PRESS RELEASE: Injustices of the Past

WHAT KIND OF ROLE MODELS DO WE DESERVE?

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:22:00 +0100

We Malaysians and our leaders must decide what kind of ROLE MODELS we want. Do we want and DESERVE leaders who are true to the nation or leaders who have opted for expediency for whatever reasons best known to themselves? People like Tun Salleh Abas, the late Tan Sri Pawanteh and Dato' George Seah will always have my vote all the time. At a time when it was unpopular with the powers-that-be to take a stand they took, they did it in all honesty and sincerity by upholding our Constitution - all to their own detriment. I am sure they will be proven right at the Bar of History and the Bar of Public Opinion. I make no apology for taking such a stand. Let us recall the people like Tun Suffian who had painfully buit silently worked to maintain the deep respect that other countries had for our legal and judicial system - all this to be smashed on 8.8.88. Please remember that I voted with my feet and returned to Malaysia only in 1998 after our economy had been raided by George Soros. - Stephen Tan Ban Cheng

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Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:44:14 +0100

You have my unequivocal support - Eddy Chung

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Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:48:34 +0100

I salute the timely and courageous call by Yeo Yang Poh, the President of the Malaysian Bar, to the Malaysian Government to re-examine the severe assault on the Judiciary carried out by the Mahathir Administration in 1988. Three judges of outstanding integrity, ie, YAA Tun Salleh Abas, YA Tan Sri Wan Suleiman, and Datuk George Seah were removed through tribunal proceedings universally condemned as being a travesty of normal principles of fair play, justice, and proper procedure. It was one of the most shameful episode in our nation\'s history. So long as this stain is allowed to remain it will forever blot whatever pretensions we have of progress to an open, just, transparent civil society. While we are re-examinig all the damage caused to our nation by the unbridled ambitions and warped perceptions of one man the 1988 Assault On The Malaysian Judiciary is a glaring injustice that must be courageously tackled and generously redressed. Justice and the National Interest require immediate action by all concerned parties to respond to the call of the Malaysian Bar! - Haji Sulaiman Abdullah