Dakwaan Biden Flotila Bawa Senjata Karut..

KUALA LUMPUR 5 Jun - Dakwaan Naib Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Joe Biden yang mengatakan konvoi enam kapal bantuan kemanusiaan (Freedom Flotilla) kepada penduduk Palestin di Semenanjung Gaza membawa bekalan senjata tidak berasas sama sekali.

Pengerusi Biro Antarabangsa KEADILAN, Mustaffa Kamil Ayub berkata kapal Mavi Marmara yang dulu diserang komando rejim Zionis-Israel yang menyebabkan sembilan sukarelawan dan berpuluh lagi cedera dalam serangan itu.

"Misi bantuan kemanusiaan itu adalah gabungan warga 40 buah negara dunia dan konvoi tersebut juga membawa ahli parlimen United Kingdom serta pemenang Nobel.

"Serangan itu menunjukkan rejim Zionis itu mengisytiharkan perang kepada seluruh warga dunia.

"Sehingga ke hari ini, rejim Zionis itu telah melanggar lebih 80 resolusi Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu, maksudnya ia langsung tidak menghormati undang-undang dunia, " tegas beliau.

Biden, ketika ditemubual dalam rancangan "Charlie Rose" oleh stesen penyiaran American Public Broadcasting Service Rabu lalu mempertahankan tindakan Israel yang menahan kapal menuju ke Gaza bagi mencegah penyeludupan senjata.

Beliau berpandangan tidak ada keperluan untuk berkeras supaya bekalan itu disampaikan terus kepada penduduk Semenanjung Gaza.

Biden kemudiannya memberi alasan kononnya Israel bimbang dengan isi kandungan yang dibawa kapal tesebut.

Ditanya mengenai pendirian KEADILAN, Mustaffa berkata Pakatan Rakyat melalui Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim telah menghantar surat kepada pegawai Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di sini untuk diserahkan kepada Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barrack Obama.

"Pegawai tersebut berjanji akan menyerahkan surat tersebut minggu depan kepada Obama.

"Dalam surat itu, Pakatan Rakyat meminta agar beliau mengambil kesempatan untuk memperbetulkan keadaan itu," ujar Mustaffa lagi.

Umno-BN Perlekeh Pergorbanan Sukarelawan Malaysia, Turki Anggap Wira

June 5, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR 5 Jun - Pengerusi Biro Antarabangsa KEADILAN , Mustaffa Kamil Ayub kesal dengan tindakan kerajaan Umno-Barisan Nasional yang tidak mengiktiraf pengorbanan sukarelawan yang terselamat dalam misi bantuan kemanusiaan ke Semenanjung Gaza Isnin lepas.

"Faktor alasan kewangan tidak dapat diterima sama sekali sedangkan komitmen kerajaan Turki lebih tinggi berbanding negara-negara Islam yang lain termasuk Malaysia.

"Saya berasakan ini berkemungkinan mempunyai hubungkait dengan kontrak yang dimeterai antara kerajaan Umno-BN dan Apco.

"Kerajaan di bawah pimpinan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak nampaknya seperti terikat dan mengikut telunjuk untuk mendapat perhatian Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barrack Obama.

Menurut Mustaffa lagi, ini mungkin mempunyai kaitan dengan kezaliman terhadap Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan kes pembunuhan Altantunya.

"Kita juga sangsi dengan respon Najib yang begitu lambat bertindak berhubung serangan komando rejim zionis Israel terhadap kapal Mavi Marmarra yang menyebabkan 9 aktivis dan berpuluh lagi cedera.

"Kontrak yang dimeterai Najib dengan syarikat Apco Worldwide menjadi satu sebab kerajaan Umno-BNl bersikap sederhana terhadap sukarelawan Malaysia yang terselamat," ujarnya ketika dihubungi Suara Keadilan.

Sebelum itu, media melaporkan Menteri Pertahanan, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi dipetik berkata Angkatan Tentera Malaysia tidak akan mengadakan penerbangan khas untuk membawa pulang 12 sukarelawan dan media Malaysia yang dibebaskan dari tahanan tentera Israel.

Ahmad Zahid memberi alasan penerbangan itu akan membabitkan kos yang tinggi dan setakat ini tiada permintaan daripada kerajaan Umno-BN untuk membawa mereka pulang menggunakan pesawat tentera.

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KEADILAN Seru Masyarakat Antarabangsa Kutuk Kekejaman Rejim Zionis Israel

PETALING JAYA 1 Jun - KEADILAN mengutuk sekeras-kerasnya tindakan komando rejim zionis Israel yang menyerang sebuah daripada enam buah kapal yang dalam perjalanan menghantar bantuan kemanusiaan di Gaza.

