The two faces of Malaysia



by Mariam Mokhtar
Malaysiakini
Feb 18, 2013
Like the coin, Malaysia has dual sides; the traveller experiences the tropical idyll, the selling bliss as well as gastronomic delights, but the male in the travel sees the obverse.
azlanIn the markets, housewives blubber about the increasing prices of everyday food items, but during any Malaysian Airlines check-in counter in London, New York, Dubai or Sydney, the single can see Malaysian officials as well as their spouses deposition box after box of shopping. It is alleged which they occasionally compensate additional container charges.
To contend which Malaysia is the republic in disharmony is an understatement. Minister after apportion shows levels of incompetency which any half-decent association would never permit. Who runs the country? Who is in charge? Is Malaysia similar to an air plane cruising upon auto-pilot until it crashes when it runs out of fuel?
While ministers have been busy personification politics, the republic is going to ruin. In Sabah, former budding apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad's 'Project M', made bootleg immigrants instant adults of Malaysia. Last week, more than 100 armed foreigners breezed in as well as assigned the village, without any resistance.
Elsewhere in Malaysia, people of distinction, whose only weapons have been truth as well as the tenets of justice as well as democracy, have been tormented as well as disheartened from entering Malaysia, or have been deported. These people include the French counsel behaving upon interest of Suaram, the British counsel behaving upon interest of Hindraf, Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand as well as Australian Senator Nick Xenophon.
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The Malaysian navy boasts an considerable as well as expensive array of weaponry, together with submarines as well as fast naval boats. Despite this, the armed forces were held unawares by the militants. The Star reported which in the press conference, Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said, "These group have been not terrorists." Most Malaysians consider which when 100 armed rebels invade, they have been terrorists, not accessible visitors.
NONEForeign Minister Anifah Aman, who bungled the new argumentative outing to Gaza by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, has confirmed the low profile. With armed foreigners upon their doorsteps, Malaysians, in all Sabahans, competence be reassured by an central matter from Wisma Putra regarding this impasse.
Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein pronounced you should leave the confidence forces to understanding with the situation, "Let the authorities with the imagination as well as responsibility finalise it without bloodshed. If anyone is killed, afterwards the government as well as authorities will stand accused."
Hishammuddin's words sound hollow. If only he practical the same standards to his own military force when they attacked Bersih demonstrators, caused hundreds of deaths in military custody, indiscriminately fire during people, together with teenagers as well as women, or allegedly beat confidence guard C Sugumar to death.
NONEAmong Najib's list of skills is his prowess as the drummer in the Chinese lion dance. More notable is his economy with words, in all in critical situations. Has he turn the Benedictine priest as well as taken the vouch of silence? It is most shocking which he has pronounced zero about the rebel threat.
Is he still licking his wounds, after the humiliations which he suffered in Penang during the Psy concert?
In Sabah final November, dual group the manager of an oil palm estate as well as his assistant were kidnapped by armed gro! up as we ll as taken to southern Philippines. As the outcome of this, marine patrols were increased, in all as there were rumours which armed militia from the Philippines were scheming to land in Lahad Datu.
Days after this abduction, group armed with M16 rifles raided the fishing height off Tawau as well as took divided the 40kg bag of ikan bilis value an estimated RM350. Were these group contrast the capacity of the confidence defences in the area? They were not challenged, so it is possible which multiform more group have slipped in to the republic in between November 2012 as well as Feb 2013.
Could there be an additional more simple reason for the Sabah incursion?
Sabah intrusion not seen as the threat
The armed forces as well as military see no hazard in the 100 armed rebels as well as yet an Australian senator is viewed to be an "enemy of the state". A casual, roughly complacent, "tidak apa" attitude has been adopted by the leaders.
NONEWe have been aware which BN is trying to obstruct the attention from the damaging revelations which have been unearthed by the Sabah Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI). It is in all loyal which reports from the intelligence services have been good. How is it which they were held confused in Sabah?
Could the genuine reason be an additional distraction? It is without disbelief which BN will do its pinnacle to lie in the entrance general election.
The good-for-nothing attitude of the ministers as well as authorities suggests which BN is trying to execute Najib as the "hero" who saves the republic from an armed invasion. Is it an try to have Sabahans gratified to BN as well as so opinion them in?
Perhaps, Najib is going to make use of the armed rebels as an excuse to station multiform armed forces units in Sabah as well as afterwards lie regulating the armed forces votes as well as postal votes.
In the worst case scenario, will Najib make ! use of t he rebels as the ploy to acknowledgement emergency rule to delay the choosing as well as instil fear in Malaysians?
Najib appears clueless as well as is silent about the invasion. This competence be the plot to confuse him as well as uncover him as an inept leader, hatched by none other than Mahathir as well as those who have been plotting to overpower Najib.
Do you unequivocally want to be ruled by the party which expends its energy upon internecine wars rsther than than ruling the country? We must opinion for the party which will lead us, the republic as well as all Malaysians, to assent as well as prosperity, as well as ban the enemies but not the friends.
MARIAM MOKHTAR is the non-conformist traditionalist from Perak, the bucket chemist as well as an armchair eco-warrior. In 'real-speak', this translates in to which she comes from Ipoh, values change but respects culture, is the inorganic substance chemist as well as also an environmental pollution-control scientist.
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