October 26, 2o12
One Man's Political Insecurity : 1987 Operation Lalang
by Lim Kit Siang@www.malaysiakini.com
MP SPEAKS Tomorrow outlines the 25th anniversary of Operation Lalang which brought about the darkest days for democracy as well as tellurian rights in the nation's history.
There was not only the arrest of 106 Malaysians, together with opposition leaders sixteen of whom were from the DAP, together with MPs as well as state assemblypersons traffic unionists, social activists, academics, environmentalists, Chinese educationists as well as eremite workers.
There was additionally the wholesale attacks upon press freedom with the closure of three newspapers, the merciless attacks upon the independence of the law as well as the order of law ensuing in the sacking of the Lord President as well as dual Supreme Court judges as well as the series of undemocratic legislation which caused the tectonic shift in the Malaysian political landscape, subordinating the legislative as well as legal branches to the senior manager or to be more exact to the fiat of the single person, the Prime Minister of the day.
The Government Transformation Programme of Prime Minister Najib Razak has promised to make Malaysia "the most appropriate democracy of the world", though after more than 42 months of his premiership, Malaysia falls far short of the conditions to be the "normal democracy" let alone the "world's most appropriate democracy".
! This is illustrated by the warding off by the prime minister as well as the statute UMNO-BN coalition to make the open joining which they would fully accept the outcome of the citizens in the 13th ubiquitous choosing as well as would peacefully as well as uniformly send federal power to Pakatan Rakyat if this is the outcome of the Malaysian citizens in the ballot box.
It is transparent which the shift of government at the inhabitant level, for the first time in 55 years, is needed to remove all the ravages as well as adverse effects of the 25-year Operation Lalang upon democracy, tellurian rights as well as the inhabitant institutions whether it be the replacement of the truly eccentric law as well as the just order of law; the unshackling of senior manager usurpation of powers of Parliament as well as the judiciary.
Or whether it be the flourishing of the free as well as obliged media as well as the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, expression as well as information; proper checks as well as balance mechanisms to end corruption as well as abuses of power; as well as the replacement to all inhabitant institutions their impartiality, independence as well as professionalism.
On the arise of the 25th anniversary of Operation Lalang, let all Malaysians reaffirm their finalise to remove all the ravages of the Operation Lalang catastrophe in 1987, by the joined effort to make firm democracy, tellurian rights as well as inhabitant institutions so which there could be no recurrence of the Operation Lalang in future by choosing by casting votes solidly for the inhabitant shift of government in the entrance ubiquitous election.
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