Pengerusi Biro Antarabangsa Mustaffa Kamil Ayub berkata tindakan kejam komando rejim zionis itu telah menyebabkan ramai aktivis yang tidak bersalah terbunuh.

"Kapal tersebut tidak melakukan apa-apa kesalahan dan masih berada di dalam perairan antarabangsa dan pihak berkuasa Israel tidak mempunyai hak untuk menaiki kapal tersebut.

"Alasan bahawa aktivis di dalam kapal tersebut telah menyerang komando Israel itu dahulu boleh dianggap menghina kerana mereka yang sebenarnya yang telah merempuh naik kapal itu.

Tambah Mustaffa, insiden ini merupakan satu lagi contoh bahawa Israel melakukan jenayah kejam ini di mana tindakan pihak berkuasa Israel itu sendiri yang sebenarnya mengancam kedaulatan mereka sendiri.

"Kita kesal dengan kegagalan beberapa negara mengutuk tindakan jahat rejim zionis Israel ini, termasuk Amerika Syarikat yang hanya meluahkan "kekesalan yang amat sangat" sementara United Kingdom, Kanada dan Australia pula membisu.

"Kerajaan negara-negara tersebut gagal menyampaikan isyarat perasaan majoriti rakyat mereka," ujar beliau.

Justeru itu, Mustaffa juga menyeru supaya komuniti antarabangsa mendesak Israel menghormati hak asasi manusia seperti yang terkandung dalam resolusi Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu berkaitan dengan Palestin.

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The Policies of Pakatan Rakyat ..

1. Transparent and Genuine Democracy

Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
Separation of Powers
A Clean, Free and Fair Electoral System

2. Driving a High Performance, Sustainable and Equitable Economy

High-Performance Economy
Democratic and Transparent Economy
Decentralisation and the Empowerment of the State Economic Management
Affirmative Action Policies based on Need
Labour
Social Safety Net
Housing
Infrastructure and Public Facilities
Environment
Sustainable Growth and Green Development

3. Social Justice and Human Development

Unity and Social Justice
Religion
Education
Women and the Family
Youth
Security
Healthcare
Culture

4. Federal-State Relationship and Foreign Policy

The Federal System
Sabah and Sarawak
Foreign Policy

PEOPLE’S CONSENSUS ...

Pakatan Rakyat hereby put forward a policy agenda to lead the people and this nation out of the current worsening crisis.

The people’s development agenda has been derailed due to a narrow understanding of race, divisive hate politics and authoritarianism. The recessive economy caused by the loss of moral conscience, the greed of corruption and archaic policies are causing Malaysia to be left behind compared to other vibrant economies in the region.

The unjust economy is all the more apparent in the widening gap between the rich and the poor, between the urban and the rural population, and between the Peninsular and Sabah and Sarawak.

The rising crime rate threatens lives and property because the police force has been used for narrow political ends. The integrity and independence of the judiciary continues to be damaged by political interference and business interests.

After half a century of sovereign independence, Malaysia should have matured. This should have been realised when the people from various races, breaking down narrow and obsolete mindset, and manifest a new spirit to reject the perversion of power, the spread of corruption, the plunder of the nation’s wealth and the repression of the people’s rights.

In appreciating the people’s aspirations, Pakatan Rakyat therefore declares our commitment to fully internalise and carry out an agenda of new politics by mobilizing the people’s power from the various races, religions and cultures as one force.

Further, we have confidence; we can change our policy framework from narrow racial approach to principles based on religious faiths, humanism, ethical and human rights, and equality before the law regardless of status, race or group. The policies that are derived from adherence to the Constitution and universal principles of justice will safeguard the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, which in turn will guarantee that the human rights and dignity of the people will continuously be defended and upheld.

Pakatan Rakyat is confident that the Malaysian economy can be driven at a faster pace through a market based economy that is humane, leading towards a more holistic human development. Economic policies should make Malaysia competitive, maintain a healthy investment climate, implement progressive taxation, but firm in its desire to realise justice through the equitable economic distribution especially for the poor and marginalised.

Pakatan Rakyat rejects policies that allow for corruption and other financial crimes and abuse of power. In order to ensure sustainable growth, oppressive policies that had only enriched the few should be replaced with a policy that ensures that the poor are assisted regardless of race.

As such, we invite the Malaysian people to create a new consensus that is founded on principles of justice for all and Constitutionalism. This is the agenda that must be done if we are to regain the nation’s respect, freedom and dignity. Only by providing justice for all can the people live prosperously and in unity.

