Musnahkan sistem kerajaan, Mahathir perlu dibicarakan

Musnahkan sistem kerajaan, Mahathir perlu dibicarakan
Aniz Nazri Thu Apr 03, 08 7:10:57 pm MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, 3 April (Hrkh) - Sekiranya bekas Presiden Peru, Alberto Fujimori boleh menghadapi perbicaraan tentang salah guna kuasa dan rasuah, mengapa tidak kepada bekas Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad?
Persoalan itu ditimbulkan Pengerusi Gerakan Rakyat Anti Korupsi (Gerak), Mohamad Ezam Mohd Nor, dalam kenyataannya kepada Harakahdaily, hari ini.
Ezam, dalam kenyataannya berkata pendedahan UN Special Rapporteur, Dato' Param Cumaraswamy di dalam akhbar The Star, hari ini jelas menunjukkan bagaimana Tun Mahathir terlibat dalam memusnahkan sistem kerajaan di Malaysia.
Katanya, biarpun hampir keseluruhan rakyat sebulat suara bersetuju bahawa sistem kerajaan telah dicemari dengan amalan rasuah, berdasarkan keputusan pilihan raya umum lalu, kesalahan amalan rasuah ini tidak boleh diletakkan ke atas PM, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi semata-mata .
"Ini kerana, kelemahan yang berlaku di bawah pentadbiran beliau (Abdullah) bukan terjadi dalam masa semalaman, tetapi diwarisi dari pentadbir sebelumnya. Sehubungan itu, Tun Mahathir sewajarnya disalahkan ke atas krisis yang berlaku dalam bidang penghakiman, polis dan BPR," tegas beliau.
Malah, tambah Ezam adalah tidak menghairankan badan seperti BPR bertindak tidak relevan sebaliknya menjadi 'kedai dobi' untuk pengamal rasuah membersihkan nama mereka.
Oleh itu, tegas beliau Gerak sebagai badan bukan profit dan NGO anti korupsi yang prihatin terhadap kesejahteraan rakyat Malaysia menyokong penuh kenyataan Param untuk menyiasat dakwaan terhadap Tun Mahathir.
"Berdasarkan testimoni bekas Pengarah BPR, Dato' Shafee Yahya, di hadapan Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi, Ariffin Jaka dalam perbicaraan kes liwat Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim pada Jun 2000 seperti yang tertera dalam rekod mahkamah, bahawa terdapat bukti kukuh untuk menyiasat Tun Mahathir kerana salah guna kuasa dan campur tangan dalam badan kehakiman yang dilakukan beliau pada 1998. Sebagai mantan PM, tidak meletakkan beliau 'keistimewaan' untuk terlepas dari hukuman ke atas kesalahan semasa pentadbiran beliau," tegas Ezam. - mks.

Hishamuddin will not defend post in December Umno elections

Hishamuddin will not defend post in December Umno elections

By : Deborah Loh
PUTRAJAYA, THURS: Umno Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein will not defend his post in the December party elections.
His announcement today paves the way for at least two candidates to vie for the post - Jerlun MP Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir and former Selangor menteri besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, who have both announced their intention to contest the seat if Hishammuddin does not seek re-election.
“Mukhriz and Khir Toyo have stated that they will offer themselves as candidates on the condition that I make a decision about my position in the party.
“After 10 years of leading the youth wing, it is time to make way for someone else. This December we will let the process take its course. I will not defend my post,” Hishammuddin, who is also the education minister, said at a press conference at the ministry today. -- nstonline

Najib reiterates unwavering support for Abdullah

Najib reiterates unwavering support for Abdullah
BERNAMA
KUALA LUMPUR, THURS:Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today reiterated his unwavering support to Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as the leader of the government and Umno despite calls to the prime minister pressuring him to step down.
He said Abdullah still commanded the support and respect of the Cabinet and Umno members for his leadership.
“The prime minister has expressed his intention to continue leading the nation as he still enjoys the support and respect in the Cabinet and among party members.
“He (Abdullah) has decided to continue with his leadership and has the right to do so,” he told reporters after meeting the new Royal Malaysian Navy chief Admiral Datuk Abdul Aziz Jaafar at the Defence Ministry.
Najib, who is also Defence Minister, was asked to comment on Abdullah’s denial to speculations that he would step down as prime minister.
Najib said demands for the prime minister to step down were merely the views of certain quarters while he, as the “second man” in the government, would help Abdullah to reinvent Umno and restore the people’s trust and confidence in the government.
“We’ll work together as a team in the Cabinet and in Umno. This will be our primary task to be focused on,” he added.

