasatan keseluruhan, hasil siasatan yang dilakukan pihak berwibawa yang kita boleh terima,” katanya.
Tambah beliau, pendirian PAS dalam isu itu akan dibincangkan dalam Majlis Syura.
“Bukan saya yang buat keputusan, tentang ini ia akan dibincangkan dalam Majlis Syura... kena dapatkan pendangan mereka,” katanya.
“Datuk T”, terdiri daripada ahli perniagaan Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, bekas ketua menteri Melaka Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik dan bekas bendahari agung Perkasa Datuk Shuib Lazim telah menggemparkan negara apabila bertindak mempertontokan rakaman video seks itu kepada wakil media terpilih di hotel Carcosa Seri Negara, 21 Mac lalu.
Sehari selepas pendedahan itu, Anwar telah membuat laporan polis dan menafikan beliau adalah lelaki dalam rakaman video seks itu.
Palam sidang media itu juga, Mohamad turut menyentuh kes kematian penolong pengarah Kastam Diraja Malaysia Allahyarham Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamed yang ditemui meninggal dunia di bangunan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah (SPRM) Wilayah Persekutuan pada 6 April lalu.
Kata bekas ahli Parlimen Kuala Kedah itu, keluarga Ahmad Sarbaini perlu mengambil tindakan undang-undang terhadap SPRM ekoran kematian bapa lima anak itu yang disifatkan beliau tidak mendapat keadilan.
“Setelah saya menemui keluarga Allahyarham, kami daripada PAS berharap agar keluarga ini mengambil tindakan mahkamah di atas kematian seorang pegawai yang meti dalam siasatan SPRM dan tidak tahu penyebab.
“Kita berpegang Allahyarham tidak bersalah selagi tidak dibuktikan bersalah, kita memandang serius siasatan yang dilakukan SPRM ini,” katanya.
Mohamad juga menasihatkan SPRM supaya lebih profesional menjalankan siasatan dan belajar daripada negara-negara yang berjaya mengurangkan kadar rasuah.
“SPRM perlu profesional, belajar dari negara-negara yang berjaya kurangkan rasuah, saya harap keluarga Allahyarham lebih aktif dan bukan semata-mata serah kepada takdir.
“Keluarga Allahyarham perlu mengambil tindakan undang-undang terhadap SPRM dan kita serah kepada peguam keluarga itu untuk menentukannya,” katanya.
Ahmad Sarbaini merupakan salah seorang daripada 62 pegawai kastam yang menjadi tumpuan Operasi 3B kendalian SPRM dan beberapa agensi kerajaan yang lain.
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Lebih banyak klip video seks memang ada kaitan dengan PRU
Naib Presiden PKR yang juga anak sulung Ketua Pembangkang, Nurul Izzah Anwar menyifatkan tindakan itu bermotifkan politik selain cubaan untuk membunuh karier Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan keluarganya.
Beliau sekali menegaskan bahawa pelaku dalam sedutan rakaman video berkenaan bukan bapanya.
"Saya fikir memang jelas penerbitan satu demi satu bahawa ada perancangan jahat. Saya sudah beri kenyataan semalam bahawa kami sekeluarga berdiri sama dengan PKR yakin itu bukan Datuk Seri Anwar.
"Maka usaha ini akan digunakan Umno-BN untuk memburukkan lagi imej beliau menyerang kami menjelang pilihan raya umum," jelas beliau ketika ditemui Tv Selangor di perkarangan Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Dang Wangi petang semalam.
Izzah bersama pemimpin PKR lain hadir mengiringi Anwar memberi keterangan kepada polis buat kali kedua semalam berhubung rakaman video seks yang didedahkan trio Datuk T bulan lalu.
Anwar walau bagaimanapun menafikan dirinya sebagai individu yang melakukan hubungan seks bersama seorang wanita berbangsa Cina selain membuat laporan polis terhadap intimidasi jenayah oleh ketiga-tiga individu terbabit di Hotel Carcosa Seri Negara.
Izzah kemudian menyeru agar masyarakat Malaysia menolak politik jijik yang dijulang oleh Umno-BN seraya memberi tumpuan kepada reformasi politik untuk mengangkat manifesto Pakatan Rakyat.
"Pada saya sekarang kita mengajak masyarakat Malaysia untuk menolak politik jahat sebegini dan kita kembali kepada isu asas bahawa Malaysia memerlukan reformasi politik yang menyeluruh untuk menyelamatkan masa depan kita bersama," ujar beliau lagi.
Sebelum itu ketika ditemui media selepas memberi keterangan di IPD Dang Wangi petang semalam, Anwar menjelaskan Umno-BN menggunakan strategi politik lucah untuk mempertahankan kuasa menjelang Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 nanti.
Katanya, media pro Umno-BN dijadikan perkakas menyebarkan fitnah tentang beliau bertujuan untuk menghapuskan karier politiknya.
Selain klip video bahagian kedua didedahkan di blog-blog pro Umno, empat klip video yang kali ini memuatkan adegan seks turut dimuat naik di Youtube sekitar jam 2 hingga 6 petang semalam.
Bagaimanapun, klip video berkenaan telah dikeluarkan kerana melanggar polisi lamanweb tersebut berhubung kandungan berunsur seks.
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Soi Lek sanggup undi PKR jika sedia mansuh hak Melayu
“Jika PKR berani meminda Perlembagaan dan memansuhkan keistimewaan orang Melayu, saya adalah orang pertama akan mengangkat tangan untuk mengundi PKR,” kata presiden MCA dalam video yang diposkan menerusi Youtube di laman partinya.
Bagaimanapun beliau tidak mengatakan sama ada beliau akan secara peribadi menyokong keistimewaan orang Melayu dimansuhkan.
“Mengapa tidak? Tiada parti politik yang cakap mengenai ini.
