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| Posted: 11 Aug 2013 09:49 PM PDT Press Statement By DAP Secretary-General And MP For Bagan Lim Guan Eng In Kuala Lumpur On 12.8.2013. Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi need not be worried about the public not being fair to the police in their fight against hardcore criminals in Malaysia. That is why Malaysians are asking for more resources in terms of equipment and personnel for the police, especially when a mere 9% of the police force of 112,583 or only 10,150 are fighting crime. Instead the public is pressing for Ahmad to increase the number of policemen fighting crime and patrolling the streets to 50% of the police force or 56,000 for them to do an adequate job. The question is whether Ahmad is fair to the police by diverting their strength from their core duties of fighting crime by requiring them to perform other duties, including monitoring and dealing with political opponents of BN. Is Ahmad fair to the police who are now questioned for failing to protect the public when the police are at times restricted to such non-essential duties by focusing not on criminals, but on law-abiding elected representatives who happen to be from the opposition? To justify the reinstatement of preventive laws that allows detention without trial, Ahmad claims that the release of 2,600 criminals from the repeal of EO in 2011 has led to an army of 260,000 criminals roaming the streets in Malaysia. This number is shocking coming from a Home Minister and his maths in counting the number of criminals is not only suspect but considered outrageously exaggerated. However, if Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is correct that there are now 260,000 criminals roaming Malaysian streets, then resuscitating Emergency Ordinance(EO)-like laws will not help the police, but the Malaysian Army and United Nations Peacekeeping Force is necessary to help police face this army of 260,000 criminals. This shocking 260,000 army of criminals is more than the combined numbers of police personnel of 112,583 and the Malaysian armed forces of 124,000. For this reason DAP calls not only for the Malaysian armed forces to help the police, but that the United Nations Peacekeeping Force should be requested to help the Malaysian police from being outnumbered by the 260,000 army of criminals. Lim Guan Eng —BM Version — Kenyataan Media oleh Setiausaha Agung DAP merangkap Ahli Parlimen Bagan, Lim Guan Eng di Kuala Lumpur pada 12 Ogos 2013. Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi tidak perlu risau tentang orang awam berlaku tidak adil terhadap pihak polis dalam penentangannya terhadap penjenayah tegar di Malaysia. Itu sebabnya kenapa rakyat Malaysia menuntut supaya lebih banyak sumber diperuntukkan dalam bentuk kelengkapan dan kakitangan; terutamanya apabila hanya 9% daripada kekuatan anggota polis berjumlah 112,583 orang atau 10,150 anggota sahaja yang memerangi jenayah. Sebaliknya rakyat turut menuntut supaya Ahmad Zahid menambahkan bilangan anggota polis yang menentang jenayah dan membuat rondaan sehingga 50% daripada jumlah keseluruhan anggota, atau 56,000 orang; demi memastikan tugas tersebut dapat dilakukan dengan sebaik mungkin. Soalnya ialah sama ada Ahmad Zahid bertindak adil terhadap pasukan polis dengan mengalihkan kekuatan mereka daripada tugas utama membasmi jenayah dengan mengarahkan mereka melaksanakan tugasan lain, termasuklah memantau dan menangani pihak lawan politik BN. Adilkah Ahmad Zahid terhadap pasukan polis yang kini dipersoalkan atas kegagalan menjaga keselematan orang awam apabila pasukan polis pada masa-masa tertentu dihadkan kepada tugas-tugas tidak penting dengan mengalihkan tumpuan daripada penjenayah kepada wakil rakyat yang patuh kepada undang-undang, yang malangnya mewakili pihak pembangkang? Untuk menjustifikasi pengembalian semula undang-undang pencegahan yang membenarkan penahanan tanpa bicara, Ahmad Zahid mendakwa bahawa pembebasan 2,600 orang penjenayah lantaran pemansuhan Ordinan Darurat pada tahun 2011 telah mengakibatkan terbentuk sebuah pasukan penjenayah seramai 260,000 orang berkeliaran di jalanan Malaysia. Angka yang datang daripada Menteri Dalam Negeri ini sangat mengejutkan; malah kiraannya dalam menganggar bilangan penjenayah bukan sekadar berasaskan syak malah dibesar-besarkan secara melampau. Angka mengejutkan 260,000 orang penjenayah ini adalah jauh melampaui bilangan jumlah anggota polis seramai 112,583 serta pasukan angkatan tentera seramai 124,000 orang. Atas sebab ini, DAP bukan sahaja menyeru angkatan tentera untuk membantu pasukan polis, malah supaya pasukan pengaman PBB juga diundang bagi membantu pasukan polis Malaysia daripada dikalahkan pasukan penjenayah berbilangan 260,000 orang ini. LIM GUAN ENG —–Mandarin Version —- 民主行动党秘书长兼峇眼区国会议员林冠英于2013年8月12日在吉隆坡发表声明： 如果阿末查希是对的，那就是现在有26万名罪犯在我国街上游荡，那么恢复紧急法令也帮不到警方，我们需要的是大马军队及联合国维和部队来协助警方对付这26万罪犯"大军"。 内政部长拿督斯里阿末查希不必担心有关公众对于警方在打击重犯主面的评价不公平。这也是为什么马来西亚要求政府提供更多资源如器材、人手给警方，特别是现在在总数11万2583名警员中，只有9%或1万150名警员打击罪案。而公众也要求阿末增加打击罪案及巡逻的警员至50%或5万6000人，以让他们做正确的事。 问题是阿末是否对警方公平，他将警员打击罪案的职责转移至其它工作，包括监视及对付国阵的政敌。当警方的工作被限制在非必要的职责如对付奉公守法的在野党民选议员，而不是注重在打击罪犯，阿末这样做就对警方公平吗？ 为了合理化恢复预防性法令、允许无审讯扣留，阿末说在2011年紧急法令被废除后共有2600名罪犯被释放，并导致26万名罪犯在街上游荡。这个数据来自内政部长令人惊讶，他在计算罪犯人数方面不只令人怀疑，也听起来非常夸张。 但是，如果阿末查希是对的，那就是现在有26万名罪犯在我国街上游荡，那么恢复紧急法令也帮不到警方，我们需要的是大马军队及联合国维和部队来协助警方对付这26万"大军"的罪犯。 这项26万名罪犯的数据，甚至多过警员人数11万2583加上大马军人12万4000人的总数。因此，行动党不只呼吁大马军队协助警方，也要求联合国维和部队前来帮忙，以协助我国警方对付这26万罪犯"大军"。 林冠英 |
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| Daya tahan Ikhwanul Muslimin luar biasa Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:28 AM PDT 5 Syawal 1434 H. [MOD] Harakahdaily/'  Rampasan kuasa tentera Mesir menggulingkan Presiden Morsi memerlukan analisis lebih mendalam, termasuk sejarah panjang pemerintahan diktator negara itu dan latar belakang mengenai liku-liku perit yang dilalui Ikhwanul Muslimin selama hampir 60 tahun.Prof Dato' Dr Mohammad Redzuan Othman(gambar), Dekan Fakulti Sastera dan Sains Sosial, Universiti Malaya dirasakan tokoh akademik dan pengamat politik Timur Tengah yang paling layak memberikan pandangan terhadap krisis di Mesir. Wakil Harakah, AHMAD LUTFI OTHMAN dan ARIF ATAN menemubual Dr Redzuan di kediamannya, Sungai Ramal, Kajang, pertengahan Julai lalu. HARAKAH: Presiden pertama Mesir yang dipilih rakyat dalam satu pilihan raya yang diakui adil dan bebas telah digulingkan hanya selepas setahun berkuasa. Ada pihak melihat dalang di sebaliknya adalah pihak Barat, terutamanya Amerika Syarikat. Sebagai tokoh akademik yang lama mengikuti politik Mesir, termasuk gerakan Ikhwanul Muslimin, tentu Prof lebih arif tentang apa sebenarnya yang berlaku? REDZUAN: Barat sebenarnya sudah lama merancang untuk bertindak dan menindas gerakan Ikhwanul Muslimin yang ditubuhkan pada 1928. Kejayaan Ikhwanul Muslimin mengambil alih kuasa selepas ditindas lebih enam puluh tahun menimbulkan kegusaran, termasuklah juga rejim monarki di negara Arab yang turut merasakan kedudukan mereka akan tergugat jika gerakan Islam ini berjaya mengemukakan alternatif kepada pelbagai kemelut yang dihadapi oleh umat Arab. Untuk memahami apa yang berlaku di Mesir, kita harus meneliti sejarah yang pernah berlaku sebelum ini. Sejarah