Politically motivated charges impede his vision of a democratic Malaysia
The presence of so many foreign embassies attending Mr. Anwar's show trial is a clear expression of international concern. This is an issue on which the world must speak out.
By Paul Martin, The Globe and Mail
Anwar Ibrahim is a former deputy prime minister of Malaysia. After having differences of opinion with prime minister Mahathir Mohamad in 1998, he was removed from office, charged with sodomy and corruption - charges condemned worldwide as an attempt to remove him from politics - and imprisoned for six years. After his release in 2004, he became the leader of a coalition of opposition parties that is successfully challenging the ruling coalition's power. Mr. Anwar has now been charged again with sodomy, a charge that has again been condemned worldwide.
I have known Mr. Anwar well since the period when we each served as finance ministers for our respective countries. He is deeply committed to democracy, justice and the rule of law. And I have watched with horror how he has been treated in Malaysia because of that commitment. His initial imprisonment was seen worldwide as politically motivated. Amnesty International regarded him as a prisoner of conscience, jailed for the non-violent expression of his political opinion. After his release in 2004, he redoubled his campaign, attracting thousands to his public rallies, with the result that the historic 2008 election returned an unprecedented number of opposition candidates to Parliament. He now poses a threat to the government in the next national elections, expected in 2013 - the real reason for the latest charge.
His trial, which began Feb. 2, is widely seen as not meeting international standards for a fair trial. The former Anwar political aide who is making the sodomy accusation was reportedly seen with leading ruling coalition figures prior to the filing of the charge;
Mr. Anwar's lawyers have been denied access to vital prosecution documents; and the trial has been transferred to a higher court whose judges are seen as linked to the ruling coalition's main party. It is small wonder that Michael Danby, chair of Australia's parliamentary subcommittee on foreign affairs, has charged that Malaysia's legal system is being manipulated to drive Mr. Anwar out of politics. Mr. Danby has said that Asian democrats were "flabbergasted" by the charges and that "everyone in Malaysia, and everyone in the international legal community, knows that Anwar is innocent of these charges."
The presence of so many foreign embassies attending Mr. Anwar's show trial is a clear expression of international concern. This is an issue on which the world must speak out.
If his country is to take its place among the progressive nations of the world, it is crucial that the politically motivated charge against Mr. Anwar be dropped and that he be free to pursue his vision of a democratic Malaysia, properly respectful of human rights and international law.
Paul Martin is former prime minister of Canada.
Raja Petra Kamarudin
The following police report was made at 5.45 pm on Saturday, 28 June 2008,
by Mohd Saiful Bukhari Bin Azlan (IC no: 850706-01-5687), who turned 23 last
month:
Saya, Mohd Saiful Bukhari b Azlan, ingin melaporkan bahawa saya telah
diliwat oleh majikan saya. Perkara ini berlaku tanpa kerelaan saya. Kejadian
terakhir berlaku 26/6/08 di Unit 1151, Kondominium Desa Damansara, Jln Setia
Kasih, KL. Oleh itu, tujuan laporan ini dibuat untuk mendapat pembelaan dan
keadilan keatas diri saya. Saya juga berasa bimbang dengan keselamatan diri
dan keluarga saya jika perkara ini tersebar luas di khalayak ramai. Majikan
saya Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim - Ketua Umum PKR.
Yes, that police report was made at 5.45 pm on Saturday, 28 June 2008. By
why did it take that long for Saiful to make his police report? Let us
retrace the steps that led to this police report.
At 2.30pm on Wednesday, 25 June 2008, Saiful met Senior Assistant
Commissioner (SAC) II Mohd Rodwan Mohd Yusof in room 619 of the Concorde
Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Prior to this secret meeting, Rodwan and Saiful spoke
on the phone at least eight (8) times.
In fact, they can't really remember how many phone calls it was. They say it
was at least eight times although it could have been maybe ten or twelve
times. But who's counting anyway? Eight, ten or twelve doesn't really
matter. The crux of the matter is: they spoke over the phone many times
prior to meeting up in room 619 of the Concorde Hotel -- a 'secret' meeting
that can't be very secret if Malaysia Today knows about it.