Jika ya, undi orang Melayu akan pergi. Tiada kaum lain akan membatalkan hak dan keistimewaan mereka,” kata beliau.
Dalam video bertajuk “Harapan Seharusnya Bersandarkan Realiti-realiti Politik Negara”, bekas menteri kesihatan ini kelihatan mengesyorkan bahawa komuniti Cina seharusnya menerima senario politik semasa didominasi Umno dan Barisan Nasional (BN).
Bagaimanapun katanya, janji-janji Pakatan Rakyat memberi publik satu harapan tetapi itu semua adalah pembohongan.
“Saya mengakui bahawa kata-kata pembangkang menggambarkan keinginan generasi muda sebab mereka mewujudkan satu bentuk harapan.
“Tetapi dalam peredaran masa, rakyat akan melihat ia adalah pembohongan,” katanya.
Dr Chua berkata, harapan mesti bersandarkan pada realiti politik, dengan menekankan ia hanya boleh dipenuhi dengan menyokong MCA dalam lingkungan BN, perikatan yang memerintah.
“Jadi, anda boleh ada harapan anda tetapi harapan perlu bersandarkan realiti politik negara ini,” katanya lagi.
Malah dalam video 84 saat itu, Dr Chua juga mengingatkan bahawa agenda politik PAS ialah mempromosikan Islam.
Pandangan Dr Chua ini muncul beberapa hari selepas keputusan pilihan raya negeri Sarawak pada 16 April di mana BN hilang di kesemua kerusi majoriti Cina.
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Gerakan mengaibkan Anwar sekeluarga diperhebatkan
Ratusan ribu risalah mengandungi gambar-gambar dari video lucah itu ditabur di sekitar Lembah Klang, dalam memperhebatkan gerakan pihak tertentu untuk mengaibkan Anwar dan keluarganya.
Dalam pada itu, media arus perdana termasuk TV3 diberi arahan oleh "pihak atasan" untuk memberikan liputan meluas kepada ucapan sumpah laknat Datuk Shazryl Eskay di sebuah masjid di Sentul selepas solat Jumaat hari ini.
Anwar berkata video lucah berkenaan adalah kesinambungan fitnah sejak tahun 1998 dan beliau tidak akan tunduk kepada tekanan Umno dan Perdana Menteri Najib Tun Razak untuk berundur dari politik.
"Jika saya berundur dan melepaskan jawatan ini bermakna kita tunduk kepada rekaan politik Umno. Siapa yang patut menentukan sama ada saya patut berundur atau tidak. (Sudah tentu) parti-parti komponen Pakatan Rakyat dan pengundi yang membuat keputusan . Saya tidak akan tunduk kepada tekanan ini," kata Anwar kepada Malaysian Insider.
Empat klip video lucah setiap satu antara 4 minit hingga 4:24 minit dimuatnaikkan di Youtube di lihat "kemuncak" paparan video untuk mengaibkan Anwar dan keluarganya secara berleluasa.
Sejak video itu ditayangkan kepada wartawan oleh Eskay dan dua lagi Datuk T pada 21 Mac lalu, Anwar membuat laporan polis dan mengemukakan bukti bahawa beliau bukan pelaku video lucah itu.
Namun juak-juak Umno termasuk Najib terus menjadikan video itu sebagai modal politik, khususnya ketika pilihanraya negeri Sarawak.
Eskay, bekas Ketua Menteri Melaka Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik dan bekas bendahari Perkasa Shuib Lazim di laporkan menemui Najib di Bangunan Parlimen sehari selepas identiti mereka sebagai Datuk T di bongkar oleh Parti Keadilan Rakyat.
Empat klip terbaru di Youtube memaparkan aksi seks antara seorang berperut besar dengan seorang wanita berkulit cerah. .
Video yang dimuatkan oleh "rabiaab11" telah dikeluarkan dari Youtube kerana ia melanggarkan polisi lamanweb tersebut berhubung kandungan berunsur seks.
Berdasarkan maklumat pada Youtube, empat klip tersebut dimuatkan antara jam 2 petang hingga 6 petang semalam.
Anwar tidak menafikan serangan-serangan untuk menghina maruah beliau sekeluarga amat melukai hatinya tetapi berkata beliau bersyukur mempunyai keluarga yang mengamati perjuangannya.
"Saya ada keluarga yang hebat dan saya harus ucapkan terima kasih kepada mereka. Azizah dan anak-anak saya, meskipun ketika saya menjadi timbalan perdana menteri, mereka bukan anak timbalan perdana menteri (tetapi) mereka anak Anwar dan Azizah, kata beliau dengan senyuman,"kata Anwar.
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Federal Court hears S'wak natives' landmark case
The Federal Court today heard submissions by a indigenous group from Sarawak challenging the Sarawak Land Code, used to acquire their native customary rights (NCR) land.
This is considered a historic test case as the outcome would affect hundreds of suits brought by Sarawak's indigenous people against the Sarawak government and private companies.
A three-member panel led by justice Ariffin Zakaria presided over the case, involving two separate cases being heard concurrently.
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Elimination of NCR on land violates basic rights, court told
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| A group of natives want a directive issued by a minister to deny their customary rights on their land set aside. |
Lawyer Sulaiman Abdullah, representing the native groups, argued that the directive issued by the Sarawak Resource Planning Minister to deny the customary rights of natives on their land ought to be set aside because it deprived the natives of their life, livelihood and way of life.
He said the survival of indigenous people, such as the appellants in this case, was intrinsically linked to their land because their source of food, medicine and life support system, including their economic, cultural and social way of life, would be taken away when they lose their land.
Sulaiman said Sections 5(3) and (4) of the Sarawak Land Code under which the directive was issued were unconstitutional because the directive amounted to taking away of life, thus violating Article 5 (1) of the Federal Constitution.
Arguing before a three-man panel led by Chief Justice Zaki Azmi, Sulaiman said the state laws had failed the test of being just, fair and equitable as defined under the Federal Constitution because those laws violated the basic rights of the native people.
