Dear ER, please treat today's post as a continuation of the following, hence the II, OK. KR.OA.OK!
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Laments of a Writer wit' a Wandering Soul
I've also writ last year that the UM-oh-No bigwigs, including the Clueless CEO< FEAR ONLY ONE PERSON, but poor guy, he re-entered Sungai BUluh prison again slightly more than one year ago. SAudara ANWAR IBRAHIM< defacto leader of the Opposition coalition, I have referred to him as the Nelson Mandela of Malaysia. But MalSia PEMINPIM put him behind bars because he's the man
they need to shut out on trumped up charges of commiting SODOMY
Cos he's the only leaders who could act as the GLUE That binds the three coalition memebers that was the Pakatan Rakyat, now evolved to Pakatan Harapan... the break-up occurred because PAS leader (his name is demeaning to be mentioned here/hear!) was speaking with UM-oh-No! leaders to form a UNity Government even as DAP leaders fumed and fumbled as to what to do next. PKR strongman who held the GLUE that binds is behind bars, and the UM_oh-No PImps are laughing all the way to the political and financial banks. They were the Inventor and cuntinue to play MONEY POLITICS remember?! (Mr Donald Trumpet, please become an APPRENTICE to the Clueless CEO when you become the next President of the USA (Desi's murmur knot to be heard/hurt: GOd forbid!)
To be cuntinued, yes, I need to re-energise with a socialist BF = nasi lemak at 70sen a packet, kuih muih, I recommend the hot kripap, at 40sen a peace! = since no one responded yesterday to my INVITE (U kedeku ER!), along wit' miss Amex card.
4 MArch 2016 @7.57AM:~~
UPDATEd 2 days later because Desi ran out of energy, and
no respcted ER turned up for BF meetings at DE Mian Corner in
Furong...YL, DEsi, wit' a sm ll sigh you are knot supposed to hear, so I
write it down for THE RECORD!
Meanw'ile, please read my latest post reporting the latest report on the 1MDB scandal, according to the WSJ, yes, 2/3 days late!
AS I was saying, the Clueless CEO made sure his and UM-oh-No!'s enemy numero uno MUST BE SHUT OUT AT ALL COSTS> SUara Keadialn in a recent report quoting PKR MP for PAntai, also DSAI"S daughter, said that his father 's health is not improving, and she and family had asked the gomen for the country's prized (to the Rakyat OK!) prisoner to be allowed to seek treatment overseas, but to no avail todate. She had travelled to USA And UK to seek support from the top leaders there in getting her father to be released to travel overseas for specialist treatment. EArlier SK reports had stated that DSAI"s kidney condition had deteriorated, causing great concern to family and party memebesr throughout this beloeved land of true Malaysians who know what a CRUEL REGIME the UM-oh No! has turned a beautiful land into wan that has become a parian state and a world's laughing stock.
From anwaribrahimblog.com, some catching up news updates, maaf, sedikit lambat, but badder late than nebber, eh!:) YL,Desi:~~~
Saya menyokong pendirian rakan-rakan dari masyarakat sivil, parti
politik dan individu-individu termasuk Tun Dr Mahathir, Tan Sri
Muhyiddin Yasin dan lain-lain untuk menggembleng kekuatan dan
persefahaman bersama seperti disuarakan oleh Ketua Pembangkang baru-baru
ini.
Persefahaman bersama ini akan menumpukan untuk menuntut perletakan
jawatan Dato’ Sri Najib selaku Perdana Menteri yang telah nyata gagal
mentadbir negara. Beliau bertanggungjawab meneruskan tindakan-tindakan
politik rakus, merosakkan institusi pemerintahan dan membebankan rakyat
dengan kegawatan ekonomi yang berterusan.
?Pada masa yang sama, tuntutan perubahan ini semestinya akan
melibatkan reformasi institusi utama dalam negara yang sudahpun retak
dan parah di bawah pentadbiran Dato’ Sri Najib.
Selama ini kita mewakili suara nurani hati rakyat telah berikrar
untuk memperjuangkan pengembalian hak rakyat di sebuah negara merdeka
dan berdaulat. Tuntas dengan kesedaran ini maka hak rakyat harus
dikembalikan melalui sistem pilihanraya yang bersih serta badan
kehakiman dan media yang bebas. Dasar ekonomi harus diubah untuk
mengutamakan semula usaha ke arah pertumbuhan yang segar dan pengagihan
kekayaan yang saksama.