We must remember one thing. Rodwan is the same police officer who was
involved in fabricating the 1998 sodomy allegation against Anwar. Rodwan was
implicated as the man who illegally took Anwar's specimens, which
subsequently mysteriously reappeared as 'stains' on a mattress. It was so
apparent the mattress was planted as evidence the judge subsequently
rejected the mattress as evidence and ordered that all references of it be
expunged from the court records.
That was all it took. When they realised that the mattress was hurting more
than helping their case, they threw the mattress out of the court and
deleted all records of it ever appearing in court. And, all of a sudden, the
mattress no longer existed. It vanished into thin air. It 'never appeared'
in court although for weeks it was paraded in and out of court for the whole
world to witness.
This is what lawyer and Parliamentarian Sivarasa Rasiah had to say about the
matter:
"In 1998-1999 trials, Anwar experienced the phenomenon of fabrication of DNA
evidence. We had SAC Rodwan illegally removing DNA samples from forensic
custody. In cross-examination of the prosecution's witnesses it was exposed
that DNA taken from blood samples was planted on the infamous mattress."
"When confronted with this fact the prosecution amended its charge and
persuaded the judge, Augustine Paul, to expunge the entire DNA evidence from
the record, preventing Anwar's lawyers from responding."
There were, in fact, other so-called 'damaging evidence' that they created
against Anwar to convince the public that he is indeed guilty of sodomy. In
time, Malaysia Today will parade these witnesses and reveal this evidence to
demonstrate to the public that the slime-ball IGP and scumbag AG, plus their
slithery minion, Rodwan, fixed Anwar's ass good and proper (pun intended).
Now, Rodwan met Saiful three days earlier and these two exchanged at least
eight phone calls. Nevertheless, no police report was made until Saiful had
visited two hospitals -- three days later. Why engage in eight phone calls
and have a secret meeting with Rodwan in a hotel room, and only after visits
to two hospitals does Saiful make his police report?
Let us look at the timeline again.
1) Saiful and Rodwan speak over the phone at least eight times over a few
days.
2) At 2.30pm on 25 June 2008, Saiful and Rodwan meet in room 619 of the
Concorde Hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
3) On 26 June 2008, Saiful's ass allegedly gets 'raped' by Anwar.
4) At 2.00pm on 28 June 2008, Saiful goes to Pusat Rawatan Islam
(Pusrawi, a 'halal' hospital) to complain that he can't ***. He tells the
doctor he can't *** because someone buggered his *** -- whereas that
would instead have made it easier for him to ***.
5) The doctor peeps into Saiful's *** and discovers that his ***
is still as virgin as Raja Petra Kamarudin's.
6) The doctor then suggests, for purposes of the police report, he goes
to a government hospital for a second opinion.
7) However, instead of getting a second opinion, Saiful goes to the
pondok polis at the hospital to lodge a police report. Sources in Hospital
Kuala Lumpur (HKL) say that no second medical examination was done whereas
the police say it was. Considering that the police report was made within an
hour or two after Saiful left the first hospital, it is highly likely the
hospital is telling the truth while the police are lying.
It must be noted that Saiful met the police BEFORE the so-called sodomy act
took place. The sodomy was supposed to have happened on 26 June while Saiful
met the police on 25 June. And it was not until 28 June that he went to
hospital and made the police report a couple of hours later. And all this
culminated not only after the secret meeting in the hotel room on 25 June
but after eight phone calls as well.
If Saiful was sodomised, would he not tell Rodwan about it during the secret
meeting in room 619 of the Concorde Hotel on 25 June 2008? And why in the
first place did they meet in secret in room 619 of the Concorde Hotel on 25
June 2008? Should they not be meeting in a police station or in the police
headquarters? And, most important of all, would you not want to meet the
police AFTER instead of before the so-called sodomy took place (never mind
whether the meeting is in secret in a hotel room or conducted the right way,
in a police station)?
