Malam yang Panjang(The Long Night)

posted by Din Merican
Ahad 29hb Jun 2008
Oleh Khalid Jaffar
Ketika saya bangun pagi Eekmal mengatakan:”Boss sudah ke Kedutaan Turki.” Saya lega. Tujuh jam pemimpin-pemimpin tertinggi KeADILan bergelut untuk menyakinkan Anwar Ibrahim supaya mengambil tawaran pemerintahan Turki untuk memberikan beliau perlindungan. Bila saya turun dari tingkat 24 Hotel Quality, Shah Alam, ke bilik saya di tingkat 22, [...]

Anwar takes refuge in Turkish embassy

www.malaysiakini.com
June 29, 2008
PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, who said he feared for his life, has sought refuge at the Turkish embassy in Kuala Lumpur this morning. He went to the embassy at 6am and according to PKR vice-president Azmin Ali, he would be there “indefinitely”.
The following is his full statement released at 5.30pm:
I am [...]

A Trial Of Democracy

June 29, 2008
By Malik Imtiaz Sarvar
Anwar, Round 2 has commenced.
Media reports inform us that a police report has been lodged by an aide. The complaint appears to be that he was sodomised by Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday.
No particulars of the alleged event have been made public. The complainant was to be given a medical examination [...]

Datin Seri Dr.Wan Azizah to file report against IGP, AG

www.malaysiakini.com

June 29, 2008

PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail is expected to lodge a police report against the police chief Musa Hassan and attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail later today over their alleged misconduct during Anwar Ibrahim’s trials in 1998-1999.
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Wan Azizah will be making the report on behalf of her husband Anwar Ibrahim.
Yesterday Anwar had said [...]

PKR leader unfazed by fresh allegations

source: www.malaysiakini.com
by Terence Netto
June 29, 2008
PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim reached for the rapier in preference to the bludgeon in describing yesterday’s police report of sodomy against him as a “tottering regime’s last gasp attempt to delay its doom”.
An Anwar aide, 23-year-old Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, had lodged a police report yesterday alleging that [...]

Anwar Ibrahim Press Statement

— PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE —
June 29, 2008, SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA
The police report lodged against me earlier today is a complete fabrication. I believe we are witnessing a repeat of the methods used against me in 1998 when false allegations were made under duress. This is clearly a desperate attempt [...]

Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Morning

It has been quite a while since I posted a poem. Many things had happened since. The biggest was the political tsunami that swept across our beautiful landscape on March 8, 2008, which left the UMNO-led Barisan Nasional almost in tatters with some of its party leaders including former UMNO President and Prime Minister calling [...]

Petula Clark sings a Charlie Chaplin Composition (1967) and Michael Buble does his thing

It has been a busy week for me. I have moved to the new offices of Parti KeADILan Rakyat at Merchant Square in Damansara. I will be operating from the Third Floor. The Internet is back and I am again in touch with you. Let us celebrate my return with a song.
Petula Clark sings the [...]

RPK’s Satutory Declaration: Damage done

www.malaysiakini.com
June 27, 2008

by Ong Kian Ming and Oon Yeoh

There is perhaps no online writer that has the ability and the reputation for political sensationalism than Raja Petra Kamaruddin, or RPK as he is popularly known. His latest move is his biggest and most controversial yet.
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He has made a statutory declaration alleging that Deputy Prime [...]

Raja Petra ready to be investigated

www.malaysiakini.com

S Pathmawathy
June 24, 2008

Renowned blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin today said that he was ready to be
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investigated by the police over his recent claims on the Altantuya murder, but only if he was summoned to give his statement.
“No one has called yet. So I’m not sure what is going to happen,” said the blogger, who [...]

Emergency motion on Altantuya rejected

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Beh Lih Yi
Jun 24, 2008

The Parliament today rejected an emergency motion by DAP’s Ipoh Timor MP Lim Kit Siang for a debate on blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin’s
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latest allegations over the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder.
Lim was informed of the decision through a written notice from Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia this morning. Unhappy, Lim later brought up [...]

A View on Tun Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad

Here is one point of view of Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad’s record as Prime Minister (1981–2003). It is posted to elicit your comments.
I personally reserve my judgment. I am too close to be completely objective since I was part of his Administration and he was once my boss. I had also the benefit of [...]

Anwar Ibrahim in Perak

Listen to you to yet another pidato by Anwar Ibrahim, this on June 15, 2008 in Ipoh, Perak—Din Merican

DJ Din Merican is not that SQUARE and here is why

Enjoy this hot entertainment by Van Halen titled JUMP. I am not that SQUARE after all.—Dee Jay Din Merican

And Proud Mary by Clearwater Credence:

Raja Aziz Addruse and Helen Ting: Understanding ‘Special Position’ of Malays

source: nstoline (the new sunday times)

June 22, 2008
by Raja Aziz Addruse and Helen Ting*
THE electoral results in March have stirred up great hope among many that it signals the birth of a “new politics”, whereby race-based rhetoric seems to have faltered as the magic formula for a big win by the Barisan Nasional.
Political observers are [...]

Barisan MPs ‘hijacked’ overseas

www.malaysiakini.com
Tony Thien
June 21, 2008
The Barisan Nasional leadership is so worried that some of their members of parliament in Sarawak and Sabah will leave or cross over to Pakatan Rakyat (PR) that they have packed them off to go on official visits overseas.
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According to PKR deputy president Dr Syed Husin Ali, 10 Sarawak BN parliamentarians [...]

Raja Petra: ‘Rosmah at murder scene’

www.malaysiakini.com
Beh Lih Yi
June 20, 2008
“It’s mindboggling!” – that’s how Raja Petra Kamarudin’s statutory declaration alleging that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak’s wife was at the murder scene of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu was described today.
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An aide to Najib also said they were aware of this latest claim made by Raja Petra, who also runs the [...]