Skandal 1MDB yang melibatkan Perdana Menteri adalah skandal terparah
dalam sejarah dan turut menjejaskan imej negara. Ini hanya mungkin
berlaku apabila terdapat pemusatan kuasa kepada seorang Perdana Menteri
serta kegagalan institusi kewangan, keadilan dan penguatkuasaan
menjalankan tugas dengan bebas. Kita juga telah belajar dari pengalaman sejarah bahawa
peralihan kuasa yang bermakna bukanlah peralihan tokoh semata tetapi
perubahan sistem.
Justeru itu saya tegas menggesa rakan-rakan dan rakyat bersama dalam
usaha ini tanpa membataskan ia sebagai agenda peribadi mahupun
permusuhan peribadi. Kita harus merangka halatuju baru bagi
menyelamatkan negara.
Anwar Ibrahim
3 Mac 2016
–
MEDIA STATEMENT
I support the position of friends in civil society, political parties
and individuals including Tun Dr Mahathir, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin and
others to build up strength and common understanding together as
articulated by the Leader of the Opposition recently.
This understanding will focus on the demand for Dato’ Sri Najib to
resign as Prime Minister as he has clearly failed to lead this nation.
He is responsible for continuing to engage in selfish political acts,
wreaking havoc upon administrative institutions, and burdening the
Rakyat with continued economic crisis.
At the same time, the call for change must also necessarily involve
reform at key institutions in this nation, which have been badly damaged
under the administration of Dato’ Sri Najib.
All this while, we, in representing the voice and conscience of the
rakyat, have sworn to fight to return the rights of the rakyat in an
independent and sovereign nation. Thus in line with this commitment, the
rights of the Rakyat must be returned through a free and fair elections
as well as an independent judiciary and free media. Economic policies
must be reformed to refocus on fresh economic growth combined with
equitable distribution of wealth.
The 1MDB scandal involving the Prime Minister is the most severe
scandal in our history and has badly damaged our nation’s image. This
can only happen when power is centered in one individual such as the
Prime Minister, as well as the failure of key financial, judicial and
enforcement institutis to perform their tasks independently without
fear or favour. We have also learned from history that meaningful transition
of power cannot happen only with a change of leadership but it also
demands a systemic change.
Therefore I urge my friends and the rakyat to stand together in this
effort without limiting it with personal agendas or personal vendettas.
We must together chart a new way forward to save our beloved nation.
Anwar Ibrahim
3 March 2016
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal- The Malaymail Online
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 ? Political parties and Malaysians fighting for
reform must understand that the only way to implement true change is to
address the crisis of confidence that the country is facing, Datuk Seri
Anwar Ibrahim has said, and that mere fixation on an individual will not
achieve this purpose. The jailed former opposition leader pointed out
that that the crisis Malaysia is facing today is an issue of a lack of
confidence and trust in the judiciary, the media as well as the state of
the country’s democratic institutions.
“The crisis isn’t merely afflicted by a prime minister or an
individual. “The overt focus on one person or role; focusing on (the)
corruption of one man misses the point,” Anwar said in a recent
interview in response to queries by Malay Mail Online. His replies were
narrated to Malay Mail Online by his daughters Nurul Izzah Anwar and
Nurul Nuha Anwar, who spoke to him recently. “It is a failure not only
of a department but of an entire system. We require systemic change,”
Anwar added, saying that true reforms will not be achieved just by
removing a leader from power.
He was commenting on the opposition parties and its supporters’
fixation on issues involving Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and
1Malaysia Development Berhad. “Our task is to remain consistent with the
economic program to uplift society, not on individuals; focusing on
economic hardship, increasing costs inflicted on the rakyat,” the former
Permatang Pauh MP stressed. When asked Pakatan Harapan’s prospect in
defeating Barisan Nasional at the next general election, Anwar said the
only way the federal opposition stood a fighting chance was to form a
bigger coalition of like-minded people.
“Pakatan Harapan must be based on a broader coalition of forces,” the
PKR de facto leader said. Despite having been imprisoned for over a
year now, Anwar says he is doing fine and that his “incorrigible”
optimism keeps him going. “After one year, Alhamdulillah, I am doing my
best. We have to endure for what we believe in, especially in facing the
statecraft of authoritarian rule,” he added. According to Nurul Izzah,
Anwar keeps himself busy in prison in immersing himself with his books.
“He is an avid reader. That’s how he occupies his time. “The
ophthalmologist who saw him in early February suggested a reading light
due to worsening power but well it is prison life,” she told Malay Mail
Online. On February 10, 2015, the Federal Court upheld the Court of
Appeal’s conviction of Anwar for sodomising his former political aide
Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan in 2008. The conviction meant Anwar was
disqualified as MP and will be barred from contesting in an election for
five years after his release. Anwar, a former deputy prime minister and
also former Permatang Pauh MP who previously spent six years in prison
between 1999 and 2004, is currently serving the five-year jail term.