Would anyone in his or her right mind believe this latest sodomy allegation?
Okay, I said 'right mind'. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wants the
police to charge Anwar while the Cabinet is against it. The Cabinet feels
there is no evidence, not only to convict Anwar, but even to charge him in
the first place. But Abdullah wants the police to pursue the case and to
charge Anwar. As I said, no one in his right mind would believe the
allegation against Anwar but then Abdullah is not a person known to be in
his right mind.
And why does Abdullah want so much for the police to charge Anwar? Simple:
because his Deputy, Najib Tun Razak, would invariably get dragged into this
whole mess. The police have recorded both Najib's and his wife's statements
under Section 112. So that means Najib and Rosmah would both have to take
the witness stand to testify during the course of the trial. Once that
happens, everything will flow freely like *** through an *** that's
been sodomised.
During the course of Anwar's impending trial, Malaysians will be told of the
link Saiful has with Mumtaz Jaafar. Malaysians will also be told who Mumtaz
Jaafar is and what her 'special' links with Rosmah are. Further to that,
Malaysians will be told about the relationship between Najib's Special
Officer, Khairul Anas, and Saiful -- and the less than manly reputation
these two buggers had while still in school. Yes, the excitement and kinky
sex that is going to spill over from this trial will cause Astro to lose a
lot of business.
The Anwar sodomy trial will hurt Najib more than it will hurt Anwar. At the
end of the trial the court will declare that there is not enough evidence to
secure a conviction. It will be a long five or six years but eventually
Anwar will be free. However, during the course of the five- to six-year
trial, Anwar will have to sit in jail because he will be denied bail. Yes,
Anwar will be free in the end, but only after spending five to six years in
jail without bail.
Najib, however, will not get off that easily. Anwar will contest the
Permatang Pauh Parliament seat and will win. His majority will be even
larger than Wan Azizah's on 8 March 2008. And this is because Anwar will be
contesting the by-election from behind the walls of the Sungai Buloh Prison.
And everyone knows he does not deserve to be in prison -- so he will garner
massive sympathy votes.
Meanwhile, the Umno division elections will be held simultaneous to the
Permatang Pauh by-election. And Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah will garner more
than 60 nominations, enough for him to contest the Umno Presidency. Getting
the nominations is the difficult part. Once he gets the nominations, he can
get the votes. That is the easy part.
As soon as Tengku Razaleigh wins the Umno Presidency and goes on to become
the new Prime Minister of Malaysia, he will ask the AG and police to stop
messing around. If there is a case against Anwar, then well and good, throw
him into jail. If not, then stop wasting the taxpayers' money and drop the
case. That will be what Tengku Razaleigh will do. And he will come out
smelling as sweet as a rose while Anwar will bounce back stronger than
before they bounced him into prison. Tengku Razaleigh will then call for a
truce with the opposition and propose that all unnecessary politicking be
suspended so that everyone can get down to the business of running the
country.
The economy is in bad shape. The country is on autopilot. No one is running
the country or appears to be in charge. 100% of the time is spent with one
side trying to topple the other. For the good of the nation, this has to
come to an end and Tengku Razaleigh will call an end to all the crap.
The non-Malays will be happy with Tengku Razaleigh at the helm. Currently
they are not happy, not only with the way the economy is going, but also
with the failed attempt to set up a new Malay-Islamic party that Umno
mooted. Umno wooed PAS and tried to get them to merge with Umno. Umno was
even prepared to consider merging the two parties into one and to allow
Islamic laws to be implemented in the country. Not only was Umno prepared to
offer PAS the posts of Menteri Besar but also the post of Deputy Prime
Minister. And Abdullah even put this in writing.
But hold on. If PAS were to be given the post of Deputy Prime Minister of
Malaysia, where would that put Najib? And if Najib is no longer the Deputy
Prime Minister, then how can he take over as Prime Minister in 2010? And
Abdullah put this is writing so that the PAS leaders could table it at their
central committee meeting last Thursday.
