Thursday

不敗


跟很多同事道了別,想到離開,心情居然是如此的平靜。…知音默契善談好友不多,一起同甘共苦不離不棄堅守信念理性辛勤默默工作的同事也不多,大家走過這段日子不易,謝謝你的幫助鼓勵支持信任和教導。還是一樣,祝你一帆風順。(2007年5月6日:淩晨2時40分17秒)






一把刀砍下來
就像戰爭一樣
有人趁火打劫
少不了collateral damage

刀鋒是禮贊
刀背是咒語

而你
去國嬰孩
不帶走行李

而他
學習駱駝
在沙漠觀禮

一把刀
也有葬禮
何況是——陪葬者。

Tuesday

林吉祥的小我批判


(頁數:302)...爲了要鞏固自身秘書長的絕對權威,林(吉祥)的“挽救“方案不是嚴正地對黨的“體“進行開刀。所以中央集權式的組織架構,複選式的中委會選舉制度,秘書長遴選大選候選人的絕對權力,這些被看成是結構性的民主化改革方案,林(吉祥)一直迴避之,他反而熱衷在“用“方面大刀闊斧,他要求人人都“終身學習“...

摘自:丘光耀著(2007)《超越教條與務實:馬來西亞民主行動黨研究》雪蘭莪州:大將出版。

Sunday

訂購柯嘉遜的513著述


訂購柯嘉遜著(2007)《513-1969年暴動之解密文件》:




513解密文件文庫:《獨立新聞在線》http://www.merdekareview.com/article.php?r=51

Monday

柯嘉遜的兩點遺憾


丘光耀對柯嘉遜的兩點遺憾和一點肯定:

(頁數:33)遺憾的是,該部黨史(柯嘉遜任行動黨政治教育局主任時撰寫的《民主行動黨1966-82的史論》)寫得十分粗糙,連數據排列的工作都有不少遺漏和錯誤,是不折不扣的政黨宣傳品,毫無學術價值可言。

(頁數:33)遺憾的是,柯嘉遜卻因爲疏忽大意,在提名表格上出差錯...

(頁數:33)可以肯定的是,柯嘉遜的回憶錄對於青年一代“認識“行動黨和林吉祥確實起了消極作用,而原本擁護柯嘉遜的華人社會,也因此對其人格有很大的保留。

摘錄自丘光耀著《超越教條與務實:馬來西亞民主行動黨研究》,2007年,雪蘭莪州:大將出版。

Sunday

513暴動圖推翻東姑


1969年的513種族暴動事件的導因,至今仍是一個迷。根據官方說法,這場大馬歷史上最嚴重的騷亂事件導致196人喪命,惟其餘的詳情仍是籠罩在重重黑幕之中。

官方指出,這場暴動主要是由於以華裔為主的反對黨支持者,為慶祝在1969年大選勝利而舉行遊行,挑釁失利的馬來人及巫統所引發。

不過社會學者兼社運活躍份子--柯嘉遜博士,卻依據最近剛解密的英國駐馬最高專員署人員的觀察報告、外國通訊記者所撰寫的新聞報告,以及外交圈子內流傳的機密文件,得出有關513暴動實際上是一場有策劃性的政變,以達至推翻當時的首相東故阿都拉曼的結論。

他重申,513事件是一項由當時剛崛起的馬來資本家所策劃的政變行動,並獲得軍方及警方的支持,以便從舊貴族的手中奪取權力,以推行新的馬來人議程。

他已經將其研究結集成書--《513-1969年暴動之解密文件》,並于今日在隆雪華堂正式推介。
全文見“柯嘉遜引用英國政府解密文件;印證513暴動乃推翻東姑政變“,2007年5月11日晚上9時41分〈http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/67133〉。

Thursday

Chandra on the Constitution


"When a lot of non-Malay intelligentsia, activists, talk about the Constitution, they begin by saying the Constitution starts with freedom of religion, and it's true. But they fail to see that there are other dimensions to the Constitution... And there is one very important dimension of that equilibrium we very often ignore - our Constitution is cognisant of the fact that this nation we know today as Malaysia has a Malay history... The inclusion of the article on the special position of the Malays in the Constitution was not simply because of the socio-economic condition of the Malay community in 1957, but because it is the community that is linked to that history."

Quoted from an interview with Chandra Muzaffar by Off The Edge, May 2007 issue 29.

