Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad today linked arms with rival Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to condemn the use of the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma) against 1MDB critic Khairuddin Abu Hassan and his lawyer Matthias Chang.
In a joint statement clearly referring to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, the BN big guns said it was “shameful” for someone accused of a wrongdoing not to defend himself but to persecute others instead.
The statement was jointly issued by the Mahathir, Tengku Razaleigh, Umno deputy president Muhyiddin Yassin, Umno vice-president Shafie Apdal, former Kedah menteri besar Sanusi Junid and former MCA presidents Ong Tee Keat and Dr Ling Liong Sik.
However, Ling was not at the press conference the others held in Putrajaya this morning.“To the sound mind, the (Sosma arrests) show that when someone lodges a report on a wrongdoing, all laws will be used to cover-up that wrongdoing.
“Isn’t it shameful when someone who is accused of a crime does not do anything to prove his innocence, but instead the person lodging the report on the wrongdoing is arrested,” the BN big guns said.
They also demand the duo's immediate release.
However, the group did not name Najib, who is chairperson of the 1MDB board of advisers.
Khairuddin, who has lodged reports against 1MDB locally and abroad, was today charged with allegedly sabotaging the country's banking and financial system.
Chang, who acted as his legal counsel, was jointly charged with him.
Having interrupted the press conference to read aloud a breaking news alert by Malaysiakini on the charge of Khairuddin and Chang, Mahathir (photo) said the charge is mind-boggling."How can these two, who are not rich, sabotage the financial and banking system?
"The use of this new law is meant to be for terrorists, but it is clear that the government is using this law for all kinds of things, especially against those who criticise the government.
“So they are defining sabotage according to their own will and needs, without adhering to purpose of laws," he told reporters.
Mahathir called for the immediate release of Khairuddin and Chang and for Sosma not to be abused.
"The government should respond by releasing those people. Don’t detain people under Sosma because that’s not what Sosma is for.
"Sosma is for terrorists. Do you think Matthias or Khairuddin are terrorists? They merely reported some misdeeds of the government to the foreign authorities.
“They just reported what they think is a crime. For reporting that, you are questioned and detained? That is an abuse of power," Mahathir said.
Ku Li: I'm joining Dr M because the gov't is wrong
Tengku Razaleigh joined the chorus by saying that the detention of the two was a step back for the country, after the abolition of the Internal Security Act (ISA).
The ISA was previously used, including by the Mahathir administration, to detain political dissidents without trial.
Seen as a rival to Mahathir after the 1980s Umno leadership crisis, the Gua Musang MP (photo, left), said he was speaking with together with the former prime minister today as he feels that the government’s action is wrong."It has denied the right of those concerned from having access to legal representation... we are talking about being a developed state, but we don’t seem to have matured.
“We go back to this Third World kind of legislation, where you can detain people without representation and I think this is wrong,” he said, Tengku Razaleigh. - mk
MH370 - Serah bendera & gambar kepada polis...
Sehelai bendera Malaysia dan tiga keping gambar Pulau Sugbay sudah diserahkan kepada pihak polis oleh pengadu, Jamil Omar, 46, yang sebelum ini dibawa ke Malaysia oleh ibu saudaranya.
Siti Kayam Kisung, 57, berkata, dia turut terkejut selepas mendengar khabar berkenaan sebelum bergegas mendapatkan bendera berkenaan.
Menurutnya, dia yang dari Pulau Tabawan, Selatan Filipina datang ke Sabah, pada Khamis lalu dengan membawa bendera Malaysia yang didakwa ditemui ahli keluarga mereka di pulau terbabit.
"Bendera itu ditemui dalam bangkai pesawat oleh penduduk pulau itu yang pergi memburu burung.
"Saya berikan semua bukti itu kepada anak saudara sebelum diserahkan bendera itu kepada polis bersama tiga keping gambar pulau atau lokasi umum tempat itu.
"Penduduk di sana mendakwa terlihat bangkai pesawat di pulau itu ketika melawat keluarga di Pulau Sugbay, September lalu," katanya ketika ditemui di rumah anak saudaranya, Jamil Omar, di Kampung Tb Wad, Batu Dua, di sini, petang tadi.
Menurutnya, orang sana tidak kenal bendera Malaysia dan tidak tahu apa-apa mengenai pesawat yang hilang sebab kawasan yang kurang berpenghuni dan sangat jauh serta tiada komunikasi.