penindasan ke atas Ikhwanul Muslimin pada 1948-1954 seolah-olah berulang dengan menggunakan skrip sama. Contohnya, pada 13 Julai lalu, berita menyiarkan bahawa Morsi akan disiasat kerana dikatakan terlibat dalam kegiatan yang memcetuskan keganasan. Pendukung Ikhwanul Muslimin yang dibunuh dan dianinya, tetapi mereka pula yang dituduh. Nasib yang sama pernah menimpa Ustaz Abdul Qadir Audah, pemimpin Ikhwanul Muslimin yang tersohor yang dijatuhi hukuman gantung sampai mati pada tahun 1954 kerana dituduh mencetuskan keganasan dan terlibat dalam komplot cubaan bunuh ke atas Gamal Abd al-Nasser. Bersama-sama beliau yang turut menjalani hukuman gantung, termasuklah Abd al-Fattah Ismail, Muhammad Al-Faghali, Yusof Talaat, Ibrahim al-Tayyeb dan lain-lain. Pada 1966 Sayyid Qutb dijatuhi hukuman gantung. Bukti yang digunakan dan digembar-gemburkan ialah Ikhwanul Muslimin terlibat dalam kegiatan bersenjata dan pelbagai jenis senjata ditemui di pejabat gerakan tersebut. Ini juga perkara yang dihebohkan oleh tentera Mesir dengan mengatakan bahawa senjata ditemui di ibu pejabat Ikhwanul Muslimin di Moqattam dan penemuan tersebut adalah bagi mengesahkan gerakan ini menaja keganasan dan wajar ditindas. Tuduhan yang dikenakan ke atas Ikhwanul Muslimin juga hampir sama seperti enam dekad lalu. Bagi mendapat sokongan rakyat tindakan General Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi sama seperti Gamal Abd al-Nasser pada 1954, iaitu mengembleng rakyat menyatakan sokongan kepada beliau melalui Hubbat al-Ahrar (Liberation Rally). Atas nama sokong kepada regimnya rakyat berhimpun bagi menyatakan sokongan kepada Nasser dan mengutuk Ikhwanul Muslimin. Ini yang dilakukan oleh tentera pada hari ini dengan menaja demonstrasi rakyat bagi menyokong regim dan menolak Ikhwanul Muslimin yang dikatakan antinasional. Sama seperti kira-kira 60 tahun lalu, tentera tidak ada belas kasihan dan bertindak sewenang-wenang ke atas pendukung Ikhwanul Muslimin termasuk melakukan penindasan kejam. Ternyata penindasan tanpa belas kasihan ini memberi impak yang amat besar kepada Ikhwanul Muslimin. Tahun 1948-1954 merupakan tahun penuh cabaran kepada Ikhwanul Muslimin. Pada Februari 1949, pengasas dan pemimpinnya, Hasan al-Banna mati ditembak. Sejak itu Ikhwanul Muslimin terus ditindas dan seterusnya diharamkan pada 1954 hinggalah selepas Husni Mubarak diturunkan dari jawatan presiden berikutan berlakunya Kebangkitan Arab pada 2011. Ini bermakna Ikhwanul Muslimin telah diharamkan selama 67 tahun dan ribuan anggotanya pernah dipenjarakan dan puluhan yang lain mati di tali gantung. Dari segi sejarah, tentera menindas Ikhwanul Muslimin selama hampir enam dekad. Tentera memandang Ikhwanul Muslimin dengan penuh curiga. Dengan menggunakan kekuatan senjata dan kuasa yang dimiliki tentera tidak pernah menunjukkan belas kasihan kepada Ikhwanul Muslimin. Melihat rekod lalu tiada perkara yang boleh menghalang mereka untuk terus berusaha menindas Ikhwanul Muslimin. Maknaya, apa yang berlaku hari ini mengulangi penindasan kejam terhadap Ikhwanul Muslimin 60 tahun lalu. Apakah mungkin ia mengakibatkan Ikhwan sukar untuk bangkit semula? Tentera cuba mengulangi pendekatan yang pernah mereka lakukan lebih 60 tahun lalu. Namun begitu, suasana sudah berubah. General Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi tidak sehebat Nasser dan kemajuan dalam teknologi maklumat menjadikan penipuan dan propaganda yang mengelirukan rakyat tidak boleh dibuat sewenang-wenangnya. Natijah kepada konflik Ikhwanul Muslimin dan tentera banyak bergantung sejauh mana gerakan Islam ini mampu bertahan. Rekod yang dimiliki Ikhwanul Muslimin menunjukkan gerakan tersebut mempunyai daya tahan yang luar biasa. Walaupun enam dekad ditindas dengan para pemimpin utamanya ramai mati dibunuh dan penindasan dilakukan secara berterusan, namun Ikhwanul Muslimin masih bersisa dan mampu bangkit. Inilah yang berlaku pada 2011, walaupun ditindas rejim Mubarak, namun mampu muncul sebagai organisasi yang paling tersusun dan memberikan alternatif kepada rakyat. Walaupun tentera dan kumpulan anti-Ikhwanul akan menggunakan pelbagai cara untuk menghapuskan pengaruhnya, tetapi suasana 2013 tidak sama seperti 1954. Hari ini Ikhwanul Muslimin mampu membawa jutaan penyokongnya di jalan raya dari seluruh 27 Muhafazah (wilayah) di Mesir. Namun begitu, situasinya masih sama, iaitu bagi kumpulan anti-Ikhwan yang terdiri daripada penyokong sosialis, nasionalis, liberalis, sekularis dan kelompok tariqat tertentu mereka sanggup mengetepikan perbezaan dan permusuhan sesama mereka semata-mata bagi menentang gerakan Islam ini. Mengimbau sejarah lalu, Ikhwanul Muslimin yang dizalimi seperti tidak mendapat simpati atau sokongan daripada masyarakat antarabangsa termasuk kalangan kumpulan Islam sendiri. Mengapa terjadi begitu? Ketika Gamal Abd al-Nasser menjadi Presiden Mesir beliau berjaya menggerakkan jentera propagandanya sehingga menggelap dan menggerhanakan peranan Ikhwanul Muslimin. Pengaruh beliau cukup hebat hingga pelajar Malaysia yang belajar di Universiti al-Azhar, Mesir pada waktu itupun tidak tahu tentang peranan dan sumbangan Ikhwanul dalam memperjuangkan Islam yang syumul. Nasser yang tampil dengan imej Islam digambarkan sebagai tokoh pemimpin Islam dan tidak hairanlah apabila beliau mati, terdapat madrasah dan kelompok umat Islam di Malaysia menganjurkan solat ghaib sebagai tanpa kasih kepada "pemimpin Islam yang banyak berjasa". Sentimen anti-Israel yang dilaungkan Nasser menjadikan beliau dikagumi sehingga umat Islam di Malaysia, termasuk mereka yang pernah belajar di Mesir tidak menyedari kezaliman dan penindasannya ke atas Ikhwanul Muslimin. Ini termasuklah apabila Sayyid Qutb dihukum gantung pada 1966, protes hanya disuarakan sekelompok kecil pelajar Malaysia yang belajar di Barat. Menariknya, kebangkitan Islam di Malaysia pada awal 1970-an bukan digerakkan lulusan Mesir, sebaliknya oleh mereka yang terpengaruh dengan perjuangan dan pemikiran Ikhwanul Muslimin dalam kalangan pelajar dari universiti tempatan dan mereka yang belajar di Barat. Pengaruh Ikhwanul Muslimin yang disebarkan melalui buku-buku tokoh-tokoh Ikhwanul yang tersohor seperti Hasan al-Banna, Abd al-Kader Audah, Sayyid Qutb dan lain-lain. Buku-buku ini pula bukan dalam bahasa Arab tetapi dalam bahasa Inggeris seperti buku Maalim Fit Tariq oleh Sayyid Qutb yang lebih dahulu dibaca dengan judul Milestones. Merujuk kebangkitan rakyat Mesir tiga tahun lalu untuk menumbangkan regim Hosni Mubarak, ada pendapat mengatakan pada peringkat awal Ikhwanul seperti menjauhkan diri dan tidak terlibat. Boleh prof jelaskan keadaan sebenarnya? Perkara ini sering dijadikan ungkitan penggerak gerakan 25 Januari yang memaksa Husni Mubarak meletakkan jawatan. Mereka mengatakan Ikhwanul Muslimin menanguk di air keruh dengan mengambil kesempatan daripada kebangkitan. Memang ada kebenarannya kerana ketika rakyat mula turun ke jalan raya, pada peringkat awalnya Ikhwanul Muslimin mengambil pendekatan tunggu dan lihat. Pada awal Februari 2011 barulah Ikhwanul Muslimin turut mengerahkan pengikutnya ikut serta dalam protes yang dilakukan. Pendekatan Ikhwanul Muslimin yang terpaksa mengambil pendekatan berhati-hati mudah difahami kerana gerakan ini sudah terlalu lama