{"id":1631,"date":"2008-03-27T23:51:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T15:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/27\/wan-azizah-and-anwar-on-hindraf-and-isa\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T23:51:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T15:51:38","slug":"wan-azizah-and-anwar-on-hindraf-and-isa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/27\/wan-azizah-and-anwar-on-hindraf-and-isa\/","title":{"rendered":"Wan Azizah and Anwar on Hindraf and ISA"},"content":{"rendered":"

This are excerpts from the MK interview (full article here<\/a>) with Wan Azizah:<\/p>\n

\u00a0You have listed five issues as your agenda, would you like to elaborate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

… Also, there is the issue of the ISA (Internal Security Act) detainees. We have human rights but the record is not that great comparatively. ISA has always been used against political dissidents, (Hindraf legal adviser and newly-elected Kota Alam Shah state assemblyperson) M Manoharan especially has to be freed unless you charge him in open court. What crime has he done? I also feel that the environment itself is a very big issue, we have laws but the enforcement is something else.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On ISA, you have called for the release of Manoharan and four others Hindraf leaders but there has been question on why (husband and PKR de facto leader) Anwar Ibrahim is rather quiet on that? Was that due to the whispering campaign on the ground that he was pro-Hindus or pro-Hindraf?<\/strong><\/p>\n

He has – even though I think there is no formal statement – but he has spoken about it and he always call for the ISA to be repealed and all ISA detainees to be released. It is just that through me, we have both came out with the statement. The (rival’s) election campaign before said that Anwar was pro-Hindraf, he is actually pro-Malaysians, pro-human rights. He actually said we do not agree with all what Hindraf is seeking but their basic right to speak and association, we have to give them that<\/span><\/strong>, as it is enshrined in our constitution.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is quite clear what Wan Azizah is trying to imply. The alternative government (if it was in power) would have allowed HINDRAF rally (right to speak and associate), but not necessarily agree with the content\/purpose of the rally. HINDRAF may have used strong words in its memorandum and speeches, but that does negate the fact that HINDRAF is about equal rights. The leaders tried to mislead the people by focusing on just few words used in memorandum, instead of addressing the core issues. I wonder which part of what Hindraf seeks Anwar does not agree with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This are excerpts from the MK interview (full article here) with Wan Azizah: \u00a0You have listed five issues as your agenda, would you like to elaborate? … Also, there is the issue of the ISA (Internal Security Act) detainees. We have human rights but the record is not that great comparatively. ISA has always been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[21,133,62],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-isa","tag-pkr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}