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Siswa anggap kenyataan Mat Sabu isu kecil Posted: 04 Sep 2011 10:25 PM PDT Perkumpulan mahasiswa menganggap isu sekitar kontroversi ucapan Timbalan Presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu yang dikatakan pro-komunis sebagai isu kecil berbanding perbahasan berkaitan sejarah Malaysia sendiri. "Bagi mahasiswa, kenyataan Mat Sabu merupakan isu yang sangat kecil berbanding isu sejarah Malaysia yang selama ini penuh misteri dengan fakta-fakta yang sama ada tersembunyi atau disembunyi," kata Pengerusi Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM) Ahmad Syukri Ab Razab. Enggan mengulas kenyataan Mohamad secara langsung, Ahmad Syukri berkata pelbagai pihak berhak mengeluarkan pandangan selagi disokong fakta dan tidak berbaur fitnah. Bagaimanapun, tambah Ahmad Syukri, kenyataan Mohamad secara tidak langsung membangkitkan semula perbincangan mengenai sejarah Malaysia yang kurang diberi perhatian akibat kekalutan politik akhir-akhir ini. "Mat Sabu bukan satu-satunya tokoh yang mempersoalkan mengenai keabsahan penceritaan sejarah secara formal dalam silibus pendidikan Malaysia, namum sebelum ini ramai lagi tokoh yang telah menghuraikan mengenai kekurangan fakta yang terdapat dalam sejarah kemerdekaan negara," katanya. Ahmad Syukri berkata, terdapat beberapa versi lain berhubung sejarah prakemerdekaan yang seperti dalam filem 10 Tahun Sebelum Merdeka karya Fahmi Reza dan kajian pensyarah Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). "Mahasiswa beranggapan perkembangan semasa ini amat sihat bagi menghasilkan rakyat yang lebih peka sejarah sekali gus mengenali Malaysia dalam erti kata yang sebenar. "Tidak ada sebab untuk kerajaan berasa khuatir dengan perkembangan semasa ini sekiranya kerajaan benar-benar jujur dengan sejarah yang selama ini dihidangkan kepada rakyat," katanya dalam kenyataan hari ini. Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, Ahmad Syukri berkata, bagi menyemarakkan perbincangan sejarah bersempena sambutan ke-54 kemerdekaan, SMM akan menganjurkan forum membincangkan perjalanan kemerdekaan berdasarkan sudut pandangan berbeza pada 16 September ini. Katanya, forum berjudul "Di Sebalik Tabir Kemerdekaan" akan menyentuh idea Perlembagaan Rakyat - cadangan perlembagaan alternatif yang pernah menjadi usul penting Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya (PKMM).

Mat Sabu serah Pemuda PAS 'urus' KJ Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:45 PM PDT Timbalan Presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu menyerahkan tugas kepada Pemuda PAS untuk berdebat dengan Ketua Pemuda Umno Khairy Jamaluddin berhubung isu sekitar peristiwa Bukit Kepong dan sejarah prakemerdekaan. Dengan sinis, Mohamad berkata beliau tidak menolak pelawaan itu sebaliknya kedua-dua sayap PAS dan Umno itu lebih sesuai berbuat demikian. "Saya tidak tolak (berdebat). (Tetapi) biar Pemuda dengan Pemuda (berdebat) kerana mereka layak," katanya lagi. Menurutnya, Pemuda PAS Johor 'layak' berdepan Khairy kerana peristiwa serangan yang diketuai bekas pemimpin Kesatuan Melayu Muda (KMM) Muhammad Indera itu berlaku di balai polis Bukit Kepong, di negeri itu. "Saya serah kepada Pemuda PAS. Dia (Khairy) seorang yang bijak dan saya hormati. Biar dia berdepan dengan Pemuda PAS," katanya ketika dihubungi Malaysiakini hari ini. [Berita penuh menyusul]

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Why the Brits needed to beat the CPM Posted: 04 Sep 2011 01:22 AM PDT After the 2nd World War and with having to rebuild Britain while at the same time deal with the Soviet Union which had its European ambitions, Britain needed dollars - US dollars to buy whatever it was that was needed. The empire was on the decline and India had had its independence. Its only goose that was laying golden eggs was Malaya! "From 1948 until 1957, when the back of the communist insurgency was broken, it sank immense resources into the campaign. By October 1950, it had committed twenty-one infantry regiments, two armoured car regiments and one commando brigade, totalling nearly 50,000 troops. An official estimate put the overall cost at a staggering £700 million, of which the UK government spent £520 million. At the end of 1948, it was estimated that the Emergency was costing between M$250,000 - M$300,000 per day. In one year alone, 1951, the Emergency cost the government £69.8 million. This is especially significant when we consider the state of the British Treasury in the late 1940s. World War II drained the British economy to such an extent that it could scarcely meet existing commitments let alone accept new ones. Its very economic viability seemed in doubt, especially during the 'dollar gap' crisis of 1947. As one of Attlee's chief advisors wrote in December 1947: "We are a bankrupt nation. It will tax our strength and determination to the utmost during the next years to provide for our necessary imports by exports. Until we succeed we shall only keep alive through the charity of our friends." The question that therefore arises - and it is a core concern of this paper - is why, at this time of acute financial difficulty and without, in this instance, crucial American support, did the Attlee Labour government commit itself to a costly campaign in a colony whose march to Merdeka seemed imminently realisable?" With all the chatter focused on communist conspiracies perpetuated by Moscow and instructions being issued out of the Cominform conferences held earlier in 1948 in Calcutta for the CPM to take violent action, the narrative carried through to this day which Umno of course upholds, was an armed conflict orchestrated, somehow, by China rather than Moscow, would have instilled in this country communist rule that would cast God aside, and that of course includes Islam. That narrative of course sat well with the rulers of the day to provide the moral high-ground to garner the support of the people. Violence was met with violence and then more violence and even more violence. The CPM were cast as the bad guys. And they were bad. Indeed I am glad that they lost. But one cannot ignore the fact that they too saw the British as the enemy that needed to be cast out of Malaya so that Malaya would be independent. Of course they saw an independent communist Malaya! Well, remove the spectre of the violence that they participated in, you cannot really fault their aspirations as one cannot also fault PAS' aspirations for an Islamic state, or for that matter UMNO's take on its Islamic state. All of that is political posturing and really it is the citizens who should have had the right to determine their own destiny. I suppose the communists assumed too much and so does Umno to this day of course. But post war Britain had a different reason for issuing the emergency order and taking the battle against the CPM to the level that they did despite their own financial circumstances. "Besides the desire to crush communism, a desire aggravated by the onset of the Cold War, there was another, less publicly acknowledged reason for massive military commitment at a time of limited resources and fiscal parsimony. It concerned economic exigencies. Once the Japanese were defeated in 1945, Great Britain was determined to return to Malaya even if not to Burma or India. "This second colonial occupation, this new imperialism, occurred because of Malaya's dollar-earning capacity. As Creech Jones told Cabinet (but not Parliament): During 1947 the total value of the exports of Singapore and the [Malayan] Federation together was £151 million of which dollar exports accounted for £56 million. [Malaya] is by far the most important source of dollars in the colonial empire and it would gravely worsen the whole dollar balance of the Sterling Area if there were serious interference with Malayan exports. "In 1948 the US imported 727,000 tons of rubber, of which Malaya supplied 371,000. The US imported 158,000 tons of tin of which all but 3000 came from Malaya. In terms of dollars, rubber production exceeded in total value all domestic exports from Great Britain to the United States. "During 1946-1950, it derived US$700 million income from rubber exports to America. Any interruption of that supply, such as that presented by the insurgency, would seriously impair the British economy. In that year, 1948, Britain was still struggling to maintain the value of its sterling and the 'dollar gap' seemed to be getting wider. "This financial crisis made earnings from the 'Sterling Area', in which Malaya was the linchpin, all the more crucial. The maintenance and security of British business in Malaya was therefore of central economic importance to the imperial government." I have always wondered why on earth Australian and New Zealand servicemen would come to Malaya to fight our Communists and die in the process. Now I don't have to wonder why! Maybe the communists knew something that Umno did not know then. After all in gaining independence did not the British retain much of the income generating assets of the colonial period post independence? Keeping Singapore, did not they ensure much of Malaya's resources continued to find their markets via Singapore hence giving them a pinch of the pie? What is the point of independence if we could not also determine the fate of our resources? How come Umno was so generous? Note: Those paragraphs within inverted commas taken from Malaya, 1948: Britain's 'Asian Cold War'? by Phillip Deery, Fellow, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University. I will recommend a good read of this article.