Now does that explain why the PAS Youth Leader said that even if Umno offers
them the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, PAS is still not
interested in merging with Umno? It is because Abdullah DID offer them the
post of Deputy Prime Minister. PAS was not speaking hypothetically.
Yes, that is how to kill two birds with one stone. In one swoop, Najib and
Anwar can both be neutralised. Then Abdullah will be rid of two thorns in
his side. Maybe. Maybe not. There is still the issue of whether Tengku
Razaleigh will get more than 60 nominations and whether Anwar will win the
Permatang Pauh by-election. Any or both those happening would change the
entire scenario. Whatever the case may be, though, one thing is very clear,
Najib will be out of office, one way or another. That is certainly
predictable. It is who will be in charge thereafter that is fluid.
No, this is not a case of Anwar being set up for a fall under false
allegations of sodomy. It is about Najib being dragged into the mess and
being fingered as the dalang behind the conspiracy to set Anwar up. Sure,
Anwar will face a temporary setback. He will spend five to six years in jail
and then will be declared not guilty. But Najib will be sent into retirement
for good. This is not about Anwar. This is about Najib. And Najib has not
awoken to this fact yet. Poor thing.
.
Raja Petra Kamarudin
The following police report was made at 5.45 pm on Saturday, 28 June 2008,
by Mohd Saiful Bukhari Bin Azlan (IC no: 850706-01-5687), who turned 23 last
month:
Saya, Mohd Saiful Bukhari b Azlan, ingin melaporkan bahawa saya telah
diliwat oleh majikan saya. Perkara ini berlaku tanpa kerelaan saya. Kejadian
terakhir berlaku 26/6/08 di Unit 1151, Kondominium Desa Damansara, Jln Setia
Kasih, KL. Oleh itu, tujuan laporan ini dibuat untuk mendapat pembelaan dan
keadilan keatas diri saya. Saya juga berasa bimbang dengan keselamatan diri
dan keluarga saya jika perkara ini tersebar luas di khalayak ramai. Majikan
saya Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim - Ketua Umum PKR.
Yes, that police report was made at 5.45 pm on Saturday, 28 June 2008. By
why did it take that long for Saiful to make his police report? Let us
retrace the steps that led to this police report.
At 2.30pm on Wednesday, 25 June 2008, Saiful met Senior Assistant
Commissioner (SAC) II Mohd Rodwan Mohd Yusof in room 619 of the Concorde
Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Prior to this secret meeting, Rodwan and Saiful spoke
on the phone at least eight (8) times.
In fact, they can't really remember how many phone calls it was. They say it
was at least eight times although it could have been maybe ten or twelve
times. But who's counting anyway? Eight, ten or twelve doesn't really
matter. The crux of the matter is: they spoke over the phone many times
prior to meeting up in room 619 of the Concorde Hotel -- a 'secret' meeting
that can't be very secret if Malaysia Today knows about it.
We must remember one thing. Rodwan is the same police officer who was
involved in fabricating the 1998 sodomy allegation against Anwar. Rodwan was
implicated as the man who illegally took Anwar's specimens, which
subsequently mysteriously reappeared as 'stains' on a mattress. It was so
apparent the mattress was planted as evidence the judge subsequently
rejected the mattress as evidence and ordered that all references of it be
expunged from the court records.
That was all it took. When they realised that the mattress was hurting more
than helping their case, they threw the mattress out of the court and
deleted all records of it ever appearing in court. And, all of a sudden, the
mattress no longer existed. It vanished into thin air. It 'never appeared'
in court although for weeks it was paraded in and out of court for the whole
world to witness.
This is what lawyer and Parliamentarian Sivarasa Rasiah had to say about the
matter:
"In 1998-1999 trials, Anwar experienced the phenomenon of fabrication of DNA
evidence. We had SAC Rodwan illegally removing DNA samples from forensic
custody. In cross-examination of the prosecution's witnesses it was exposed
that DNA taken from blood samples was planted on the infamous mattress."
