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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama present give away Secretary of State’s Award for International Women of Courage to Malaysia ‘s Ambiga Sreenevasan (Malaysian Bar Council) at the State Department in Washington , DC (AFP)
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Santaclaws-who gives and takes in his own terms!
Very otherwise funny things are happening around Bersih rally:
1. Mahathir claimed that the rally may become a Malay vs non-Malay brawl; Perkasa seems more updated than the old man-they claimed that the pro- and anti-free elections clash will be well represented by Malays on both sides; Mathathir who wear a racial blinkers on his eyes all his life seems to be outdated;
2. Ali Rustam, UMNO’s warlord, want to strip Ambiga of her citizenship! He really is someone `pantang dicabar’(can’t accept any challenge). Is he mentally challenged or egotictically challeneged?
3. Najib made personal attacks on Ambiga as someone who is anti-Islam because she represented a muslim Lina Joy who wanted out of the religion. Does it mean that Najib do not allow any legal representations for muslims who want to get out of the religion if he has his ways? His commitment to rule of laws seems suspect!
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It has been confirmed that Bersih has finally spreaded to Sabah and Sarawak! An organiser of the Sabah Bersih rally even applied for a police permit t assemble peacefully at the Padang Merdeka, KK, on July 9th, with a contact person by the name Atama. The notice appear in UBF’s facebook page. Atama appeared as one of the persons interviewed in a PKR video released recently. Some PKR and PAS activists were arrested in Sabah this morning.
Before this there has been talk of smaller Bersih rallies to be held in Kuching and KK by some local groups there.
An outspoken singer has come forward to organise the Bersih 2.0 rally in Kota Kinabalu.
KOTA KINABALU: An outspoken local singer, Atama, is leading the Bersih campaign in Kota Kinabalu, come July 9.
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PRESS STATEMENT: 2 July 2011
MORE ARRESTS AND THREATS -
THE CAMPAIGN OF INTIMIDATION AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS CONTINUES
SUARAM condemns the continuing campaign of intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders by the government of Malaysia. Since 22 June, over 100 individuals have been arrested because they have expressed their support for a mass rally on 9 July, called for by the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections (Bersih 2.0).
Political Activists Rearrested
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An ROS (Registrar of Scoiety)officer Abdul Rahman Othman, announced today that Bersih as a n organisation has now become illegal under section 5 of the Society Act. The accusations against Bersih are
1.it cause anxiety among the people
2.it does leafleting to advocate the overthrow of the elected government;
3. it has already cause harm to the image of the government, threaten the country’s social order, security, sovereignty, prosperity and racial harmony;
There are no evidences provided-just pronouncements by the ROS. This is the kind of high handedness that Bersih and other democratic minded people have been fighting against all these years.
(more…)
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Najib is doing his road shows to attack Bersih rally purportedly to defend Putrajaya for UMNO/BN-the last being a talk to reported `20 000′ people in Kelantan. No photo to verify the crowd size was available. (Just an aside: why the big crowd attracted to Najib’s rallies never attract the same condemnations of affecting the society as done to Bersih’s rally?)The argument put forward has been the same: Bersih is intended to help Opposition win Putrajaya. Ex-PM Mahathir sing the same tune to a youth assembly, with number unspecified. Looking at this argument it is at most a projection by these politicians who are afraid of a change of power in Putrajaya. They are entitled to be afraid-in view of their bad records at government and also their extended rule -over half a century! While they are entitled to defend their records they are however not entitled to sideline electoral reform no matter if that may favour the Opposition. If they stick to an unfair system all to win the elections they stand accused of the charge that Bersih throw at them! Bersih then has a good reason to insist on the rally since their undisputable appeal for electoral reforms had not been addressed by the leading politicians up to now!
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Sabahans arrested in relation to Bersih rally.
They are mostly PKR members -but include 1 PAS member: Natassia Sarah, Mohd Adnan(PAS），Shazwan Madly, Petrus Longed, Ezral Ansari, Amin Ibrahim, Za’im. The `fixed deposit’ state announced by Najib yesterday is now hit!
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The 6 leaders of PSM are: Jeyakumar (Gopeng MP), CC member Choo Choong Kai, Deputy president M Saraswathy, CC member M Sukumaran, Gopeng Secretary Letchumana and youth chief Saratbabu. They will be brought to Bukit Aman in KL soon.
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URGENT APPEAL : 1 July 2011
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
URGENT APPEAL: 1 JULY 2011
CRACKDOWN ON MALAYSIAN SOCIALISTS:
30 PSM ACTIVISTS STILL IN POLICE CUSTODY :
UNDER ABSURD SECTION 122 – WAGING WAR AGAINST THE KING
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Bersih arrests have gone up again: 14 arrests of PKR leaders in Kedah; 3 PKR leaders from Johor and 1 DAP Exco from Selangor(Liu Tian Kiu). Other than that 1 young Korean intern with an NGO arrested earlier has been deported today as a `foreign agent’. The worst news is probably from MCMC-which reprotedly want to close down all web sites critical of the government on the Bersih rally.
The Bersih rally has become a stand off between a government which want to impose its will on the citizens without bother to provide any convinsing argument and a citizen who have largely turned Opposition in all major urban centres(70% of Malaysians live in urban centres) . The ruling party don’t even bother to persuade the citizens in a clear thrust to crack the will of the people’s resistance. All kind of propaganda and thinly stretched excuses have been amplified by Government or party run media to scare and intimidate the population into submission.
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