berusaha mengerakkan kebangkitan tetapi gagal mendapat sambutan meluas. Sebaliknya, kebangkitan yang mereka anjurkan berakhir dengan tragedi apabila ada ahlinya yang dihukum berat, dipenjarakan dan harta disita. Hal yang sama pernah berlaku pada 1952 apabila berlaku kebangkitan rakyat menentang Raja Farouk dan British, Ikhwanul Muslimin tidak berada berada di barisan hadapan dan tidak terlibat secara langsung. Apabila Gamal Abd al-Nasser melancarkan revolusi dan berjaya menggulingkan Raja Farouk, Ikhwanul Muslimin dianggap tidak berperanan memainkan peranan sebenar. Dengan pelbagai pengalaman itu, sebagai usaha mempelbagaikan pendekatan Ikhwanul Muslimin pernah terlibat secara langsung dalam pilihan raya Mesir. Ikhwanul Muslimin sudah terlibat dengan pilihan raya sejak 1984 lagi, walaupun bukan sebagai sebuah parti yang bertanding menggunakan nama gerakan tersebut. Ia pernah bergabung dengan parti Buruh, Parti Wafd dan bertanding secara bebas. Kejayaan terbesar Ikhwanul ialah apabila berjaya meraih hampir 25 peratus undi dalam pilihan raya Mesir tahun 2007. Namun begitu, kejayaan besar ini bukan memberikan manfaat kepada Ikhwanul Muslimin, sebaliknya gerakan Islam ini semakin ditindas. Penindasan yang berterusan ini mendorong lahirnya dua kelompok kepimpinan dalam Ikhwanul Muslimin. Kumpulan konservatif merasakan Ikhwanul Muslimin perlu kembali fungsinya yang asal iaitu menumpukan kepada dakwah dan tarbiyyah dan tidak terlibat dalam politik bagi memastikan survival gerakan yang tidak putus-putus ditindas. Kumpulan reformis pula mencadangkan Ikhwanul Muslimin perlu melakukan trasformasi dan mengikut contoh AKP di Turki bagi membolehkan perubahan dilakukan di Mesir. Dalam muktamar Ikhwanul Muslimin pada 2010, kumpulan konservatif yang diketuai Badaei berjaya menguasai kelompok kepimpinan gerakan Islam itu dengan mengetepikan kumpulan reformis yang diketuai Essam al-Erian. Bagaimana pula dengan pembabitan Ikhwanul dalam proses pemilihan ahli-ahli Parlimen dan jawatan Presiden Mesir? Sebagai kumpulan yang dianggap paling tersusun, Ikhwanul Muslimin ternyata lebih bersedia menghadapi pilihan raya dan berjaya memperoleh kemenangan dalam pilihan raya tahun 2012. Setelah berjaya mendapat kemenangan yang amat memberansangkan dalam pilihan raya parlimen, Ikhwanul Muslimin memutuskan untuk bertanding merebut jawatan presiden. Pada peringkat awal Ikhwanul Muslimin secara tegas menyatakan mereka tidak berminat dengan jawatan itu. Apabila seorang pemimpin kanan Ikhwanul Muslimin, iaitu Moneim Abd al-Futuh menyatakan beliau berhasrat bertanding jawatan presiden, beliau dipecat kerana mengingkari keputusan syura. Apabila Ikhwanul Muslimin memutuskan untuk merebut jawatan presiden, calon mereka ialah Khayrat Shater. Namun begitu, kelayakan beliau untuk bertanding dibatalkan kerana pernah ditahan di bawah pemerintahan Husni Mubarak. Sebagai gantian Muhammad Morsi dipilih sebagai calon. Hal yang sama juga berlaku kepada calon Parti Nour, iaitu, Hazem Abu Ismail yang tidak layak bertanding. Akhirnya Morsi yang bertanding menentang mantan Perdana Menteri Mesir di zaman Mubarak, iaitu Ahmad Syafiq. Morsi menang dengan 51 peratus undi, walaupun peratus yang keluar mengundi sekitar 32 peratus sahaja. Morsi merupakan Presiden Mesir yang dilantik secara demokratik. Soalnya, walaupun bertanding menentang Syafiq, yang dikira mewarisi Husni Mubarak, tetapi Morsi hanya mendapat sekitar 52 peratus, tidakkah itu boleh dianggap sokongan yang berbelah-bagi? Walaupun Morsi hanya mendapat 52 peratus undi, namun sebagai pilihan raya yang diiktiraf adil, telus dan bebas, beliau dikira mendapat sokongan majoriti. Jumlah yang keluar mengundi sebanyak 32 peratus juga tidak boleh dijadikan alasan bahawa beliau tidak mendapat legitimasi kerana Husni Mubarak menang pilihan raya dan dilantik sebagai presiden dengan kadar keluar mengundi sekitar 10 peratus sahaja. Disebabkan rakyat tidak yakin dengan pilihan raya, kerana sudah pasti Husni Mubarak akan menang besar menyebabkan rakyat tidak ambil kisah untuk keluar mengundi. Lagipun di Mesir pilihan raya mengambil masa yang panjang. Pilihan raya Mesir yang melibatkan 27 wilayah mengambil masa selama tiga bulan untuk selesai. Pengundian pula dibahagikan kepada tiga peringkat dengan setiap peringkat melibatkan sembilan wilayah. Pilihan raya Mesir selepas kejatuhan Mubarak dianggap telus, adil dan bebas kerana dipantau hakim. Parti-parti yang bertanding menggunakan pelbagai pendekatan untuk memenangi hati pengundi. Sebagai pertubuhan yang mempunyai jentera di seluruh negara Ikhwanul Muslimin berjaya menggerakkan penyokongnya untuk ke peti undi dan menyokong partinya. Selain Parti Nour, hanya Parti al-Karamah yang dipimpin Hamden Sabahi yang mampu memberi saingan. Beliau seorang yang berfahaman sosialis dan pengikut Nasser yang setia. Beliau menggunakan bas dua tingkat sebagai pendekatan kempen untuk membolehnya menjelajah ke seluruh negara. Pendekatannya ternyata berkesan apabila berjaya menduduki tempat ketiga dalam pemilihan jawatan presiden. Hamden Sabbahi merupakan salah seorang pemimpin Tamarrod yang bersekongkol dengan tentera dan kumpulam sekular dalam menjatuhkan kerajaan pimpinan Morsi. Sejarah Ikhwanul menunjukkan ia turut berpecah membabitkan kepemimpinan tertinggi setiap kali berlaku peristiwa besar dalam politik Mesir. Apakah kali ini juga berlaku hal sama? Ikhwanul gagal menyatukan perpecahan apabila ada pemimpin pertubuhan itu bertindak keluar kerana perbezaan dari segi pendekatan. Dakwaan cubaan Morsi untuk "mengIkhwanulkan" Mesir pula tidak lebih propaganda yang sengaja ditiupkan. Morsi cuba untuk buat yang terbaik tetapi malangnya dia mewarisi suatu sistem yang sesiapa pun tidak boleh pegang. Tumbangnya Morsi minggu lepas, Qatar dan Arab Saudi beri USD12 bilion masuk ke Mesir sebagai bantuan 'soft loan'. Raja Abdullah ucap tahniah kepada tentera. Morsi juga mendapat krikan keras daripada sebahagian aktivis Ikhwanul? Terdapat dalam kalangan golongan Islamis yang menuduh Morsi terlalu berlembut dan bersikap liberal kerana tidak tegas laksanakan undang-undang syariah. Pihak sekular pula menolak Morsi kerana dikatakan cuba mengikwankan Mesir. Pemerintahan Morsi depan serangan pelbagai penjuru dan keadaan ini dipersulitkan lagi dengan keadaan ekonomi yang semakin parah sehingga menimbulkan kesulitan kepada rakyat. Politik Mesir tidak dapat dipisahkan daripada pengaruh dan pembabitan proaktif pihak tentera... Tentera Mesir bukan sahaja terlibat dalam menjaga keselamatan. Mereka juga terlibat dalam pentadbiran dan menguasai ekonomi. Apabila tentera tidak menyokong Mubarak beliau terpaksa meletak jawatan. Morsi juga dijatuhkan oleh tentera. Ini bermakna selepas ini sesiapa sahaja boleh tumbangkan oleh tentera. Tentera Mesir merupakan golongan elit dan kenaikan Mursi dilihat berisiko menggugat dominasi mereka. Permusuhan Ikhwanul Muslimin dan tentera telah berakar umbi berdekad-dekad lamanya. Dengan sebab itu apabila apabila Amerika Syarikat menyeru kepada pendemokrasian di Mesir, jawapan Husni Mubarak ialah, "Kalau saya (Mubarak) jatuh, Ikhwanul akan berkuasa". Bila Ikhwanul Muslimin berkuasa Amerika Syarikat amat khuatir dengan perkembangan ini. Selain berdepan Mubarak dan AS, Ikhwanul Muslimin juga bertembung