July 3, 2011
Pak Samad urges Intellectuals to avoid CARMA
by Kuek Ser Kuang Keng@www.malaysiakini.com
Preparing to be arrested as a dragnet for BERSIH 2.0 supporters widens, inhabitant laureate A Samad Said urged intellectuals to stop being carma though brave to make a mount opposite cruelty as well as injustice.
He coined a word carma which is a acronym of cari makan (seeking to profit), during domestic satirist as well as cartoonist Zunars book launch final night at Kuala Lumpur.
Writers seldom take a stand. Most of them have been carma as well as have been always rebuilt to not take a stand. This has caused all a evil to grow as well as spread tremendously.
The septuagenarian afterwards destined his criticism opposite editors of mainstream media which has been demonising a Jul 9 convene called by Bersih 2.0 in favour of giveaway as well as fair elections.
For a mainstream media, BERSIH is dirty. Im additionally surprised, since these experienced pressmen who have won awards here as well as there, can allegation BERSIH. we know they have been from a carma group.
Fortunately there is still a tiny number of writers who brave to take a stand, who know which BERSIH is pure, Samad told a 250-strong public who packaged a Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall meeting house underneath a watchful eyes of several plainclothes policemen.
The launch, which had Samad as well as Lembah Pantai MP cum PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah 
Anwar as guests, was hold few hours after military incarcerated 6 Parti Sosialis Malaysia l! eaders w ithout hearing underneath Emergency Ordinance since of their involvement with unfamiliar elements. They were additionally said to have rebellious tendencies.
Yellow Ribbons
Although those who attended a launch, including former PKR emissary boss as well as Senator Syed Husin Ali as well as Selangor exco member Elizabeth Wong, were not ready to go in yellow, many wore yellow armbands to demonstrate their await for BERSIH 2.0.
One Chinese male in a public was spotted wearing a banned BERSIH T-shirt underneath a white cloth. He usually showed a yellow t-shirt when taking a sketch with Samad as well as Zunar.
Unperturbed by a arrests in propinquity to a BERSIH rally, Nurul , but naming it, continued to call a open to attend it upon Jul 9. Lets stick upon a convene which cannot be named, which will be hold a single day after a Prime Minister leaves for Europe, she quipped.
On a crackdown of BERSIH supporters, Samad commented which a spook of a communist bogeyman was intentionally regenerated by a authorities to create a atmosphere of fear in order to pave a approach for some-more arrests.
Now is a era of intimidation, so which a people have been discreet as well as brave not protest. Obviously a archaic laws have been resurrected to oppress (critics). There is an illusion, usually dual persons have it. we dont need to say who they have been since a military is usually taking orders (from them). Sometimes a apparition of a military is additionally extraordinary, he said.
Era of Arrests
Pak Samad, as he is popularly known, warned which a polices preference to stop negotiationswith Bersih2.0 signalled which mass arrests have been imminent.
This equates to you have been entering a era of arrests. Zunar has to be prepared. we additionally have to be prepared. May God magnify me, he said to a round of appla! use as w ell as entertaining from a audience.
Last week a military had called Samad to give a statement over his poem recital during a BERSIH 2.0 event. He is being investigated underneath Section 4(1)(b) of t! he Sedit ion Act 1948 as well as Section 27(5) of a Police Act 1967 which is associated to unlawful assembly.
Samad, a distinguished Malay producer as well as novelist, is no foreigner to criticism rallies, being a single of a big names who assimilated a March 2009 mass entertainment to criticism a governments process upon a teaching of Science as well as Mathematics in English (PPSMI). He was celebrated as a inhabitant laureate, or Sasterawan Negara, in 1985.
The ultimate animation announcement of Zunar patrician Even My Pen Has a Stand is published by Kinibooks, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysiakini. The book features a pick up of his domestic cartoons which have appeared upon a headlines portal from September 2010 to Jun 2011 as well as in Cartoonmovement.com, an international animation website.
During a book launch final night, Zunar reiterated he will continue to demonstrate his critical views opposite a powers-that-be by his cartoons.
Im very happy to attend my own book launch since final year we could not attend. This sunrise we told my mother to hope for things similar to a toothbrush for me to enter a apprehension centre, he quipped, sending his public into guffaws.
Zunar, whose real name Zulkiflee SM Anwar Ulhaque, was arrested upon Sept 24 final year as well as was sealed up for dual days only hours prior to a launch of his penultimate animation book.
Prior to that, a supervision had additionally banned 6 of his animation books. However Zunar will miss a Jul 9 convene as he will fly to Florida, US, today to embrace a Award for Courage in! Editori al Cartooning from US-based Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI).
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