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Category Archives: refugees

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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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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The Rohingya crisis: Appoint Anwar as special envoy

October 4, 2018

In New York last week, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad added his voice, not for the first time, to the …

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Hope for refugees in the new Malaysia?

July 2, 2018

One of the great failures of the former BN regime when it came to human rights was its dismal record …

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Don’t deport Uighurs without due process

November 25, 2017

It was recently reported that Thailand is seeking Putrajaya’s cooperation to extradite more than a dozen Uighurs who may have …

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Malaysia’s disgraceful disregard for human rights

May 17, 2017

The BN government seems to have a penchant for putting Malaysia in the international spotlight for all the wrong reasons. …

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The Rohingya Genocide: help or hype?

December 1, 2016

The news coming out of Myanmar’s Rakhine state is grim. Genocide is once again rearing its ugly head, this time …

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The Papagomo video and the dark side of our nation

February 9, 2016

I watched the video (above) of Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris, otherwise known as Papagomo, assaulting a Pakistani migrant worker. …

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Irene Fernandez, a true Malaysian hero

April 3, 2014

As I wrote in this blog in November 2008, Irene Fernandez was a true Malaysian hero. She took on a …

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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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