dengan kumpulan lain. Mereka termasuklah kumpulan Salafi yang dibiayai Arab Saudi yang berfahaman Wahabi. Ketika zaman Mubarak, beliau menggalakkan kumpulan Tarikaq yang tidak menyokong gerakan Islam. Ini merupakan pendekatan halus bagi melemahkan Ikhwanul Muslimin. Walaupun golongan sekular juga berpecah kepada pelbagai kumpulan tetapi mereka bersatu menentang Ikhwanul Muslimin. Boleh Prof jelaskan kedudukan dan pengaruh pertubuhan dan parti-parti politik Islam di Mesir? Ketika mula berlakunya kebangkitan rakyat Mesir kumpulan Nour mengeluarkan fatwa haram hukumnya menentang Mubarak. Namun begitu, apabila Mubarak jatuh kumpulan ini menyokong kebangkitan rakyat. Dalam konteks politik Mesir, kumpulan Nour merupakan kumpulan Islam yang kedua berpengaruh selepas Ikhwanul Muslimin. Morsi dilihat terlalu berbaik sangka dengan pihak tentera, yang akhirnya menikam balik dirinya. Morsi tidak mempunyai banyak pilihan. Dalam pentadbiran Morsi mengambil pendekatan terbuka, termasuklah melantik dalam kalangan orang Kristian dan bukan ahli Ikhwanul Muslimin dalam pentadbirannya. Morsi cuba melakukan pelbagai perubahan dalam tempoh 100 hari pemerintahannya, tetapi amat sukar untuk sesiapa sahaja yang memerintah Mesir melakukan perubahan secara drastik. Morsi mewarisi sistem ekonomi yang lemah dan sistem sosial yang tidak mantap. Ikhwanul Muslimin cuba bersikap baik dengan tentera seperti pada tahun 1952, tetapi tentera tidak pernah bersangka baik dengan Ikhwanul. Prof juga banyak mengkaji dan menikuti dari dekat lanskap politik di Turki. Mungkin ada persamaan di antara kedua-dua negara ini dan apakah pengalaman berharga yang dilalui Erdogan dan partinya yang mungkin boleh dikongsi dengan realiti di Mesir? Cubaan untuk mempraktikkan politik Islam di Mesir nampaknya lebih sukar berbanding Turki yang tebal dengan amalan sekularisme. Walaupun demikian di Turki terdapat dua parti sekular iaitu Republikan dan Demokrat. Walaupun kedua-dua parti berfahaman sekular, namun tidak ada titik pertemuan di antara kedua-duanya, dan malahan lebih bersedia untuk bekerjasama dengan parti Islam daripada berpakat sesama mereka. Akhirnya parti Islam itu berjaya memerintah seperti yang berlaku pada 1996 apabila Parti Refah berjaya membentuk kerajaan walaupun dengan sokongan 21 peratus undi sahaja. Ada pihak bimbang Mesir mungkin mengulangi tragedi berdarah di Syria yang tidak berpenghujung... Tidak dapat dinafikan terdapat kebimbangan ini. Namun begitu, situasi di Syria agak berbeza kerana di Mesir masyarakatnya tidak terbahagi kepada puak. Kekhuatiran yang lebih besar ialah Mesir akan kembali kepada zaman 1970-an dan 1980-an apabila kumpulan Islam mengambil pendekatan bersenjata sehingga menyebabkan berlakunya pertumpahan darah yang tiada penghujung. Bagi pendukung gerakan Islam termasuk Ikhwanul Muslimin kemungkinan untuk terjerumus kepada pendekatan ini tidak boleh ditolak apabila mereka ditindas tanpa belas kasihan. Bagi Ikhwanul Muslimin pengalaman sejarah mengajar mereka untuk berjuang hingga ke titisan darah terakhir. Dalam kemelut yang berlaku sama ada mereka menang atau pasti ditindas secara berterusan sebagaimana yang pernah berlaku sebelum ini. Pengalaman di Algeria juga merupakan iktibar yang amat menjadi keprihatinan kepada aktivis Ikhwanul Muslimin apabila demokrasi yang diwujudkan di negara tersebut menghalang FIS daripada terlibat dalam politik dan bertanding dalam pilihan raya. Pendekatan tentera dan kumpulan sekular hari ini menjurus ke arah tersebut yang berusaha menyisih Ikhwanul Muslimin daripada berperanan dalam proses politik di Mesir. Realiti hari ini menunjukkan Ikhwanul Muslimin berdepan cabaran hebat untuk menentukan survival masa depannya. Penentuan masa depannya amat bergantung kepada sejauh mana ia dapat terus bertahan dan konsisten dalam perjuangan serta dengan strategi yang lebih baik daripada pihak lain yang menjadi musuh politiknya. Ikhwanul Muslimin bukan sahaja berdepan musuh politik dalam negeri, tetapi juga daripada AS dan Israel yang mempunyai kepentingan dan tidak mahu melihat gerakan Islam ini berpengaruh. Walaupun AS menjuarai demokrasi, tetapi negara kuasa besar itu bersifat hipokrit dalam isu pergolakan politik di Mesir yang menyebabkan Morsi dilucutkan jawatan. AS dan negara barat tidak bersuara lantang apabila tentera "merampas kuasa" di Mesir, tetapi memprotes apabila berlakunya rampasan kuasa di Fiji, Maldive dan lain-lain. Anehnya, rampasan kuasa di Mesir bukannya dikutuk, tetapi sebaliknya dijanjikan dengan bantuan kewangan. Arab Saudi dan beberapa negara Teluk yang merupakan sekutu kuat AS dan amat khuatir dengan perluasan pengaruh Ikhwanul Muslimin menjanjikan bantuan sebanyak USD 12 billion kepada Mesir sebaik-baik sahaja Morsi dilucutkan jawatan oleh tentera. Perkembangan di Mesir memperlihatkan manifestasi sikap "double standard" Barat terhadap Islam. Walaupun Morsi dilantik secara demokrasi, tetapi cara beliau diturunkan tidak bersifat demokratik. Jika demonstrasi jalanan dijadikan tanda aras bagi mengukur populariti bukannya melalui sokongan peti undi, demokrasi di Mesir bukan maju ke hadapan. Sebaliknya, Mesir masih terus berada pada zaman gelap seperti rejim-rejim lalu dan hasrat generasi muda negara itu untuk mewujudkan masyarat yang mampu bersaing dengan negara lain akan terus tinggal impian semata-mata . |
| Pemimpin Umno tidak berani secara berdepan Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:21 AM PDT 5 Syawal 1434 H. [MOD] - Harakahdaily/- Itulah resam dunia, sambung Anwar, manusia tidak berani berhadapan dengan golongan yang memperjuangkan kebenaran di mana mereka tetap mencari kepalsuan dengan merobek demokrasi yang adil. "Dulu lagi saya dah katakan pemimpin Umno ni bukan bijak sangat, bila ajak berdebat lari lintang pukang takut berhadapan tapi bab kata kat belakang mombor satu. "Rata-rata buat fitnah bagi tahu masyarakat yang pembangkang punya jahat. Kalau menang habislah orang Melayu menderita di bumi sendiri," tegasnya semasa berucap di majlis Aidil Fitri anjuran Pemuda Qariah Kubang Semang semalam. Selama 15 tahun Umno dan BN katanya, melakukan pembohongan dengan fitnah di media arus perdana tidak berjaya menguasai 2/3 suara di Parlimen. Katanya, keputusan PRU13 sendiri memberi gambaran bahawa rakyat menolak mereka apabila hanya memperolehi 47 peratus berbanding 51 peratus dicapai oleh Pakatan Rakyat. Itu jelas Anwar, menandakan Umno BN suatu hari nanti akan musnah apabila kuasa undi bersih dan adil . |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2013 03:55 PM PDT 5 Syawal 1434 H. [MOD] - KABUL - AFGANISTAN. Sekurang-kurangnya 22 penduduk terbunuh di Afghanistan dan tanah rosak teruk apabila banjir melanda, kata pegawai rasmi, hari ini. Menurut laporan Reuters, banjir terbaru ini berlaku selepasa beberapa jam hujan, semalam. Enam daripada mangsa adalah kanak-kanak, kata Pegawai Polis Kanan, Sayed Ekramuddin Jalal. "Kami sudah menghantar pasukan penyelamat ke kawasan itu dan mengeluarkan penduduk di situ dari bahaya," katanya. Beberapa penduduk cedera dan banyak rumah yang musnah. Sebahagian mangsa adalah pelawat yang datang menziarah saudara mara sempena Aidilfitri. |
| Wei Fei nekad lepaskan diri dengan garfu Posted: 11 Aug 2013 03:50 PM PDT 5 Syawal 1434 H.
