Mind you, we am not talking about money dispensing machines sticking out from a walls of banks in a country. we am referring to a Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM) or a Malaysian armed forces.
The latest revelations of postal opinion rascal in a ATM is not in a least bit startling as there have been complaints of it dating back to a last 3 general elections. Postal votes of armed forces crew have always been think as well as a BN has never abandoned a practise despite a advice of many clarity experts.
But still it is a very serious claim which warrants evident investigation.
A bad example
To top it all, Armed Forces arch General Zulkifeli Mohd Zin has vehemently denied a allegations. He even warned which it was "treachery" for staff to blow a alarm upon their bosses. The ATM (armed forces) is a nation's wall of counterclaim which should be supported by all levels of a people, regardless of ethnicity, religion as well as political position," Gen Zul said.
The 4 whistleblowers who irritated Gen Zulkifeli by starting open last week have been Major (Rtd) Risman Mastor, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, Mohamed Nasir Ahmad as well as Mohd Kamil Omar. They admitted to imprinting thousands of postal votes in three separate general elections between 1978 as well as 1999. At a orders of their autocratic officers, they said they marked a postal votes upon interest of colleagues who were out in a field. Of course, a 'mark' was for a BN ruling coalition.
Their startling explanation came just days after another ex-army male made a identical claim. Gen Zulkifeli was rught divided cursed for his ! undisgui sed denial! of poss ible irregularities in a postal choosing by casting votes system as well as his depiction of alarm blowers as traitors as well as betrayers.' The substantial hazard in his difference were clear. Few Malaysians have been willing to get caught in 'treasonous' activities or even be accused of doing so.
Stay an armed forces of honour as well as not of rot
The Malaysian armed forces is a professional army, unlike a little countries who depends upon volunteer corps. The armed forces is well known for a professionalism, integrity, honour, autonomy as well as high degree of discipline. Soldiers have been taught to scapegoat themselves in a counterclaim of a republic during all cost. Just similar to civilians, a uniformed units have been additionally adults of a country, with a right to opinion as well as choose their leaders. So, it is saddening to know which a little of them have been forfeited of their right by unethical hands hijacking their identities as well as choosing by casting votes upon their interest without notifying them while they were away.
The military is additionally ostensible to be apolitical, eccentric as well as just to a supervision of a day. It's avocation is to a King as well as a country. Therefore, it is not only wrong, but a good inhabitant disservice to train open servants as well as a armed forces to be more loyal to BN than to a country. It is additionally a grevious wrong to proportion loyalty to a BN as loyalty to a country.
It is hard to believe which BN has no believe of this. It is in truth intolerable to eventually listen to from a horse's mouths which there have been hidden hands who have been propping up a supervision by such untrustworthy deals, all for a sake of ensuring a BN feat come each election. For a Chief of a Armed Forces to deny a occurrence of such choosing by casting votes rascal without a thorough review is thus all unbecoming. Instead of allaying a fears of a public, Gen Zulkifeli is t! hreateni ng his junior counterparts as well as accusing them of leaking 'military secrets'.
But branding a revelations by a five armed forces alarm blowers as an action of traitors is all ridiculou! s. If an ything, they should be called patriots for upholding a truth as well as for divulgence a extensive rot in a electoral system. They should in fact be accorded military protection for their drastic acts.
Last line of counterclaim for a people in a eventuality of unethical regimes
The armed forces is seen as a last bastion of counterclaim in this country, as well as should all else destroy a people will welcome a military takeover of a republic or simply called a manoeuvre detat in a eventuality which unscruplous leaders as well as regimes pass a country. But unhappy to say, Malaysians have been not likely to be able to rely upon their armed forces to shield them from such harm or to urge a nation.
Many nations in a past have seen their armies stage a manoeuvre to unseat a tyrannical regime, taking upon a proxy role of maintaining a little form of supervision until uninformed elections have been hold to lapse a power to a people. Thailand, Indonesia as well as a Philippines have seen such manoeuvre attempts before, even yet not all have been successful. We unequivocally hope which Malaysia never has to knowledge such an event, as we believe which in a end, a truth will overcome - even amongst a BN as well as their supporters.
Many Malaysians have commented which a border of crime in a ranks of Malaysia's supervision from a PM downwards to a lower-level officers must be mind-blowing for a rot to widespread all a approach to a armed forces, one of a nation's institutional pillars of democracy. This is unequivocally saddening as well as warrants a total revamp of government.
The armed Forces should not hide a truth to strengthen a wrong. Nobody with a conscience as well as a fear of God would cover such malpractices as corrutpion as well a! s electo ral fraud. It is additionally called cheating. One wonders now, could it have been probable for a Opposition to secure 90 per cent of a opinion in a 2008 choosing if such rascal had not occured?
The police force too has mislaid many of a credibility due to perceived disposition towar! ds a r uling party during a expense of a people. So, it would be many disappointing to know which a Armed Forces of Malaysia is additionally losing a independence.
- Malaysia Chronicle
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