Friday, November 16, 2007

101 East - Al Jazeera in response with Bersih Rally

Any one of you watched the 101 East show which interviewed Malik Imtiaz Sarwar a leading Malaysian human rights lawyer, Dato’ Seri Nazri and Khairy Jamaluddin on Al Jazeera English on Thursday 10.30pm. Well the questions were well structured and as usual, we had our ministers getting emotional and asking the host to listen.. HahaHaha.. and Malik, I saw that smile on your face. Well the main questions asked in that program was

  • do we need an institution change?
  • Does opposition stand any say in this country?
  • Oppositions are there to voice their concerns, are they allowed to do so?
  • The rally was endorsed by NGO's and professionals. How can it be by oppositions?
  • How far the media can go in Malaysia?

They said that the media is free to say and publish anything. Media freedom you are talking about here??? Well Malik didnt agree to that and so are we.. just like Malik said, the media is controlled by government. Ok as a Malaysian which of course im proud of being one, but freedom of speech and freedom of media are being controlled? Cmon guys, whats happening? Oh yeah in relate to that, another interview about Blogging in Malaysia here

KJ and Nazri said government being chose by us. The people. And when they gather they are being accused for wrongdoings. Well this has been a situation here, which makes people like me confused. Who is making the right statement here. Me or you? The variation of comments and answers quite deceiving though. I choose to restrain my further comments else this can end me up in trouble. Freedom of speech remember?

And there were many more argumentative issues were discuss in that matter. Just in case you didn't watch the video's, there is always a wonderful tool call YoUTUBe.

Al-Jazeera - 101 East Interview with Malik Imtiaz, Khairy Jamaluddin and Nazri Aziz (here)

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