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MB Kedah tak perlu pemangku, kata Azizan Posted: 03 Sep 2011 08:16 PM PDT Menteri Besar Kedah, Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak menegaskan tiada keperluan untuk mewujudkan jawatan pemangku bagi membantu beliau mentadbir negeri itu berdasarkan situasi kesihatannya pada masa ini. Azizan berkata, selama ini pun beliau bukan menjalankan tugas berseorangan tetapi sudah lebih tiga tahun mentadbir negeri ini dengan dibantu barisan exco kerajaan negeri yang dilantik. Malah, menurut Azizan beliau cukup kuat untuk menjalankan tugas selaku ketua pentadbiran kerajaan negeri sebagaimana yang dilakukannya sejak Pakatan Rakyat mengambil alih tampuk pemerintahan Kedah pada pilihan raya umum 2008 lalu. "Bagi saya sebagai menteri besar, saya tengok apa yang ada sudah elok. Barisan exco telah menjalankan tugas dengan baik," katanya dipetik Mingguan Malaysia. "Kecuali pada pandangan PAS Pusat saya buat kerja tidak elok, itu hak merekalah nak tolong Kedah ini," katanya di Yan, semalam. Azizan bekata demikian bagi mengulas kenyataan timbalan presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu yang disiarkan dalam sebuah portal berita bahawa pimpinan PAS Pusat akan mengadakan pertemuan dengan pimpinan PAS negeri bagi membincangkan perkara itu berikutan laporan sebuah akhbar harian berbahasa Inggeris kelmarin. Laporan akhbar berkenaan antara lain menyebut mengenai pelantikan pemangku menteri besar bergantung kepada tahap kesihatan Azizan. Mengenai cadangan Pemuda Gerakan Kedah agar diwujudkan jawatan timbalan menteri besar bagi memastikan pentadbiran negeri tidak terjejas jika pimpinan tertinggi kerajaan negeri tidak dapat berfungsi bagi suatu tempoh yang panjang, Azizan berkata, perkara itu tidak boleh dilaksanakan sesuka hati. Azizan yang juga Pesuruhjaya PAS Kedah berkata, mengikut Undang-undang Tubuh Negeri Kedah, jika seseorang menteri besar itu sudah tidak mampu untuk menjalankan tugasnya, perkara berkenaan perlu dimaklumkan kepada Sultan Kedah. Selepas itu, barulah parti pemerintah kerajaan negeri semasa boleh mencadangkan kepada Sultan Kedah mengenai pelantikan baru. "Persoalannya, sekarang ini saya cukup kuat. Saya tidak tahu tang (bahagian) mana saya tidak mampu. Cuti bukan satu masalah. Saya akan terus menjalankan tugas selagi diberi amanah oleh PAS Pusat untuk mengetuai Kedah," katanya.

Jenazah Noramfaizul tiba di Pangkalan TUDM Subang Posted: 03 Sep 2011 08:06 PM PDT Jenazah jurukamera BernamaTV Noramfaizul Mohd Nor yang maut akibat terkena tembakan curi semasa membuat liputan misi kemanusiaan di Mogadishu, Somalia, tiba di Pangkalan Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM) di Subang, pada jam 10 pagi tadi. Suasana hiba menyelubungi perkarangan pangkalan itu sebaik jenazah Allahyarham dibawa keluar daripada pesawat C-130 TUDM yang turut membawa pulang anggota misi bantuan Malaysia itu. Jenazah Allahyarham yang diiringi Pengerusi Putera Umno merangkap ketua misi bantuan Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, disambut anggota keluarga termasuk ayah Mohd Nor Mat Yassin, 66, dan ibu Naemah Abd Majid, 63. Selain anggota keluarga, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan isteri Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor turut menyambut ketibaan jenazah Allahyarham Noramfaizul dan kumpulan misi bantuan kemanusiaan bertujuan membantu mangsa kebuluran di Somalia. Turut hadir Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dan isteri Puan Sri Norainee Abdul Rahman, Menteri Penerangan Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim, Menteri Luar Datuk Seri Anifah Aman dan Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Jurugambar dan jurukamera mewakili pelbagai organisasi media kelihatan berkerumun di bahagian belakang pesawat ketika keranda dilitupi "Jalur Gemilang" yang membawa jenazah Allahyarham dibawa keluar untuk dibawa ke Masjid TUDM. Dalam kejadian pada Jumaat itu, kenderaan yang dinaiki Noramfaizul, 39, dan petugas media Malaysia lain yang diiringi tentera kerajaan Somalia, ditembak ketika mereka dalam perjalanan pulang ke tempat penginapan. Insiden itu turut menyebabkan jurukamera TV3 Aji Saregar Mazlan, cedera di lengan. Perdana Menteri memberitahu sidang media kemudian bahawa beliau kagum dengan semangat dan kecekalan Allahyarham dalam membuat liputan beberapa misi bantuan kemanusiaan Malaysia di luar negara. "Saya anggap Allahyarham Noramfaizul sebagai wira negara yang harus dijadikan model bagi merangsang semangat kita untuk terus membantu mereka yang kurang bernasib baik," kata Najib. Beliau juga secara peribadi dan bagi pihak isterinya yang juga penaung misi itu, merakamkan ucapan takziah kepada keluarga Allahyarham kerana kehilangan orang tersayang. Turut hadir di Subang ialah Pengerusi Pertubuhan Berita Nasional Malaysia (Bernama) Datuk Abdul Rahman Sulaiman, Pengurus Besar Datuk Hasnul Hassan, Ketua Pengarang Datuk Yong Soo Heong dan Ketua Editor BernamaTV Abdul Rahman Ahmad selain warga BernamaTV dan agensi berita itu. Jenazah Allahyarham dibawa ke Masjid TUDM sebelum dibawa pulang ke rumah keluarga arwah di Taman Serdang Raya untuk disemadikan di Tanah Perkuburan Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang. - Bernama

