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- Isu Scorpene : Peguam Perancis Dihantar Pulang Tanpa Sebab
- Polis Tayang ‘Detik Terpilih’, Bukan Menyeluruh
- Peguam ‘Scorpene’ Ditahan Di KLIA
- Firma Media ‘Diam-Diam’ Protes Putrajaya Bentuk Majlis Perundingan Media
- Malaysia’s Political Awakening: A Call For US Leadership
| Isu Scorpene : Peguam Perancis Dihantar Pulang Tanpa Sebab Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:50 AM PDT Peguam dari Perancis, Wiliam Bourdon yang mendedahkan skandal pembelian kapal selam Scorpene, akan dihantar pulang ke negaranya setelah ditahan Pegawai Imegresen di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) pagi tadi. Bagaimanapun, tiada sebarang alasan diberikan oleh pihak imegresen terhadap tindakan menghantar pulang peguam tersebut. Peguam Hak Asasi, Latheefa Koya ketika dihubungi Tv Selangor berkata, tindakan tanpa sebab itu menunjukkan kerajaan pemerintah takut dengan pendedahan yang dibuat Bourdon dan menguatkan lagi spekulasi yang timbul selama ini. “Kerajaan nampaknya takut pada pendedahan yang bakal dibuat Bourdan bersabit penyelewengan dalam urusan pembelian kapal selam itu dan hubungkait dengan pembunuhan kejam wanita Monggolia, Altantuya Sharibbu,” katanya. Latheefa mengutuk tindakan kerjaan yang menyalahguna kuasa yang ada dengan menahan dan menghantar Bourdan pulang ke negaranya, semata- mata mahu menghalang peguam hak asasi Perancis itu daripada mengetengahkan pelbagai penemuannya bersabit kes itu. “Bourdon datang ke Malaysia secara sah. Kerajaan salah guna kuasa dengan hantar balik beliau untuk tutup dakwaan penyelewengan ini,” tegasnya. Bourdon merupakan peguam yang dilantik Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM), untuk memfailkan kes itu ke mahkamah terbuka di Perancis. Kapal selam Scorpene buatan Perancis itu dikatakan dicemari dengan penyelewengan yang melibatkan jumlah komisyen RM540 juta ringgit. Ia juga dikaitkan dengan pembunuhan kejam wanita Monggolia, Altantuya Sharibbu. Bourdon sebelum ini berkata, di Perancis apa- apa transaksi melibat komisyen dianggap perbuatan jenayah. Bourdon semalam berada di Bayan baru, Pulau Pinang untuk membongkarkan kes berprofil tinggi itu kepada umum dan beliau sepatutnya dijadualkan berbuat demikian di Petaling Jaya malam ini. |
| Polis Tayang ‘Detik Terpilih’, Bukan Menyeluruh Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:57 AM PDT Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) digesa menayangkan keseluruhan video perhimpunan Bersih 2.0 pada 9 Julai, bukan menayangkan ‘detik-detik terpilih’. Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam, Khalid Samad berkata, video yang ditayangkan pihak polis semalam tidak menggambarkan secara keseluruhan situasi pada hari tersebut. “Tayangan video itu tidak memberi apa-apa makna kerana yang ditayangkan hanya saat-saat dan detik-detik pilihan yang tidak menceritakan keseluruhannya. “Sepatutnya polis kalau dah ada video tunjuk semua, jangan hanya detik-detik tertentu.Kita minta polis tunjuk semua, jangan hanya detik-detik pilihan yang nak tunjukkan mereka baik sahaja,” kata beliau ketika dihubungi Harakahdaily hari ini. Beliau berkata demikian