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| Beberapa kedutaan AS di Timur Tengah di buka semula Posted: 11 Aug 2013 03:44 PM PDT 5 Syawal 1434 H. [MOD] - DUBAI 12 Ogos - Beberapa kedutaan Amerika Syarikat (AS) di Timur Tengah yang di tutup ekoran amaran keselamatan serangan dari Al-Qaeda pada 4 Ogos lalu kini dibuka semula, semalam. Kedutaan yang dibuka semula adalah di ibu negara Emeriyah Arab Bersatu (UAE), Abu Dhabi, konsulat AS di Dubai dan Libya. Sementara itu, kedutaan di Arab Saudi iaitu di Riyadh, Jeddah dan Dhahran kekal tutup, termasuk di negara jiran Qatar. Minggu lalu, Washington mengarahkan supaya 19 kedutaannya di Timur Tengah dan Afrika ditutup ekoran faktor keselamatan. - AFP |
| Askar kita kena tembak di sempadan Posted: 11 Aug 2013 03:40 PM PDT 5 Syawal 1434 H. [MOD] - Bukit Kayu Hitam: Seorang anggota tentera parah ditembak penyerang tidak dikenali dalam satu kejadian di kawasan laluan keselamatan bersebelahan garisan sempadan Malaysia-Thailand, di sini, awal pagi semalam. Mangsa, Azamruddin Azizan, 26, dari Batalion 2 Rejimen Askar Melayu Diraja Malaysia (21 RAMD) cedera di bahagian bahu, siku kanan dan kedua-dua belah lutut selepas terkena peluru penabur dipercayai dilepaskan menggunakan senjata api dipercayai buatan sendiri. Ketika kejadian, mangsa yang berasal dari Gua Musang, Kelantan, dikatakan sedang melakukan rondaan di kawasan laluan keselamatan berhampiran zon N9 bersama seorang lagi rakan setugas kira-kira jam 4.30 pagi, sebelum dikatakan ditembak dari arah sempadan. Berdasarkan maklumat, mangsa dikatakan mengesan kejadian mencurigakan ketika melakukan rondaan menggunakan motosikal apabila terpandang lampu suluh dari kawasan semak bersebelahan sempadan kira-kira empat kilometer dari laluan utama menghala Kompleks Kastam dan Imigresen Thailand di Sadao, dekat sini, sebelum berhenti untuk meninjau. Bagaimanapun, selepas mengesahkan keadaan terkawal, mangsa yang baru hendak berlalu ke motosikal tiba-tiba ditembak dan rebah berlumuran darah. Mangsa kemudian dibantu rakannya dan dikejarkan ke Hospital Tuanku Fauziah (HTF), di sini, menggunakan kenderaan tentera untuk rawatan lanjut. Keadaannya disahkan stabil. Azamruddin ketika ditemui mengakui langsung tidak menyedari tembakan terbabit dilepaskan sehinggalah beliau rebah dengan kesan cedera. Nampak cahaya lampu suluh "Saya nampak cahaya lampu suluh dihalakan ke arah saya di sebalik pagar sempadan. Tidak lama selepas meninjau kawasan itu satu letupan kedengaran sebelum saya terus terjatuh," katanya. Sementara itu, Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, semalam meluangkan masa lebih setengah jam meninjau kawasan laluan keselamatan terbabit terutama lokasi kejadian anggota keselamatan berkenaan ditembak. Beliau tidak menolak kemungkinan tembakan terbabit dilepaskan penjenayah yang mungkin juga terbabit dalam kegiatan penyeludupan yang menjadikan sempadan Malaysia-Thailand sebagai laluan 'operasi' haram mereka. "Kita sedar kawasan terbabit sering kali dijadikan sasaran penjeyanah terutama penyeludup untuk melakukan kegiatan haram. Namun, kejadian seperti ini sudah lama tidak berlaku, apatah lagi yang menjadikan anggota pihak berkuasa sebagai sasaran," katanya.BH/' |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2013 03:35 PM PDT 5 Syawal 1434 H. [MOD] - Google Inc memperkenalkan generasi terbaru tablet Nexus 7 yang lebih nipis, yang menjadi sandaran syarikat peneraju internet itu untuk mengembangkan kewujudannya dalam perkakasan dan memastikan perkhidmatan dalam taliannya kekal menjadi pilihan pengguna dalam segmen peranti mudah alih. Nexus 7 terbaru itu dilengkapi pemproses Qualcomm Inc Snapdragon serta resolusi paparan lebih tinggi dan berada di pasaran pada 30 Julai lalu dengan harga jualan AS$229 (RM956) bagi versi asas dengan storan 16 gigabytes (GB). Tablet asal yang dilancarkan setahun lalu dijual pada harga permulaan AS$199 (RM636) bagi versi storan 8GB. Dikatakan syarikat Internet itu akan membuat keuntungan daripada produk baru itu. Generasi pertama Nexus 7 yang menandakan kemasukan awal ke dalam peranti elektronik mudah alih, adalah produk yang memberi pulangan modal kepada syarikat itu menurut kata penganalisis. Nexus 7 yang baru direka supaya ia menguntungkan semua pihak. Google juga menghidupkan semula usaha awal untuk meneroka aspek penstriman video dalam talian dengan pengenalan Chromecast, sejenis alat bersaiz dua inci berharga AS$35 (RM112) yang akan dimasukkan ke belakang televisyen dan membolehkan pengguna menikmati video YouTube dan Netflix menerusi telefon pintar mereka. Rangkaian Nexus keluarannya, termasuklah telefon pintar dan tablet yang diperbuat oleh Samsung Electronics dan HTC, juga bertindak sebagai rujukan bagi pengeluar di seluruh dunia yang menggunakan sistem perisian mudah alih Android |
| Wanita cedera disimbah asid di lampu isyarat Posted: 11 Aug 2013 03:31 PM PDT 5 Syawal 1434 H. [MOD] - KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang pejalan kaki wanita cedera di bahagian muka dan mata akibat disimbah asid oleh dua lelaki bermotosikal di lampu isyarat berhadapan sebuah pusat membeli-belah di Jalan Ampang di sini, malam tadi. Ketua Polis Daerah Ampang Jaya, ACP Amiruddin Jamaluddin berkata dalam kejadian 11.45 malam itu, mangsa berusia 31 tahun melecur 10 peratus di bahagian muka manakala rakan mangsa, seorang wanita, terselamat. Beliau berkata kedua-dua wanita itu dikatakan sedang menunggu untuk melintas di lampu isyarat itu sebelum didatangi dua lelaki menaiki sebuah motosikal yang bertindak menyimbah asid ke arah mangsa. "Rakan wanita mangsa memaklumkan kepada polis pada 1.28 pagi tadi, pada masa kejadian dia dan wanita itu dalam perjalanan ke rumah," katanya katanya menerusi sistem khidmat pesanan ringkas (SMS) kepada Bernama di sini hari ini. Amiruddin berkata akibat panik, rakan mangsa tidak sempat mengenal pasti kewarganegaraan suspek, jenis dan nombor pendaftaran motosikal yang digunakan suspek. Katanya siasatan awal polis mendapati mangsa masih bujang dan tidak mempunyai teman lelaki serta tidak mempunyai masalah dengan sesiapa. Beliau berkata mangsa kini dirawat di Unit Rawatan Rapi (ICU) Hospital Kuala Lumpur. Amiruddin berkata polis juga akan mendapatkan rakaman kamera litar tertutup (CCTV) di tempat kejadian untuk siasatan lanjut. "Pemeriksaan polis di tempat kejadian tidak menemui apa-apa bahan bukti seperti bekas asid yang digunakan," katanya. - BERNAMA |
| Final Kejohanan Badminton Dunia: Chong Wei tewas kepada Lin Dan Posted: 11 Aug 2013 03:29 PM PDT 5 Syawal 1434 H. [MOD] - GUANGZHOU: Lin Dan menewaskan Datuk Lee Chong Wei 16-21,21-13,20-17 pada final Kejohanan Badminton Dunia di Tianhe Gymnasim, di sini, sebentar tadi. Pemain nombor satu itu bermula garang di set pertama bagaimanapun dikerah ke permainan tiga set oleh pemain tuan rumah. Aksi Chong Wei bagaimanapun terganggu dan terpaksa menarik diri di saat akhir selepas ketinggalan 17-20 apabila kakinya mengalami kecederaan. |
| Ulama cipta aplikasi telefon pintar Islam Posted: 11 Aug 2013 03:25 PM PDT 5 Syawal 1434 H. [MOD] -  Aplikasi telefon pintar Islam ciptaan penceramah terkenal Dr Zakir Naik yang dilancarkan minggu lalu. Bantu amal budaya Islam dalam kehidupan RIYADH: Satu telefon pintar bercirikan Islam, "Peace Mobile" yang dilancarkan pada minggu terakhir Ramadan lalu, adalah satu aplikasi media berguna yang menggabungkan al-Quran dengan sains moden. Telefon pintar itu dicipta Dr Zakir Naik, seorang penceramah umum Islam dan perbandingan agama terkenal di peringkat antarabangsa. Permintaan untuk telefon bimbit Islam meningkat di kalangan masyarakat Islam di Arab Saudi. Ribuan penduduk sudah membuat pesanan aplikasi itu secara online, sementara beratus-ratus yang lain bercakap mengenainya di pelbagai landasan media. Satu inisiatif teknologi penemuan itu oleh Naik, pengasas dan presiden IRF (Yayasan Penyelidikan Islam), telefon itu akan membantu pelaksanaan budaya Islam dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Peace Mobile disesuaikan sepenuhnya dengan aplikasi Islam yang sahih dan perisian serta membantu masyarakat Islam yang mengamalkannya terus berhubung dengan dunia Islam. Naik berada di sini baru-baru ini bercakap dalam satu forum Ramadan dianjurkan Pusat Budaya Islam India (IICC). Ulama berkenaan sentiasa menegaskan keperluan untuk kedua-dua pendidikan agama dan moden, menganggap kedua-duanya sebagai penting. IRF adalah sebuah organisasi tanpa keuntungan yang memiliki saluran Peace TV, sebuah rangkaian televisyen satelit Islam yang baru-baru ini melebihi tontonan rekod global sebanyak 200 juta. Okasha Mujahid, pengurus perniagaan antarabangsa di Darussalam, sebuah rumah penerbitan Islam berpusat di sini, mengalu-alukan telefon pintar itu dan berkata: "Darussalam bersungguh-sungguh bekerja untuk menyebarkan kata-kata Islam menerusi penerbitannya. Peace Mobile boleh membantu lanjutan untuk ini." - Agensi |
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| When it involves security, BN is ‘Bush’ Nasional Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:13 AM PDT The Barisan Nasional government has the same mentality as former US president George W Bush when it comes to dealing with security problems, said opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim today. He said that the government seemed unable to think beyond harsher laws when it comes to dealing with escalating crime rates. “This is exactly the Bush thinking. And this has affected a lot of innocent people,” he told a press conference at the PKR headquarters.