"When confronted with this fact the prosecution amended its charge and
persuaded the judge, Augustine Paul, to expunge the entire DNA evidence from
the record, preventing Anwar's lawyers from responding."
There were, in fact, other so-called 'damaging evidence' that they created
against Anwar to convince the public that he is indeed guilty of sodomy. In
time, Malaysia Today will parade these witnesses and reveal this evidence to
demonstrate to the public that the slime-ball IGP and scumbag AG, plus their
slithery minion, Rodwan, fixed Anwar's ass good and proper (pun intended).
Now, Rodwan met Saiful three days earlier and these two exchanged at least
eight phone calls. Nevertheless, no police report was made until Saiful had
visited two hospitals -- three days later. Why engage in eight phone calls
and have a secret meeting with Rodwan in a hotel room, and only after visits
to two hospitals does Saiful make his police report?
Let us look at the timeline again.
1) Saiful and Rodwan speak over the phone at least eight times over a few
days.
2) At 2.30pm on 25 June 2008, Saiful and Rodwan meet in room 619 of the
Concorde Hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
3) On 26 June 2008, Saiful's ass allegedly gets 'raped' by Anwar.
4) At 2.00pm on 28 June 2008, Saiful goes to Pusat Rawatan Islam
(Pusrawi, a 'halal' hospital) to complain that he can't ***. He tells the
doctor he can't *** because someone buggered his *** -- whereas that
would instead have made it easier for him to ***.
5) The doctor peeps into Saiful's *** and discovers that his ***
is still as virgin as Raja Petra Kamarudin's.
6) The doctor then suggests, for purposes of the police report, he goes
to a government hospital for a second opinion.
7) However, instead of getting a second opinion, Saiful goes to the
pondok polis at the hospital to lodge a police report. Sources in Hospital
Kuala Lumpur (HKL) say that no second medical examination was done whereas
the police say it was. Considering that the police report was made within an
hour or two after Saiful left the first hospital, it is highly likely the
hospital is telling the truth while the police are lying.
It must be noted that Saiful met the police BEFORE the so-called sodomy act
took place. The sodomy was supposed to have happened on 26 June while Saiful
met the police on 25 June. And it was not until 28 June that he went to
hospital and made the police report a couple of hours later. And all this
culminated not only after the secret meeting in the hotel room on 25 June
but after eight phone calls as well.
If Saiful was sodomised, would he not tell Rodwan about it during the secret
meeting in room 619 of the Concorde Hotel on 25 June 2008? And why in the
first place did they meet in secret in room 619 of the Concorde Hotel on 25
June 2008? Should they not be meeting in a police station or in the police
headquarters? And, most important of all, would you not want to meet the
police AFTER instead of before the so-called sodomy took place (never mind
whether the meeting is in secret in a hotel room or conducted the right way,
in a police station)?
Would anyone in his or her right mind believe this latest sodomy allegation?
Okay, I said 'right mind'. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wants the
police to charge Anwar while the Cabinet is against it. The Cabinet feels
there is no evidence, not only to convict Anwar, but even to charge him in
the first place. But Abdullah wants the police to pursue the case and to
charge Anwar. As I said, no one in his right mind would believe the
allegation against Anwar but then Abdullah is not a person known to be in
his right mind.
And why does Abdullah want so much for the police to charge Anwar? Simple:
because his Deputy, Najib Tun Razak, would invariably get dragged into this
whole mess. The police have recorded both Najib's and his wife's statements
under Section 112. So that means Najib and Rosmah would both have to take
the witness stand to testify during the course of the trial. Once that
happens, everything will flow freely like *** through an *** that's
been sodomised.
During the course of Anwar's impending trial, Malaysians will be told of the
link Saiful has with Mumtaz Jaafar. Malaysians will also be told who Mumtaz
Jaafar is and what her 'special' links with Rosmah are. Further to that,
Malaysians will be told about the relationship between Najib's Special
Officer, Khairul Anas, and Saiful -- and the less than manly reputation
these two buggers had while still in school. Yes, the excitement and kinky
sex that is going to spill over from this trial will cause Astro to lose a
lot of business.
