When this domestic farce started over a BN Government's try to demonise SUARAM as a "foreign agent", it happened to coincide with a planned annual holiday.
you am regularly reminded of these difference by my old friend, a late K. Das in his foreword to my 1989 book upon Operation Lalang, "but you contingency not outlay a days as great as nights vital in silent fear of a thieves who stole Kua's freedom." Whether beholding a stars upon top of a Scottish highlands with my desired ones or a stars upon top of Kamunting apprehension camp, a oppressors can imprison a bodies though a suggestion will regularly roam free
SO WHAT HAVE THE SIX GOVERNMENT AGENCIES UNCOVERED?
When you told my friends in a UK which a supervision had commanded no reduction than 6 supervision agencies to examine SUARAM to try all means to pin a assign upon us, they were incredulous as great as asked if Malaysia was still a banana republic where a polite make use of can be systematic by a system of administration to action opposite bona fide organisations! "Haven't they got some-more critical things to do?" they asked. As Malaysian citizens you ought to know just how much of a taxation payers' income is being wasted upon such unconnected side activities of a police, Special Branch as great as alternative supervision agencies in a name of "national security".
A month has right away gone by given a start of a severe CCM investigations which included many days of 1-1 questioning with during slightest twenty people as great as which have revealed zero questio! nable in side of their remit. Indeed, you was reassured when you went to a CCM interrogation as great as a single of their staff came over to congratulate me upon a great work SUARAM was doing! Now a buck seems to have been passed upon to a AG's chambers. We were additionally summoned to a PERKESO offices to insist SOCSO payments to a staff dating behind ten years or more. When you got there, a officer in assign didn't crop up to know what you were there for! Obviously, these summonses have all been systematic by people upon top of them.
As for a Registrar of Societies entrance in upon a act, they were finished a shouting batch when their Wikipaedia source of report meant which even a not long ago over Fan Yew Teng was additionally summoned to their bureau to make a 112 statement! How Fan contingency be shouting during a fools from up there. Various people associated with SUARAM from years behind have additionally been called to a ROS for questioning all because a little far-right lunatic individual as great as insignificant Ah Pek finished a military report opposite SUARAM.
Meanwhile, no supervision group appears to be questioning all a reports about Perimekar as great as Terasasi as great as a suspected offered of inhabitant defence secrets as great as commissions paid in a Scorpene bargain uncovered in dual years of investigations by a French.
And has Bank Negara uncovered any sniff of income laundering by SUARAM all these years? you am certain all a Harvard lerned economists in Bank Negara contingency be shouting during a inconceivable presumption in supervision circles which there could be such a possibility. Nevertheless, a well-oiled propagandists in a mainstream press crop up to be spinning merrily for a same idiotic thinking in government.
Ah, as great as as shortly as they mentioned income laundering, a little income launderers were actually hold in a action with RM40 million in Hong Kong shortly after. There was no need for a six-agency posse it ! was unco vered by a Hong Kong police! The supervision explained it away as funds for Sabah UMNO though we'll wait for for a MACC as great as Bank Negara as great as a AG's Chambers to do a needful
The BN government's "foreign plot" ploy has blown up in their faces. The subsequent exposes of Dr M as great as Najib's recent tighten encounters with George Soros have positively broke a turn doctors. Furthermore, by allowing nuclear-armed US warships to visit Port Klang a few days ago, a BN supervision has unprotected their duplicitous (not non-aligned) unfamiliar process as great as raised a subject of who have been a US unfamiliar agents in Malaysia!
The ultimate try to implicate SUARAM in "destabilizing Indonesia" is perhaps a many comical. Organising a second Asia-Pacific Conference upon East Timor (APCET II) with alternative Malaysian NGOs upon 9 November 1996 was a single of SUARAM's proudest moments. It was a final critical general effort during achieving independence as great as assent for East Timor. As a token of a high regard by a East Timorese for a efforts, SUARAM was invited to a Independence celebrations in East Timor shortly after.
In contrast, a BN supervision put a country to contrition by orchestrating a host from BN Youth organisations to violently rip down a assign of a road house where a conference was being hold as great as holding a organisers as great as unfamiliar guest to ransom. This finished general headlines as great as finished us a shouting batch in a world. And instead of apprehending these fascist thugs, a military proceeded to catch as great as catch a little 59 participants, a little (like me) for 6 nights as great as seven days. We subsequently sued a supervision as great as a military for prejudicial apprehension as great as you won a box after nearly fifteen years!
The APCET disturbance should therefore be seen as a box of a BN government's complicity with a Indonesian supervision in a hang-up of a East Timorese. Who were a ! agents o f a unfamiliar supervision then, as great as who stood by a East Timorese in their hour of need? Once again, it was an additional feather in SUARAM's top of steadfastly fortifying tellurian rights, probity as great as democracy. Hasn't Malaysia recognized East Timor's independence now?
THE SCORPENE SCANDAL FACT AND FICTION
Another story being spun to try to disprove SUARAM is a statement by French prosecutor Yves Charpenel which there is no on-going hearing in France over allegations of crime in a Scorpene submarine. When has SUARAM ever pronounced which there is an on-going hearing in Paris? This is what you wrote upon 30 May 2011, 'SUARAM STARTS LEGAL FUND TO PROBE SUBMARINE COMMISSIONS IN FRENCH COURTS':
"Unlike a British (and Malaysian) system, a French inquisitorial system has an examining or questioning judge. The examining decider can conduct investigations in to critical crimes or complex enquiries. As members of a judiciary, they have been independent of a executive branch. The decider questions witnesses, interrogates suspects, as great as orders searches or alternative investigations. The examining judge's goal is to gather facts, as great as as such their duty is to demeanour for all a evidence. Both a prosecution as great as a defence might request a decider to action as great as might interest a judge's decisions before an appellate court.