sebagai mengulas sesi tayangan dan taklimat selama satu jam 30 minit yang diadakan di Ibu Pejabat Polis Bukit Aman, dekat sini petang semalam yang dikatakan bagi menjawab segala dakwaan terhadap salah laku polis. Video klip itu bagaimanapun hanya menunjukkan ‘layanan baik’ polis terhadap peserta himpunan termasuk menjawab dakwaan Timbalan Presiden PAS, Mohamad Sabu bahawa beliau dilanggar pajero polis. “Saya nampak ianya tidak menujukkan apa-apa konklusi. Video itu tidak menunjukkan saat Mat Sabu jatuh, tak tunjuk sama ada dia jatuh, pajero undur dan langgar dia dan dia jatuh ataupun ada dua buah kereta waja yang langgar dia dan dia jatuh. “Saya ingat dari segi apa yang ditunjukkan dalam video itu menujukkan bahawa tak ada bukti untuk menunjukkan bahawa Mat Sabu menipu malahan nampak macam polis nak menipu,” katanya yang turut cedera di kepala akibat terkena kanister gas pemedih mata dan menerima enam jahitan. Tambahnya, tindakan polis memilih video sebelum ditayangkan sehingga mengambil masa selama dua minggu amat menimbulkan keraguan. “Kenapa saat-saat tertentu sahaja yang polis tunujuk? Masa polis tembak gas masa perhimpunan kenapa tak tunjuk?” soalnya yang juga ahli jawatankuasa PAS Pusat. Dalam taklimat semalam, polis tutut mendakwa peserta perhimpunan yang banyak melakukan provokasi supaya polis menangkap mereka. Polis bagaimanapun mengakui kemungkinan melepaskan meriam air ke lorong-lorong di belakang hospital Tung Shin manakala asap gas pemedih mata yang ditembak meresapi perkarangan hospital itu. |
| Peguam ‘Scorpene’ Ditahan Di KLIA Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:31 AM PDT Peguam Perancis William Bourdon, yang berada di Pulau Pinang malam tadi untuk bercakap tentang urusniaga kontroversi pembelian kapal selam Scorpene yang didakwa melibatkan sogokan berjuta ringgit kepada pegawai kerajaan Malaysia, ditahan Jabatan Imigresen di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA).
“Beliau kini dibawa ke pusat tahanan imigresen di KLIA,” kata Gabriel. Pada mulanya, pegawai imigresen tidak membenarkan isteri Bourdon, juga seorang peguam, mengikutnya ke pusat tersebut. Selepas beberapa rundingan, beliau dibenarkan menemani suaminya. Menurut Gabriel, pegawai imigresen “menyoal Bourdon”. Bourdon mendarat di Pulau Pinang semalam dan berucap mengenai ‘Ops Scorpene’ di Bayan Baru malam tadi. Peguam Perancis yang berkhidmat dengan pertubuhan tanpa keuntungan – Sherpa – dan mengkhusus dalam membela hak asasi manusia dan jenayah menentang kemanusiaan. Bourdon dijangka mendedahkan butiran kontroversial mengenai pembelian kapalselam negara dengan firma gergasi pertahanan Perancis DCNS.
Bayaran komisyen kepada pegawai kerajaan dianggap satu jenayah mengikut undang-undang Perancis. Suaram berharap dapat mengumpulkan dana sebanyak RM100,000 daripada majlis berkenaan yang juga dijadualkan di Ipoh dan Kuala Lumpur hari ini dan esok, bagi membiayai kos perundangan dalam kes yang difailkan di Paris yang akan dibicarakan di mahkamah terbuka pada September ini. Kes berkenaan difailkan tahun lalu oleh Suaram, melalui Bourdon dan pasukannya mengenai dakwaan DCNS membayar RM540 juta sebagai komisyen kepada Perimekar.