Sulaiman also said NCR were not merely proprietary rights that could be equated with the right of an owner of alienated land. Instead, NCR amounted to a right to life and comes under the protection of the Federal Constitution.
“Would mere monetary compensation be adequate to compensate for the interests of native communities in their lands in view of the fact that the NCR amounted to a right to life, and extinguishment would deprive them (natives) of their right to life and livelihood?” he said.
He said the special relationship of the indigenous community and their land was also recognised by international human rights law and Malaysian law.
He added that it was the responsibility of the Sarawak government to protect the rights
of the natives.
“For natives in Sarawak, this is also a reflection of the Brooke government’s belief that Sarawak ‘is the heritage’ of its people and that land is their ‘lifeblood’,” he said.
He also said procedural fairness was not accorded to the appellants, as the natives were not consulted prior to the elimination of their NCR.
Resettlement scheme
The two groups are, respectively, from the Dayak communities of the Kayan, Kenyah and Ukit ethic groups and Iban communities.
The first group – Bato Bagi, Bit Buneng, Siring Angah, Adem Anyie, Jating Ibau and Ngajang Midin – represents five longhouses along Batang Balui in Belaga District, Kapit, which were affected by the construction of the Bakun hydro-electric dam project.
This group refused to move to the Asap resettlement scheme, and continues to stay upriver in Batang Balui.
The second group, Jalang ak Paran and Kampong anak Amih, are residents of Rumah Munggu, a longhouse in Tatau, Bintulu, Sarawak. Their land in Ulu Batang Tatau was acquired to build a pulpwood mill.
This group, comprising their families, continues to live on its land. Until today, no pulpwood mill has been constructed on the proposed site and the land has reverted to jungle.
Native groups were appealing against the decision of the Kuching High Court that summarily rejected their suit on the question of law.
The High Court and the Court of Appeal ruled that the minister’s direction was valid. The natives,
however, want their case to be remitted to the High Court for full trial.
Sarawak state legal counsel JC Fong argued that NCR, for some 80 years, under the laws of the state of Sarawak, could be eliminated upon payment of compensation to the natives whose NCR have been extinguished.
He said NCR were extinguishable if the land over which NCR was exercised was required for public purpose, such as in Bato Bagi’s case where the land was required for the development of the Bakun hydro-electric project to generate hydro-electricity for public use.
Fong said the rule of natural justice, which requires a person to have the right to be heard, was excluded from the law.
The panel, which also included Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Richard Malanjum and Federal Court judge Md Raus Shariff, fixed May 16 for Sulaiman to submit his reply.
On that day, Sulaiman will also address the court on the mechanism of assessing compensation to be given to natives whose NCR were eliminated.
– Bernama
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Jangan permainkan sumpah laknat
KUALA LUMPUR, 29 April : PAS mengingatkan semua pihak tidak mempermainkan sumpah laknat seperti yang mahu dibuat ahli perniagaan Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah hari ini berhubung video seks yang didedahkannya.
Naib Presiden PAS, Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (gambar) berkata dalam perundangan Islam, sumpah di hadapan hakim mahkamah syariah mempunyai nilai yang tinggi bagi menjaga martabat seseorang yang dituduh.
Bagaimanapun katanya, penuduh yang menggunakan kaedah sumpah laknat untuk membenarkan tuduhan, bukan sahaja akan merosakkan nilai sumpah itu sendiri, malah lari dari kaedah Islam.
"Sumpah mesti di dalam mahkamah atas arahan hakim syarie.
"Kita tengok sumpah ini dah jadi macam satu trend baru untuk menuduh orang. Lepas tuduh, bersumpah nak membenarkan tuduhan.
"Iaitu guna metodologi Islam (sumpah) untuk menghalalkan benda yang bukan syarak (fitnah)," katanya kepada Harakahdaily.
Beliau mengulas hasrat Eskay yang mahu bersumpah laknat di Masjid Amru Al-As Bandar Baru Sentul selepas solat Jumaat hari ini bahawa Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim merupakan pelaku dalam video seks yang didedahkannya.
Beliau juga turut mengulangi penegasan bahawa Anwar juga tidak perlu bersumpah atas desakan mana-mana pihak kecuali hakim mahkamah syariah.
"Jika Anwar bersumpah di khalayak seperti yang didesak pihak tertentu, adakah ia menjamin bahawa tuduhan ke atasnya itu digugurkan?" soal Tuan Ibrahim.
Sebelum ini, Mufti Perak Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria turut menegaskan Anwar tidak perlu bersumpah mubahalah atau kerana pelaku dalam rakaman video seks masih belum dibuktikan lagi.
“Sumpah (mubahalah) dalam mahkamah bukan di luar... lagipun apa guna beliau (Anwar) nak bersumpah? Jadi beliau tidak perlu bersumpah di hadapan masyarakat, kenapa tidak buat di mahkamah? Anwar tak perlu dihukum sebab beliau tidak lagi didapati bersalah.
“Dalam video itu, kita belum tahu siapa pelakunya, kalau nak bersumpah mubahalah pun kena tunggu bukti dulu tapi kalau ada (bukti) pun Anwar tidak boleh disabitkan bersalah sebab menurut Islam perlu ada empat saksi yang menyaksikan kejadian itu berlaku,” katanya.
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Pakatan’s chances of winning the 13th General Election
The 13th general election will be the most watched and anxiously awaited event in the annals of Malaysian political history. Previous general elections have been tame affairs where the result was never in doubt; it was only a matter of how many seats the opposition could wrest away from BN. But the next election will be different as BN faces a real threat of losing power to a united opposition.
To be sure, this is not the first time that the opposition parties have grouped together to challenge BN. In the 1990 general election, Tengku Razaleigh’s Semangat 46 forged a coalition with other opposition parties and in 1999 DAP, PAS and Keadilan formed Barisan Alternatif to take advantage of public revulsion over Mahathir’s cruel treatment of Anwar.