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Al-Fatihah buat Allahyarham Noramfaizul Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:37 PM PDT Kematian jurukamera Bernama TV Noramfaizul Mohd Nor dalam insiden tembakan di Mogadishu, Somalia telah mengejutkan kita semua. Apatah lagi tragedi ini berlaku ketika umat Islam meraikan Hari Raya Aidilfitri. Wartawan Aji Saregar Mazlan juga dimaklumkan cedera dalam insiden sama. Tragedi kemanusiaan kebuluran di Somalia menjadi bertambah dasyat dengan cengkaman pihak militia. Yang menyedihkan, sekiranya wujud kesungguhan di kalangan masyarakat antarabangsa, masalah ini dapat dikurangkan jika tidak diatasi sekalipun. Kematian Allahyarham berlangsung ketika beliau cuba memainkan peranannya untuk membantu mangsa tragedi kemanusiaan Somalia. Saya mewakili PKR ingin mengucapkan takziah kepada keluarga Allahyarham Noramfaizul dan mendoakan roh Allahyarham ditempatkan di kalangan mereka yang soleh, apatah lagi beliau pulang ke rahmatullah pada bulan Hari Raya fitrah yang mulia ini dan ketika menjalankankerja-kerja kebajikan dengan penuh dedikasi dan keberanian. Al-Fatihah. Penulis adalah Pengarah Komunikasi PKR

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Umno's Somalia mission: Genuine or publicity stunt? Posted: 03 Sep 2011 12:39 AM PDT By the time this article is published, the body of 39-year-old Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, Bernama's late cameraman, who had apparently followed Umno Putra club's humanitarian mission to Somalis would have arrived in Malaysia. It is tragic, that apart from the hundreds of lives lost during the Raya period on Malaysian roads due to the balik kampong mayhem, Faizul should meet his death in war torn Mogadishu, Somalia. Was this just an accident? Could it have been avoided? Did umno rush to Somalia to genuinely help Somalians? Or did the party throw caution to the wind and rush callously on the eve of Raya to Somalia just for a publicity stunt? If it was for a publicity stunt, then Faizul would have died in vain and this wouldn't have been the first time when our personnel, both medical and non-medical would have risked not only their lives but more importantly the people around them who may be completely oblivious to the dangers of this sort of missions. In 2003, Mercy Malaysia similarly put medical personnel at risk. Its two doctors, Dr Jamilah and Baba Deni were lucky to get away alive although both were shot in Baghdad. Not so lucky were their Syrian driver and the Iraqi medical personnel who were accompanying them. Both lost their lives in the shooting. Malaysians may mean well, but extending aid to war torn and disaster areas carries immense risks and requires specific training. Its not a boy scout outing. Apart from the safety aspect, questions have arisen as to how these trips are being financed and who actually audits these ventures. When the 2004 tsunami flattened Acheh, Malaysians were one of the first to reach Acheh. But they were hopelessly ill-equipped for the task ahead. In direct contrast, Singapore and Australia sent in their army and naval outfits to attend to the distribution of aid. Humanitarian aid carried out by trained forces tend to be more orderly, organized, triaged and focused to help. Malaysians out to help nuclear-disastered Sendai, Japan following this year's tsunami were not even allowed to leave Subang for Japan by Japanese authorities, as they politely refused knowing well they could not guarantee the safety of their own people let alone foreign volunteers untrained in handling nuclear fall-outs. From the images shown on local TV, the Umno Putra team appeared to be untrained personnel doing their rounds on unfriendly and sometimes hostile terrain. How would giving adhoc cholera/typhoid vaccinations and holding impromptu outpatient clinics at refugee camps help civilians there in the long-term? And why would you want to do a job you are not trained to handle especially on terrain you are not familiar with and unfriendly at that too. Shouldn't it have been a job for our army boys. We are in peace time anyway and this would have been a good mission to keep them on their toes. There is no imminent danger of our submarines sinking as they apparently cannot dive, or our air force jets with no engines crashing and there are certainly no communists to look out for who may be waiting to create another Bukit Kepong situation. A brief look at the army's hospitals' websites indicate that almost all their hospitals have hardly any patients, which will then beg the question. What do our army docs and medics do with so much free time on their hands? Shouldn't they have gone instead of the Umno club. Unless, of course, the help Umno went to deliver was a sideshow, the main menu being publicity for the party or its leaders judging from the daily reporting in the MSM and TV images during prime time. Is this GE13 election campaigning using the Somalians misery and our journalists lives to brain wash kampong folk out in