Rabu, 13 Julai 2011

Lim Kit Siang

Lim Kit Siang

I did the BERSIH thing for my babies

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:48 PM PDT

By Goh Siu Lin July 13, 2011 | AWL I am a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister and I happen to be a lawyer too. Mine was a spontaneous decision to go to the rally. Something struck a chord in me when I heard my senior partner tell stories of BERSIH 2007, of [...]

Raja Aziz – A legal mandarin’s sad last days

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:45 PM PDT

By Terence Netto Jul 14, 11 | MalaysiaKini Raja Aziz Addruse, for all his ultimate eminence as a lawyer, must have felt himself a marginal man, especially in the last decades before his death on Tuesday from lymphatic cancer at the age of 75. Nothing exemplified this peripheral stature than the refusal of the Federal [...]

Bersih 2.0: Arrested and sent to Pulapol

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:24 PM PDT

By CL Shue Jul 14, 11 | MalaysiaKini EYEWITNESS On July 8, 2011, my doctor friend SMS-ed me and said he was not sure whether he would be able to get into Kuala Lumpur by the next day. I was also not sure whether I would be able to get near Stadium Merdeka on July [...]

Malaysia’s Najib must abandon the Mubarak model

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:11 PM PDT

By Simon Tisdall 13 July 2011 | Guardian It is not in the same league as Arab spring uprisings in Egypt and elsewhere. But Malaysia’s fancifully named “hibiscus revolution” has potential, at least, to inflict a winter of discontent on the gormless government of prime minister Najib Razak. That’s something David Cameron should bear in [...]

Kit Siang: I will wear yellow every Saturday

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:31 PM PDT

Malaysiakini | Jul 13, 11 DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang has vowed to wear yellow every Saturday until the government accedes to the demands of civil society and political activists pertaining to electoral and political reform. The demands include the release of the six PSM activists currently detained under the Emergency Ordinance (EO), the [...]

Minister Liow, photos and videos don’t lie

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:17 PM PDT

Malaysiakini Your Say | Jul 14, 11 ‘Fearing the consequences of being called a liar, he flipped and has pointed the finger squarely now at the Tung Shin hospital’s board.’ Liow takes tear gas explanation to Twitter Karma: How about MCA chief Dr Chua Soi Lek who said that despite video or photo evidence, it [...]

BN’s stupidity is Godsend for Bersih

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:13 PM PDT

Malaysiakini Your Say | Jul 14, 11 ‘It brought about a unity among the races which we had never been seen before. If ever there was such thing as 1Malaysia, we saw it on Saturday.’ Ambiga: Never any intention to topple BN Quigonbond: The government’s resistance to entertain Bersih 2.0′s demands is an unambiguous sign [...]

Bersih’s Ambiga is tool of the rakyat

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:10 PM PDT

Malaysiakini Your Say | Jul 14, 11 ‘When I saw Anwar, Kit Siang and Saifuddin next to Ambiga while she gave the PC, I knew this was a new beginning for a multiracial Malaysia.’ Noh Omar: Pakatan MPs have become Ambiga’s tool Jiminy Qrikert: As usual, Umno-BN is now spinning their lies into truths. Earlier, [...]

Family: We still don’t know how Baharudin died

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:58 PM PDT

Salhan K Ahmad Malaysiakini Jul 13, 11 Closure appears to be slow in coming for the family of Baharudin Ahmad, the sole fatality allegedly linked to the Bersih 2.0 rally last Saturday. The police recently claimed that a preliminary report based on the post-mortem on the 59-year-old taxi driver indicated that he had died of [...]

Doctors say cops fired tear gas into Tung Shin compound

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:31 PM PDT

The Malaysian Insider Jul 13, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — A group of doctors said today they were prepared to provide sworn affidavits to say that police had fired tear gas and chemical-laced water into the compounds of the Tung Shin and Chinese Maternity Hospitals during the Bersih rally last Saturday. In a statement [...]

Lessons learnt in a walk with friends

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:21 PM PDT

— Sheila Santharamohana The Malaysian Insider Jul 13, 2011 JULY 13 — Like all others who came alone for Saturday's Bersih rally, I found that I needn't have worried. In the confusion and chaos with each blinding onslaught, we reached out and found each other. The strong supported the overcome, the sighted helped the blinded [...]

I was afraid, therefore I walked

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:15 PM PDT

— Celine Yong The Malaysian Insider Jul 13, 2011 JULY 13 — I almost didn't make it. But I went. The week leading up to the Bersih 2.0 rally on July 9th, I was like most of my friends; poked fun at the BN government's decision to ban yellow outfits and Bersih T-shirts on my [...]

Cop: Use of excessive force was wrong

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:38 AM PDT

Teoh El Sen | July 13, 2011 Free Malaysia Today There were special police teams who were already targeting those leaders behind the rally, such as Bersih chairman S Ambiga, says a policeman. EXCLUSIVE KUALA LUMPUR: The police force has been denying the use of violence during the Bersih 2.0 march on July 9. But [...]

Sarawak to hold reform rally in August

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:24 AM PDT

Joseph Tawie | July 13, 2011 Free Malaysia Today While patriotism to country and loyalty to government is important, the same reasoning should be used to oust bad leaders and governments, says Movement of Change Sarawak. KUCHING: Inspired by the success of Bersih 2.0′s 'Walk For Democracy' march last Saturday and the fact that some [...]

Najib ‘troubled’ by people’s willingness to act

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 02:51 AM PDT

By Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz July 13, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today Comment What has Bersih 2.0 become? To me Bersih 2.0 has come to represent the people's willingness to translate beliefs into action. That's what is troubling Umno president Najib Tun Razak. Bersih represents willful readiness to translate articulation into action. The shocking thing [...]

Karpal: DAP’s presence was felt

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 02:49 AM PDT

By S Rutra July 13, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today KUALA LUMPUR: DAP chairman Karpal Singh said his party was committed to the Bersih 2.0 rally from the start. Responding to allegations that DAP members did not turn up in droves for last Saturday's rally, he said many party leaders and members were confined at [...]

Umno, Utusan the real traitors, says Kit Siang

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 02:47 AM PDT

By Yow Hong Chieh July 13, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — Lim Kit Siang today turned the tables on Umno and Utusan Malaysia, which he said were "traitors to the King" for attempting to tar Bersih protesters as turncoats. The DAP parliamentary leader said such unfounded accusations by the ruling [...]

Bar report shows police waged war against Bersih, says Pakatan

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 02:44 AM PDT

By Shannon Teoh July 13, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders have accused the police of attacking protestors at Saturday's Bersih rally "as if we were terrorists" following the Bar Council's report that the police had fired water cannons and tear gas canisters in a manner suggesting [...]

Justice for Jeyakumar!

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 01:52 AM PDT

By Martin Jalleh 13.7.11 Bersih 2.0 laid bare the fact that Umno is politically bankrupt. It brought out the same old bag of tricks, treats and threats. It looked like a party in a sordid state of denial and beyond redemption. Alas, the BN went berserk over Bersih! The coalition continues to be the bane [...]

A Bersih Experience

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:17 AM PDT

Emmanuel Joseph 12th July 2011 I woke up like many Malaysians on Saturday morning, resolute to attend the rally in Kuala Lumpur, but, also like many Malaysians, worried. Worried I could not make it into the city, worried that I would be detained, worried about the new depths which the police were willing to take [...]
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