"Kerana kurang peralatan elektronik atau kemera, orang sana tidak mampu merakamkan sebarang gambar bangkai pesawat itu.
"Saya kemudian datang ke Sabah lalu menceritakan hal ini kepada mereka dan seorang anak buah saya membuat laporan polis agar dapat membantu dalam pencarian terbabit," katanya.- mymetro
Sabah police gets report claiming plane wreck with Malaysian flag found on Philippine island
MH370: Police have contacted Philippine to verify plane parts
Famili anak2 orang asli dilayan teruk & luahan aktivis...
- Hilang selama 48 hari.
- Selama berminggu2 pasukan SAR dengan kerjasama penduduk kampung mencari dan menyelamat kanak2 orang asli yang hilang itu.
- Bahkan pasukan SAR meminta bantuan ustaz dan dukun bagi membantu operasi.
- Tetapi kesemua kanak2 itu gagal ditemui selepas pencarian dilakukan selama sebulan lebih.
- Ada yang beranggapan kanak2 tersebut telah diculik dan dijual organ2 mereka.
- Namun segalanya berubah apabila seorang penduduk kampung menemui mayat seorang kanak2 perempuan yang mana akhirnya dikenalpasti sebagai Sasa Sobrie, 8 tahun pada rabu lepas (2 hari sebelum 2 lagi kanak2 orang asli ditemui dalam keadaan hidup & lemah).
- Pasukan SAR kembali menumpukan usaha pencarian di sekitar sungai tempat ditemuinya mayat Sasa dan berhasil menemukan beberapa tengkorak dan tulang rusuk (yang kini dalam siasatan polis untuk dikenalpasti identiti).
- Kemudiannya menemui 3 lagi kanak2 orang asli yang hilang di mana 2 dari 3 kanak2 itu ditemui masih hidup namun lemah (seperti gambar di atas).
- Salah seorang dari mereka pula telah mati pada 4 hari yang lepas. Identiti kanak2 tersebut ialah Ika Ayel, 9 tahun.
- Menurut pasukan SAR, kawasan ditemui kanak2 tersebut ialah kawasan operasi pencarian sebelum ini tetapi pasukan SAR gagal menemukan kelibat sekumpulan kanak2 tersebut.
- Jangkaan awal pasukan SAR ialah kanak2 tersebut melarikan diri / menyorokkan diri dari pasukan SAR ketika operasi mencari dan menyelamat dilakukan.
- Dan ini lah yang menimbulkan tanda tanya kepada orang ramai. Kenapa sekumpulan kanak2 itu terlalu takut untuk diselamatkan? Kenapa lebih rela menahan lapar, duduk dalam hutan & bergelap berbanding pulang semula ke pangkuan keluarga.
- Ada yang menyalahkan pihak guru. Pendapat aku tindakan itu tidak patut. Sudah tentu guru bertanggungjawab menjaga keselamatan murid2nya. Mandi di sungai tanpa kebenaran dan kawalan keselamatan boleh mengundang risiko. Jika kanak2 tersebut didapati mati lemas, kepada pihak sekolah kesalahan akan dikembalikan. Maka, nak kata tindakan guru adalah salah kerana 'bakal marah' murid2 yang mandi sungai adalah tuduhan melampau.
- Tambahan pula, belum kena marah lagi. Murid2 tue takut dan lari sebab takut kena marah. Bukan bermaksud dah kena marah.
- Perasaan takut kena marah neh bukan hanya ada di kalangan kanak2 bahkan orang dewasa juga. Mungkin perasan terlalu takut itu la yang mendorong kanak2 itu memilih melarikan diri dari menerima hukuman.
- Tapi kanak2 orang asli tue kira cekap juga. Pandai menyorokkan diri daripada pasukan SAR selama 48 hari.
- Sebahagian dari mereka juga buang mayat kanak2 lain yang telah mati ke dalam sungai.
- Hanya makan rumput dan buah2an selama bertahan di dalam hutan.
- Mungkin kesemua mereka dah nekad tunggu kematian kot? Tapi aku rasa mustahil juga kanak2 boleh ada pemikiran sebegitu.
- SAR masih mencari 3 yang lain.
- Selepas 2 kanak2 perempuan yang berjaya diselamatkan boleh bercakap dan pulih, polis akan bercakap dengan mereka bagi membantu siasatan.
- Masa itu kita akan tahu betul atau tidak penaakulan SAR bahawa kanak2 itu menyorokkan diri dari ditemui atau disorokkan.