But these opposition pacts did not even manage to deny BN its customary two-thirds majority. They failed because the social forces at that time were just not in their favour. The minorities were controlled by racial and religious fears and the mindset of the people then could not accept being governed by any coalition other than BN.
Things are certainly different now. Never before has there been such a nexus of events to influence the political destiny of the country. The coming together of the opposition, the dissipation of racial and religious fears, the sea change in mindset, the political awakening of Sabah and Sarawak and yet another sodomy outrage on Anwar have coalesced into the perfect storm to threaten BN.
The Tyranny of Numbers
Although chances to unseat BN have never been better one should not be mistaken into thinking that ousting the behemoth is easy or inevitable. In Malaysia there is no such thing as free and fair elections. The playing field is wholly tilted to BN which has almost unlimited funds and controls the mass media and all the levers of power which it shamelessly uses to its advantage.
There are 222 parliament seats so a party winning 112 seats gains a simple majority to form the government with the other side ending up with 110 seats. Of course such a slim majority is not workable in practice as a single defection will lose the majority. If PR wins a majority which is too thin BN will waste no time in scuttling their majority by inducing defections.
However the aim is to gain an idea of whether PR has any chance of winning, never mind the practicality of governance. After the 2008 general election, PR held 83 parliament seats to BN’s 139. This means PR must retain all the seats it won in 2008 plus an additional 29 seats to obtain the bare minimum majority. On the surface this looks rather optimistic.
But numbers can be deceptive. Our election system is based on “first past the post” which means that a win by 1 vote is still a win. Hence a small swing in vote share can result in a large number of seats changing hands. An alternative system is proportional representation where seat allocation is based on the proportion of votes secured but the disadvantage of such a system is that it tends to result in weak governments.
After the 2008 election there were many marginal seats won by both sides which could change hands with just a small swing in voter support. Based on data on marginal seats sourced from malaysiakini, a 6% swing to PR will result in PR capturing an additional 29 seats, i.e. winning 112 seats to BN’s 110.
An overall 6% swing in voter support is a large swing and this must come on the back of the 2008 swing against BN. To put this in perspective the overall swing to and against BN in past general elections are as follows: (sourced from The Star)
1995 – 11.8% swing to BN due to Dr. M’s liberalization policies
1999 – 8.7% swing to opposition due to Anwar factor
2004 – 7.4% swing to BN due to new PM Badawi
2008 – 10.7% swing to opposition due to tsunami.
So a 6% swing is within the range of possibility but the crux is that swings have alternated between BN and opposition from election to election. Since the last election saw a swing of 10.7% to the opposition an additional 6% swing in the same direction seems optimistic. Even more ominous, a mere 1.2% swing to BN will see BN regaining its two-thirds majority. Is BN safe in Putrajaya after all?
The Keys to Putrajaya
The key to break this tyranny of numbers is Sabah and Sarawak. To put it another way, Sabah and Sarawak hold the keys to Putrajaya.
In the above analysis we have assumed that the voting pattern in the two East Malaysian states will not differ greatly from 2008 subject to a moderate percentage swing. In 2008 the opposition only managed to capture only a single seat each in Sabah and Sarawak.
But Sabah and Sarawak are experiencing a political awakening in the wake of the 2008 tsunami. The notion of the two states being “fixed deposits” for BN is no longer true after the 2011 Sarawak state election. The mood in Sabah towards the federal government is anger at the hordes of illegal immigrants and Sabah is ripe for political change.
Hence we should treat Sabah and Sarawak differently on the basis that their normal voting pattern is going to be upset from the usual trend and moderate swings do not apply. Sabah has 26 parliament seats and Sarawak 31, numbers which are disproportionate to their population.
Results from the recently concluded Sarawak state election indicate that PR’s success can be translated into 6 to 8 parliamentary seats. As for Sabah it is certainly set to lose more than one seat.
If we assume that PR can capture 8 seats in Sarawak and 8 seats in Sabah and adding these to PR’s 81 Peninsula seats in 2008, this brings the total to 97. To achieve 112 seats PR will need to capture an additional 15 seats in the Peninsula, assuming that it is able to keep all the seats captured in 2008.
From the table of BN’s marginal seats and excluding those seats in Sabah and Sarawak, we find that a 4% swing will yield PR an additional 14 seats while a 5% swing will yield another 19 seats in the Peninsula.
So 4% swing in the Peninsula is just falls short while a 5% swing will yield a total of 116 seats for PR and 106 seats for BN with a majority of 10, not great but workable giving PR time consolidate its position by making much needed changes to the police, judiciary MACC and other enforcement divisions.
A 5% swing is still significant and we must remember that this must come on the back of a 10.7% swing in 2008 in the same direction. The next question is, “Will there be enough fence sitters to execute the swing given that a large number have already swung away from BN in 2008?”
The Racial Battleground
What sort of swing in each of the three major ethnic groups is needed to obtain this 5% swing in the Peninsula? Based on past by-elections the support level of the Chinese and Indians can be predicted with some reliability but the Malay ground is very hard to read.
The Chinese community can be considered to be won by PR with up to 80% support in by-elections which has increased from 2008 where 65% of Chinese voters supported PR. It is generally believed that the Indian community voted overwhelmingly against BN in 2008 but the numbers show that Indian support for BN was split down the middle at 48%. This was of course a huge swing from their normal 80% support level. Right now the Indian vote is still roughly split down the middle although by-elections have detected a slight drift back to BN. We should not read too much into these “buy-elections” where the poor and marginalized are most susceptible to handouts which cannot be repeated on a national scale.