Tuesday

Chandra on cases like Subashini...


Chandra on cases like Subashini, Rayappan and Moorthy...


"We need legislation that states very clearly that when a person converts to Islam... Ley's say he has married under civil law to a Buddhist, and decides to become a Muslim. We need a law that speaks very clearly, that all matters pertaning to his previous marriage, to the rights of the wife, of the children, pertaining to custody, religion of the children, inheritance -- all these things should be resolved under civil law before the chaps move on... And the same would apply to couples married under Syariah law and one of the parties decides to embrace another religion. The person would have to resolve everything under Syariah before moving on."

Quoted from an interview with Chandra Muzaffar by Off The Edge, May 2007 issue 29.

Sunday

Chandra on non-Malay communalism


"...... non-Malay communalism is also due to other factors. It was the Chinese community that, in a sense, made national schools more 'Malay' by sending their kids in overhelming numbers to Chinese primary schools the moment Malay, the national language, was implemented as the main medium of instruction in national schools in the early Seventies. Chinese, socialised in this largely mono-culture school environment, who are very much aware of their 'Chineseness', rule the roost within the community today."


Quoted from an interview with Chandra Muzaffar by Off The Edge, May 2007 issue 29.

Friday

吹東風


5月3日是世界新聞自由日。大風吹,吹什麽?吹東風!

Malaysiakini.com
Chinese daily spikes critical column
Beh Lih Yi
Nov 10, 04 12:26pm

Chinese-language daily Oriental Daily News has axed a column that has been critical of government policies, after a contribution published last Saturday focused on current controls over the print media.

The daily column, which translates as ‘East Wind Blows’, has to date featured the contributions of several journalists working for the newspaper. Among issues covered were the problems faced by the Works Ministry, as well as media-related issues.

The last article - based on the restrictive Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 (PPPA) - apparently caused a nervous reaction in the newsroom and led to the column being terminated, said sources.

It criticised administrative and political intervention in approval of the annual licence that all publishers and owners of printing presses are required to obtain to carry on operating.

Under the PPPA, the power to grant, renew and revoke permit lies with the Internal Security Ministry.

Media controls

The final column, entitled ‘Strengthen civil society, counter hegemony’, criticised the administration for still controlling the media tightly, in spite of claiming to have entered a new era.

It cited, as an example, the application by online daily malaysiakini for a print licence - which has yet to be approved after more than two years - to argue that the administration “was still leading in weakening the ‘counter hegemony’ forces”.

The writer, it is learnt, was asked by editors to explain the reference to malaysiakini’s application status, because he had written that the application “was not approved”.

In June, the Internal Security Ministry strongly hinted in a parliamentary reply that it would not approve the application, but also said the matter was still under consideration.

The minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi - also the prime minister - expressed the fear that a print version of malaysiakini would be “prejudicial and jeopardise national security and public order”.

No instruction

Asked to comment, two senior editors of Oriental Daily News denied that the decision to remove the column was prompted by instructions from the Internal Security Ministry. Both refused to be named.

“It was merely an internal adjustment, we want to revamp the contents,” one editor said.

He said the adjustment would involve other changes to editorial content, but did not elaborate or say what would replace the column that has been removed.

The other editor hinted that the column could be continued, but with a different name.

Meanwhile, editor-in-chief Puah You Lai said in his column last Saturday that the editorial team has come under pressure from readers recently for refusing to publish articles by columnists Phoon Wing Keong and Josh Hong.

Puah explained that the newspaper was obliged to take into consideration various requirements including “social responsibility, legal issues and external pressures”.

Phoon told a forum recently that his articles were not published after he criticised the MCA’s role in Barisan Nasional and the MCA’s latest campaign, the lifelong learning programme.

Timber tycoon

Oriental Daily News, owned by Sarawakian timber tycoon Lau Hui Kang’s KTS group was launched on Sept 29, 2002, but its operations were suspended the same evening.

It hit the streets again on Jan 1, 2003 after nearly three months of negotiations with the government.

The paper has alleged there were initial attempts to block its circulation by four other major Chinese dailies in the market. Its opinion page was removed early last year, but it resumed shortly after.

Among the journalists and columnists who are contriubuting to the newspaper are those who have supported a boycott of other Chinese dailies, following MCA’s controversial acquisition of Nanyang Press Holdings in May 2001.