Jengka and Baling? Umno must now be ready to answer some difficult questions. The Mission arrived in Somalia on Aug 30 at one of the world' most dangerous destinations and to a country that is home to pirates that can put to shame even the mightiest of navies in the Indian Ocean, including the US Navy. Apparently it was timed to provide Hari Raya aid and according to a statement issued by its chief, Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim to even have Hari Raya prayers there! If the Health Ministry was involved and had sent some of their personnel, Liow Tiong Lai better have some answers ready. With our own Malaysians getting literally war conditions treatment in many of our government hospitals, it would be interesting to listen to Liow's excuses, in his own Tung Shin way. Aid was supposed to be distributed to five areas, with Mogadishu being the first stop. Others included Badbadur, about 25km from Mogadishu, where about 250,000 people are taking refuge, Al Shabeb in Merka where 300,000 people are affected by the famine and in the Balet Veni camps which house 100,000 people. Both areas are located 100km from Mogadishu. Even the Operations chief Lt-Col Zahani Zainal Abdin had warned saying it would be risky to even fly into Mogadishu at night. In total there were a total of 55 volunteers and members of the media who formed part of the mission to cover a radius of almost 200 km in a country where there was no law except for a 9000 strong UN backed force - the only law in a country of 10 million. Make no mistake, in this country even 12 year olds carry AK-47s. Umno club members had no business being in this country and in their pursuit of cheap publicity endangering the lives of other civilians both Malaysians and Somalians. Any mission that carries with it civilians and journalists are a handicap to any military personnel exposing even the most well-trained military commando to being nothing more then a sitting duck. Al- Fatihah to Noramfaizul Mohd Nor's family. Let's hope Bernama and Utusan don't spin his untimely and unnecessary death into a "mati syahid" affair.

Australian court outshines ours in decisiveness Posted: 02 Sep 2011 11:02 PM PDT Lawyers for Liberty applauds the visionary decisiveness by the High Court of Australia (to bar the refugee swap arrangement with Australia), a quality severely lacking within the Malaysian context. Briefly the facts of the challenge are that section 198A(3) of the Australian Migration Act enables the minister to declare that a specified country is a safe third country for asylum seekers to be transferred to. The safety of that country is to be assessed by four criteria one of which being that, that country meets relevant human rights standards in providing protection. The plaintiffs contended, among other things that the declaration made on July 25 was not validly made because the four criteria set out in s 198A(3)(i)-(iv) are facts which did not exist. The minister had relied, not on cogent evidence of Malaysia's commitment to protection but rather among other reasons on an "understanding" from his conversations with the Malaysian minister of home affairs and other Malaysian officials that the Malaysian government "was keen to improve its treatment of refugees and asylum seekers" and that Malaysia was "actively considering" allowing work rights for all asylum seekers. The court, in holding that the Minister's declaration was invalid, stated that whether the relevant "access" and "protection" are provided and "human rights standards" are met, are questions which cannot be answered without reference to the domestic laws of the specified country, including its constitution and statute laws, and the international legal obligations to which it has bound itself. The court said that "it remains the case that Malaysia does not have laws which recognise and protect refugees from refoulement and persecution. The arrangement with Malaysia is no more than a statement of the participants' intentions and political commitments. It creates no obligation for the purposes of international law" and "although it attempted to address some of the problems which face asylum-seekers in Malaysia , it could not alter the present state of affairs" Lawyers for Liberty is heartened that the court's decision underscores the most significant aspects of civil society's campaign against the refugee-swap deal and also that the decision highlights the inadequacy of the UNHCR endorsed 'pseudo-protection' being extended to asylum seekers in Malaysia. Ratification of the Refugee 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol should have been the primary consideration preceding any negotiations. Short of that, amendments to Malaysia 's immigration act - not a temporary exemption - should have been a condition preceding the arrangement. Lawyers for Liberty urges the Malaysian government to consider and act in a manner consistent with its international reputation as a member of the Human Rights Council in all future actions involving the combating of transnational organized crime. Renuka T Bala is a member of the NGO Lawyers For Liberty.