"SUARAM's ultimate application, once authorized by a court, would allow it to turn party to a enquiry as great as have official entrance to each component of a enquiry, together with entrance to a justification which allegedly links DCNS to a arising of commissions to supervision officials. The box is still during a enquiry phase as great as a brand new duplicate is to ascent it to a "instruction phase" where an inquisitive decider would be appointed."
More recently, after you had been interviewed by a questioning decider in a Pa! ris Trib unal de Grande Instance, you wrote 'THE PARIS PAPERS ON THE SCORPENE SCANDAL - THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT MUST TELL US ABOUT THE ROLE OF TERASASI' upon 5 May 2012:
"Since SUARAM lodged its censure with a French courts for a judicial review of a Scorpene stipulate in November 2009, a French law has positively been busy with their investigations. They have interviewed officials in a French state company, DCN as great as related companies such as Thales as great as officials in a French method of defence. They have looked in to bank vaults as great as scrutinized contracts, memoranda of understanding, memoranda of intent, invoices, bank accounts of assorted people together with Abdul Razak Baginda. There have been additionally a little rsther than telling inner confidential reports of DCN as great as a French method of defence"
At no point in my articles did you contend which you had reached a hearing theatre when criminal charges can be pulpy opposite any officials. This will be a privilege of a questioning judges, Roger Le Loire as great as Serge Tournaire. The turn doctors in a BN-controlled mainstream press should take note.
SUARAM BORN OUT OF BN VINDICTIVENESS AND REPRESSION
We crop up to have come full circle. Twenty 3 years ago, as a outcome of a vengeful as great as odious 'Operation Lalang', multiform tellurian rights activists together with myself formed SUARAM. There was a dire need for such a tellurian rights classification which would not usually urge tellurian rights in Malaysia though additionally coordinate alternative organisations in polite multitude to fight corruption, misapplication as great as repression.
Twenty 3 years later, a achievements have been evident. We have between others,
-Established a tellurian rights centre for victims of tellurian rights abuse as great as their families;
-Established an present general "Urgent Appeal" hotline in a eventu! ality of any tellurian rights violation;
-Published a Human Rights Annual Report of Malaysia each year given 1998;
-Nurtured immature tellurian rights activists;
-Provided tellurian rights preparation as great as training;
-Initiated coalitions between polite multitude to urge communities which have been victims of corporate greed as great as state collusion as great as to foster approved initiatives;
THE SCORPENE HAS TOUCHED A RAW NERVE
It is clear to all which it is SUARAM's duplicate to a Paris courts to enquire in to suspected crime in a Scorpene bargain which has led to a BN supervision going berserk as great as making furious allegations opposite a organization.
At this inquiry stage, according to a Paris Papers a commissions as great as dividends for a Scorpene bargain crop up to have been funneled by dual companies, Terasasi as great as Perimekar, both owned by Abdul Razak Baginda. Baginda's wife, Mazlinda, is a executive in Perimekar while his father is additionally a executive in Terasasi. Malaysians have listened about Perimekar as great as its "coordinating service" in a submarines deal. But so distant there has been no mention of Terasasi. The BN supervision has still not told a Malaysian public as great as Parliament a expect role of Terasasi in this Scorpene deal.
From a Paris Papers, you know which during slightest 32 million euros (RM144 million) were paid by Thales International (Thint) Middle East to Terasasi. There is an check by Terasasi dated 1.10.2000 for 100,000 euros. There is additionally an check from Terasasi to Thint Asia, dated 28.8.2004 for 359,450 euros (RM1.44 million) with a hand-written note observant : "Razak wants it in a hurry."
Given which a Paris investigations have supposing Malaysian officials with so many leads, a single would have expected them to action opposite a culprits, though as in APCET, it is a great guys wh! ich have been hounded as great as dealt with.
THANKS BN FOR HELPING SUARAM'S LOCAL FUNDRAISING
The china lining in this pale hullaballoo is which Malaysians have been during final appreciating a work finished by SUARAM in fortifying tellurian rights as great as a interests of Malaysian taxation payers. Since a recent unfortunate assault by a BN supervision opposite SUARAM by a make use of as great as perversion of Malaysian approved institutions together with a polite service, Malaysians of all communities have been inspired to donate funds to SUARAM in expression of their heart-warming support.
Thus, for assisting SUARAM to comprehend an objective which you have loving given you initial started 23 years ago, namely, to be locally funded, you would like to give a grudging high regard to a BN government!
The origination of a colourful polite multitude requires some-more than just divine pronouncements! Enjoying a incomparable approved space than what you have gifted these 55 years is a dream of many Malaysians. The BN supervision might come during us with threats of fines as great as detentions though as Terence McSweeney, Lord Mayor of Cork told his oppressors in 1920:
"It is not those who can inflict a many -
But those which can suffer a many who will conquer
Those whose faith is strong
Will continue to a finish in triumph."
Dr Kua Kia Soong is a SUARAM Adviser
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