WISHING YOU....

Anwar's Trial: Speech By Michael Danby

Michael Danby, Federal Member for Melbourne Ports and Chair of the Australian Parliamentary sub-committee on Foreign Affairs

Tonight, I want to speak out on behalf of fellow democrats around Asia, who are flabbergasted at events unfolding in Kuala Lumpur. I refer to the trial which began today of the Malaysian Opposition Leader, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim. For the second time, the Malaysian leader of the Opposition, Anwar Ibrahim is on trial for what they call in ancient grating English, ‘Sodomy’. For the second time, the Malaysian legal system is being manipulated by supporters of the incumbent government to drive Malaysia’s best known leader Anwar Ibrahim out of national politics. For the second time, documents are being forged, witnesses are being coerced, evidence is being fabricated.

This trial, like the first trial of Anwar Ibrahim, is a disgrace to Malaysia, a country that aspires to democratic norms, where parties change power peacefully and political opponents are not persecuted by organs of the state. Perverting the legal system for political ends by charging Anwar with sexual offences is an affront to human rights. In the first place, the offences with which Anwar has been charged that should not be on the statute book. Australia abolished its laws punishing consenting adult homosexual acts decades ago, as did most advanced countries. It’s long past time that Malaysia also repealed these laws, which it inherited from British colonial times. If these laws did not exist, they could not be used for political purposes as we are currently seeing.

In the second place, everyone in Malaysia, and everyone in the international legal community, knows that Anwar is innocent of these charges. This week the Wall Street Journal published a first-hand account of how the Malaysian Special Branch police fabricated the charges that led to Anwar’s first trial in 1998. Munawar Anees recalled how he had been starved and beaten into signing a false confession which implicated Anwar. Now it’s happening again. These are the lengths to which the corrupt elements within the Malaysian ruling party are willing to go to frame Anwar and remove his threat to their power.

Malaysia is a long-time friend and ally of Australia. Over the past 40 years Malaysia has become an increasingly prosperous and successful multi-cultural society. We continue our friendly and mutually beneficial relationship with Malaysia, which is a deep economic, strategic and cultural relationship.

But Malaysia is also a country of 28 million people who have lived ever since independence more than 50 years ago under the rule of the same party, the United Malay National Organisation or UMNO. UMNO has stayed in power by playing on the Malay fears of the Chinese and Indian minorities. So long as Malaysian politics were polarised even subtlety along racial lines, so long as the Malays voted loyally for UMNO, then the self-perpetuating UMNO oligarchy, who have grown rich through long years of power and through their cozy links to business, would be safe.

That’s why Anwar Ibrahim is such a threat. For the first time Malaysia has a charismatic Malay opposition politician able to appeal to Malay voters and pose a real threat to UMNO’s hold on power. At the 2008 elections Anwar’s People’s Justice Party and its allies won 60 seats away from UMNO and its allies, creating a viable two-party system for the first time. As a result, Abdullah Badawi was deposed as Prime Minister and replaced by Najib Razak, but the threat from Anwar’s coalition continues to grow. So even though the first attempt to frame Anwar on these spurious charged had failed, the corrupt forces within UMNO have decided to try again.

I recently had the privilege of meeting Anwar Ibrahim when he was in Melbourne for the Parliament of the World’s Religions in December. He is an intelligent and articulate and passionate democrat. He is committed to a thorough reform of Malaysian government, to rid it of the cronyism, corruption and authoritarian tendencies that have gained ground since Mahathir Mohammed became Prime Minister in 1981. He is a great, although not uncritical, friend and admirer of Australia. If he were to become Malaysia’s Prime Minister our relationship with Malaysia would become even stronger.

I am pleased that in the last few hours the judge has suspended the case against Anwar for a day. I hope Prime Minister Najib and his ministers are not involved. The best way for them to prove that they are not is to intervene and have these charges withdrawn, and those responsible for fabricating them punished. Malaysia is a great country, and an emerging power in our region. It can do without the embarrassment that these disgraceful proceedings are undermining its newly won democratic credibility.

Michael Danby

Malaysian Hindus celebrate festival amid tensions

Hundreds of thousands of people _ many with hooks pierced through the skin of their backs _ thronged temples Saturday to celebrate a Hindu festival amid tensions surrounding attacks on houses of worship in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

Eleven churches, three mosques, two Muslim prayer rooms and a Sikh temple have been attacked since early this month following a court ruling that allowed non-Muslims to use the word "Allah" to refer to God.