Among the Malays there appear to be few fence sitters. This is why PR finds it hard to increase its Malay vote share. On the other hand even overt racism and ultra nationalism do little to enlarge Umno’s Malay base. The Malay ground is very hard to shift either way but a little means a lot due to their demography.
Analysis of BN’s Malay vote share in past general elections show 49% in 1999 due to the Anwar crisis, 59.1% in 2004 due to the new PM factor (or because Mahathir was gone) and 55% in 2008. Umno’s baseline Malay support appears to be about 55% and it can shift up or down by about 5%. This means that in 2008 it may have come down to its base support level and it possible to shift either way by a maximum of 5%.
The Critical Malay Vote
If we assume a 75% support level for PR from the Chinese and 48% support level from the Indians what sort of support level is required from Malays for an overall 5% swing to PR? The results are summarized in the table below.
Ethnic Group PR support 2008 PR support 13th GE (assumed) & swing within group Demography % overall swing
Chinese 65% 75% 10% 26% 2.6%
Indian 48% 48% 0% 8% 0%
Malay 55% 58.6% 3.6% 66% 2.4%
Total 5.0%
Hence it can be seen that a Malay swing to PR of 3.6% from the 2008 baseline is required to push PR into Putrajaya with a thin majority of 10 seats.
It is clear that the 13th general election will be a battle for the Malay vote. Only the Malays themselves can determine who governs them. There are no races acting as kingmakers.
The Road to Putrajaya
So the essential conditions for a PR victory are the capture of 8 seats each in Sabah and Sarawak, a 10% Chinese swing, no change in Indian support and critically, a 3.6% Malay swing to PR. Note that this analysis is based on national averages; it does not consider seat results due to local conditions, local demography or the popularity of a candidate.
As these conditions are within the range of possibility optimists may see this as a good chance to unseat BN. Pessimists may see it as unlikely to happen especially with the Malays reportedly drifting back to Umno.
Is there any likelihood of a cataclysmic event which will swing the Malay vote away from BN as what happened in 1999? Yes, there is – Anwar’s sodomy II which will probably end with his imprisonment and may yet yield the required Malay swing provided Umno is reckless enough to put him in jail.
Importance of a Pakatan Victory
What Malaysia badly needs is a two party system where democratic competition forces the ruling party to be more people centric and accountable. A party which has no fear of losing power invariably becomes corrupt and abusive.
Can PR function as a component of the two party system to put pressure on BN without gaining power? What if PR does not gain power but wins enough seats in the next general election to put real fear in BN and force it to reform?
But this is not likely to happen. Instead of reforming BN will take desperate measures to whip up racial sentiment, oppress the opposition and manipulate the electoral process to cement its power. A two party system will only exist in Malaysia if BN loses power at least once.
The road to Putrajaya is long and arduous so PR must stay focused and cohesive. There is no room for petty squabbling or in-fighting. Unseating BN with their absolute control of money, media and machinery is hard even with the opposition coalition at its optimum. Anything less and BN may even gain back their two-thirds majority instead of being ousted.
Written by Kenny Gan MalaysiaChronicle
Anwar: Saya tak akan tunduk serangan Umno-BN
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| Anwar Ibrahim berkata dalam mana-mana arena politik tidak demokratik, wajah pembangkang yang berwibawa akan diserang dengan teruk. — Foto oleh Choo Choy May |
KUALA LUMPUR, 29 April — Musuhnya boleh membawa seberapa banyak video seks atau tuduhan liwat, tetapi Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menegaskan kesemuanya tidak akan memaksa beliau berundur daripada arena politik dan melepaskan tanggungjawabnya sebagai ketua Pakatan Rakyat.
Sebaliknya, pemimpin berusia 63 tahun ini percaya serangan demi serangan yang dibawa Umno terhadap bekas timbalan perdana menteri itu jika dilayan bermakna beliau “tunduk” kepada perancangan berterusan parti teras Barisan Nasional (BN) itu.
Ketua Umum Pakatan Rakyat ini memberitahu The Malaysian Insider, meskipun perikatan tiga parti itu digantikan oleh seorang ketua yang baru, serangan oleh Umno-BN tidak akan dihentikan.
“Dalam pemerintahan diktatorial yang tidak demokratik, mana-mana wajah pembangkang yang berwibawa akan diserang dengan teruk,” katanya lagi.
“Anwar menjadi sasaran, tetapi jika Anwar meninggalkan pentas dan anda mendapat pemimpin baru, maka pemimpin ini akan diserang,” kata beliau dalam temu bual ini yang diadakan kelmarin, sehari sebelum rakaman video seks yang didakwa mirip beliau dimuat naik di laman YouTube.
Dalam temu bual eksklusif ini, Anwar menjelaskan meskipun serangan yang dihadapinya itu sangat “melukai hati” diri beliau dan juga keluarganya, usaha-usaha untuk menamatkan kerjaya politik bukan sesuatu yang baru.
“Ia (satu perbuatan) menghina maruah,” kata bapa kepada enam orang anak dan mempunyai dua cucu ini.
Bagaimanapun beliau menekankan, serangan-serangan itu memperkuatkan azamnya untuk terus menerajui Pakatan Rakyat.
“Jika saya berundur dan melepaskan (jawatan), ini bermakna kita tunduk kepada rekaan (politik) Umno... siapa yang patut menentukan sama ada saya patut berundur atau tidak? Parti-parti Pakatan Rakyat dan pengundi buat keputusan. Saya tidak akan tunduk kepada tekanan ini,” kata Anwar.
Anwar dilihat sebagai pengikat kerjasama dan hubungn komponen Pakatan Rakyat iaitu PKR, PAS dan DAP, yang ditubuhkan pada 1 April 2008 selepas pilihan raya umum ke-12.
Beliau berhadapan dengan tuduhan liwat pertama pada 1998 dan yang kedua satu dekad kemudian, di mana sama ada Ketua Umum PKR ini akan dipanggil bela diri atau dibebaskan akan ditentukan 16 Mei ini.