I Will Not Resign As Prime Minister, Says Abdullah

I Will Not Resign As Prime Minister, Says Abdullah
By Tengku Noor Shamsiah Tengku Abdullah

PUTRAJAYA, April 2 (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Wednesday denied speculations that he would step down as prime minister.

Abdullah reiterated his stand that he would not run away from his responsibility as the prime minister.
"I am here. I am here. I am here. They make all the speculations that I want to run away, I've resigned. Why should I resign.

"My Government has got a strong majority (although) not the two-thirds (majority), but very strong... that is the stand of support. Why I must run away from my entrusted responsibility," he told Bernama after a "four-eye" meeting with Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said at his office here.

Abdullah was asked to comment on the speculations.

Speculations on the matter arose following calls by some leaders, including his predecessor Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, that Abdullah should step down to assume responsibility for the Barisan Nasional's poor showing in last month's general election.

The BN lost its long-held two-thirds majority in parliament after winning only 140 of the 222 parliamentary while the Opposition captured 82 seats.

The BN also lost control of Penang, Perak, Selangor and Kedah besides failing to regain Kelantan from PAS.

Abdullah's lack of public appearance lately also lent credence to the speculation.

-- BERNAMA

shadowlite: glory is to god who has combined darkness with lite. and praise be to him who has revealed this truth to us.

the combination of evil and good, want and perfection, which is in fact the combination of being and non-being, is not a combination of contraries, which is impossible. for, there is a contradiction between pure being and pure non-being; but we don’t have a contradiction between shadow beings and shadow non-beings.

on the side of being there is a descent from the summit of primal being to various levels of shadow beings, and on the side of non-being there is an ascent from the abyss of pure non-being to various elevations of shadow non-beings. their combination is like the combination of opposite elements; their mutual opposition having softened down, they have been put together in combination.

glory is to god who has combined darkness with light. and praise be to him who has revealed this truth to us; we would not have got it had he not shown it to us. verily, the messengers of our lord have come down with truth.

people's pact: It's official. It's historical. Opposition forms coalition to pose stronger challenge to govt

It's official. It's historical. Opposition forms coalition
• Era of 2-party system on the way
• See 3-party news release here
• Key meeting on April 27
• Kit Siang: "Its the next logical step after the March 8 political tsunami."
KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 -- It's been floating around for some time now and Anwar Ibrahim has spoken about it to various media, but today it is official, he announced at a news conference that Malaysia's opposition parties have agreed to enter into a formal coalition, called Pakatan Rakyat (People's Pact).
The de facto leader of the opposition, whose wife Dr Wan Azizah will be the formal Leader of the Opposition in parliament, said the move to have a formal coalition is to present the parties as a credible alternative to the present ruling government coalition, Barisan Nasional.A convention of all Pakatan Rakyat elected representatives of Parliament and State Assemblies will be held the 27th of April, 2008
This ushers in the era of a two-party system into Malaysian politics for the first time in its history.
The PKR-PAS-DAP group has proposed strengthening ties by forming Pakatan Rakyat, pending the agreement of the respective parties, said Anwar.
He dismissed the long-held position of Parti Islam SeMalaysia, or PAS, on making Malaysia an Islamic state as non-issue. Malaysia's opposition has been divided for many years on separate philosophies, with two parties , PKR and DAP appealing mainly to urban, liberal voters and Islamist PAS attracting mainly rural votes.The 3 parties have tried before to form a coalition with a single policy platform, during an election campaign in 1999, calling themselves the Barisan Alternatif. But the pact fell apart two years later over the issue PAS's call for the creation of an Islamic state.Anwar said the parties were still working on a common policy platform, and detailed policy steps would be hammered out at a meeting of parliamentary and state assembly deputies of all 3 parties on April 27. He insisted that PAS's stand on an Islamic state would not sink the new alliance.
"It is not an issue as far as we are concerned," he said, flanked by leaders of both PAS and the DAP.DAP leader Lim Kit Siang said: "It's the next logical step after the March 8 political tsunami in order to bring about the changes that people want. This is a response to the clear and unmistakeable message from the people who voted on March 8, they want change, justice, freedom and fairness."He added that "the April 27 meeting is for the elected lawmakers to get to know each other". -- [themalaysianinsider.com]