Sevan Doraisamy is executive director of Suaram (Aliran)
23 Feb –
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram)condemns the continued detention of Anwar Ibrahim and calls for his immediate and unconditional release.
The
arrest and detention of Anwar Ibrahim has been condemned globally by
all quarters for a myriad of reasons that threaten to undermine the
legal institution and human rights in Malaysia. The government of
Malaysia cannot in good conscience remain apathetic and deny all
responsibility for the arrest and detention of Anwar Ibrahim.
The
manner in which state controlled-media have publicised and spun the
case against Anwar Ibrahim and the judiciary’s decision to accept
evidence that had been tampered with in manners non-compliant with
recognised standard operating procedures have cast a shadow of doubt on
the legitimacy of the case against Anwar Ibrahim and reaffirmed the
sentiment that his case was politically motivated and that the whole
prosecution and detention was designed to weaken the opposition
coalition in Malaysia.
The
conclusion drawn by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention (UNWGAD) in November 2015 with regard to the arrest and
detention of Anwar Ibrahim clearly affirms this sentiment. Despite the
conclusion by UNWGAD, the government has wilfully chosen to deny the
findings and refused to take actions to address the injustice done to
Anwar Ibrahim.
The
callous manner in which the government has responded to the UNWGAD
findings can only be interpreted as an act of denial and an effort to
maintain the government’s façade of compliance with international human
rights norms and principles.
Once
again, Suaram reiterate its strongest condemnation of the arrest,
prosecution and detention of Anwar Ibrahim and calls for his immediate
and unconditional release.
UK Parliament
That this House is very concerned about the continued imprisonment of
Malaysian opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, who has now served one year
of his five year sentence for sodomy; notes that his conviction and
subsequent imprisonment on politically motivated charges has undermined
Malaysian democracy and confidence in the Malaysian justice system;
further notes that almost 20 opposition hon. Members and a number of
activists in Malaysia are subject to legal proceedings, under the
Sedition Act and other legislation, for exercising their legitimate
political and civil rights; calls on the relevant Malaysian authorities
to release Anwar Ibrahim, and in the interim, to ensure he is able to
access appropriate medical care, including the medical specialists of
his choice, even if that necessitates travel abroad, and access to his
lawyers; and urges the Government to make such representations to its
counterparts in Malaysia.
(New York, February 9, 2016) – On the first anniversary of Anwar Ibrahim’s incarceration on politically motivated charges, the Malaysian government
should unconditionally release the former deputy prime minister and
political opposition leader, Human Rights Watch said today. The
Malaysian government should also ensure that Anwar can access
appropriate medical services while imprisoned and facilitate necessary
overseas travel to treat the serious ailments he reportedly suffers from
in prison.
“Malaysia’s conviction of Anwar Ibrahim was politically motivated,
and he’s already suffered through a year in prison from this travesty of
justice,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights
Watch. “Every day that Anwar is behind bars, confidence in the Malaysian
justice system further erodes. The government should release Anwar and
repeal the country’s abusive and archaic sodomy laws.”
On February 10, 2015, Malaysia’s Federal Court upheld a Court of
Appeal verdict that Anwar was guilty of sodomy under the Malaysian penal
code. Anwar was taken into custody and immediately began serving a
five-year prison term. A request for a pardon was turned down in March
2015. An appeal of that denial has yet to be decided.
In November 2015, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention found that Anwar’s imprisonment violated prohibitions on
torture, or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Specifically,
the Working Group found that an “adequate remedy would be to release Mr.
Ibrahim immediately, and ensure that his political rights that were
removed based on his arbitrary detention be reinstated.”
Police arrested Anwar on July 16, 2008, based on a complaint from
Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, a political aide, that Anwar had consensual
sex with him. The original trial was plagued with serious fair trial
concerns, including the prosecutors’ unwillingness to provide defense
lawyers with access to medical and other evidence against their client.
Nevertheless, the High Court acquitted Anwar on January 9, 2012, ruling
that DNA samples that were central to the prosecution’s case had not
been handled or maintained properly and thus were possibly contaminated.
The High Court judge said the only other major evidence was the alleged
victim’s statements, which were uncorroborated.
The government appealed and on March 7, 2014, the Court of Appeal
overturned the acquittal and sentenced Anwar to five years in prison.