“Saya terus diserang, sejak tuduhan pertama pada 1998... ramai tidak dapat membayangkan yang mereka (Umno-BN) (sanggup) mengambil tindakan macam ini, tetapi ia bukan tuduhan yang baru, bukan?” kata bekas timbalan presiden Umno ini.
Anwar berkata, tindakan-tindakan ini, yang beliau sifatkan sebagai terdesak, bertujuan menghentikan usahanya mahu mewujudkan sebuah kerajaan bebas rasuah.
“Sebagai contoh, sebuah pasukan pihak berkuasa berasuah yang cuba mencemarkan anda, menghentikan kempen anda menentang rasuah... adakah anda akan menyerah diri? Itu penekanan saya. Anda perlu ada iltizam dan semangat dalam apa yang anda lakukan,” katanya lagi.
Sehari selepas temu bual ini, rakaman video seks yang tidak diedit menggambarkan Anwar dimuat naik di YouTube, langkah yang dilihat sebagai usaha mengenakan tekanan ke atas Ketua Pembangkang itu yang sejak sebulan lalu menafikan beliau sebagai si pelaku dalam aksi seks terbabit.
Rakaman video itu dibahagi kepada empat segmen dan berlarutan kira-kira empat minit dan 28 saat.
Video seks 21 minit itu buat kali pertama dipertontonkan kepada wakil media terpilih di hotel Carcosa Seri Negara di sini, 21 Mac lalu oleh “Datuk T”.
Anwar juga berkata beliau tidak mahu fokus perjalanan politiknya diganggu oleh penyebaran tuduhan video seks yang dipertontonkan pada 21 Mac lalu.
“Saya tidak mahu dialih pandangan dengan pendedahan video, ia didedahkan ketika dekat dengan pilihan raya Sarawak.
“Di Sarawak, saya berkempen selama 13 hari ketika serangan Umno begitu tinggi, menggunakan video... tetapi ia bukan pilihan untuk serah diri sekarang, bukan sekarang,” kata Anwar lagi.
“Saya perlu teruskan (perjuangan),” katanya lagi.
Keluarganya menurut Anwar lagi, adalah sumber kekuatan beliau sepanjang berhadapan dengan waktu-waktu yang sukar dan mereka sentiasa menyokongnya dalam keputusan seharian sebagai ahli politik.
“Saya ada keluarga yang hebat dan saya harus ucapkan terima kasih kepada mereka,” katanya lagi.
“Azizah, anak-anak saya... meskipun ketika saya menjadi timbalan perdana menteri, mereka bukan anak timbalan perdana menteri, mereka anak Anwar dan Azizah,” kata beliau dengan senyuman.
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Porn : Lim urges parents to lodge report against TV3
The pornographic clip, part of the sex video targeted at Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim by UMNO leaders, showed a man resembling Anwar having sexual intercourse with a woman. Anwar's family however said the clip only further confirmed their suspicion that it was yet another vile plot to kill off his political career.
That however did not stop TV3, part of the sole private broadcast corporation in the country, to air the snippet.
In an immediate response, Lim said TV3 had left ordinary Malaysians feeling violated in their own homes and turned the station into a pornographic channel.
“No child safe at home,” said Lim on Twitter. “All parents (should) lodge police reports against TV3. Let’s have nation-wide campaign to protect homes and children from such disgusting TV fare and gutter politics.”
Lim also called for heads to roll over the broadcast.
“Or Info Minister Rais should go,” he added, referring to Information, Communications, and Culture minister Rais Yatim who is in charge of television contents.
He also urged prime minister Najib Razak to act by drawing the line between what is decent or not.
“Watching TV3 nightline news, disgusting! Anyone who is against Anwar Ibrahim will be given primetime news slot,” she said.
Earlier, Anwar’s daughter Nurul Izzah Anwar said her family would not be cowed by such tactics.
“My family and I stand firmly with Anwar Ibrahim, and we maintain that the actor is not Anwar. This latest, most disgusting effort is an attempt to destroy our fighting spirit and derail reforms so desperately needed in this nation.
"We shall not bow to nor be cowed by such tactics," the Lembah Pantai MP told online news portal Malaysiakini upon learning that the video's second installment was briefly available on YouTube before being taken off due to violation of the video sharing site's policy.
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Najib, Rosmah makin terdesak - Anwar
“Mereka tak boleh lawan kita (Pakatan Rakyat) dengan isu dasar dan pentadbiran. Jadi mereka gunakan cara ini, iaitu mencemarkan karektor orang lain.
“Strategi Najib ialah dengan memperalatkan TV3 dan Utusan Malaysia. Tetapi sehingga hari ini, mereka tidak jawab dakwaan (bekas pegawai kanan polis) Datuk Mat Zain.
Menurutnya, Mat Zain Ibrahim, yang juga bekas Ketua Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Kuala Lumpur, telah menulis surat kepada Ketua Polis Negara berhubung beberapa isu termasuk penyebaran video fitnah, yang melibatkan sumber polis sendiri.
“Dia (Mat Zain) menuntut untuk memulihkan tahap profesionalisme polis yang telah terjejas teruk akibat rasuah, penipuan dan penyalahgunaan kuasa. Perkara ini ditujukan kepada Peguam Negara Gani Patail dan Musa Hasan.
“Jadi, media diminta bersikap adil dan tolong tanyakan kepada mereka, dakwaan bekas pegawai senior polis ini,” tegas Anwar.
Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas memberikan keterangan lebih sejam berhubung laporannya terhadap Trio Datuk T, di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Dang Wangi, petang tadi.
Anwar, yang berpakaian kemeja biru tiba bersama isterinya yang juga Presiden KEADILAN, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah kira-kira jam 2.50 petang.
Keterangan itu susulan daripada laporan polis yang dibuat di balai yang sama pada 22 Mac lalu.
