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From John Berthelsen: Malaysia 's legal pursuit of Anwar Ibrahim is destroying the country's reputation
source: Asia Sentinel Consulting
by John Berthelsen
July 21, 2008
It is about time for Malaysia to drop the charade. Attempting to convict opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of forcible sodomy is an embarrassment in contrast with the completely ignored and much more serious allegations linking the deputy prime minister to the execution-style murder of his reputed former girlfriend.
As has been reported widely, two sworn declarations have been filed that raise reasonable suspicions that the October 2006 murder of Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu is tied directly to Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor. Yet instead of this high profile politician being in the dock to explain himself, one of those who filed a sworn declaration about his actions is about to go on trial for criminal libel. The other was dragooned into recanting his statement before he fled the country.
The courts and the legal system have deliberately overlooked allegations of Najib's complicity in the Mongolian woman's murder, and considerable related evidence of massive corruption on his part in the purchase of three French submarines for the Malaysian military - a purchase that Altantuya apparently participated in as a translator. This has been pushed under the carpet repeatedly and now the nation is being distracted by accusations of Anwar's peccadilloes, real or fabricated.
Mahathir Mohammad, the long-serving prime minister who quit in 2002, had a single ambition - to reach developed-nation status by 2020. But you cannot be a first-world country with a legal system whose main characteristics are shared by the likes of Zimbabwe , Burma and North Korea . Mahathir, of course, bears a major part of the blame for the legal system, starting from his destruction of the judiciary in the 1980s. But what is going on now, six years after he was succeeded by Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, is nothing more than the United Malays National Organisation's manipulation of the system a la Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. This has nothing to do with ideology but with the dubious necessity of maintaining a political party in power.
When the legendary American bank robber Willie Sutton once was asked why he robbed banks, he famously replied: "That's where the money is." Government in Malaysia is where the money is, and that is where UMNO intends to stay despite its disastrous March 8 election results, which cost the national ruling coalition the two-thirds hold on parliament it has enjoyed for half a century. There is no better example of this than the submarine and its ties to the murder of Altantuya.
As Asia Sentinel has repeated frequently, according to testimony in the trial of Altantuya's accused murderer Abdul Razak Baginda, her then-lover and one of the three men accused of killing her, the murdered woman accompanied him to Paris at a time when Malaysia's defense ministry, headed by Najib, was negotiating through a Malaysian company, Perimekar Sdn Bhd, to buy two Scorpene submarines and a used Agosta submarine produced by the French government under a French-Spanish joint venture, Armaris. Perimekar at the time was owned by a company called Ombak Laut, which was wholly owned by Abdul Razak.
The contract was not competitive. The Malaysian ministry of defense paid |
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adehh.. foning la nak baca panjang-panjang ni...
dah lah tengah sakit pala lor ni...
summary pleaseeeeeeee... |
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Originally posted by sutera_abadi at 3-4-2009 09:53 
adehh.. foning la nak baca panjang-panjang ni...
dah lah tengah sakit pala lor ni...
summary pleaseeeeeeee...
summarised kang, ada plk yg tersalah faham dan tersalah tafsir.....bila pala kong dah tak pening ko bacalah..... |
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tukar jadi bahasa melayu blh.... |
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kem salam je lah aku nak baca...
kalau nasib thread ni kurang baik...
alamat 5 minit karang dah pegi page 2...
Originally posted by SQUIRREL at 3-4-2009 09:56 AM 
summarised kang, ada plk yg tersalah faham dan tersalah tafsir.....bila pala kong dah tak pening ko bacalah..... |
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Mujor tak ada yg mintak dibuat filem .... ala hollywood.... atau bollywood  |
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Post time 3-4-2009 09:35 AM
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