Zahid has been arguing for a new preventive detention law to replace the EO, and Anwar said that the approach has become "obsolete". "You kill someone, you get the death penalty. You smuggle drugs, you get the death penalty. What more harsher laws do you want? Now they want to detain people without trial," Anwar asked. "They say it's preventive. When it's someone else's child then it's okay. What if it's your own child?" Anwar said. "Every time there is a problem, they want to enforce harsher laws." He said that shootings and killings are a long-standing problem that had existed even during the times of the EO and the Internal Security Act (ISA). "This has always been there," he said. |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:57 AM PDT Anwar confirms Malaysian PM’s feelers for a unity government Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, beset on his right flank by an implacable former Premier Mahathir Mohamad critical of his performance in the May 5 general election, has been making quiet overtures to opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to explore the outlines of a unity government. The overtures, made through former Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla, are a long, long shot at best. However, they have included three visits by Kalla to Kuala Lumpur, the latest in mid-July. Kalla earlier this year acted as an intermediary between Anwar and Najib at Anwar’s initiative to seek to broker a commitment for a peaceful result in the May 5 general election. Kalla, now a businessman and head of the Indonesian Red Cross Society, has emerged as a major Southeast Asian peacemaker, brokering peace agreements in various conflicts across Indonesia during his time as vice-president from 2004 to 2009; he also played a role in attempts to settle conflicts in Thailand and Sri Lanka. While the pre-electoral contacts were made public in mid-May, with Kalla accusing Anwar of breaking a written agreement to accept the outcome of the election, the contacts have continued, according to sources in Kuala Lumpur. Anwar confirmed the new contacts, saying they had been initiated by Najib, who emerged from the election severely weakened within the United Malays National Organization, the country’s largest ethnic political party, which he heads. The overtures were made via Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the Home Minister in Najib’s cabinet, a source told Asia Sentinel. Ahmad and Anwar were friends before Mahathir fired Anwar as finance minister and had him arrested and jailed in 1999. It is unsure if the contacts will go anywhere. They would require the three components of the opposition Pakatan Rakyat all to sign off. The idea of reaching out to the opposition, particularly Anwar’s Parti Keadilan Rakyat, is likely to drive Mahathir into a fury and energize whatever followers the septuagenarian former leader still has in UMNO. Anwar, in an interview, said he had sent word through intermediaries that the incendiary racist attacks by the UMNO-owned broadsheet Utusan Malaysia on the Chinese and Indian communities would have to stop, and that the racial temperature in the country would have to cool before any progress could be made. “I said the fundamental issues must be addressed, ending the racial stuff, there has to be a clear understanding and commitment to reform and change,” Anwar said. “I made it clear that discussions must deal with this first and that the racial rhetoric must not escalate. The UMNO president has always had a direct say in running Utusan.” He said so far no answer has been forthcoming. Presumably the Najib gambit opens another front against Mahathir, who has been allowing surrogate bloggers to attack the wounded prime minister ever since the election, in addition to delivering his own blistering attacks on Malaysia’s ethnic Chinese, who make up about 25 percent of the population, making allegations that they are trying to take over the country politically as well as economically. The Barisan Nasional, the ruling national coalition, lost the popular vote in the May election for the first time since 1969, with Anwar’s three-party Pakatan Rakyat coalition winning 50.87 percent of the vote against 47.38 for the Barisan, which nonetheless preserved its majority in the parliament, winning 133 seats to 89 for the opposition, largely the result of pro-Barisan gerrymandering. Since the election, Mahathir and former Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin have kept up an unrelenting barrage of criticism against Najib, saying he had miscalculated by reaching out to minority communities instead of playing to his ethnic Malay base. Najib himself has gone silent, to the consternation of not just his allies within UMNO, but of people in the broader community. Ambiga Sreenevesan, the former head of the Bar Council and leader of Bersih, an electoral reform NGO, said the country needs the prime minister to speak out on the rising number of contract murders and the strident racial rhetoric being practiced by Malay nationalists. Najib is on a six-day holiday in Phuket. Najib’s next test is the UMNO annual general assembly, scheduled for later this year. For the first time, as a result of reforms instituted by Najib, all 160,000 UMNO delegates are to vote on the party’s leaders instead of the 2,500 leaders of the 191 divisions. The widened electoral contest is likely to be less controllable than the previous brokered assembly. Although no real rival has emerged against Najib, he appears to be in the same position as his predecessor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who in the 2008 election lost the two-thirds majority the Barisan had held since independence in 1958. Although Abdullah Badawi was his anointed choice as prime minister, Mahathir, who ruled the country for 22 years, later played a major role in driving him from power. Najib’s main potential rival is Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, an ally of Mahathir’s, who has repeatedly denied any intention of taking on Najib in the UMNO election. Sources close to the Mahathir wing of the party say instead that Najib is likely to stay on as a lame duck premier. “Can Najib take charge?” asked one of the sources. “The elections didn’t go well for him personally. He lost the popular vote and lost the respect of UMNO members. UMNO is now in charge. Everybody is telling Najib to go fly a kite. He ran a US Presidential style campaign, attempting to appeal to all the people, and he lost. It hit him right in the gonads.” Interestingly, a new factor has emerged, with a new book of articles about Abdullah Badawi, in which the former prime minister himself answered back in an interview at the seven years of criticism on the part of Mahathir over his tenure. Mahathir, he said, had thwarted all attempts at reform and turned on him when he sought to cut back on the grandiose projects Mahathir had put in place before they nearly bankrupted the nation. So far, Mahathir hasn’t answered Abdullah Badawi’s charges, although he has said he intends to do so. The army of bloggers allied with Mahathir has, however, pointing to Abdullah Badawi’s failings as premier. The book and the reaction have also opened a new flood of sympathy for Abdullah Badawi, with large numbers of UMNO cadres offering to visit him in retirement. He retains the affections of perhaps 10 percent of the cadres, according to one estimate – not much, but enough to become a factor in opposition to the Mahathir wing. The UMNO assembly should be an interesting affair. |
| Najib may sign TPPA when Obama visits: Don’t make M’sia a LACKEY of the US – Anwar warns Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:25 AM PDT Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim warned Prime Minister Najib Razak not to rush into signing the US-mooted Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement just to please President Barack Obama when the latter visits Malaysia in October. According to Anwar, if Najib did so, it could damage Malaysia’s reputation in the region and give it a negative image of being a lackey or stooge of the United States. “We should reject the TPPA for our own sake because it does not benefit Malaysia. If Najib were to rush into the agreement merely because of Obama’s visit, we would be seen as lackeys of the US,” Anwar told a press conference on Monday. Within East and Southeast Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia have expressed reservations over the controversial TPPA although Japan has already signed up for the pluri-lateral free trade agreement, which is the brainchild of Obama himself. At first glance a “godsend”, but may promote US agenda to the extent M’sia loses its sovereignty The TPPA is currently under negotiations between 12 nations within the Asia-Pacific region, which have a combined GDP worth more than YS$33 trillion at the end of 2012. But as Anwar and Nurul izzah, the MP for Lembah Pantai who was also at the press conference, pointed out, the TPPA is more than just a conventional FTA. Its critics have warned the TPPA not only seeks to regulate market access for good services but will also affect the way a country does business due to “cross-cutting horizontal issues. “The TPPA has a direct impact on our legal and judicial system, economic structures and democratic institutions. Our national interest and sovereignty therefore is at stake. PKR view the TPPA as an attempt by the US to impose its brand of economic model of free market, laisses-faire approach, de-regulation and small government,” Anwar, who is also the adviser for the PKR or People’s Justic Party, said. “The glaring absence of China, South Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia in the TPPA lends credence to this belief that it promotes primarily US economic, business and geopolitical interest.”
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| Anwar: We’ve yet to exhaust legal avenues on GE results Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:23 AM PDT Pakatan Rakyat has not exhausted all legal avenues open to it in challenging the outcome of the May 5 general election, according to PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim.
Anwar was asked about Pakatan's next move, since all the election petitions filed by its component parties have been thrown out on technical grounds by the Election Court in various locations. He was critical of the election petitions being dismissed based on preliminary objections. “In Ketereh, our petition was struck out on the basis that the applicant was not present in person. I have been involved in many court cases and I did not attend to every one of them in person,” he said.
