Raja Petra Kamarudin has made a statutory declaration on June 18 alleging that Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Deputy Prime Minister Najib’s wife, was at the murder scene of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu. [Malaysiakini]
The news is not picked up by the main media yet, but the blogosphere has been heated up with all sorts of discussions.
Whether the allegation is truth or not, I don’t know… in fact only very few people would know at the moment. RPK has shown his courage over the years, but frankly, sometimes he is abusing his influence to bully the politicians.
This is not the first time he is alleging that Najib was involved in Altantuya’s murder, but he has failed to produce any solid proofs besides empty talks so far. I hope the cops and authorities will take his statutory seriously… because if Najib is really guilty, I want him to face justice; if Najib is innocent, I would like to see RPK facing the song.
I always believe that everyone is innocent until proven not; that’s one of the basic cores of our constitution. It sucks to let go of a criminal, but the last thing I want to see is innocent people being punished.
Don’t bother reminding me how corrupted our government and the judicial system are, because it’s not the point I am trying to make here.
Lots of people don’t like Najib, I personally am not fond of this fella at all. However, that doesn’t mean that we should implicate that he (or his wife) is a murderer without having solid evidences or investigations.
It’s saddening thing to see some Malaysians having their logical minds being taken control by their senseless emotions, just go and read some comments on Malaysia-Today, LKS’ blog, Anwar’s blog ans Susan’s blog… and you would see so many Malaysians sentencing Najib to guilt as if they were right on the crime scene and saw everything.
Imagine how would your love ones feel if you are being wrongly investigated, charged or prosecuted for a murder that you never committed? Imagine how would you feel if your family member is being accused of doing things that they never did? It could be one of the worst things that you would want to happen in your life.
What we want to see is to have justice served; and as said earlier, I hope to see the authorities taking RPK’s declaration seriously… after all, it’s not fun to risk being sentenced to jail just to mock a person you really hate. But until then, Najib is not a murderer, and it’s unfair to accuse him of being so without knowing the facts.
Use your heart, use your mind, and not let your emotion taking control of your soul my fellow Malaysians. Show some mercy.
Hmmm so much for the reform of judiciary….
Anyway, there are so much grey issues in Malaysia…
The main purpose is the presentation of possibly new evidence on the case. A case where too many leads have been cut off without due reason. Thus, the statutory declaration is, in a way, to ‘force’ action by the relevant authorities.
For RPK to take this step, is indeed bold. Even foolhardy as it still stems from hearsay. But one cannot deny that he is determined that the Mongolians receive justice.
Now, why does it take the Police to make a statement only after 72 hours and there was a complete blackout of the declaration in MSM? On the other hand, RPK was hauled up in less than 24 hours after comments by Najib’s secretary. Are we being governed by 2 separate laws?
Your title is wrong. No one has condemned Najib BUT to demand a PROPER investigation based on the new evidence. Nothing more!
Remie… the title is not wrong. Not everyone is purely on demand that a proper investigation to be done… some (probably lots) of the Malaysian netizens are already accusing Najib as a murderer, that’s my point. Visit some other blogs (I have provided a few links above) and read those comments, and you would probably understand my frustration.
I won’t deny that our law enforcement sucks when it comes to political motivated cases, it’s a fact and I don’t need to stress that again… but that doesn’t mean that we as common citizens should judge any person prematurely without putting them on trial. We are not over the law, as simple as that.
anybody can have their own judgement, is call freedom. these netizens can say what they want and in the end is all comes down to evidences. about law….i wonder is there any law when comes to vip…
anybody CAN have their own judgment, but u must be responsible for it if you make them known. freedom, just like power, cannot be uncapped. this is a prerequisite to any civilization. Citizens who demand their leaders to be clean and principled and lead by example shouldn’t themselves indulge in morality perversion. To renounce ALL trust in the rule of law without a proper reason - what’s ur suggestion? and what are u doing to improve the situation? if you’re amongst those who “i’m gonna find enough money and get the h*ll outta here” then the least u can do is stop spreading more distrusts, anger and hatred amongst ppl.
anyway, good post YeinJee. we need more voices like urs. would like to share this blog, a blogger who also has both faith and determination to make our country a better place : http://wainyan.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/malaysia-decided-a-reflection-finale/
YeinJee,
I say, what comes around, goes around. Too bad for Najib, I won’t be shedding even A SINGLE TEAR for the man, even if he is 100% innocent buy presumed guilty in the court of public opinion.
Why?
Who brought this on themselves? UMNO and BN did, when they “gamed” the judiciary system and turned the fourth estate into a gagged laughingstock.
For YEARS the rakyat had to suffer with:
a) Extremely biased media coverage, and
b) VERY suspect decisions in cases involving politics or politicians (Rahim Thamby Chik, Eric Chia, Anwar Ibrahim’s “trial” etc)
So now, when a blogger (and a well-known one at that) comes along with a wild allegation, how can you blame the people for going along with it?
THEY are the ones that gagged the media, driving us, the news-starved public into the arms of alternative media, including RPK’s “Malaysia-today” who, even perhaps having its own agenda, only said what most of us thought privately.