Malaysian opposition forms pact after poll gains
KUALA LUMPUR, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - Malaysia's three opposition parties announced Tuesday a strategic alliance after humbling the ruling coalition with unprecedented gains in last month's elections.
The parties, rallied by former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, claimed more than a third of parliamentary seats and five of the 13 states in the March 8 polls that handed the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition its worst electoral result since 1969.
"In today's meeting, we have proposed to consolidate the cooperation between the three parties under the name 'Pakatan Rakyat' (People's Front)," Anwar said.
The rare meeting was attended by leaders from the Chinese-based Democratic Action Party (DAP), Keadilan and the conservative Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS). The three parties hold 82 seats in the new 22-seat parliament.
Anwar, who is Keadilan's advisor said a previous PAS plan for the formation of an Islamic state was no longer an issue.
"We never raised the issue of an Islamic state (in the meeting). I must reiterate that this issue had not cropped up in PAS manifesto," he said.
PAS chief Abdul Hadi Awang said the party would not take any action that would create anxiety among Malaysia's multi-racial society.
"PAS is an Islamic party. But we have a common ideology and that is we will fight for justice, we oppose corruption and promote human rights," he said.
PAS had previously advocated an Islamic state but dropped the controversial issue in its 2008 election manifesto.
A loose alliance by DAP, Keadilan and PAS failed to topple the government in 1999 after Chinese voters rejected the opposition for fear of a PAS Islamic agenda.
DAP chairman Lim Kit Siang said the alliance was a "logical step forward" following the opposition's stunning gains.
"The people have voted for change from the verdict of the March 8 polls and it is not for an Islamic state or (sharia) hudud laws," he said.
"Malaysians want justice, transparency and good governance. In that basis we are coming together," Lim added.
Anwar said the alliance would uphold the rights and interests of all Malaysians, regardless of religion or race.
The front will meet on April 27 to decide on the strategies it should adopt, he said.
"This coalition will work and we will disappoint the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition. There are no junior and senior partners among us," Anwar said.
Source: AFP via Yahoo! News - http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080401/tap-malaysia-politics-opposition-0193655_1.html

Malaysia's opposition parties form formal coalition to pose stronger challenge to government
By JULIA ZAPPEI,Associated Press Writer
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's three ideologically diverse opposition parties formed a formal coalition Tuesday after their unofficial partnership made spectacular gains against the ruling party in recent elections.The People's Alliance, an unlikely coalition of three parties _ Islamic, multiethnic and Chinese-based _ have agreed to "uphold the rights and interests of all Malaysians," said de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
"We are committed to the reform program ... respecting basic human rights, the principle of justice, freedom of expression and also on the Malaysian economic agenda for all," he said.
Anwar's multiethnic People's Justice Party collaborated with the secular Chinese-based Democratic Action Party and the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party during the March 8 general elections. By putting up a common candidate in each constituency, the three parties avoided multi-cornered contests that had divided opposition votes in the past.
As a result, the opposition parties denied the ruling National Front coalition its traditional two-thirds parliamentary majority and increased their share from 19 to 82 seats in parliament. The National Front also lost in five of 13 states, where the opposition parties have now formed governments.
"The people would like to see the three parties work together to bring change," said Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party. "This is a new political reality."
The three parties say they are equal partners and there is no leader.
Their biggest challenge was to bring the Democratic Action Party under one roof with the Islamic party, which draws its support from conservative Malays and whose stated goal has been to set up an Islamic state.
The three parties' leaders said they would work together to achieve their shared goals of justice, democracy and good governance. One of their biggest election promises was to fight corruption.
"A common stance is a priority ... Whatever (Islamic laws) we can implement, we will implement. But we will respect the other religions as well," said Abdul Hadi Awang, president of the Islamic party.
The multiethnic alliance also hopes to end the racial tensions that have flared up recently. Ethnic Chinese and Indians, who make up a third of the country's 27 million people, have complained that the government discriminates against them in favor of the majority Muslim Malays.
Source: AP via Yahoo! News - http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080401/tap-as-gen-malaysia-opposition-b3c65ae_1.html

