July 12, 2012
What Act? National Harmony ACT! Not Again
by Maria Begum, Malaysia Chronicle
Prime Minister Najib Razak astounded a nation upon Wednesday night when he voiced which a dreaded Sedition Act 1948 will be repealed as well as transposed by a brand brand brand brand new act well known as a National Harmony Act.
Sad to say, he unsuccessful to remonstrate his countrymen which a brand brand brand brand new law heralded real change. Critics forked at a slew of brand brand brand brand new legislation he has introduced in a arise of a Jul 9 2011 BERSIH 2.0 rally, following which his leadership came underneath complicated fire for regulating earthy force to relieve a pacific civilians protest for purify polls.
Indeed, instead of expanding a democratic space, Najib's brand brand brand brand new deputy laws contained clauses which essentially gave a Police larger energy than before. And upon Apr twenty-eight this year, when a ultimate BERSIH 3.0 rally for purify polls pulled in a 250,000-strong crowd, Najib succumbed to insecurity as well as paranoia which he competence be defeated as well as ordered a single of bloodiest Police crackdowns in brand brand brand new history.
His administration has since charged Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and
two other PKR leaders Azmin Ali as well as Badrul Hisham Shaharin underneath a not long ago tabled Peaceful Assembly Act for allegedly instigating a BERSIH 3.0 police violence.
When Najib first voiced a Peaceful Assembly Act, he had betrothed a brand brand brand brand new law would acceler! ate a ci tizens' rights to pacific gatherings. However, a brand brand brand brand new legislation incited out to be an even larger oppression.
"Najib cannot be devoted to dissolution oppressive laws. He misled a rakyat (people) as well as went back upon his word when he betrothed to liberalize media laws as well as public laws. He additionally transposed a Internal Security Act with some-more oppressive detention laws," PKR Vice President N Surendran told Malaysia Chronicle.
"This brand brand brand brand new proclamation is a bad joke upon a rakyat. Najib has done himself ridiculous with this brand brand brand brand new announcement. The Sedition Act contingency be repealed in a entirety. Why should there be replacement."
So much verbiage
At a Attorney General's Chambers' cooking in Kuala Lumpur, Najib had said in repealing a 64-year-old Sedition Act, his government would have to find "a mechanism which could ensure a most appropriate change in between a need to pledge a leisure of speech for each adult as well as a need to hoop a complexity of comparison existent in a country".
"With this brand brand brand brand new act we would be better versed to manage our inhabitant error lines. It will additionally assistance to strengthen inhabitant congruity by safeguarding inhabitant togetherness as well as nurturing eremite harmony," said Najib.
But as Surendran as well as other Opposition leaders warned, frame away a prolix as well as let brand brand brand brand new National Harmony Act be assessed upon a own merit.
Until a sum are announced, given Najib's disastrous track record, it would be safer to pretence which a changes would either be cosmetic or will contain a 'killer' clause which hands a authorities larger poke than prior to despite i! n a redu ction viewable or direct way.
Malaysia Chronicle
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