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K'jaan Somalia janji akan siasat Posted: 02 Sep 2011 10:25 PM PDT Punca kejadian tembakan peluru sesat yang menyebabkan kematian jurukamera BernamaTV, Noramfaizul Mohd Nor di Mogadishu pada Jumaat, akan disiasat Kementerian Keselamatan Dalam Negeri Somalia. Menteri berkenaan Abdisamad Maallin Mohamud berjanji dalang di sebalik kejadian itu dicari dan dihadapkan ke mahkamah. Beliau meminta maaf terhadap tragedi itu dan mengucapkan takziah kepada keluarga Allahyarham dan seluruh warga Malaysia berikutan kematian Noramfaizul (kanan). "Ini (tembakan) bukannya daripada kerajaan...bukan daripada Al-Shabaab (pihak berkuasa). Ia dari tembakan pasukan lain dan kita akan menyiasat kenapa ini berlaku dan kenapa (rakyat Malaysia) diserang," kata Abdisamad. Noramfaizul, 39, yang telah bertugas dengan BernamaTV kira-kira sembilan tahun, maut akibat terkena tembakan peluru sesat semasa membuat liputan Misi Kemanusiaan Kelab Putera 1Malaysia di Mogadishu, Somalia. Kejadian berlaku pada 5.40 petang waktu tempatan (Malaysia lima jam lebih awal dari Somalia) semasa kenderaan pacuan empat roda yang dinaiki anggota misi seramai enam orang dalam perjalanan pulang ke tempat penginapan dengan diiringi tentera kerajaan Somalia. Sementara itu, ketua misi bantuan Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim berkata kemalangan yang meragut nyawa Noramfaizul itu sukar diterima rakyat Malaysia. Abdul Azeez berkata beliau menuntut siasatan menyeluruh serta penjelasan daripada kerajaan Somalia berhubung kejadian itu. "Kenapa pasukan tentera melakukan ini kepada kita. Ini kita tidak boleh terima. Mesti ada siasatan menyeluruh. Rakyat Somalia mesti mohon maaf kepada rakyat Malaysia," Abdul Azeez berkata kepada Abdisamad. Abdul Azeez juga berkata jenazah Noramfaizul sudah diuruskan serta persiapan dibuat untuk membawa balik jenazahnya ke Malaysia dengan pesawat C-130 Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM). "Suasana pilu di sini. Semua yang lain selamat. Semalam adalah perjalanan terakhir tetapi terkena peluru sesat...tidak tahu dari mana," kata Abdul Azeez. Menurutnya, anggota perubatan kelab itu cuba sedaya menyelamatkan Noramfaizul tetapi gagal. Misi berkenaan yang berlepas pada 28 Ogos dari Kuala Lumpur bertujuan membantu mangsa bencana kemarau dan kebuluran di Somalia, dijadual pulang esok yang sepatutnya pada Isnin ini. - Bernama

Salang sedia pertahan kerusi parlimen Julau Posted: 02 Sep 2011 10:12 PM PDT Ahli parlimen Julau Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum bersedia untuk mempertahankan kerusi kawasan pilihan raya beliau untuk penggal keempat pada pilihan raya umum ke-13 (PRU-13). Bagaimanapun katanya beliau bersedia berbuat demikian jika para pengundi, Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) dan kepimpinan di kedua-dua kerajaan negeri dan persekutuan memberikan mandat kepadanya. "Jika tidak, saya agak bersedia untuk mengundurkan diri," kata Salang yang juga Timbalan Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan pada sesi perjumpaan dengan penduduk di Rh.Tuat anak Bunya di Lubok Embawang, Nanga Wak dekat Pakan lewat petang semalam. Beliau berkata demikian sebagai mengulas permintaan daripada beberapa pemimpin masyarakat yang meminta beliau terus memberikan khidmat di kawasan pilihan raya luar bandar itu. Salang berkata jika beliau dicalonkan lagi, BN khasnya di kawasan kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Meluan, dalam kawasan pilihan raya parlimen itu, akan bekerja lebih kuat kerana sesetengah pemimpin di kawasan tersebut mula berkempen untuk menyingkirkan beliau dan menghasut pengundi. "Saya dianggap sebagai orang luar dan bahawa saya