“It’s as though a trial is being avoided so that the facts can’t be heard in court,” he said. He said the federal opposition has ceased voicing objections to the poll results through public protests, which had been held over a month after the election was concluded. “We didn’t want the problem to become big, (as it has) in Egypt or Thailand, so we chose to stop voicing our objections openly and opted go through the courts,” Anwar noted. |
| Keputusan mahkamah kes petisyen pilihan raya jelik dan mengaibkan, kata Anwar Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:21 AM PDT
Keputusan mahkamah kes petisyen pilihan raya jelik dan mengaibkan, kata Anwar. – Gambar The Malaysian Insider oleh Najjua Zulkefli, 12 Ogos, 2013.Penolakan petisyen pilihan raya yang dibuat mahkamah disifatkan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sebagai keputusan yang sangat jelik dan mengaibkan nama institusi kehakiman negara. Menurut Ketua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) itu keputusan yang dibuat hakim berkenaan petisyen adalah sesuatu yang tidak boleh diterima akal. “Badan kehakiman memberi gambaran yang cukup membimbangkan. Pertama menolak dengan asas yang paling tidak bertanggungjawab. “Antara alasan yang diberikan hanya kerana orang yang memohon petisen tidak menghantar sendiri. “Adakah alasan itu boleh diterima kerana selama ini berpuluh kes yang saya hadapi tidak pernah saya hantar sendiri semua diwakili peguam, “kata beliau kepada wartawan dalam sidang media hari ini di Ibu Pejabat PKR. Kata Anwar, tambah mengecewakan apabila mahkamah langsung tidak melihat senario penyataan itu sendiri apabila petisyen dikemuka kerana kegagalan pengurusan PRU lalu yang tidak telus dan bebas. “Kita terima majoriti undi memihak pada Barisan Nasional namun majoriti dan suara dimenangi PR , kerana itu beberapa kes yang diragui kita minta bicarakan,” katanya. Bagaimanapun, katanya, tindakan tersebut sengaja dielakkan kerana tidak mahu isu yang membabitkan kegagalan SPR tidak mahu diketengahkan. Anwar berkata, penolakan itu tidak bermaksud PR akan menghentikan usaha untuk mendedahkan kegagalan SPR. Katanya, PR akan mengemukakan beberapa lagi kes ke mahkamah termasuk kes penipuan SPR mengenai dakwat kekal dan undi pos yang akan dibentangkan 2 September kelak. Ini kerana dakwanya, melalui Kajian Merdeka Center dengan jelas menyatakan BN menang kerana undi pos dan undi awal, tanpa undi itu maka BN akan kecundang. “Sebab itu kita ambil keputusan untuk tidak bantah di jalanan kita bantah di mahkamah namun dipukul dan terpaksa menerima bayaran tinggi,” kata Anwar. |
| PKR says trade pact lopsided, tells government not to rush into it Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:21 AM PDT
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) currently being negotiated by Malaysia is not a mere trade pact as it cuts through the nation's legal, judicial and economic structures, and democratic institutions, said opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (pic). "Our national interest and sovereignty is at stake," said Anwar at a press conference at the PKR headquarters in Tropicana, Petaling Jaya, today. Anwar said the TPPA was an attempt by the United States to impose its economic model which is based on a laissez-faire approach, deregulation and small government. The TPPA provides free movement of goods and services among 12 countries including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Peru, Singapore, Chile, Brunei, Australia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia. It aims to create a market of 800 million people with a combined gross domestic product of US$27.5 trillion. The TPPA has come under fire for its lack of details on the negotiations. The government maintains that a confidentiality clause under the agreement prevents disclosure. "There has been no full public disclosure of comprehensive and impartial cost benefit analysis undertaken by the Malaysian government," Anwar said. He gave one example of how it can work against Malaysia, saying that while the TPPA may theoretically give Malaysian companies access to the US$500 billion annual US government procurement market, a sizeable chunk of this market is defence-related so it's not covered by the TPPA. He said Malaysian companies also would not be able to bid for these projects as all the 50 states in the US had their own procurement policies and were not subject to the TPPA. "There is no obligation for the individual states to observe any free trade agreement, so where's the benefit?" said Anwar. He also said Malaysia's economic liberalisation should be done at the country's own pace and needs. "The TPPA at this juncture appears to be more lopsided to the detriment of Malaysia as a whole without significant benefit. PKR would like to reiterate that there is no valid reason for Malaysia to rush into signing the TPPA," said Anwar. Anwar said Malaysia would be in a stronger bargaining position after 2015 following the formation of the Asean Economic Community to negotiate free trade agreements. PKR is the latest in a growing number opposed to the country joining the TPPA. Among them is Anwar's foe and former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad who had called the TPPA a restriction on free trade. Dr Mahathir has argued that free trade agreements have failed in the past because countries have to “regulate trade through agreements rather than free trade”. "If the TPPA is not accepted, then the recalcitrant nations will face restrictions against their freedoms to trade with members of the TPPA,” he also warned in a commentary published by government-backed daily The New Straits Times recently. |
| [PRESS STATEMENT] TPPA Is Not In Our National Interest Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:20 AM PDT 12 AUGUST 2013 The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), a proposed plurilateral free trade agreement (FTA) currently under negotiations among 12 nations surrounding the Asia-Pacific region, namely Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the Philippines, the United States, Vietnam and more recently Japan, boasts a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of over US$33 trillion as at end-2012. Being a trading and foreign direct investment (FDI)-reliant nation but with a small domestic market and a GDP of less than a hundredth of the GDP of total 12 Pacific rim economies, at first glance, the TPPA would appear as a godsend to fast-track Malaysia’s ambition become a developed, high income nation by 2020. Nonetheless, TPPA is not just a conventional FTA. As it aims to be “a comprehensive, next generation regional agreement that liberalises trade and investment and addresses new and traditional trade issues and 21st century challenges”, it does not deal only with market access for goods and services namely removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers but also contains cross-cutting "horizontal issues" that has a direct impact on our legal and judiciary system, economic structures and democratic institutions which undermines our national interest and sovereignty. At present, the US has FTAs with 6 of the TPP countries, namely Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Singapore. The TPPA has clearly gone beyond trade in goods and services to encompass ‘WTO-plus’ issues. Being the major trade policy initiative of the Obama administration, little wonder that the US is the leading negotiator behind most proposals while the TPPA is mainly based on the typical US FTA template. With its 29 chapters in total as opposed to at most 10 chapters in an usual preferential FTA, Keadilan views TPPA as an attempt by the US, as its main driver, to impose its brand of economic model of total free market, laissez-faire approach, deregulation and small government. The glaring absence of China, South Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia in the TPPA only lends credence to this theory of modern-day American hegemony that promotes primarily the US economic, business and geopolitical interests. While some degree of confidentiality is not unexpected in any negotiation, the extent of secrecy and clandestinity in the TPPA is extremely worrying and disconcerting. Since the TPP negotiations have been shrouded in secrecy, what we have learned so far regarding the content of all 29 chapters under the TPPA either came from leaked position papers of TPP countries or can be inferred by analysing existing US FTAs. The truth is, the negotiating protocols for such international agreements must adhere to accepted international standards especially with regards to transparency (the negotiated agreement text for WTO is made publicly available) and the democratic principle of ratification by the respective legislatures. Currently, we have an expansive FTA framework through ASEAN and our own bilateral agreements that already include 9 out of the 12 TPP partners which provide equal market access suitable to each signatory country's developmental stage and competitive capacity. In essence, it is both a Free and Fair Trade Agreement (Fair to each country's situation unlike TPPA which disproportionately appears to benefit big multinationals). In fact, Malaysia is negotiating another two major trade agreements, which are the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Malaysia-EU FTA. Since Malaysia is the world’s 17th largest trading nation, Keadilan would like to reiterate its commitment to any on-going negotiations and principles of free and fair trade. However, we would prefer to err on the side of caution by withholding our support to the TPPA since we remain unconvinced that benefits will eventually outweigh the costs in the long run. In the absence of a full public disclosure of a comprehensive and thorough Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) undertaken by the Malaysian government, we should take with a pinch of salt an assessment as a result of a study conducted in 2012 by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Washington DC-based think tank that Malaysia would be among the biggest winners under the TPPA with gains of up to RM41.7 billion in exports and RM26.3 billion in gross national income per annum by 2025. For illustration, although TPPA may theoretically give Malaysian companies access to the US$500 billion in annual US government procurement market, the chunk of this market is for defence, which is exempt from the TPPA while all 50 US states have the authority to determine their own procurement policy and hence, no obligation to observe any US FTAs. It is interesting to note that apart from the TPPA, the US is also in the midst of negotiating a Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) with the European Union (EU). What is important to note is the different approaches used in negotiating these two agreements. The European Commission is officially quoted as stating that it negotiates on behalf of the EU and will keep its Member States and the European Parliament regularly informed and updated. The EU is committed to providing as much information as possible for the public, the media, and all other stakeholders as they move through the TTIP negotiations. For example, they have taken the unprecedented step of making available to the public a number of the EU’s initial position papers on various aspects of the negotiations and made available the list of the lead negotiators for all the areas covered by the process. Therefore, on this difference alone between the Atlantic and Pacific regions, Keadilan holds the position that we should reject the TPPA outright until and unless a comprehensive and impartial CBA and comparative advantage study are conducted whose results are extensively communicated to the public, TPPA’s key points are made available to all stakeholders especially our members of Parliament, and the final agreement (when the entire text is disclosed) is duly ratified by our respective legislature. We can never emphasise enough that any FTAs, whether bilateral or multilateral, must be based on mutual benefits, taking into account the level of economic