K. Siladass. - On 20th February 2012, Lim Kit Siang, now Tan Sri Lim Kit Siang, was celebrating his seventieth birthday at Pan Pacific Hotel in Penang. Among the celebrities were Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim,…
Suaram: MINISTER’S STATEMENT SHAMEFULLY IRRESPONSIBLE
-Nalini Elumalai, Executive Director, September 10, 2012. SUARAM condemns the Domestic Trade Minister for making a statement that SUARAM will be prosecuted and that our accounts are “highly suspicious” even when the investigation is still…
A history of a Malaysian ship of fools
-S.Thayaparan, September 9, 2012. "History - an account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools." - Ambrose Bierce COMMENT The problem with Umno is that…
Parliament, Statutory Rape and Children lying ?
-Charles Santiago, Member of Parliament, Klang, September 8, 2012. How many of you would believe that a seven-year-old child could whip up a fantasy of having been raped when she was aged four? And that…
CCM raids office of Suaram’s auditor, company secretary
Officers from the Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM) had gone to Suara Inisiatif Sdn Bhd’s company secretary and auditor’s office and conducted a search and seized documents related to the company.The notices to search and…
Suaram: Who are the real foreign lackeys?
Kua Kia Soong, 2:22PM Sep 4, 2012 COMMENT Ever since Suara Rakyat Malaysia's (Suaram) complaint to the French courts regarding the suspected corruption involved in the purchase of the two Scorpene submarines, the Barisan National…
Gov’t also receives foreign funding, says Suaram
Deflecting the government's accusation that it receives foreign funding, human rights group Suaram points to the government receiving foreign funds as well, but in greater sums."Is it a big secret that Malaysian NGOs have been…
Janji Demokrasi – the real Merdeka event
COMMENT The occasion could not have been better chosen or timed: The eve of the country's 55th Merdeka anniversary, two hours before countdown. The venue could not have been more appropriate: Dataran Merdeka, where the…
PDRM in a state of unrest
-S.Thayaparan, August 31, 2012. "The police are not here to create disorder; they're here to preserve disorder." - Richard J Daley COMMENT Bukit Aman police secretariat (public relations) assistant head Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf could be…
Despite ban, yellow shirts swamp Dataran
The Merdeka Day eve countdown this year at Dataran Merdeka will see two activist groups join revellers, but the police are adamant they be kept at bay. Gabungan Janji, a coalition of 47 NGOs, wants…
Another education ‘plan’?
-Rom Nain, August 27, 2012. Tucked away on the inside pages of the Malaysian mainstream newspapers, far from the celebratory, feel-good stories of Hari Raya celebration, Umno politicians’ ‘open houses’ - largely paid for by…
Here’s what Dr M said about the rulers…
-Karpal Singh, August 26, 2012. Dr Mahathir Mohamad has challenged me to prove that he has made seditious comments against the royalty during the Parliamentary debates leading up to the 1993 constitutional amendments on the…
MCA’s shameful record on education
-KOON YEW YIN , August 22, 2012. Various thoughts come to my mind on reading the recent report that the Selangor MCA will build more Chinese schools if BNl regains the state at the coming…
Come next general election, the Indian voters must…
-M.Kulasegaran, August 22, 2012. At the Thaipusam celebrations held at Batu Caves this year, the Prime Minister Dato Sri Najib told the Indian community to trust him and the government. “The government has never gone…
Supreme law with an extreme flaw
-Navin-Chandra Naidu, August 2, 2012. COMMENT Imagine legislating discrimination, and entombing it in the supreme law of the land. The Americans considered each black person as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of apportioning…
The partisan nature of BN-Pakatan conflict
-S.Thayaparan, August 19, 2012. "Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason." - Eça de Queirós COMMENT Well, it seems blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) is in the news again. I…
DEATH IN CUSTODY AGAIN! HAVE WE NOT LEARNED?!
-R. Thevarajan, Right to Justice Coordinator, August 16, 2012. SUARAM strongly condemns the Royal Malaysian Police on the death of one Cheah Chin Lee, 36, on the 13th August 2012. Cheah was pronounced dead at…
Fatal flaw in the RM180 million allocation to…
-Jeyaseelen Anthony, August 13, 2012. Recently our Prime Minister had announced an allocation of RM180 million to uplift the economic standing of the Indian community. It was indeed a major announcement and a big step…
The years of living racially
-S.Thayaparan, August 15, 2012. "Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others…
So what’s with the black pop-up?
-Malaysiakini, August 14, 2012. Earlier this year, amendments to the Evidence Act 1950 was passed by Parliament, radically changing how Internet users or service providers can be subject to legal or criminal action. In a…
An opportunity for Sabahans to regain sovereignty
-Kim Quek, August 11, 2012. COMMENT On the day of an anticipated major announcement by Prime Minister Najib Razak on the terms of reference for the proposed royal commission of inquiry on illegal immigrants in…
Did fame save rapist bowler from jail, asks…
The Court of Appeal's decision to set aside a five -year jail term imposed on a national tenpin bowling ace for statutory rape may paint the picture that the rich and famous "can get away…
Waytha – the Hindraf game changer?
-S. Thayaparan, August 9, 2012. "Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here." - Eleanor Roosevelt COMMENT As someone who is despised by…
Najib’s policy produced bitter and poisonous fruits, Lim…
-Lim Kit Siang, August 7, 2012. Najib’s 1Malaysia policy in past three years has borne bitter and even poisonous fruits worsening racial polarization and producing more heinous lies like the recent May 13 falsehoods to…