The verdict upset some Muslims and the government, which argues "Allah" is exclusive to Islam and its use by others could confuse Muslims into converting. Though damage in most of the attacks was minor, the incidents raised fears of religious tensions in this multiethnic nation, where about a third of its 28 million people are Buddhist, Hindu or Christian. Ethnic Indians account for 8 percent. Addressing Hindu devotees at a temple complex outside Kuala Lumpur late Friday, Prime Minister Najib Razak called for mutual respect between all religions. Muslim Najib is only the second prime minister to visit the Batu Caves temple complex during the Thaipusam festival _ following his father some 30 years ago.

"I want to stress here that respecting each other's religion is not only a key virtue that we must defend in this country, it is also one of the principles in Islam," he was quoted by the national news agency Bernama as saying.

Some 60 percent of Malaysians are ethnic Malay Muslims. Religious minority groups have frequently complained of institutionalized discrimination. But the government dismisses claims it favors Malay Muslims. Police deployed more than 1,000 officers to ensure the celebrations at Batu Caves go smoothly and devotees and tourists are safe, said district police chief Abdul Rahim Abdullah.Every year, Hindu devotees across the country march to temples in colorful processions for the Thaipusam festival to give thanks for vows fulfilled and show penance.

At Batu Caves, men _ with lemons fastened to their backs with metal hooks _ carry heavy kalvadis: frames decorated with feathers and beads. Many dance in a trancelike state to drum beats before ascending the steep staircase to the main temple entrance. Women and children _ their faces smeared with white paste _ balance brass pots with milk up the stairs. Tourists are drawn to the festival to watch.

By JULIA ZAPPEI
Associated Press

Amnesty urges Malaysia to drop sex charge against Anwar

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 16:52:00 01/30/2010

KUALA LUMPUR—Human rights group Amnesty International has urged Malaysia to drop a "politically motivated" sodomy charge against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, ahead of the trial due to start next week.

Anwar lost his final appeal on Friday for access to the government's evidence in a case which could see him jailed for up to 20 years if convicted of sodomising a male former aide. Anwar was sacked as deputy prime minister and jailed a decade ago on separate sodomy and corruption charges.

"The Malaysian authorities have resorted to the same old dirty tricks in an attempt to remove the opposition leader from politics," Sam Zarifi, Amnesty Asia-Pacific director said in a statement issued late Friday.

"Malaysia's judiciary should throw out these charges."

Amnesty said it is "seriously concerned" over a fair trial for Anwar, especially after Friday's ruling which the watchdog described as an infringement of international fair trial standards.

"Anwar's case has rightly raised doubts among the international community and investors about Malaysia's commitment to justice and the rule of law," Zarifi added.

Anwar spent six years in prison after he was convicted in 1998 but the sex charge was eventually overturned. Amnesty had considered him a prisoner of conscience before his release. After being freed Anwar reinvigorated the opposition and rallied it in 2008 to achieve its best ever results in national elections, when it won a third of parliamentary seats.

Anwar has accused the Malaysian government of seeking to convict him quickly as part of efforts to deflect attention against its own woes.

Malaysia's Anwar defends innocence before sodomy trial

MANILA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim on Saturday defended his innocence in a brief visit to the Philippines, three days before being tried for sodomy in a Malaysian court, the second such accusation against him in less than a decade.

"I don't think the defense is difficult at all. If they go by the facts of the law, there can not be a conviction," said Anwar, adding that state prosecutors won't be able present a witness when the trial opens on Tuesday and by now medical evidence is "conclusively" in his favor.

The 63-year-old politician is being accused by his young male aide of sodomy, a crime that can lead to 20 years in prison in Malaysia. It is the second time this de-facto Malaysian opposition leader faces sodomy charges. He was convicted once in 1999 but was released from prison four years later after the Federal Court overturned the conviction upon hearing his appeal.

At a meeting with his "old friend"-- deposed former Philippine president Joseph Estrada, Anwar told reporters that he felt he had not given fair treatment as a sexual assault case defendant and authorities seem to want to rush the case.

"This is probably my last overseas trip and maybe the last meeting with any foreign friend in a foreign country," Anwar said. "There is no basis but they just want to proceed. Yesterday the Federal Court rejected our application for documents, a right of the defendant required by the law. So how would you deal with it?"

Anwar was in town for a lecture at the University of the Philippines College of Law. He is scheduled to return to Kuala Lumpur Saturday afternoon. Anwar said he is also a family friend of late former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and this time was able to meet her son Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino. Both Estrada and Aquino are running for presidency in this May's general elections.

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