- Pada aku hutan bukan kawasan main2.
- Walaupun aku tak percaya pada kewujudan hantu tetapi hutan bukan kawasan main2. Pengalaman menjadi pengakap dan tengok beberapa insiden pelik ketika masuk hutan, aku dah boleh assume, hutan bukan kawasan main2.
- Aku percaya sungguh pun kanak2 itu takut kena marah tetapi mereka sepatutnya lebih takut jika rasa lapar berpanjangan, badan semakin lemah dan seterusnya menemui ajal. Apatah lagi duduk dalam hutan suasana gelap sepanjang malam dengan bertemankan binatang buas. Bukan benda yang budak2 suka buat pun.
Dan ini pula luahan Siti Kasim. Aktivis yang secara aktif participate dalam hal ehwal orang2 asli dan isu2 yang menghimpit mereka. Siti Kasim menceritakan bagaiamana keluarga kepada anak2 orang asli yang hilang dilayan dengan begitu buruk dan teruk oleh pegawai agensi kerajaan tertentu.- sozcyili.blogspot
Jungle tragedy: Ministers must face music...
The other five had perished.
Malaysians must feel heart-sick that such callousness, inhumanity, negligence and gross incompetence can happen in modern-day Malaysia as to cause a human disaster and tragedy of such unbelievable magnitude.
That such a human disaster and tragedy can take place in Malaysia when we are just four years from wanting to join the rank of fully developed nations is to the eternal shame to Malaysia, and in particular the Umno/BN government of Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
The Education Ministry today announced that “immediate action” on the SK Tohoi tragedy would be taken – a special committee to look into various aspects involving Orang Asli children who stayed in its hostels headed by the deputy director-general of Education (Education Operations Sector) and would include various parties and agencies and would look at development, safety, welfare and health aspects of the hostels.
The committee is given three months from mid-October 2015 “to prepare and submit recommendations” to the ministry. (The committee will remain committee dari dulu,kini dan selama2nya)
The government response to the SK Tohoi tragedy is grossly inadequate and even laughable.
In the past seven weeks that the seven Orang Asli kids were missing, how many times did the Cabinet discuss the case – in fact, did the Cabinet ever discussed the case at all?
If the seven missing kids had been Malays, Chinese or even Indians in Peninsular Malaysia, missing for seven weeks, it would have caused a nation-wide hue and cry with all resources devoted to find the missing seven, but this was not done in the case of the seven Orang Asli kids in the past seven weeks although they were in the 1km vicinity of the school. (Ini aku setuju 101%)
Are the lives of Orang Asli kids less worthy of protection than Malay, Chinese or Indian kids that they do not deserve seriousd attention from the Cabinet Ministers?
At least the Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, Datuk Zahid Hamidi had visited the families of the missing kids on Sept. 28, but what had the other Ministers whose Ministry are directly concerned with the case, like the Minister for Education, Datuk Mahdzir Khalid, the Minister for Rural and Regional Development Datuk Ismail Sabri Yakob whose portfolio includes the Orang Asli Affairs Department and the Minister for Women, Family and Community Development, Rohaini Abdul Karim personally done for the rescue of the seven Orang Asli kids in the past seven weeks. (Depa semua pergi makan angin kot?, typical lah dengan menteri2 kita)
Had they been conspicuous by their indifference to the case of the seven missing Orang Asli kids for seven weeks?
The Prime Minister should demand a full explanation from these Ministers as to what they had done to save the missing Orang Asli kids, and if they failed to provide a satisfactory accounts which should be made available to the public, they should face the music. (Kalu PM ada teloq..)
Meanwhile, those responsible for causing the case of the missing seven Orang Asli children, with five dead, in Gua Musang should be suspended or even charged for crime of negligence.(Tunggulah sehingga kucing boleh terbang)
I am assigning DAP National Vice Chairman and MP for Seputeh Teresa Kok who, together with the DAP Parliamentary Spokesman for Education, Zairil Khir Johari, the special responsibility to highlight this scandal in Parliament when it reconvenes on Oct. 19 and to ensure that such a tragedy can never happen again to school children in Malaysia, whether Orang Asli kids or otherwise, in the country. - Lim Kit Siang
P.Pinang nafi potong peruntukan sekolah agama
Tujuan anugerah tu baik untuk menaikkan semangat kakitangan supaya bekerja dengan lebih baik.Tapi jika anugerah yang diberi tidak relevan ia boleh memakan diri...
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