Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin must be the most misinformed minister about parliamentary democracy and accountability. He seems at a loss as to understand the workings of a democracy or appreciate the functions of Parliament.
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Mesyuarat Agung Tahunan Aliran hari ini merakamkan kebimbangan mengenai perkembangan-perkembangan terkini bersabit dengan hubungan etnik dan agama yang semakin merosot. Khususnya semangat perkauman dan agama telah disemarakkan tanpa segan silu oleh beberapa pemimpin UMNO dalam perhimpunan agung baru-baru ini.
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Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo doesn’t make any sense when he revealed that he had asked Datuk Zakaria Mat Deros to resign before Zakaria’s audience with the Sultan of Selangor. It is a PR exercise to improve his sagging image in this atrocious saga. His subsequent ultimatum to Zakaria to resign by 8 November 2006 only exposes his quandary for having allowed this scandal to prevail.
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The current crackdown on undocumented migrants is nothing new. Such operations have been taking place for years but the problems of human rights violations by immigration authorities and RELA continue with the constant influx of undocumented migrants. Amongst these are refugees and asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution and death in their home countries.
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Aliran views with deep concern the furore sparked by research group Asli’s recent findings on bumiputra equity ownership which led to the unfortunate but principled resignation of its research director, Dr Lim Teck Ghee. The episode touches on important questions of freedom of inquiry and of expression that are the cornerstones of any research that values high standards of investigation, intellectual rigour and integrity.
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Aliran is perturbed that police have begun investigations into a Malaysiakini report which allegedly slandered the police. The news portal’s breaking news-report had initially stated – incorrectly as it turned out – that police personnel could have been involved in the incident in which a man sprayed chemical irritant at former premier Tun Dr Mahathir and former Umno strongman Datuk Ibrahim Ali.
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Aliran strongly protests United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Malaysia in conjunction with the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference this week. We take this position in view of the United States’ implicit complicity in its ally Israel’s naked military aggression against neighbouring Palestine and Lebanon.
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Aliran is amazed that the people of Penang are being told that their State Government is not in charge of the administration of public transport in the state and therefore the State Government is redundant.
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Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli’s claim in his court document that he was directed by the two Tuns (former premier Mahathir and his then economics tsar, Daim Zainudin) to buy shares in Malaysia Airlines (MAS) as a form of ‘national service’ is nothing less than a bombshell.
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Aliran condemns the brutal treatment meted out by the police against demonstrators protesting against electricity tariff and petrol price hikes in the vicinity of the KLCC on Sunday.
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