The appeal court hearing, originally scheduled for April, was hurriedly
moved to March 6-7. The verdict and sentencing hearings were conducted
on the same day despite defense counsel requests that they be given more
time, including provision of medical evidence. The sentencing hearing
was conducted after a one-hour recess on a day of proceedings that had
lasted until 5 p.m.
Anwar’s conviction disqualified him from running for a state assembly
seat in Selangor on March 23. Had he been permitted to run and won the
seat, he would have been eligible to seek the position of chief minister
of Selangor state, a development strongly opposed by the ruling Barisan
Nasional coalition.
Anwar’s five-year sentence also carried a subsequent five-year ban on
running for office after being released from prison under Malaysia’s
elections law, which imposes a ban on anyone who is imprisoned for more
than one year – effectively ending his elected political career. Soon
after Anwar’s imprisonment, the multi-party Pakatan Rakyat opposition
alliance he had led fractured.
“Anwar’s conviction and imprisonment removed a major political threat
to the government of Prime Minister Najib Razak,” Robertson said. “The
conviction effectively removed a charismatic opposition leader, already
in his late sixties, from politics for a minimum of ten years.”
According to his lawyers, Anwar suffers from serious health problems,
including a major rotator cuff injury with torn muscles and tendons,
which has not received proper treatment in prison. The lawyers and
Anwar’s family raised health concerns for Anwar if he were to have the
condition treated in an operation in Malaysia, and have tried to
persuade the government to let him travel overseas for treatment. They
have also sought guarantees that if Anwar did depart the country, the
government would permit him to return and not seek to permanently exile
him.
The anniversary of Anwar’s imprisonment comes five days before United
States President Barack Obama is set to host a major summit with
leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the US.
The invitation of Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is also embroiled in a
major corruption scandal involving the deposit of hundreds of millions
of dollars in his personal bank account, has provoked outrage within
civil society in Malaysia.
“President Obama should not conduct business as usual at the US-ASEAN
summit with Prime Minister Najib,” said Robertson. “It would be a
betrayal of the people of Malaysia if Obama does not publicly call for
Anwar’s release, and the dismissal of politically motivated charges for
sedition and other crimes that so many activists in Malaysia face
today.”
For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Malaysia, please visit:
https://www.hrw.org/asia/malaysia
For more information, please contact:
In Bangkok, Phil Robertson, (English, Thai): +66-85-060-8406 (mobile); or robertp@hrw.org. Twitter: @Reaproy
In San Francisco, Brad Adams (English): +1-347-463-3531 (mobile); or adamsb@hrw.org. Twitter: @BradMAdams
In Washington, DC, John Sifton (English): +1-646-479-2499 (mobile); or siftonj@hrw.org. Twitter: @johnsifton
In New York, Mickey Spiegel (English): +1-212-472-8723; or spiegem@hrw.org. Twitter: @MickeySpiegel
In London, Linda Lakhdhir (English): +44-(0)77-8969-2780 (mobile); or lakhdhl@hrw.org. Twitter: @LLakhdhir
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights and its member organization for Malaysia Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) Joint press release
Paris, Kuala Lumpur, 10 February 2016: Malaysian authorities must
immediately and unconditionally release former opposition leader Anwar
Ibrahim, FIDH and its member organization Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
said today on the one-year anniversary of Anwar’s latest imprisonment.
Anwar is currently incarcerated in Sungai Buloh prison, Selangor State.
“It’s time the authorities put an end to the persecution of Anwar
Ibrahim and immediately and unconditionally release him. Any additional
day Anwar spends behind bars is one more day of shame for the Malaysian
government and further tarnishes its battered reputation,” said FIDH
President Karim Lahidji.
On 10 February 2015, the Federal Court in Putrajaya upheld the Court
of Appeals’ conviction of Anwar on charges of sodomy (Article 377 of the
Criminal Code) and sentenced him to five years in prison. Anwar’s
imprisonment was the result of a politically motivated prosecution and
the ensuing criminal Court of Appeals and Federal Court proceedings
failed to meet international standards for fair trials. FIDH observed
the Court of Appeals’ and Federal Court’s hearings of Anwar’s trial.
In an opinion issued at its 73rd session on 1 September 2015, the UN
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) deemed Anwar’s detention
arbitrary. The UNWGAD called for Anwar’s immediate release and for his
political rights to be reinstated.
On 17 December 2015, the European Parliament adopted a resolution that urged the Malaysian government to release Anwar.
“Authorities must heed the UN and EU calls, immediately free Anwar,
reinstate his right to run for political office, and award him
compensation for the protracted injustice he endured,”said SUARAM
Executive Director Sevan Doraisamy.