Abdul Razak pula adalah rakan rapat Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak yang didakwa terbabit dalam pembunuhan penterjemah warga Mongolia Altantuya Shariibuu tetapi kemudiannya dibebaskan. |
| Firma Media ‘Diam-Diam’ Protes Putrajaya Bentuk Majlis Perundingan Media Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:13 PM PDT Beberapa ketua organisasi media dijangka membantah cadangan Putrajaya yang mahu membentuk Majlis Perundingan Media (MCC) dengan tidak mempedulikan satu pertemuan bagi membincangkan terma rujukannya minggu depan. Kementerian Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan telah menghantar surat kepada pelbagai organisasi, menjemput mereka hadir mesyuarat pertama di bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad di sini, Isnin ini. Bagaimanapun satu sumber memberitahu The Malaysian Insider bahawa daripada mereka sendiri menghadiri pertemuan itu, beberapa ketua media telah bersetuju untuk memperlihatkan protes dengan menghantar editor-editor junior sebagai wakil. Difahamkan ketua-ketua berkenaan termasuk dari organisasi media yang dikawal oleh Barisan Nasional, bimbang majlis seumpama itu hanya akan mengenakan lebih banyak halangan ke atas kebebasan akhbar di Malaysia. Menurut surat kementerian itu, MCC yang disyorkan akan dipengerusikan bersama oleh Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim (gambar) dan Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. Anggotanya termasuklah wakil dari kerajaan, media cetak, elektronik dan media baru serta pertubuhan-pertubuhan bukan kerajaan. Antara yang dijemput agensi berita Bernama, Kumpulan Utusan, Astro TV, stesen Media Prima seperti TV3, NTV7, TV8, TV9, Hot FM, Fly FM dan One FM, AMP Radio Network, AlHijrah Media Corporation, Suara Johor, Star RFM, Husa Network, kesemua akhbar di bawah Kumpulan NSTP, Kumpulan Media Karangkraf, Star Publications (M) Berhad, The Sun, The Edge, Malay Mail, Makkal Osai, Tamil Nesan, Sin Chew Daily, Malaysia Nanban, Kwong Wah Yit Poh Press Berhad, China Press, Nanyang Siang Pau, Sarawak Press Sdn Bhd, See Hua Daily dan United Daily News. Kesemua akhbar perlu mendapatkan permit penerbitan tahunan manakala stesen siaran elektronik dikawal oleh Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia (SKMM). Blog House Malaysia telah dipilih sebagai wakil tunggal media baru manakala pertubuhan bukan kerajaan terdiri daripada Institur Akhbar Malaysia, Kesatuan Wartawan Malaysia dan Persatuan Penerbit Majalah. Portal berita atas talian seperti The Malaysian Insider, Malaysiakini, Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia Today atau Merdeka Review sendiri tidak dijemput meskipun mereka mempunyai kad tauliah media dikeluarkan Jabatan Penerangan. Surat jemputan kementerian itu juga disertakan dengan kertas cadangan penubuhan MCC, yang memperincikan terma rujukan untuk dibincangkan pada pertemuan Isnin ini termasuk peranan, objektif, fungsi, keanggotaan dan aktivitinya. Kertas cadangan itu menggariskan lima fungsi MCC, antara lain memperbaiki pengurusan dan perkongksian maklumat mengenai dasar-dasar kerajaan, program dan aktiviti komuniti dan membincangkan isu-isu semasa dan merangka pelan komunikasi untuk menangani mereka secara bersepadu dan teratur. |
| Malaysia’s Political Awakening: A Call For US Leadership Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:08 PM PDT Malaysia Chronicle A Malaysian recently wrote to me, "Most Americans don't know or even care where Malaysia is." Even among the so-called foreign policy elite, little attention is paid to Malaysia. There are few American academics who specialize in domestic Malaysian politics, and except for hosting visits by senior Malaysian leaders, think tanks and universities hold few Malaysia-themed programs. US newspaper and magazine reports are few, with most articles focusing on tourism and the delights of Malaysian cuisine. As a result, there is a tendency among Americans to hold an idealized (and outdated) image of Malaysia as a successful multi-racial and multi-religious paradise, an Asian economic dynamo, and a stable and moderate Muslim democracy. As a result of this deficit of informed analysis of Malaysia, there has been a failure to notice the internal political and economic changes unfolding within Malaysia over the past few years. The reality today, as one Australian expert puts it, is that the situation is the "most fluid and dangerous" in Malaysia's history. The Events of July 9 – A Date for the History Books Because of this attention shortfall, the events of July 9, 2011 came as a surprise. On that day, tens of thousands of Malaysians—who have been ranked on Hofstede's Power Distance Index as the most submissive to authority of any people in the world—chose to defy their government and join a "Walk for Democracy." They heeded the call of Bersih 2.0, a coalition of 62 non-governmental organizations that calls for free and fair elections. In the days before the rally, the Malaysian government cracked down. It rounded up 200 leaders associated with the movement, claiming that they were "waging war against the King" and planning to overthrow the government. It declared both the Bersih coalition and the planned rally illegal, and in a truly bizarre action, it declared the color yellow—Bersih's signature color—illegal. Malaysian citizens were arrested for possessing Bersih literature or wearing yellow T-shirts. The police established roadblocks around the city and banned 91 Bersih and opposition leaders from entering the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. By the morning of July 9, the city was in total lockdown. Then something