December 14, 2011
UK's The Guardian: Guilty outcome opposite Anwar Ibrahim will harm Malaysia's reputation
by Malaysiakini
Influential British newspaper The Guardian says Anwar Ibrahim will expected be handed a guilty outcome in a Sodomy II trial, as well as warned which it will exceedingly harm Malaysia's reputation in terms of democracy.
In a hard-hitting column by Assistant Editor Simon Tidall, pronounced a only person to censure should this happen is Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak. Tidall warned which "the portents do not look good" for Anwar, as a box winds to a close.
Plying scathing critique over what he sees as Najib's "authoritarian tendencies" as well as "blatant scare-mongering", a unfamiliar affairs columnist urged Malaysia's Western allies to "take a closer look during their friend".
"Malaysia is valued as a trade partner, counter-proliferation collaborator, as well as person not in a armed forces part of of a Afghanistan coalition. But a government's tellurian rights record as well as approved practices consequence closer scrutiny
"As Anwar's distress approaches an nauseous climax, it seems increasingly doubtful which these benchmarks will be met. The next subject is: what will Malaysians as well as their friends do about it?"
According to Tidall, a sodomy charges, which were levelled soon after Pakatan Rakyat took over five states in a 2008 ubiquitous election, "hardly seems coincidental". "As a charismatic personality of a opposition coalition, Anwar represents a greatest challenge to (Najib's) stability ascendancy," he says.
Describing a Prime Minister as someone "born to power" as well as "accustomed to wielding it",
Tidall argued which Najib's prosaic rejection of a swindling opposite Anwar was suspect, deliberation a latter's 1998 sodomy charge. "The recycling of sodomy accusations suggests a miss of newness evil of a Prime Minister," Tidall says.
'Najib becoming paranoid'
The Assistant Editor also opined which a timing of a imminent verdict, alongside a lead-up to a 13th ubiquitous election, also lends credence to a swindling theory."Najib gives each coming of preparing for snap polls upon a assumption which Anwar will be out of a approach as well as a opposition (will be) decapitated," he said.
Adding to this, he said, is a recently-passed Peaceful Assembly Bill, which Tidall sees as a pointer which Najib is not receiving any chances.
Coming upon a tails of a Bersih 2.0 rally in July, he pronounced which a Bill "reneged upon shaky, post-July promises of polite rights reforms" as well as shows which Najib is succumbing to "paranoia".
"Now Najib is receiving no chances as his lieutenants warn which Anwar is fomenting an Arab Spring-style uprising a so-called 'hibiscus revolution' ," writes Tidall.
"But Khairy Jamaluddin, UMNO's Youth-wing leader, articulated Najib's mental disorder last month when he indicted Anwar's bloc of 'trying tough to make panic as well as disorder' by compelling street rallies instead of elections."
Anwar has been charged with sodomising his then help Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan upon Jun 26, 2008. Following submissions earlier this week, a counterclaim is due to reply tomorrow to points made by a prosecution. Justice Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah will then set a date for a verdict.
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