THEY are the ones, who, via blackout of any negative or pro-opposition news, led us to choose to rather believe in alternative media than the MSM (and RPK has indeed have a track record of getting it right before - GE dates, Pak Lah’s marriage, etc).
THEY are the ones who systematically DESTROYED the judiciary, proven by revelations by even former and current judges, to the point where NO ONE, NOT EVEN THE JUDGES THEMSELVES have any stock in the current justice system where money can buy you whatever judgement you want (or even whichever judge).
So mercy? Mercy be damned.
REAP WHAT YOU SOWED BN AND UMNO!!! Kah kah kah kah.
Najib’s silence is deafening and is certainly not helping either. He’s our DPM for goodness sake and the insinuations are no small matter! I would have thought he would sue the hell out of RPK already! But complete silence?
Come on Najib - say something - do something. If not, then people will continue to pre-judge you. This is no longer personal. This concerns our nation.
RPK was only reliably informed yet he has got balls of steel to reveal what he knew in the presence of a commissioner for oaths.
My opinion.
good to see so many discussion here. i think both side is right. people like najib is destroying his reputation since long time ago, maybe its karma that strikes back. but i also agree with yeinjee that we shouldn’t judge idiots like najib in specific cases, because it would make us the same category with the bad people.
what happen to the mongolian model is that, and i felt sorry for her family. i hope we can get the right people who commit the crime and hang them to death, but i don’t want to see innocent people being wrongly judge as well. its not najib alone that suffer from all the rumors, but the victim’s family will also feel the pain from so many unconfirm soucre.
show mercy not just to najib, but to the victim’s family too. what we want the most is to let the victim rest in peace by finding the real murderers and no others.
yeinjee, I am rational on issues like this but why so much interference in the courts like changing judges and sorts, so dont you smell the rat. one word:”Political interference with guilt” We are not judging anyone guilty as net citizen but it is the only arena that we can express our thoughts.
Firstly, the survival of the judiciary is in jeopardy. IF we let the law to take its course in the judiciary, most likely the guilty will be innocent and the innocent guilty as charged!
Who believed in the Lingam tape when it was first exposed? All except the executive at that time. The executive totally in denial mode.
Xander… “what comes around, goes around”, that’s a funny thought actually. So for those who are accusing others without solid proofs, what would come around?
I am not blaming people for supporting RPK or whatever. I am just saying that we should not use hatred to retaliate against all the oppressions we felt all these years. Revenging hatred with hatred… can you imagine what would happen if the cycle keeps going? The country will be doomed.
Hating a person is one thing, but we have to judge each situation case by case. Does Najib looks dubious with the murder case? He sures look suspicious, but that doesn’t mean he is guilty of anything… not without solid proof.
ricky… what is there to respond to? Najib has been telling the public numerous times that he was not involved, it’s just that the public has chosen not to listen. His reputation has preceed whatever he said obviously.
Anon#8… nicely said, you raise a good point that we should have mercy for the victim and her family. All these speculations are not doing anyone good, not for Najib, not for the country, and definitely not for the deceased.
dlquill… I smell a lot of things, just that I don’t normally judge it without seeing the whole picture. It’s one thing about expressing our thoughts, it’s another when it comes to blantant attack.
I am actually happy to see the comments here. Not everyone of you are agreeing with me, but most of you have come out with your own thoughts and reasons, and it’s a good thing. At least we are using our brains and not baseless emotions which are happening at a lot of other places online.
Joshua… our judiciary is in jeorpady, true… and we will have to find a way to fix it. However, are we really sure that every single judges in Malaysia are corrupted, that there will be no justice at all? Are we ready to overthrow our basic law that all charges and prosecutions would have to base on solid evidences?
Frankly, if anyone have had solid proofs of Najib’s involvement and are willing to take him heads on… with the power of internet media these days, Najib can’t simply run away for it. RPK’s statutory declaration is a solid example where our voices could not be entirely ignored these days.
But the basic law still applies… we need to have solid evidence, which no one has managed to produced against Najib so far; and until then, Najib is innocent and rightly so.
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YeinJee note: AL, go ahead and publish the excerpt; as long as it’s properly credited, you don’t even need to ask, it’s how blogosphere works.
Spamming is however not. You have been posting the same stuff (with your links) at almost every Malaysia social political blogs that you can find, that’s downright spamming my dear.
I m a newbie in this site, but I c that d point is y YB Dato Seri Najib & wife do not commence libel/slander suit in d court? y? Y? Unless !!! near Truth??????
I agree we should not have a citizen’s court on the internet.
But I also understand the frustrations of all who have expressed an opinion on the subject. The authorities’ attitude sucks to an unbeliveable high degree.
If satisfaction cannot be gained in a duly constituted court of law, then, at least, allow the cititzens to gain satisfaction in the internet.
Look at the list of circumstantial evidence & apparent evidence being diverted at the court (RPK & elsewhere lists them in detail). Any reasonable jury of our peers could see that the direction of the current courtcase is being manupilated by hidden hands.
