If Prime Minister Najib Razak thought he had succeeded in pulling wool over the eyes of the Malaysian people as good as the international community with the slew of reforms which have been described as "whitewash", "insincere" as good as "sinister", he is terribly wrong - just like the fabulous Emperor who wore no clothes.
Just months ago, he was crowned co-champion of "double-talk" by the successful Washington Post when he deported Saudi publisher Hamza Kashgari home to sure torture as good as perhaps even death. The blunt-speaking by the US paper lifted eyebvrows as good as caused most to cough nervously in the corridors of energy in Putrajaya, the Malaysian administrative capital.
But no, Najib as good as his advisers would not take the spirit as good as clean up their act. Stubbornly, they clung to the idea which since they tranquil the local mainstream media, they held the top hand. If they told the distortion often enough, the people as good as the universe would hold them.
But no. Not usually has Najib's attempts to pass mesmerizing sleight-of-hand laws to good his own hold upon energy as 'genuine reforms' been seen through, they have additionally been slammed locally whilst the reputable Canadian newspaper has categorized him as being the "false democrat".
"False democracies give the impression of being freer than they unequivocally are, which means they rarely face the kind of international pressure which the fan nasty regimes get," pronounced the essay published upon Jun 8 by The Globe as good as Mail.
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Entitled'A 21st-century checklist of the brand new autocrats',the essay additionally places Najib in the same league as the world's worst autocrats. The writer Mark Mackinnon had categorised autocrats in to four groups - fake democrats, mad egotists, aroused populists as good as cruel capitalists.
Najib was put in to the initial category, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as good as Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. The 'ex-members' of the club have been former Yugoslavia boss Slobodan Milosevic as good as former Egypt boss Hosni Mubarak.
Mackinnon pronounced such leaders "hold elections but have no goal of giving up power" as good as their "serious domestic rivals have been jailed as good as their parties have been outlawed upon authorised technicalities".
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As such, there is reason for goal in countries governed by these leaders as the "false democracies" practised by them combined the probability of change.
"Mr Milosevic as good as Mr Mubarak were ousted since citizens used the domestic space authorised them in the fake democracy... The subsequent choosing in Malaysia promises to be interesting," pronounced Mackinnon.
However, in the rebuttal published today, the Malaysian Foreign Affairs Ministry minute the list of reforms instituted by Najib over the past 3 years, describing these as "an impressive track jot down by anyone's standards".
The reforms included the extermination of Internal Security Act, finale of the 60-year state of emergency, measures to enlarge media freedom, amendment to the Universities as good as University Colleges Act, the enactment of the Peaceful Assembly Act, announcement to review the Sedition Act, ! dissolut ion of the Banishment Act as good as the Restricted Residences Act, as good as the doing of electoral reforms.
"This perspective does not tally with the fact which the antithesis won an rare number of seats in the last election.Next time round, Malaysians will again be giveaway to choose who they wish to lead their country - as good as while the budding apportion takes nothing for granted, he hopes he will be since the mandate to continue Malaysia's transformation," fumed foreign method under-secretary Ahmad Rozian in his letter.
Malaysia Chronicle
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