Soalan Tak Berkaitan
“Sebahagian besar soalan tidak tertumpu kepada laporan. Apa yang dituntut ialah siasatan terhadap ketiga mereka kerana jelas mereka melakukan kesalahan.
“Pertama memiliki dan menayangkan video lucah di khalayak ramai. Kedua, mengugut Datuk Seri Anwar dan Presiden KEADILAN, Datuk Seri Wan Azizah untuk meletakkan jawatan mereka dalam politik.
“Mereka bertiga secara terbuka telah mengaku dan sepatutnya didakwa,” ujar Sivarasa.
Menurut beliau, pegawai yang mengambil keterangan kali ini telah ditukar, iaitu pegawai penyiasat DSP Shanmugam Moorthy dan pegawai perakam keterangan, ASP Asrul.
“Mereka memberitahu kita secara terbuka bahawa tindakan kali adalah atas arahan Peguam Negara, Gani Patail.
“Jelas, kedua institusi polis dan perundangan negara telah diperalatkan untuk kepentingan pihak tertentu. Politik negara ini seolah-olah telah dibawa ke longkang,” sinis Siva.
Turut hadir di IPD Dang Wangi petang itu ialah, Naib Presiden Keadilan, Tian Chua, Nurul Izzah Anwar, pengarah biro komunikasi, Nik Nazmi Nik Mahmud, dan Timbalan Ketua Angkatan Muda KEADILAN, Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin.
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Nik Aziz's gives piece of mind on Palestine to US ambassador
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| GOOD TO TALK ... Ambassador Jones (left) with Nik Aziz, April 28 |
KOTA BHARU, Apr 28 : United States ambassador Paul W Jones today met with PAS Murshidul Am and Kelantan Menteri Besar Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz here, discussing on a variety of issues including the US policy over the state of Israel.
“I conveyed to him that a person has no right whatsoever to confiscate even a pair of shoes from its owner, what more a sovereign state," said Nik Aziz commenting on his meeting with Mr. Jones at the MB's office in Kota Bharu.
Writing on Twitter, Nik Aziz expressed hope that his message would be brought to the relevant people.
“I have not forgotten to let him know my strong stance about the Palestinian issue and my dismay over the US policies," he added.
During the meeting, Nik Aziz said their discussion also touched on issues concerning education and Malaysian politics.
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Sabah, S’wak activists lodge rights complaint with UN
The official complaint at the UN was lodged by two representatives from Borneo who earlier held preliminary briefings at the Netherlands Parliament on April 18 and the Belgium Parliament on April 19. These parliaments, in turn, have pledged to brief the European Parliament in Brussels.
The Belgian visit also included a look at the preparations being made within the law by the Flemish-speaking areas in Belgium to secede in the near future.
“We held a public forum in London, to sum up, before returning home,” said Human Rights Foundation Malaysia (HuRiFoM) Advisor Daniel John Jambun from Sabah last night upon his return home. “This will be followed by a trip to Washington in June for another briefing on the worsening human rights situation in Sabah and Sarawak and the European parliament in Sept.”
Jambun was accompanied on his trip by the United Kingdom-based HuRiFoM’s Borneo Director, Kanul Gindol, who is also the organizing secretary for the Common Interest Group Malaysia (CigMA). Jambun is CigMA chair for the 2011-2012 term.
Others who called at the UN together with Jambun and Kanul were London-based Hindraf Makkal Sakthi chair P. Waythamoorthy and the two co-founders of The Sarawak Report website and Radio Free Sarawak, Care Rewcastle Brown and Peter John from Sarawak.
Jambun presented UN representatives with several documents including resolutions passed at a minority rights conference in Kuala Lumpur on Jan 23, a 17-page Sabah paper prepared by him, an executive summary which was also given to the respective parliaments in Amsterdam and Brussels and several pertinent books and reports from Sabah and Sarawak.
The Sabah activists, according to Jambun, petitioned the UN to impress upon the Malaysian Government that “it was imperative to hold a Royal Commission of Inquiry on the presence of 1.7 million illegals in the state”.
“This is the mother of all issues in Sabah,” said Jambun. “Today, the 1.5 million Sabahans have effectively been marginalized and disenfranchised in their own land by the illegal immigrants because the Federal Government chooses to do nothing.”
Jambun warned that the presence of a large number of illegal immigrants in the state cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged as it involved the future and well-being of genuine citizens. These citizens, he stressed, ran the risk of being swamped by the number of illegals with MyKads and entered in the electoral rolls.
“We have to consider that these illegal immigrants are also being allowed to pass off as natives which means that ownership of native customary rights (NCR) lands and the privileges under Article 153 of the Federal Constitution are at extreme risk,” fumed Jambun.
There are specific international laws against a state being complicit in the marginalization and disenfranchisement of its own citizens, he added.
Three other related issues on marginalization and disenfranchisement reportedly brought to the attention of the UN were the gerrymandering of electoral boundaries to reduce the number of non-Muslims seats, Sabah and Sarawak being at a disadvantage in the Malaysian Parliament in terms of representation, and non-Muslim natives being denied Article 153 benefits.
Still on marginalization and disenfranchisement, continued Jambun, “was the snowballing problem of Sabahans denied Malaysian personal documents and living in a legal twilight zone in their own land through no fault of their own”. He reiterated that this was one of the many areas where the Malaysian Government stands accused of being in non-compliance with the 1963 Malaysia Agreement.
Notwithstanding the Malaysian Government’s non-compliance with the 1963 Malaysia Agreement, the Sabah and Sarawak activists want the UN to probe whether the said agreement indeed still exists “given Singapore’s exit from the Federation in 1965”.
“We briefed the UN that life in Sabah and Sarawak were generally better before Malaysia in 1963,” said Jambun. “We are referring to the fact that we did not live in a police state with draconian laws, race relations were excellent and everybody respected the religious rights of others. No race was left out.”
