Has he conducted any interviews with a Bersih leaders to get them to insist their positions? Or has he found them guilty but bothering to verbalise to them?
COMMENT
Friends have asked me what stirred a unusual hatchet pursuit which Chandra Muzaffar attempted upon a Bersih 3.0 movement as good as its leaders in his new essay misleadingly patrician 'Bersih as good as a Quest for Human Rights' published in various media. What was in a essay which could be of educational or scholarly worth to aver any close reading? Those captivated by a title might have expected an essay upon how a query for human rights in Malaysia might have taken upon uninformed urgency since a military disorderly play of a demonstrators as good as media, as good as a most instances of defilement of democratic rights.
In a internet as good as mainstream media, a issue of military brutality has become a categorical focus as good as memory of demonstrators as good as a Malaysian public. That could have been a subject which Chandra in defending a status quo could have brought uninformed insights from a human rights perspective.
However, he chose not to do so. Instead he topsy-turvy out a propagandistic square praising a domestic reforms undertaken as good as directed at demonizing a Bersih leaders as good as its supporters from a opposition.
His reminder about a "degree of integrity in a electoral process" as good as a actuality which there is no electoral routine in a universe which is all giveaway of blemish is quite a turn-around.
The Chandra of aged which you recollect was lucid, sardonic as good as critical of a unilateral! elector al personification margin in favour of a Barisan Nasional as good as a formidable array of unwashed tricks, including mal-apportionment as good as gerrymandering, it used to win elections.
This includes carry out of a mainstream mass media which is now unsurprisingly keen to tell any square which Chandra provides certainly a distant cry from past practice when he was with Aliran or a opposition.
In my countless conversations with him during a sixteen years which you were friends as good as colleagues at Universiti Sains Malaysia, you talked as good as shared similar views of a astray as good as un-free electoral routine as good as additionally of BN's strategy of a system which enabled it to reason upon to power indefinitely.
Today, Chandra seems to have altered his perspective upon a ruling celebration as good as most issues in a country, including which of a state of polite liberties. According to him, "[I]t is an incontrovertible actuality which by these legislative reforms [Peaceful Assembly Act, ISA repeal, etc] a space as good as range for a countenance as good as articulation of human rights has been stretched as good as extended as never before."
That "irrefutable fact", as Chandra terms it, is not irrefutable. It needs a thoroughfare of time as good as acknowledgment from a belligerent to discern what has been gained as good as whether a reforms have been substantive or simply cosmetic to capture regime change.
Sweeping or grandstanding statements such as a one above done by him have been beforehand as good as pound of domestic partisanship.
Where is Chandra of old?
Should Chandra, after conducting severe amicable science research tell a formula of his work confirming this "irrefutable fact", it might maybe help remonstrate sceptics which there has been "far reaching changes to domestic as good as polite liberties."
In a meantime, his pronouncements upon! a chang es in a nation have been reduction credible as good as reduction courteous than a one below, which could have come from a pen of a Chandra of old.
Excerpts from Muaz Omar: 'Claiming behind our freedom' (The Malaysian Insider, 3 May 2010) As a nation as good as its people developed as good as progressed, Umno has dragged its feet, not wanting to accept which a amicable as good as domestic fabric has changed.
They have been trapped in their aged ways continuing their primitive didactic discourse of oppression, rampant corruption as good as abuse of power as good as propagating religious as good as secular tensions.
Half-hearted as good as watered-down mutation policies by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak failed to diminish a enterprise of Malaysians for a better deal. The people have been not impressed by a lack of domestic will.
This resulted in a resounding success of Bersih 3.0 upon April twenty-eight in Kuala Lumpur as good as 80 alternative cities around a world.
Hundreds of thousands, often young, of all races attended a gathering in Kuala Lumpur peacefully until a demonstration military took action.
Ordinary Malaysians were knocked about up as good as tear-gassed. Even internal as good as unfamiliar media personnel were manhandled, a little with their apparatus destroyed as good as confiscated.
This black symbol upon Malaysian democracy reaffirms concerns which Najib lacks a enterprise or a will to reform.
His much-touted Peaceful Assembly Act did not yield any democratic polite rights to a people but is used to forcefully say a hegemony of his own party.
In short, Najib continues to engage in repressive as good as authoritarian strategy of former budding minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
The tenacity as good as enterprise of Malaysians for substantive change was evident during a rally.
As Najib as good as Umno-BN leaders try to downplay as good as d! ismiss t his direct by shifting blame as good as pointing fingers, Pakatan Rakyat needs to listen closely to Malaysians as good as not misread or take for postulated their enterprise for change.
The people swarmed a capital with a vigilant of claiming behind their freedom; they have been tired, they have been fed-up, as good as they have been angry.
Where is a evidence?
My final complaint with Chandra's essay is its rare attack upon a little of a Bersih as good as antithesis activists as "frauds as good as hypocrites but any frank commitment to leisure as good as democracy."
According to him, "[t]hrough their politics of deception as good as duplicity, they continue to manipulate mass sentiments for their own sinful agenda." These have been clever accusations, starting beyond even what a BN leaders have said.
Who have been these people which he describes as frauds as good as hypocrites? It is unethical to hide under a cover of generalization in creation these allegations.
Besides a requirement of fixing them, Chandra should comprehend which as a amicable scientist he must yield justification to infer his argument which they have been frauds as good as hypocrites.
What actions have they intent in to deserve such demonizing from a comparison amicable scientist holding a esteemed in front of of Noordin Sopiee Professor of Global Studies?
Has he conducted any interviews with a Bersih leaders to get them to insist their positions? Or has he found them guilty but bothering to verbalise to them?
Is this a perspective of pass eccentric respondents such as those who took partial in a rallies? Or is this a perspective of a larger population? Or maybe is it a perspective of a little of a BN leaders?
These as good as a innumerable of alternative questions need to be answered by Chandra. Otherwise he will be seen as an additional BN mouthpiece out to measure ! cheap po ints as good as using a disguise of educational in front of to bolster his politically inequitable opinion.
Lim Teck Ghee is a executive of Centre for Policy Initiatives.
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