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Pesanan dari Presiden MCLM/A Message from the President of MCLM

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:22 PM PDT

Kepada Rakan-rakan Gerakan Kebebasan Sivil,

BERSIH 2.0 merupakan antara inisiatif penting, jika bukan paling penting, yang akan berlangsung tahun ini. BERSIH 2.0 merupakan Gagasan untuk Pilihanraya yang Adil dan Bersih dan saya sangat berbangga menjadi ahli dalam jawatankuasa pemandu.

BERSIH 2.0 telah secara aktif menyeru reformasi pilihanraya sejak 2005. Perhimpuan BERSIH 2.0 "Berjalan Untuk Demokrasi" yang akan datang akan berlangsung pada 9 July 2011 dengan tuntutan seperti berikut:

•    Bersihkan daftar pemilih
•    Reformasi undi pos
•    Penggunaan dakwat kekal
•    Akses media yang bebas dan adil
•    Masa berkempen minima 21 hari
•    Kukuhkan institusi awam
•    Hentikan rasuah
•    Hentikan politik kotor

MCLM menyokong BERSIH 2.0 kerana kami percaya bahawa perubahan yang kami cari untuk Malaysia hanya boleh dicapai di peti undi. Oleh itu, pilihanraya yang bebas dan adil adalah penting untuk mencapai visi kami kearah Malaysia yang bersatu dan inklusif.

Dengan sebab itulah kami merancang untuk berjalan bersama BERSIH 2.0 dan kami menyeru anda untuk menyertai kami. Bersama marilah kita memberitahu Kerajaan dan Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya bahawa kami mengharapkan mereka untuk menegakkan prinsip-prinsip asas demokrasi.

Terima Kasih.

Dengan ikhlas,

Haris M. Ibrahim

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Dear Fellow Civil Libertarians,

BERSIH 2.0 is one of the most significant civil society initiatives to take place this year, if not the most significant. BERSIH 2.0 is the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections and I am proud to be a member of the steering committee.

BERSIH 2.0 has been actively pursuing electoral reform since 2005. The upcoming BERSIH 2.0 rally, "Walk for Democracy," will take place on 9 July 2011, to demand the following:

•    Clean the electoral roll
•    Reform postal vote
•    Use indelible ink
•    Free and fair access to media
•    Minimum 21 days campaign period
•    Strengthen public institutions
•    Stop corruption
•    Stop dirty politics

MCLM supports BERSIH 2.0 because we believe that the changes we are seeking for Malaysia can only be achieved at the ballot box. Therefore, free and fair elections are crucial to our vision of an inclusive and unified Malaysia.

That's why we plan to walk with BERSIH 2.0 and we urge you to join us. Together, let us tell the Government and the Election Commission that we expect them to uphold fundamental principles of democracy.

Thank you.

Warmest regards,

Haris M. Ibrahim
Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement

EC’s stance fundamentally flawed

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 10:07 AM PDT

As it is, the quarters that threw all kinds of accusations, allegations, threats and what have you at the citizens have already created a deeper suspicion in the hearts and minds of a wider cross-section of the rakyat.

By J. D. Lovrenciear

Are Malaysians being overly inundated with conditions and conditioning that they are beginning to break under that very yoke that goes against human nature?

In the wake of the citizens' announcement that they will hold their Bersih 2.0 rally, there were threats, intimidation and challenges thrown at the rakyat. At the extreme we had two quarters hinging on sedition and extremism.

One quarter screamed to spill blood. Another is raising the element of fear and pre-empting danger by asking people to stay away and stockpile food. And of course the PDRM are prepared to steam-roll the Constitutional right to peaceful assembly under the claim that it is in the interest of national security.

Despite such perils thrown at the rakyat, the citizens have met and made a resolute will to go ahead with their peaceful assembly come what may to demand for the fundamental right of humanity to a fair, just and clean election.

Now in response to the citizens' will and determination, we get another boulder thrown into the pathway of true democracy. The mother of all atrocities to date would be the Election Commission's categorical demand that it would only sit down and talk with Bersih organizers provided that Bersih first cancels its plan.

One would have expected the EC to immediately put democracy and nation building as a top most priority and in so doing would have invited Bersih to sit and talk first a long time ago. The least it could have done was to act sensitively and call for dialogues even before the anti-Bersih quarters had any chance to make things more uglier for BN and UMNO.

In addition to being already so late in the day, EC now rebuts with a categorical condition that citizens should abort their march for democracy plan before they can sit down with EC for discussions. If that is not un-democratic and high-handed what else could it be?

And add insult to injury, EC piles a barrage of allegations.

All that is only going to make the impasse even wider and it is of no benefit to EC or even to BN / UMNO. Now why is it so difficult to lead with solutions instead of taking on intimidating stances?

EC's stand and response is indeed baffling.

The EC should have been wiser and seized the opportunity to step forward to convince the rakyat that it is indeed their white-knight for greater democracy. It could have, a long time ago, behaved proactively and forced its way to a sit-down dialogue to help the nation move forward.

But today, by its very hostile stance to the Bersih organizers and supporters, it has only further compounded nation building consistent with the fundamentals that are shaping the new world.

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

Selasa, 21 Jun 2011

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