Is that a reason why we do not have the Jury system?
jeffrey chun,
“freedom of speech should comes with responsibilities”…u go say that to westerners. there is no semi-democracy, 70% nor 90%. either u are democracy or u are not.
there are too many proven events that showed vips are above laws. go and read more corruption news. no need to surf far…just read at this site (since u are so full of compliments)
“making big money in malaysia then migrate”…go and talk to bn politicians especially mca ones.
tiger… if Najib file a suit for that, he will be call for obsctructing freedom of speech. It’s damn if he does, damn if he doesn’t… he is doomed no matter what he does in this situation.
Remie… the jury system won’t help much with our current state of judicial. If the judge want to divert something, the jury won’t have the chance to listen to that anyway. Besides, if there is any obstruction of justice, it is probably easier to be done outside the court by preventing evidence to reach the court.
ffad… freedom of speech does come with responsibilities, and that include westerners as well. Hillary Clinton had apologised not fewer than once during her presidential-candidate campaign because of some controversial stuff she said, and there are many ocassions that people are held responsible for the words they said.
Freedom of speech is granted that everyone can express their opinions without obstruction of law, as contrary to our ISA and Sedition Act etc. The freedom is granted with the believes that people will handle that freedom with maturity and responsibility… responsibility is the core for the freedom.
yeinjee..hillary clinton is not a blogger nor a common citizen. she need to be responsible regarding her speech esor the way she speaks for the sensitivity on all u.s. citizens and countries around the world. u can hear many westerners speak vulgarily but not their politicians. the comments i made is not referring to politicians.
it is somehow “amazing” (embarrassing to be more precise) that malaysians need to spread an idea through internet with government agents watching and might be condemn. and it is too, that malaysians thought rumors are facts. if rumors becomes fact because everybody believed it, then malaysians are really extraordinary.
ffad… with more power comes more responsibility… ermm from which movie is that lol? Public figure needs to bear more responsibility with their speech than common citizens; it’s not a matter of positions, but a matter of influence.
Politicians, media and popular bloggers etc… as long as they possess certain degree of influence, they need to be more careful with their ideas and thoughts. If there is any controversial sentiment involved, they would need to back it up with reasonings (reasonable or not is another issue) but not blatant attack.
Agree though, that it’s an embarassing state that we are having so few options for freedom of speech in Malaysia. The oppression would only lead to more radical thougths from various parties because of the lack of interactions… and as you said, people sometimes find it hard to distinguish between facts and fiction, and that’s probably because of the poor communication among parties involved.
sahabat semua,
esok harga elektrik naik mendadak, TNB masih tepat melapurkan keuntungan tahunan yang tinggi, adakah itu wajar.
di sarawak SESCO tidak menaikkan harga letrik, malah mengambil langkah bijak mengurangkan kos operasi.
kenapa TNB lain pulak, adakah mungkin TNB diurus oleh pengurus yang tidak cekap, tidak tahu bidang elektrik, atau mungkin seorang yang hanya tahu soal wang dan mementingkan keunungan.
malang sekali saham TNB juga merosot, dan banyak projek2 TNB masih terbengkalai dan kerugian yang amat besar bakal menunggu TNB.
TNB perlu perubahan dan saya harap kerajaan selaku pemilik saham besar harus memikirkan langkah terbaik mengurus TNB. jangan biarkan syarikat kerajaan mendapat untung dan rakyat menderita.
MUSTAFA BIN SAREH
Sex and the C4
Sodomy is a useful word
recently said and heard,
in Malaysian homes and offices
it’s all about famous orifices.
What is going on, you wonder
when Bala steals the thunder,
finger pointing the magic word
to the delight of a horny herd
Organs united, names forgotten?
VIPs are really rotten
Saiful he knows and did not know
doubts about Aminah begin to grow
of whose loose lips he was afraid
but liked her other end instead;
of course he knew it wasn’t right
but it felt so good and tight!
You could not hump like Greeks
the Hindenburg’s fat cheeks;
what her hubby found so succulent
was making Rosmah trucculent.
And so she thought, the time was due
for a nice Mongolian barbecue.
Enter the analyst, not so anal,
who found the girl too banal;
fearing supernatural harm
from her juicy feminine charm,
he hired Bala straightaway
to keep the honeytrap at bay
but private dicks were of no match
for Aminah’s superlative snatch
and now that Najib had had his fill,
he would not share the till;
right after the submarine deal,
Aminah’s fate he would seal.
Now Rosmah had one idea
on how to kenakan dia
“Let’s bomb the bombshell,
let’s send her to hell.”
Thus perished the hapless beauty
after translation and booty duty;
now Rosmah’s ass was happy
until one blogger got yappy;
this Hindenburg nearly caught fire
yet to sue she has no desire.
But Najib’s part in this murder
will travel much further;
despite his media actions
and one or two retractions,
some questions will remain
a big part of his bane–
how did Altantuya really die?
and why did he have to lie?
Did he pay off Bala savvily,
or threaten to C4 his family?
What acts could be more despised?
With his money, we’re not surprised;
after all, he’s such a bully beast,
to him and him alone, at least,
magic words that cannot apply–
are useful for making rivals die.