tidak komited untuk membawa kemajuan dan pembangunan di kawasan pilihan raya ini. Tetapi saya pasti majoriti pengundi tidak berkongsi pandangan atau emosi khasnya di kawasan Dewan Undangan Negeri Pakan (satu lagi kawasan di parlimen Julau)," kata Salang. Salang, 61, pertama kali memenangi kerusi itu pada pilihan raya umum 1999. Pada pilihan raya umum 2008, naib presiden PRS itu menang kerusi berkenaan dengan majoriti 7,581 dan mengalahkan Pegawai Daerah Julau yang telah bersara Labang anak Jamba yang bertanding sebagai calon Bebas. Sementara itu, presiden PRS Tan Sri Dr James Jemut Masing berkata di Kuching semalam bahawa parti itu belum lagi menyemak secara terperinci calon-calon bagi pilihan raya umum akan datang. PRS mempunyai enam kawasan parlimen Sri Aman, Lubok Antu, Julau, Selangau, Kanowit dan Hulu Rajang. "Kita harap memperoleh semua kerusi ini untuk BN tetapi kita masih memantau di akar umbi. Bagaimanapun, jika kita gunakan pilihan raya negeri 2011 sebagai tanda aras, kita yakin dapat mengekalkan semua enam kerusi itu." kata beliau. - Bernama

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Penduduk kg Lajong Kuala Niah mohon pembelaan Posted: 01 Sep 2011 10:25 PM PDT Malaysia merdeka sudah 54 tahun. Saya merasa hairan kenapa kawasan luar bandar selalu diabaikan. Inilah kampung asal saya dan saya amat kecewa kerajaan BN hanya cakap tapi tidak tunai janji. Kampung Lajong Kuala Niah hanya memakan masa satu hingga dua jam perjalanan dari bandaraya Miri. Selama ini kemudahan jalan raya tidak pernah diturap, saluran perparitan tiada dan bekalan air bersih tiada. Jambatan yang ada hanya tunggu runtuh sahaja. Kalau ada yang mati dalam sungai kerana jambatan runtuh baru nak buat jambatan baru. Mana kesedaran pihak ahli parlimen Sibuti (Ahmad Lai Bujang) dan ADUN Bekenu (Rosey Yunus) serta kerajaan BN dalam menilai kesusahan penduduk kampung ini. Janji sebelum pilihan raya bukan main manis tapi sudah menang nahhhh... janji tinggal janji sahaja. Saya dan masyrakat penduduk sini dan kampung-kampung yang lain sudah tidak percaya pada wakil rakyat yang tersebut lagi. Kami amat bosan berpuluh puluh tahun dijanjikan dengan kata-kata janji mereka. Harapan saya dan masyarakat di sini agar pihak tertentu tolonglah kami yang hidup dalam keadaan susah selama ini. Niat saya bukan hendak memburukan sesiapa tetapi kami amat amat perlukan perubahaan untuk kebaikan.

Tindakan tegas mesti diambil ke atas Al-Wuzara Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:30 PM PDT 1. Menghina Islam adalah satu perbuatan jenayah terkutuk. Selain daripada hujah sebagai satu mekanisme menghadapi pelbagai pihak situasi yang keliru mengenai Islam, tindakan undang - undang juga sangat diperlukan terutama kepada mereka yang bertindak keterlaluan menghina dan mempersendakan agama Islam. Tambahan pula mereka bergerak secara terancang dan sememangnya berniat jahat terhadap Islam dan ummatnya. 2. Saya merujuk penegasan ini kepada kes penghinaan terhadap Allah, Rasul dan agama Islam yang dilakukan oleh "Makcik Hajjah Sitt Al-Wuzara" melalui laman blognya. Ia telah mendapat liputan luas seluruh dunia malah banyak pihak telah creat pelbagai laman sosial khas untuk berdepan dengan penghinaan yang melampau ini. Terbaru, satu pendedahan serius mengenai identiti Makcik Hajjah Sitt Al-Wuzara ini telah dilakukan. 