remarkable happened. As Ambiga Sreenevasan, the distinguished attorney who leads Bersih put it, the Malaysian people showed that they no longer would be intimidated by their government. They chose to march, knowing that they would be met by tear gas, chemical-laced water cannon, and police batons. Even after Bersih's leadership was arrested, Malaysians of all ages, races and religions continued their "Walk for Democracy" through the streets of Kuala Lumpur. They locked arms, they sang their national anthem and "We Shall Overcome," they blew bubbles and carried flowers. They were peaceful. The only muscle seen that day was the heavy hand of the police. Human Rights Watch later called the use of force excessive, the 1,670 arrests unwarranted, and the police attacks on marchers unprovoked. This repression by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his government drew international condemnation, and it also put a lie to Najib's two-year effort to portray himself as a modern, liberal-minded leader. More importantly, and of greater concern to Najib and his United Malays National Organization (UMNO) party—the main party that has ruled Malaysia continuously since independence in 1957—is that it awakened a new generation of Malaysians. It is too soon to know whether the movement for electoral reform and the establishment of true democracy in Malaysia will be sustained. If it is, then July 9 will be remembered as a turning point in Malaysia's history. Just How Free and Democratic is Malaysia? Why should a government be so afraid of a call for fair elections? Like his predecessors, Najib claims that demonstrations will lead to chaos, even though the right of assembly is guaranteed by the nation's constitution and is commonplace in any true democracy. As for free and fair elections, Najib says that Malaysia already has them; if not, then opposition parties would not have achieved the gains they made in the 2008 elections, when they received 47% of the popular vote and took control of five states. Opposition parties counter that if elections truly were fair and free, they would form the government and not the UMNO-led coalition. Political rhetoric aside, Malaysia's electoral system has been analyzed by academics in Australia, Malaysia, the United States, and elsewhere. In addition, the state of Malaysia's political freedom has been assessed by many international groups. The Economist Intelligence Unit, for example, labels Malaysia a "flawed democracy" in its Democracy Index. Freedom House says that Malaysia is only "partly free." Reporters Without Borders places Malaysia 141st out of the 178 countries in its Press Freedom Index. On elections, the US Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices declares that Malaysian opposition parties are unable to compete on equal terms with the governing UMNO-dominated coalition because of restrictions on campaigning and freedom of assembly and association. "News of the opposition," the report says, is "tightly restricted and reported in a biased fashion." Academics point to the Election Commission's gerrymandering, which creates highly imbalanced districts that favor the ruling party, where the number of voters per electoral district can range from 7,000 to over 100,000. Over the years there have been numerous credible reports of the use of phantom voters, stuffed ballot boxes, vote-buying, and abuse of government resources to attract votes. In Sarawak's state elections this past April, Prime Minister Najib was caught on video, blatantly telling a village gathering that his government would give them US$1.5 million for a local project, but only if they elected his candidate. What Should Be Done? Malaysia's government may assert otherwise, but the evidence is overwhelmingly on Bersih's side. Malaysia is not a full democracy, and its elections are neither free nor fair. Malaysian citizens have awakened to that fact. Now the world's democracies need to stand on the right side of Malaysia's future. The United States has a multitude of interests in Malaysia, one of which is to help strengthen democracy and the rule of law. Human rights groups have condemned what they call the US Government's "lukewarm" response to the events of July 9. This is a moment when the United States, which named Bersih's leader Ambiga Sreenevasan an International Woman of Courage in 2009, can show the same courage and make a difference in the life of a nation. - John R. Malott was the US Ambassador to Malaysia, 1995-1998, and continues to follow developments in that country closely. - The article was published on July 21 by the East-West Center, a think tank established by the US Congress in 1960. The article was published in the Center's Asia Pacific Bulletin, which is delivered directly to over 1,500 leaders of the US foreign policy community, including Members of Congress and their staffs; officials in the White House, US State Department, and US Defense Department; and influence leaders in US think tanks, university research centers, and the media. |
Menurut Pengarah Suaram, Cynthia Gabriel, pegawai imigresen masuk ke dalam pesawat untuk menahan Bourdon (kiri) sebaik sahaja beliau mendarat di KLIA.
Syarikat itu didakwa membayar komisyen "yang amat tinggi" kepada pegawai kerajaan Malaysia yang terbabit dalam perjanjian yang dimeterai pada 2002 itu.
Perimekar adalah subsidari KS Ombak Laut Sdn Bhd, yang mana pemegang saham utamnya adalah isteri Abdul Razak Baginda (kanan).| You are subscribed to email updates from Anwar Ibrahim To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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