MARCH 3, 2009 – To be a public figure in Malaysia these days it seems almost de rigueur to have a candid bedroom video floating somewhere on the Web and usually pasted there by a disgruntled former lover who used his or her cellphone to grab the shot.
Recently, the popular Selangor state exco Elizabeth Wong resigned from public life after a former boyfriend made public cellphone camera photographs of her sleeping naked.
She bravely faced out the controversy for several weeks.
“I wish to state that I am not ashamed of my sexuality as a woman and as a single person,” she said last week just the day before she finally resigned from the state’s ruling Parti Keadilan Rakyat government, which is the opposition party nationally.
“I have broken no law. I stand by the fundamental principle that everyone has the right to privacy.”
That didn’t wash with the conservative opposition such as former Selangor MB Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo of the Barisan Nasional that is in power federally.
“She is a single person. How can she allow a man into her room when they are not married?”
This state of affairs that Mohamad Khir finds so perplexing speaks in some ways to ethnic apartheid that has been part of government policy since race riots in the 1960s.
In both the ruling and opposition coalitions there are race-based parties representing the ethnic Malays, Chinese and South Asians.
In recent years, the political divide has been increasingly shadowed by cultural and religious ones. The Muslim Malay majority has tended to become more conservative in its Islamic observance while the next largest group, the Chinese, have tended to become more liberal and cosmopolitan.
Even former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammed has said repeatedly that the race laws are now socially dysfunctional and counterproductive.
Wong’s problems also aroused much debate about privacy and angry condemnation of the newspaper that published the pictures.
Chua Soi Lek, a leading member of the race-based Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) party, a key component of the ruling Barisan Nasional, has been less fortunate.
Chua, a former minister of health, has been questioned by police and may be charged with “carnal intercourse against the order of nature,” which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, because of a video showing him having oral sex with a woman who is not his wife.
The video first surfaced in 2007, and the controversy died after Chua resigned from government. A new complaint has been made to the police, however, as Chua’s political fortunes have revived and he is challenging Ong Tee Keat for the leadership of the MCA.
Meanwhile, the trial continues of two bodyguards to the wife of deputy prime minister Najib Razak. The two police officers are accused of murdering and then destroying with explosives the body of Mongolian model and translator, Shaariibuugiin Altantuya, late in 2006.
Altantuya was the mistress of Abdul Razak Baginda, a senior defence analyst and adviser to deputy prime minister Razak when he was defence minister.
Altantuya was killed after she was dumped by Baginda and she started noisy demonstrations outside his house, which didn’t please his wife and family.
Baginda was acquitted of involvement in her murder late last year, which has raised all kinds of speculation about why bodyguards associated with Najib Razak would be involved.
Was Altantuya bumped off simply as an act of friendship between Najib and his former adviser, or did Najib have personal reasons for not wanting the Mongolian talking widely about her love life?
These are not idle questions because Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi is pledged to resign next month after a stunningly inept performance since he assumed the Barisan Nasional leadership in 2003. Najib is due to become prime minister, but will the Altantuya affair taint his tenure from the start?
With that question in mind, it should come as no surprise that new allegations of sexual misconduct are being made against the leader of the opposition, none other than Anwar Ibrahim, Mahathir’s former deputy prime minister who spent six years in prison after being convicted of trumped-up charges of sodomy.
Last week, Malaysia’s High Court decided that it will hear charges that Anwar sodomised one of his aides on June 26 last year. – Vancouver Sun
Anonymous Says:
ReplyDeleteNAJIS THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WHOLE WORLD, THE PEEM IN WAITING FOR MALAYSIA, IMPLICATED WITH MURDER AND CORRUPTION HAS NO SHAME OR DIGNITY BUT TRY BULLYING HIS WAY UP THE PEEM POST, SUCH PERSON MUST BE SHUNNED AND BOYCOTTED BY ALL WORLD LEADERS AND BY ALL.
ROSMAH CRYING CROCODILE TEARS, AS FOR THE C4 AND THE POLICE BODY GUARDS THAT WERE USED TO ANNIHILATE THE NAJIS' MISTRESS ALTANTUYA BY BLOWING HER BODY UP INTO SMITHEREENS TO SATISFY THE GREAT JEALOUSY AND GREAT ANGER SHE HAD BEEN HARBOURING AND SEETHING FROM AND ALSO AT THE SAME TIME TO GET THEIR IMMIGRATION CONTACTS TO DELETE ATLANTUYA ENTRY RECORDS. BUT PI BALA GONE MISSING AFTER EATING FISHHEAD CURRY NEAR THE BRICKFIELDS POLICE STATION WHO RECANTED HIS FIRST SD WITH ANOTHER SD THE NEXT DAY UNDER DURESS FROM FISHHEAD CURRY TREATMENT FROM SOME POLICE C4 OR COULD HE HAD BEEN C4ED BY NOW AFTER DISAPPEARING FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND NOW LEFT 2 POLICE PERSONNEL IS LEFT TO BE THE SCAPEGOAT FOR THE MURDER WITHOUT A VALID MOTIVE?