3. Tidak perlu saya butirkan di sini apakah bentuk penghinaan yang dilakukan oleh Makcik Hajjah Sitt Al-Wuzara ini. Semua pihak boleh merujuk kepada blognya dan dan juga laman facebooknya. Saya yakin perkara ini juga telah sampai ke pengetahuan pihak berkuasa agama negara kita. Cuma, yang masih dinanti ialah tindakan berkesan dari pihak berkuasa bagi menangani jenayah ini. 4. Siasatan rapi juga mesti dilakukan terhadap pendedahan identiti yang telah dilakukan dan jika ia suatu pendedahan yang benar, pihak berkuasa agama mesti mengambil tindakan tegas terhadap individu terbabit yang telah menghina agama Allah SWT dan telah mencederakan perasaan ribuan juta ummat Islam di seluruh dunia khasnya umat Islam di negara ini. 5. Saya mewakili Dewan Pemuda PAS Malaysia juga mengharapkan satu pendakwaan dikenakan ke atas individu tersebut oleh pihak berkuasa agama seperti JAKIM bagi mewakili seluruh ummat Islam negara ini. Individu Makcik Hajjah Sitt Al-Wuzara yang didedahkan sebagai Adlin binti Abd Jalil perlu disiasat dan diadili segera sebelum ia mencetus kemarahan umat Islam. 6. Kami tegaskan bahawa perkara ini serius dan sekali - kali tidak boleh dipandang ringan apalagi untuk berlepas tangan. Isu ini sudah berlalu terlalu lama dan ummat Islam tidak boleh bersabar lagi. Selaku pihak berkuasa, tindakan segera mesti diambil dan kami menunggu dalam tempoh 10 hari daripada sekarang untuk sebarang tindakan positif dari pihak berkuasa agama terhadap isu ini. 7. Kami kesal apabila mutakhir ini rakyat hanya dimomokkan dengan bahaya komunis yang kononnya cuba dihidupkan kembali sedang komunis hanyalah "hantu" dan igauan yang sengaja dicipta dan dihidupkan untuk mengalih tumpuan kepada isu dan bahaya sebenar yang sedang dihadapi oleh rakyat khasnya umat Islam di negara ini. 8. Bukanlah komunis itu tidak bahaya, tetapi negara kita telah aman dan bebas dari ancaman komunis. Malah saya juga yakin, tiada siapa khasnya dari kalangan umat Islam yang mahu menghidupkan semula fahaman komunisme terutama di zaman ini. Sebaliknya apa yang berlaku ialah rakyat bangkit berjuang untuk menegakkan Islam dan menuntut pemulihan sistem demokrasi. 9. Tanpa tindakan berkesan dan positif dari pihak berkuasa agama terhadap kes penghinaan terhadap agama Islam yang dilakukan oleh Makcik Hajjah Sitt Al-Wuzara, Dewan Pemuda PAS Malaysia memberikan komitmen untuk menggerak dan memimpin kebangkitan sejuta umat sehinggalah individu terbabit diambil tindakan dan mereka yang menjadi dalang atau pihak yang melindungi kegiatannya turut diambil tindakan tegas. 10. Saya juga menyeru kepada seluruh umat Islam agar mempersiapkan diri dengan ilmu Islam yang mantap agar tidak mudah terpengaruh dengan dakyah dan propaganda yang cuba untuk meruntuhkan aqidah Islam. Para alim ulama' mesti bersatu dan bangkit mempertahankan aqidah ummat Islam serta memberikan penjelasan serta kemukakan hujah mendepani kekeliruan yang sengaja ditimbulkan terhadap ajaran Islam. Akhirnya saya menasihati diri saya sendiri, seluruh umat Islam, pemimpin dan ulama' mereka, agar jangan sekali-kali leka dan asyik diselimuti kedinginan penghawa dingin di bilik seminar atau pejabat masing-masing. Jangan alpa dengan persoalan-persoalan remeh yang hanya membincangkan soal doa mesti tadah tangan atau tidak ? solat subuh kena baca qunut atau tidak? Jangan hanya memikirkan soal kepentingan politik dan percaturannya sehingga isu melibatkan aqidah umat Islam ini tidak lagi menjadi keutamaan dalam perjuangan mereka. Jangan hanya kerana memikirkan soal survival kuasa sehingga memejamkan mata terhadap isu yang melibatkan masa depan aqidah ummat Islam. Ingatlah, amanah utama selaku umat Islam, pemimpin dan ulama' mereka ialah memelihara dan menegakkan Islam serta mengurus kehidupan (ekonomi, politik dan sosial) di dunia ini berdasarkan agama yang diwahyukan oleh Tuhan Yang Maha Mencipta. Justeru, laksanakan amanah tersebut sebelum kita semua dihitung nilai oleh Allah Rabbul Jalil di akhirat kelak. Penulis adalah Ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS

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