The Anwar sodomy trial will hurt Najib more than it will hurt Anwar. At the
end of the trial the court will declare that there is not enough evidence to
secure a conviction. It will be a long five or six years but eventually
Anwar will be free. However, during the course of the five- to six-year
trial, Anwar will have to sit in jail because he will be denied bail. Yes,
Anwar will be free in the end, but only after spending five to six years in
jail without bail.
Najib, however, will not get off that easily. Anwar will contest the
Permatang Pauh Parliament seat and will win. His majority will be even
larger than Wan Azizah's on 8 March 2008. And this is because Anwar will be
contesting the by-election from behind the walls of the Sungai Buloh Prison.
And everyone knows he does not deserve to be in prison -- so he will garner
massive sympathy votes.
Meanwhile, the Umno division elections will be held simultaneous to the
Permatang Pauh by-election. And Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah will garner more
than 60 nominations, enough for him to contest the Umno Presidency. Getting
the nominations is the difficult part. Once he gets the nominations, he can
get the votes. That is the easy part.
As soon as Tengku Razaleigh wins the Umno Presidency and goes on to become
the new Prime Minister of Malaysia, he will ask the AG and police to stop
messing around. If there is a case against Anwar, then well and good, throw
him into jail. If not, then stop wasting the taxpayers' money and drop the
case. That will be what Tengku Razaleigh will do. And he will come out
smelling as sweet as a rose while Anwar will bounce back stronger than
before they bounced him into prison. Tengku Razaleigh will then call for a
truce with the opposition and propose that all unnecessary politicking be
suspended so that everyone can get down to the business of running the
country.
The economy is in bad shape. The country is on autopilot. No one is running
the country or appears to be in charge. 100% of the time is spent with one
side trying to topple the other. For the good of the nation, this has to
come to an end and Tengku Razaleigh will call an end to all the crap.
The non-Malays will be happy with Tengku Razaleigh at the helm. Currently
they are not happy, not only with the way the economy is going, but also
with the failed attempt to set up a new Malay-Islamic party that Umno
mooted. Umno wooed PAS and tried to get them to merge with Umno. Umno was
even prepared to consider merging the two parties into one and to allow
Islamic laws to be implemented in the country. Not only was Umno prepared to
offer PAS the posts of Menteri Besar but also the post of Deputy Prime
Minister. And Abdullah even put this in writing.
But hold on. If PAS were to be given the post of Deputy Prime Minister of
Malaysia, where would that put Najib? And if Najib is no longer the Deputy
Prime Minister, then how can he take over as Prime Minister in 2010? And
Abdullah put this is writing so that the PAS leaders could table it at their
central committee meeting last Thursday.
Now does that explain why the PAS Youth Leader said that even if Umno offers
them the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, PAS is still not
interested in merging with Umno? It is because Abdullah DID offer them the
post of Deputy Prime Minister. PAS was not speaking hypothetically.
Yes, that is how to kill two birds with one stone. In one swoop, Najib and
Anwar can both be neutralised. Then Abdullah will be rid of two thorns in
his side. Maybe. Maybe not. There is still the issue of whether Tengku
Razaleigh will get more than 60 nominations and whether Anwar will win the
Permatang Pauh by-election. Any or both those happening would change the
entire scenario. Whatever the case may be, though, one thing is very clear,
Najib will be out of office, one way or another. That is certainly
predictable. It is who will be in charge thereafter that is fluid.
No, this is not a case of Anwar being set up for a fall under false
allegations of sodomy. It is about Najib being dragged into the mess and
being fingered as the dalang behind the conspiracy to set Anwar up. Sure,
Anwar will face a temporary setback. He will spend five to six years in jail
and then will be declared not guilty. But Najib will be sent into retirement
for good. This is not about Anwar. This is about Najib. And Najib has not
awoken to this fact yet. Poor thing.
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