FIDH and SUARAM reiterate their call for the Malaysian authorities to
guarantee Anwar his prisoner rights – including the rights to receive
adequate medical care in accordance with relevant international
standards.
Anwar requires intensive physiotherapy for a serious shoulder injury,
which has worsened since his detention. Anwar also suffers from various
gastro-intestinal problems, chronic arthritis, and irregular blood
pressure. His prison doctor has denied him timely access to doctors of
his choice and necessary medical testing.
The UNWGAD’s opinion considered that Anwar’s treatment during his
detention “may have violated the prohibition of torture or other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment under Article 5 of the UDHR [Universal
Declaration of Human Rights].
Press contacts:
FIDH: Mr. Andrea Giorgetta (English) – Tel: +66886117722(Bangkok)
The Guardian, 31 January 2016
There is, rightly, widespread concern over Najib and a democratic deficit. Dato’ Sri Mohamed Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak
was born to rule. Son of Malaysia’s second post-independence prime
minister and nephew of its third, he entered parliament at the age of
23, inheriting his father’s seat and was handed several senior
portfolios before being appointed prime minister himself in 2009.
Najib heads the powerful United Malays National Organisation (Umno),
the pre-eminent political force. His national and personal dominance
symbolises the bumiputera (ethnic Malay) ascendancy in a country with
large, constitutionally disadvantaged ethnic Indian and Chinese
minorities.
But as the intense firestorm sparked by last week’s arbitrary
dismissal of potentially career-ending corruption allegations against
him suggests, Najib is also seen by growing numbers of fellow citizens
as unfit to rule the country whose leadership he inherited as if by
right. His time in government, especially since the 2013 general election,
has brought an expansion of repressive laws, multiplying human rights
abuses and curbs on media freedoms more reminiscent of Russia than of a
supposedly functional, pro-western democracy closely allied to Britain
and the US.
Human Rights Watch summed up Malaysia’s crisis of governance in its 2016 World Report
and country-file: “The ruling Umno-led coalition has remained in power
since 1957 through electoral manipulation, censorship, intimidation and
use of criminal statutes to punish political opponents. After losing the
popular vote in the 2013 elections – but maintaining a legislative
majority through gerrymandering – the government renewed its crackdown
on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and passed new laws
permitting preventive detention without charge… Opposition leader Anwar
Ibrahim remains imprisoned on trumped-up sodomy charges after a politically motivated, unjust trial.”
The latest furore besmirching Najib’s shaky reputation concerns a 2013 payment of $681m into his personal bank account, a transfer that only came to light thanks to a Wall Street Journal report
last July. After months of closed-door investigations and Najib’s
repeated denials of wrongdoing, Mohamed Apandi Ali, Malaysia’s attorney
general, declared last week that the money was a private gift from the
Saudi royal family and there was no evidence of improper or corrupt
activity. Nor was there any connection with graft allegations swirling
around the debt-laden state fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), which Najib oversaw, he said.
This has been met with widespread scepticism. Why was the gift made
to Najib and what was it for? Why was most of the money apparently later
returned to the Saudis, and what happened to the $61m that was not? Why
was the transfer routed circuitously through the British Virgin Islands
and Hong Kong? And why, particularly if, as Najib claims, the money was
a political donation to boost Umno election campaign funds, was it
deposited in his personal bank accounts?
Those taken by surprise by Apandi’s act of absolution include the
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (Macc), which investigated the
affair. An anonymous source there subsequently told the Reuters news
agency that the commission recommended last month that Najib be charged
with criminal misappropriation. Apandi rejected the advice. The Macc is
now seeking a review of the attorney general’s decision, while those in
Najib’s camp want an inquiry into the leak.
Saudis also found the decision surprising. The royal family would
“never” place political funds in a private individual’s account,
officials told the Malaysia Chronicle. This may or may not be
true. A “well-placed Saudi source” told the BBC’s Frank Gardner that the
money was paid direct to Najib, on the orders of the late King
Abdullah, to help him defeat Islamist hardliners in the 2013 election.
Najib says he has been vindicated and Malaysia must move on. This is
fantasy. The scandal will live on in the minds of voters who have more
reason than ever to distrust those who presume to lead them on the basis
of privilege, wealth and inequality. It lives on in the minds of the
FBI and investigators in Switzerland
and Hong Kong still probing 1MDB. And it shines a spotlight on
Malaysia’s worsening democratic deficit, whether defined in terms of
shady campaign finances, electoral manipulation and foreign
interference, human rights abuses, weak and unreliable governance – or
downright venality.
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