development, social needs and competitive capacity or each TPP partner. While there is little disagreement over the need to push through the agenda of holistic reforms premised on innovation, creativity and high value addition in order to provide a conducive ecosystem for a sustainable economic development, thriving businesses and prosperous citizens, Keadilan believes Malaysia’s economic liberalisation and market opening should be done at our own pace and according to our needs. In view of the 58 redlines or “red stops”, the US-Malaysia FTA talks that began in 2006 were suspended in 2009. Since there is not much difference between US-Malaysia FTA and the template for TPPA, it is mind-boggling and implausible that all these red lines seem to have suddenly disappeared only four years later. Taking into account major fears and concerns among the public, Keadilan would urge our negotiators during the remaining rounds of the TPPA to defend our rights and privileges no matter how difficult and sensitive the issues are by pushing clear-cut redlines in particular for: 1. Trade in goods particularly exclusion of tariff elimination for rice, other food products, tobacco crop, alcohol, automobile`and other sensitive industrial products with significant local production; no restriction of export taxes to promote local processing of commodities and manufacturing of derivative products or other downstream activities; no “yarn forward rule” for the textile industry; no general or specific provisions in the sanitary or phytosanitary (SPS) or technical barriers to trade (TBT) with requirements to liberalise Malaysia’s halal certitifcation process or lower Malaysia’s halal standards 2. Services liberalisation which should be based on the “positive list” framework instead of the “negative list” framework whereby all services sub-sectors would be assumed as liberalised unless placed on a “negative list” beforehand 3. Investment related issues such as no to investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms that will render the government vulnerable to claims and lawsuits filed by foreign investors from TPP countries; no restrictions on performance requirements beyond the WTO 4. Intellectual property particularly no requirements beyond the WTO’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS); any extension of patent term or copyright term; any provisions requiring data exclusivity, linkage between patent status and medicine registration, patents on new uses or ban on pre-grant patent opposition, etc especially for the sake of public access to affordable healthcare, medicines and pharmaceutical products 5. State-owned enterprises (SOEs) or government-linked companies (GLCs) and small-and-medium enterprises particularly no enforcement of competition via state-state dispute settlement 6. Financial services particularly no obligation to liberalise Malaysia’s financial services industry or bind the level of its financial openness; no restriction to Malaysia’s ability or policy flexibility to regulate the financial sector and to introduce new or reinforce existing capital controls over flows of funds in order to safeguard financial sector stability and other mandates of Bank Negara Malaysia 7. Food safety and labelling particularly no restrictions to Malaysia’s ability to regulate its food safety policy especially no requirement to amend existing laws that require the identification and labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and products of such organisms including GM food 8. Native customary rights and environmental issues 9. Effective exceptions applicable to all 29 chapters Given Malaysia’s bad track record in international negotiations or disputes, putting the fate of our future in the hands of our negotiators, either from MITI or other ministries/government agencies could be too big a risk to take. A series of failures in recent times makes us seriously wonder whether they can do a good job this time around in fighting for our principles and positions. As such, the TPPA at this juncture appears to be more lopsided to the detriment of Malaysia as a whole without significant benefits. Keadilan would like to reiterate that there is no valid reason why Malaysia should rush to sign the TPPA before conducting the following: (a) public disclosure of the results of an independent, holistic and detailed CBA in terms of impact of reduction in tariffs and non-tariff barriers, and services sector liberalisation as well as trade-offs with ex-sovereign commitments such as dilution or even loss of sovereignty in the areas of policy space, constitutional amendments, government procurement, vulnerability to investor-state disputes, intellectual property rights, etc. (b) engagement with all stakeholders via round table discussions or public forums (c) Parliamentary scrutiny and debates While we would prefer the establishment of a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), Keadilan still lauds the move recently to set up a multi-partisan Parliamentary Caucus, comprising both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat members of Parliament with the objectives of protecting the interests of all stakeholders including consumer associations, business & industry associations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other groups with vested interests while scrutinising all decisions made by the government regarding the TPPA. We sincerely hope that this Parliamentary Caucus will turn into a strong pressure group with the ability to exert due influence on Cabinet decisions regarding TPPA. Keadilan is of the view that it would be more appropriate and ideal for Malaysia to focus on strengthening its regionalisation efforts through ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) which will come into force by 2015. Then, leveraging on a much more powerful trade, investment and economic bloc i.e. AEC, Malaysia would be in a better position to negotiate for preferential access to developed countries instead of undertaking negotiations individually in plurilateral FTAs such as the TPPA. Furthermore, by maintaining our current geopolitical posture especially within ASEAN and the BRIC nations where China being our largest trading partner followed by Singapore and Japan; we already have access to a market that is 60% of the world's population and 40% of the global economy. Instead, the real challenge for Malaysia is to enhance our competitive capacity with adequate social security networks which unfortunately have suffered badly through BN's continued mismanagement of our economy, bad education, training and human capital development policies along with the subversion of our democratic institutions. ANWAR IBRAHIM Ketua Umum Parti KeADILan Rakyat Ketua Pembangkang Parlimen, Malaysia |
| Scorpene deal ‘broker’ out to polish PM’s image? Posted: 11 Aug 2013 09:53 AM PDT Since the procurement of two Scorpene-class submarines in 2002, the federal government has reluctantly parried a decade of controversy, scandals and intrigue that followed. From allegations of corruption to murder, the government’s response had often been curt and vague to an issue that wouldn’t go away, as NGOs and the opposition sought to keep the issue alive.
Two weeks after an interview with Jasbir Chahl Singh, the so-called “architect” of the Scorpene deal, hit newspapers and airwaves, the man was again on television yesterday and in the newspapers today. The national news agency Bernama had rushed Jasbir’s lengthy statement late last night with six updates to the story in less than three hours – a practice out of the ordinary – that was subsequently reproduced by most major newspapers today. Jasbir insisted that the Scorpene deal was transparent and reiterated that it had nothing to do with Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu who was shot and blown up with C4 explosives by then Najib Abdul Razak’s security detail in 2006. He was then deputy prime minister and defence minister. Timed with Umno polls Puzzled that the government machinery is now giving prominence to its own controversy, opposition strategists can only look to the looming Umno party elections to offer an explanation. PKR strategies director Rafizi Ramli pointed out that Jasbir had been silent for the past decade but has suddenly been in the news for two consecutive weeks.
“The timing is very suspect. This whole thing appears to be part of an internal Umno campaign to preempt attacks on Najib with regards to the Scorpene controversy,” he toldMalaysiakini when contacted. The Scorpene issue had always been a bane to Najib, and at theheight of the controversy in 2008, his approval rating as deputy prime minister was worse than then premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi whose support was already bleeding from failed reforms. Ultimately, Rafizi said the key to end the decade-long controversy that has plagued Najib, who is also Umno president, is for an open inquiry to establish the facts of the Scorpene deal as well as Altantuya’s murder once and for all. “The fact is this one sided argument from time to time by characters such as Jasbir without the government’s willingness to open the books for full scrutiny will not work,” he said. ‘Tailoring reputation’ PAS vice-president Mahfuz Omar echoed this, stating that the government cannot depend on individuals to clear its name with the help of its media machinery. “Even though there are indications that the Umno presidency and deputy presidency will not be challenged, I believe he (Najib) wants to make sure that no one will use the controversy to mount a challenge against him,” he said. Since taking over the premiership, Najib’s team has successfully strengthened the premier’s popularity, with Najib even becoming the face of an ailing BN to shore up support. Najib appears to be employing the same strategy in the upcoming party polls when he urged some 150,000 party members who will be voting, to not only choose someone who can be successful in Umno, but also can appeal to the larger population in a general election. Najib’s team in Umno is also expected to ride on his popularity which will likely receive a boost as China president Xi Jinping and US president Barack Obama will visit the country just weeks before the party polls. Why not just show the figures? However, the new Scorpene media campaign, whoever is behind it, could potentially be more a bane than a boon for the premier as even the government had preferred to be silent on it. “The answers we have received from the government about Scorpene in Parliament have always one liners which is not much use,” said DAP publicity chief Tony Pua who is also Petaling Jaya Utara MP. Instead of having point men to counter the Scorpene controversy, Pua said the government would do best to quantify all payments involved in the Scorpene deal to show that there was no improprieties. “Whether it is above board or not, the inquiry in the French court will also determine that,” he said in reference to Jasbir’s assertion that the deal was transparent. Human rights group Suaram has filed a case in France against French naval company DCNS over kickbacks allegedly paid out in the Scorpene deal and the probe is still ongoing in Paris. |
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Anwar (left in photo) was responding to Home Minister Zahid Hamidi's claim that some 260,000 criminals are now roaming free in the country due to the absence of the Emergency Ordinance (EO).
“We still have a couple more applications regarding indelible ink coming up (next month),” he told a press conference at the party headquarters today.
He said the judiciary has given a “worrying picture” by striking out all the election petitions filed by Pakatan parties.
So it is a matter of great curiosity when the entire government-linked media machinery recently featured the the matter prominently, be it on television or newspapers, on what was meant to be a quiet festive season in terms of news.
“Jasbir’s timing makes it clear that the whole thing is not in the interest of truth and justice as he could have addressed the issue much earlier.