Joint Letter from Human Rights Watch - Amnesty International - FIDH - OMCT - Forum Asia to Malaysia PM on Bersih crackdown

July 4, 2011

Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Mohammed Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak
Office of the Prime Minister
Main Block, Perdana  Putra Building
Federal Government Administrative Centre
62502 Putrajaya, MALAYSIA

Via facsimile: +60-3-8888-3444

Re: Human Rights Violations against  Bersih 2.0

Dear Prime Minister Najib,

We write to raise our very serious  concerns  about the escalating harassment, intimidation, and crackdown by your government against  the leaders and supporters of the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih).

Najib and gang say the darndest things

The government has two laws for Malaysians – one for itself and those it favours, and one for the rest of the people.

By Kee Thuan Chye

The Bersih 2.0 episode has taught us a few important things. About the officials who are supposed to serve us, the rakyat.

First, it has taught us that our prime minister, Najib Tun Razak, is a coward, a passer-of-the-buck, and a man with a slippery tongue.

The Doctor Who Came Back From the Dead

By Dan Wooding (June 15, 2011)

"I was dead for 1 hour and 25 minutes, but came back to life after my wife prayed a simple prayer." -Dr. Sean Thomas George

( Brisbane , Australia ) - A Christian group of doctors and medical professionals listened in shocked amazement as one of their own told the incredible story of how he came back from the dead.

Good Karma

Taib Mahmud - an enigma wrapped in corruption, shrouded by graft?

KUCHING - Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak, has been attracting media attention for all the wrong reasons. It was bad in the runup to the April 2011 state elections, but at the very personal level, it must have hurt the most in December last year.

At the age of 74, white-haired and pruned face, Taib walked down the aisle with his second wife, the 28-year-old Ragad Waleed Alkurdi. He could not have been unaware of some of the ribald and rather unkind comments levelled at him and Ragad. Spring and Autumn, Summer and Winter, Beauty and the Beast are just some of the more printable remarks made about their marriage.