In The Line Of Fire: Step down, Dr M tells Abdullah

Malaysia's Mahathir urges PM Abdullah to resign
KUALA LUMPUR, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - Veteran ex-leader Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday urged Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to resign following disastrous election results. Abdullah, also president of the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), is facing increasing calls to quit from party leaders. "I ask (Abdullah) to resign," the former prime minister, who ruled Malaysia for 22 years, told a gathering of at least 2,000 UMNO members. The focus of the meeting was to analyse the March 8 election results but it turned out to be a platform to demand Abdullah's resignation. UMNO members criticised Abdullah and the alleged influence son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin, who is a deputy leader of the powerful UMNO youth wing, has over him in decision-making. "Anyone else would have already resigned but (Abdullah) has no shame," Mahathir, who picked Abdullah to succeed him October 2003, told a cheering crowd. Mahathir said Abdullah had ignored the will of the people, while the veteran's son, Mukhriz, a lawmaker, echoed the call for Abdullah to go. "To bring about (reform), the top leadership has to be held responsible. The prime minister must gracefully withdraw," Mukhriz said. He urged UMNO members to speak out and not be intimidated. "Be brave, if you love your country and speak out," he said. "We have been told to keep quiet but I ask you now to stand by my side." Abdullah, 68, has claimed a mandate to rule despite unprecedented election losses, but observers say he is on borrowed time. Senior lawmaker Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah had said he would challenge Abdullah's leadership if he received enough support. Source: AFP via Yahoo! News - http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080401/tap-malaysia-politics-umno-0193655.html

Malaysia ruling party dissidents launch frontal attack on enfeebled prime minister - (AP) Ruling party dissidents in Malaysia launched a scathing attack Tuesday on Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, saying there is "something very wrong" with his leadership following disastrous election losses last month. Led by former leader Mahathir Mohamad, about 2,000 party members gathered at a hotel conference room, in the most serious challenge to Abdullah's leadership since he took power in 2003. The meeting's agenda was to analyze the unprecedented losses suffered by the ruling National Front coalition in the March 8 general elections. But it turned into a free-for-all session to bitterly criticize the 68-year-old prime minister, who is watching his grip on power weaken despite claiming to have the full support of his United Malays National Organization party. It is the dominant component of the 14-party National Front. "I call on him to resign. Anyone else would have done so already, but he is shameless," Mahathir said. Mahathir accused Abdullah of failing to control rampant corruption, nepotism and cronyism at high levels, apparently referring to Abdullah's son-in-law, Khairy Jamaluddin, who is believed to wield enormous influence in the government. – MORE
M'sia's ruling party dissidents launch attack on PM Abdullah - (Straits Times) KUALA LUMPUR - RULING party dissidents in Malaysia launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Tuesday, saying there is 'something very wrong' with his leadership following disastrous election losses last month. -- MORE

Mahathir, losing patience, turns sights on Najib
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The Malaysian Insider's exclusive on messages sent to DPM: Why does Najib look so glum? Click here
KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 – Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today signaled that he was ready to withdraw his support for Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as the next leader of Umno and Malaysia. The Malaysian Insider reported recently that the former prime minister sent an ultimatum of sorts to Najib through intermediaries, telling him that if he continued to support Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as the party president, he too would find himself in the line of fire. Today, Dr Mahathir applied more pressure on Najib when he was asked a question on whether the latter was still capable of being a good successor now that he seemed to be Pak Lah’s “yes man’’. – MORE

March 10, 2008 : Step down, Dr M tells Abdullah
KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has urged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to take full responsibility for the Barisan Nasional's electoral setback and step down as the coalition leader.
He said that in 2004 when the BN scored a huge win, Abdullah claimed 100 per cent credit for it. "Now it is only fair that he takes 100 per cent responsibility for BN's poor showing by stepping down." -- MORE

In Hell

Inside the most corrupt prison in Europe’s Eastern Block, the warden pits prisoners against each other in fights to the death for profit. The brutality transforms the inmates into dreaded monsters. The newest contender is Kyle LeBlanc (Jean-Claude Van Damme, Derailed), who is sentenced to life for killing his wife’s murderer. Facing the brutality, Kyle starts to become one of the monsters he despises, but his savage rage may be what saves his life.