KARPAL SINGH, GOBIND SINGH DEO, ALTANTUYA & ANY OR ALL OPPOSITIONS AGAINST NAJIS IS SQUASHED IN ORDER SO THAT THE SAID STIMULUS OF RM 60 BILLION FROM THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT COFFERS WHICH ARE NOW BEING DEPLETED BY NAJIS AND ONLY BENEFITING NAJIS’ CRONIES ARE THE ONLY ONES ESPECIALLY HIS SPECIAL PIMP/PARTNER RAZAK BAGINDA WHO ALREADY RECEIVED A SECRET COMMISSION OF 114 MILLION EUROS INTO HIS COMPANY AS INTERMEDIARY TO THE SUBMARINES, HELICOPTERS AND AIRCRAFTS PURCHASES FOR THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
WHERE ELSE CAN MALAYSIA GO AFTER 51 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE???
THE SEWERS OF COURSE WITH NAJIS AT THE HELM AS PEEM BECAUSE ALL EVIDENCES HAD SHOWN HIS GUILT LIKE THE SMSES HE SENT TO RAZAK BAGINDA’S LAWYER, HIS POLICE BODY GUARDS, WERE INDICTED AS WELL, BUT NOT SOMEONE’S ELSE???
If the PeeM in waiting can be implicated in Murder and Corruption then why the Police Murderers & Autopsy Pathologist & now the double faced snaky diplomat who want to keep his job cannot do the same with impunity, they are just following the footsteps of their revered leader Najis who had done very well in swearing to Allah on the Koran and every one of them can learn on how to swear their innocence despite all evidences have shown their Guilt, so only Allah can give them the real Judgement come Judgement Day as there is no escape from Allah’s real Justice for the deeds they have done.
Bandit Najis had been cheating and robbing the Nation’s Coffers for years with fictitious and non existent Defence Contracts, with either non supply necessary or supply with inferior quality products, by awarding these to his wife’s nominee Companies.
Loser, Loser & Loser Najis UMNO & BN therefore the biased EC must choose the same date so that they can try to cheat by using Phantom Voters if the Pakatan is not too careful on all three fronts.
History will repeat itself the most corrupted of all, implicated in Corruption & Murder, call Najis will helm UMNO to oblivion.
Beware of the Najis & UMNO underhand deceits, filthy lies and dirty tactics which must be exposed so that they will be shunned by all Rakyats in order to be thrown out in the next GE.
The Era of Anarchy has just begun in the coming Premiership of Najis, the most corrupted of all corrupters, all Malaysians beware that they, Najis & UMNO, will spend Government Money to buy Chaos in order to impose Dictatorial Government without election or after they have lost the Election in GE 13, we have all learnt from Perak Government’s takeover by deceit and by force of using the Police Force which could be bought and the Assemblymen who were bought either with money or in kind like no case in court for their corruptions’ cases pending trials if they defect from Pakatan and of course the sole DAP betrayer could be bought with a great sum of money as Najis knew and as well as the betrayer that she could never be elected ever again in Jelapang and of course the pension sum must be huge including allowance for her permanent retirement for making a betrayal to Pakatan for short term benefiting of Najis?
There must be a good reason for the Sultan well learned in law and also once holding the highest office in Supreme Court took a lowly decision in support of the most corrupted Politician call Najis, PeeM in awaiting. No offence intended to the Sultan who was highly regarded until just now only, it is either he has been threatened with some secret files on him held by Najis, or like all the other froggies that had been lured by huge sums of money offered by the most greedy of Corrupters called Najis who used the nation’s coffers as his own kitty bank. Knowing very well that Najis would not last the next GE, this is the best opportunity to make some good cash funds for keeps as the next Government under PKR will be clean and righteous for the God, King, People and Country.
Not realizing that Corruptions breed even more Corruptions and this is the vicious circle and the people of Perak are ones who would suffer in the long run and they will not forget what a Sultan they have had. If Najis and UMNO is in Power it is most likely that the nation’s coffers would be decimated and there will be nothing left for our Children’s Children, therefore make sure the UMNO along with all their goons are thrown out the next election.
May Allah bless you the people of Malaysia