An impromptu anti-ISA vigil to mark the 50th anniversary of the ISA was held outside the Jelutong Police Station in Penang for a good half an hour after the one planned at the Speakers’ Square was disrupted, reports Anil Netto.
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The lop-sided nature of the face off is reflected in Ms Batek’s poem, which contrasts the baton-toting police with the candle-bearing protesters. This issue focuses on women, the gender gap and the quest for gender equality. Francis Loh reports on a landmark conference in Penang on ‘Gender mainstreaming: Justice for all’. Gender equality is about both women and men. It is not a women’s agenda but a social justice agenda, says Chong Eng, adding that political solutions [...] Ordinary Malaysians are not naive: they see the difference between the police treatment of the pro-ISA group and the anti-ISA activists and they understand the biased treatment. The police action only makes the people turn against the BN, observes P Ramakrishnan. When D R Seenivasagam spoke out against the passing of the Internal Security Act as an instrument of intimidation 50 years ago, few realised how prophetic his words were, writes Tan Pek Leng. |
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16 May 2012 (10:40) Umno, how much did you spend to bring your crowd? Hello P.Ramakrishnan, Please don't start lying to the readers. You wrote 'The Bersih 3.0 crowd came willingly and voluntarily and spontaneously. There was no inducement.' 'There was no inducement'? Are you really sure or you are just play...