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Category Archives: Human rights

The normalization of bigotry & intolerance

September 13, 2020

In the midst of a heated argument in Parliament on amendments to the Road Transport Act to toughen the penalties …

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The Last Days of Freedom?

July 6, 2020

It was deeply troubling to read last week that pensioner Abdullah Sani was convicted and fined RM2,000 (or one month’s …

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Our shameful response to genocide against the Rohingya

May 1, 2020

Many have been deeply shocked and saddened by the response to the latest wave of Rohingya refugees to arrive at …

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Give priority to refugees instead of importing more foreign labour

February 14, 2020

Last week, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Malaysia, Amna Baloch, announced that her country was negotiating with Malaysia to provide up …

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End the LTTE farce now

February 11, 2020

While major issues like the coronavirus understandably grabs a lot of attention, an issue of no less importance, one that …

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Fraying ethnic relations affecting foreign policy consensus

December 28, 2019

A series of recent controversial foreign policy statements by Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has exposed the increasingly deep divisions …

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1000 days of shame

November 26, 2019

Keynote address at 1000-day anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh The Pullman Hotel |Kuala Lumpur | 16th …

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Comic books, politics and propaganda

October 22, 2019

What is it with us Malaysians? We seem to careen from one controversy to another in quick succession. Before we …

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Hypocrisy & hyperbole at the UN

October 1, 2019

Dozens of world leaders descended on New York last week for the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), …

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Is Pakatan Harapan serious about protecting human rights?

September 1, 2019

It is disturbing and disappointing that the government has once again deported an asylum seeker and his family without due …

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We will “be forever a sovereign democratic and independent state founded upon the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the welfare and happiness of its people and the maintenance of a just peace among all nations.” – Tunku Abdul Rahman’s Proclamation of Independence speech, August 31st 1957

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty” ~ John Basil Barnhill

The Short Shrift

Is it about drink-driving or pushing a religious agenda?

The way some of our politicians are getting worked up about the whole drink-driving issue makes me wonder whether other agendas are driving the issue. Let’s get one thing straight: drink-driving (or driving while intoxicated) is just plain wrong. It endangers innocent lives and must never be tolerated. Many countries have very strict drink-driving laws […]

Crooks, the whole lot of them

The slew of accusations now being traded between former leaders about corruption, nepotism and malfeasance in office has, no doubt, confirmed what most Malaysians have long suspected: that their leaders are all corrupt and untrustworthy. They come around waving the flag and pretending to be great patriots but they are just opportunists out to enrich […]

Pigs in the house?

There was an interesting article in the media last September about the state of Malacca being invaded by pigs from across the Strait. Apparently, they were abandoning their habitat for greener pastures. Barely a month later, there was another newspaper headline that read “Question on pigs sparks off heated exchange at Melaka state assembly.” It […]

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