Elsewhere, the Sabah Sarawak activists pointed out that non-Muslims were denied the opportunity to be Governor in their own state and that even the Chief Minister’s post was being denied them through colonial divide-and-rule tactics fostered in the two states by the Federal Government in Putrajaya.
The Federal Government forcibly taking away 95 per cent of the oil and gas revenue from Sabah and Sarawak in the inner waters, and 100 per cent from the outer waters, all other revenue, and the dubious distinction of both states being the poorest states in Malaysia were among other salient points raised in Geneva.
“We also complained to the UN that the Malaysian Government and the state governments of Sabah and Sarawak were ignoring our Adat (customary law),” said Jambun. “Ignoring the Adat has been to facilitate the forcible confiscation of NCR land under one pretext or another by the state governments, government agencies and GLCs.”
Jambun pledged that HuRiFoM would continue to raise the plight of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia at the UN and at international forums to bring all relevant issues to the attention of the international community and world governments.
French probe ignites interest in Altantuya death row duo
When Najib Abdul Razak was Malaysia’s Defense Minister from 2000 to 2008, his grand plan to upgrade the nation’s armed forces included the purchase of three submarines from the French defense shipbuilder, DCN.
Little did he know at the time, that the spectre of Altantuya Shaariibuu, the Mongolian who served as translator for the Malaysian government, would surface like one of the faulty submarines which refused to submerge and still haunt him five years later.
Next month, the inquiry by Parisian prosecutors on behalf of the Malaysian human rights organization Suaram, will be confined to bribery allegations involving the Scorpene submarines and will not look into the 2006 murder of Altantuya.
Altantuya had served as a translator in Paris for the Malaysian government's US$1 billion purchase of three French submarines. The deal was brokered by a firm owned by Abdul Razak Baginda, who belonged to Najib’s inner circle and which netted Baginda a €114 million commission.
The 28-year-old Mongolian was also Razak Baginda's jilted lover, and in a letter found after her death, she admitted she was attempting to blackmail Razak Baginda for US$500,000.
Altantuya was shot in October 2006 and her body was blown up with military explosives by two bodyguards attached to Najib's office. When Altantuya kept pestering Baginda for money, at his home, Baginda asked Najib's chief of staff, Musa Safri, to help keep her away from him.
Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar who served as bodyguards in the elite police unit supervised by Najib, were sent to apprehend Altantuya.
The two men were aided by Lance Corporal Rohaniza Roslan, who was Azila's former girlfriend. They packed Altantuya into a red Proton Wira from whence she was never seen alive again.
The private detective hired by Baginda, an ex-policeman called P. Balasubramaniam aka Bala, was detailed to prevent Altantuya from harassing him. Bala swore in a detailed statutory declaration that Baginda told him Altantuya had been Najib’s lover initially but when he had designs on becoming Prime minister, Baginda took over as her lover to prevent Najib from further sexual scandals.
Bala also said that Baginda told him she liked anal sex. In the declaration, Bala said he had seen text messages from Najib after Altantuya’s disappearance advising Baginda to “be cool” and that the matter would soon be resolved.
After delivering his statutory declaration, Bala was forced to withdraw the document. After this, Bala and his entire family disappeared.
Meanwhile, Baginda was acquitted in November 2008 and left Malaysia for England.
However, High Court Judge Zaki Yasin said that the two bodyguards were “unbelievable” as “each blamed the other” and convicted the two of murdering Altantuya sometime between Oct. 19 and Oct. 20, 2006. Zaki said, “They failed to raise any reasonable doubt of the prosecution's case”.
The case is mired in controversy as there was no attempt to establish their motive for killing her despite a confession by one of them, which was not allowed in court, but which said they would be paid a large sum of money to get rid of her.
In Sirul's cautioned statement, he said that Azhar informed him that Najib's chief of staff, Musa Safri, had ordered them to pick up the young woman.
Azhar’s first suggestion was the Hotel Malaya, where Altantuya and her cousin and friend were staying, to kill them all. The presence of closed-circuit cameras prevented this from happening.
How deep and to what extent is Musa's involvement?
In addition, what is the relationship of these two men with Najib?
The press conference in London, in July 2010, held by Bala and his team of lawyers, was supposed to be a platform to discuss issues raised during a scheduled interview of Bala by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). When the MACC cancelled at the last minute, their non-appearance generated more questions than answers.
According to lawyer Manjeet Singh Dhillon, “What we intended to do if MACC had turned up in London, was for Balasubramaniam to highlight a whole series of events surrounding this Altantuya matter that pointed to the centre of a conspiracy web. A conspiracy at the very highest level to keep out all references to Najib.”
So next month, in Paris, the sordid details of Najib’s submarine deals will surface. Back in Malaysia, our attention will focus on the two bodyguards, charged with Altantuya’s murder.
Some say that the two are convenient scapegoats. Others say that it is curious their faces were hidden from the glare of journalists and say this is because the men will have an identity change and be free to rejoin society under an assumed name. Many questions remain unanswered.
In fact, we have no proof that they men are who they claim to be. No one knows them and has vouched for them. Who knows if they are masquerading as Azilah and Sirul? At the end of the day, it does not matter who the men really are.
It is all a smokescreen for in our part of the world, those in charge of dispensing justice end up protecting those in power. We expect criminals to be experts at keeping secrets and telling lies, but few expect those who are entrusted with keeping law and order, to lie. Governments of all types have a tendency to manipulate information and hide the truth.
Not convinced? Remember the Bank Bumiputra scandal in 1980 when a Bank Bumiputra official was murdered to prevent information about corrupt practices from being unearthed? Bank Bumiputra lost millions and had to be bailed out by taxpayers money. The country that prosecuted one of the accused was Hong Kong.
No, not Malaysia. We tend to shield the guilty. - Malaysia Chronicle
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