Ukraine: Lessons In Democracy & Geopolitics
If there’s one thing we can learn from the Ukraine crisis, it’s that the quest for democracy worldwide is often …
Category Archives: Human rights
A New Chill Over Malaysia As Government Uses Sedition Laws to Silence Opposition
A new chill is descending over Malaysia as the government of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak increasingly resorts to sedition …
A few good men
COMMENT: Edmund Burke [Irish orator, philosopher & politician 1729-1797] famously remarked that “All that is necessary for the triumph of …
The insolence of Attorney-General Gani Patail by Terence Netto
Show trials and downright abuse of the law by no less than the attorney-general himself. All that now stands between …
Hudud & the unfinished debate about Malaysia’s future
HUDUD & THE UNFINISHED DEBATE ABOUT MALAYSIA’S FUTURE The two private members’ bills in Parliament to allow the implementation of …
President Obama, Magic Mushrooms & Malaysia
THIS ABOUT SUMS UP PRESIDENT OBAMA’S VISIT TO MALAYSIA COMMENTARY BY THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER April 28, 2014 United States President …
An open letter to President Barack Obama
Dear Mr. President, It has been widely reported that you won’t be meeting Malaysia’s Opposition Leader, Anwar Ibrahim, during your …
Karpal Singh: dishonoured by those in power, remembered by a grateful nation
“A political atheist… [who] does not believe in any incarnate unassailability of any man-made institutions… except the supremacy of the law.” …
A tribute to Karpal Singh
The giants are passing, leaving only the pygmies in their wake Rosli Dahlan, lawyer and senior partner in Lee Hishammuddin …
Irene Fernandez, a true Malaysian hero
As I wrote in this blog in November 2008, Irene Fernandez was a true Malaysian hero. She took on a …
Dennis Ignatius 
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