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Posted: 22 Jun 2011 04:54 PM PDT

The Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) condemns the cowardly death threat made against Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan, Chairperson of BERSIH 2.0 (Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections). This threat also included her colleagues and supporters of BERSIH 2.0.

BERSIH 2.0 was formed with a singular noble objective, that is, to bring about electoral reform that will safeguard democracy in Malaysia. The demands of the upcoming BERSIH 2.0 rally, "Walk for Democracy", which will be held on 9 July 2011, are:

1. Clean the electoral roll

2. Reform postal vote

3. Use indelible ink

4. Free and fair access to media

5. Minimum 21 days campaign period

6. Strengthen public institutions

7. Stop corruption

8. Stop dirty politics

Every effort has been made to prevent this rally from taking place. Threats to disrupt the rally with violence have been made. However, this death threat goes beyond the pale. We urge the Polis Diraja Malaysia to take this threat seriously and provide Dato' Ambiga, her colleagues and all the supporters of BERSIH 2.0 every protection.

We are extremely saddened to see that such deep-seated bigotry and hatred exists in Malaysia. This situation is the result of ignorance born of a skewed economy, flawed education system and the absence of social justice, which are the consequences of five decades of Barisan Nasional rule.

We call on all reasonable Malaysians who are the Third Force in this country to join us in condemning not just this cowardly death threat but also the many different efforts to prevent us from exercising our constitutional right to free speech and a free democracy.

HARIS M. IBRAHIM

PRESIDENT

Make Public The TBH RCI Report

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 12:21 PM PDT

By Teo Nie Ching

DAP calls on the Prime Minister Najib Razak to give a commitment that the entire report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the death of Teoh Beng Hock will be made public in the nearest future and that his Government will make the best effort to adopt the recommendations made to the MACC.

When the coroner's inquest returned an "open verdict" in January 2011 ruling out both suicide and homicide some 18 months after Teoh's death, the Government was forced to establish a Royal Commission of Enquiry (RCI) with two terms of reference: to probe how Teoh plunged to his death and to look into MACC's investigative methods.

The RCI started gathering evidence from 14 Feb 2011 and proceedings ended on 18 May 2011. A total of 70 witnesses testified and 19,200 notes of proceedings were recorded.

When an additional budget of RM13.2 billion was tabled in Parliament last week, the Prime Minister's Department requested for RM1 million as the cost of setting up the RCI.

Public expectation of the report's findings is extremely high. Concerned Malaysians want to know why a witness who was taken to the Selangor MACC office to assist in investigations was found dead the next day, on the fifth floor service corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam.

At least RM1 million of taxpayers' money was spent on the RCI. It will be futile if the final report and findings of the RCI is not accessible to the public.The rakyat has the right to read the final report as their hard-earned money has been spent in establishing the RCI.

In the past, RCIs have been established for different purposes. Among which, the reports and findings of both the Royal Commission to Enhance the Operations and Management of the Royal Malaysia Police in 2005 and Royal Commissionof Inquiry into the V.K. Lingam video clip in late 2007 were made public by the Cabinet.

There is no reason why the full report of the RCI into the death of Teoh Beng Hock cannot be made public in the same manner. With today's technology, Najib's Cabinet can make the full report public in the wink of an eye, with the click of a mouse.

DAP calls on the BN Government to upload the full report on the Internet as soon as it is available so that the general public can download it for free.

In 24 days, it will be the 2nd anniversary of Teoh Beng Hock's passing. Will the full report of RCI be made public before 16 July 2011? Will the family of Teoh Beng Hock and all Malaysians be satisfied with the RCI's findings? Will the truth prevail?

TEO NIE CHING is MP for Serdang

Precaution or persecution: Anti-Bersih 2.0 Rally

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 12:06 PM PDT

By J. D. Lovrenciear

It is very alarming. A righteous citizens' action is being forced fast into a potential riot and definitely a political issue. And that is the doing of those aligned to the government, while the opposition chooses to go along with the righteous citizens' pledge.

And therein lies the peril for the nation.

The rate at which we were seeing objections laced with speculative and induced fear being raised against the citizens' pledged march for a free, fair and just elections now crescendos into a dangerous trap.

Not only is the rally being banned with the non-issuance of a permit to assemble, the key figures whom the citizens have anointed to work with them in engineering this mammoth rally are also being identified to be hauled in for questioning by the authorities.

And to have a make-believe scenario, even those who crossed the racism bar or peddled fear-mongering are seemingly going to be hauled in for questioning by the authorities.

Meanwhile lurking very close to the intimidating and admonishing tactics, the dreaded, dark hood of fear - the ISA, is also being cast as the ultimate deterent.

But even a mufti has spoken in defense of the citizens' role in marching for free, fair and just elections and its governance. Many citizens have expressed their concerns against those who blabber all kinds of race-blood tragedies as the eventuality if the march went ahead.

Many are of the opinion that all these seeming objections to the Bersih 2.0 are deliberately stage-managed and piped-up using the mainstream media by the presiding government.

It appears that the Malaysians who are keen on expressing their right to peaceful assembly and call for a fair, free and just election are being denied that very right that the democratic world of today professes globally.

What the leaders are failing to recognize is that the denial and the intense fear-casting amounts to persecution of the citizens. Going by the numerous examples of recorded human history in the world, persecution will only snowball on the agents that stand in the way of humanity's march for a free, fair and just future.

The question is: why do the government and its leaders want to do exactly the opposite of what history, prudence and honor dictates? Why fear the citizens' march? Is providing all the necessary safety and security measures to avert the many fears that the government and/or their agentries claim, beyond the government's capability?

Why are the BN leaders - and their supporters, hell bent in preventing the citizens to express their concern and demand within the framework of the Constitution and tenets of democracy and the hallmarks of justice?

On the same token, suppose the citizens decide that they are going to march peacefully by the tens of thousands to show the world that they are solidly backing the present government and its leaders as they (BN) represent true democracy and accord the highest standards in terms of promoting civil liberties, would the BN government persecute the citizens by denying them that right to peaceful assembly? Or would all the measures be taken at immense cost to provide the peace and safety for the marchers?

Please stop making this rally into a political coup game. But at the rate the government is reacting thus far, it may in all probability end-up this way for when human existence and expression is persecuted, the will to ensure survival of the human free-will, eventually breaks free.

Persecute humanity with the denial of the fre- will to be free, fair and just and end up being persecuted. That is what world history has taught humanity down the centuries. The government must be wiser.

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

Khamis, 23 Jun 2011

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