Black 12/11 for Malaysia!

Following the nationwide crackdown on peaceful demonstrators of BERSIH, Hindraf and Human Rights annual march on December 9 in Kuala Lumpur, comes another attempt to halt the ruling party from voting the Bill to change the reirement age of the Chairman of Election Commission of Malaysia from 65 to 66 to accomodate what the opposition party and NGOs claim was a violation of a fair imminent General Election which have been said to be in 1st quarter of 2008.

BERSIH had planned to submit a memorandum to the Speaker of Parliament to protest on the passing of Bill for a fair GE but instead police had planned otherwise by setting up roadblocks on all roads leading towards Parliament as early as 4am on Tuesday morning. This had caused morning traffic snarl and people being late for work. The submission of the memorandum was to be done only by a group of 10 BERSIH members as reported but police had expected so called "violent" and "unruly crowd" which never really appeared.

Instead the participants of the small BERSIH members were arrested in and out of the perimeters of Parliament. In this video, one would be able to watch Tian Chua was forcibly removed from the car he was in and suffered a stolen punch from apolice officer somewhere 7minutes and 15 seconds into the video. It is also doubtful that the police officers had read the rights of arrest to Tian Chua and his driver.



There are questions need to be answered from the memorandum and doubtful that the memorandum would be seriously reviewed by the Government in the interest of citizens of Malaysia.

(a) Why increase the retirement age by only a year?? Why not 5 years??
(b) Why there were no competent candidate to takeover when retirement age of the Election
Commission Chairman is approaching?
(c) Isn't there a succession plan being in place when this is so obvious lately or is there
favoritism in the appointments;
- appointment of judges,
- appointment of police chiefs and
- now Election Commission Chairman (note: In the Philippines, the position for Chairman of
Election of Commission is advertised in the newspapers!)

So the Bill have been passed in Parliament and no point for discussion but will the DYMM Agung consent to it? Would there be a fair General Election soon? Malaysians have to decide the chosen ruling party wisely and not live miserably for 5 years.