Despite police discouragement, a few thousand people turned up at the night market
compound in Taman Melati, Wangsamaju to hear a Pakatan Rakyat political lecture led
by Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
They were not disappointed. A star-studded line-up greeted them with speeches that had
them cheering and clapping. Pakatan leaders such as Tan Tee Kwong, Tian Chua,
Khalid Samad,Teresa Kok, Shamsul Iskandar Akin and Ibrahim Yaacob renewed the
coalition's promises of change and reform.
The multi-racial was also clearly eager to hear Pakatan's explanation of Singapore's
Lee Kuan Yew accusation against Anwar. They wanted to know why the elder statesman
would make such a remark on WikiLeaks and were also keen to hear Anwar talk about
former premier Mahathir Mohamad.
Most of the Pakatan's side of the story has been blacked in the mainstream media which
only carried the news the Kuan Yew had told Australian officials that he believed Anwar
had been framed but he had also committed sodomy. Anwar has repeated denied these
charges and his lawyers have earlier today announced they will be suing Mahathir. It is
possible Anwar's lawyers may try to subpoena Kuan Yew to testify in his Sodomy II trial.
But above all, the crowd appeared most eager to hear the latest tidbit about Prime Minister
Najib Razak, who was also criticized by Singapore officials as WikiLeaks had also exposed
although the mainstream press has failed to report on this.
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and Bilahari Kausikan had in comments to their U.S.
counterparts called Najib an "opportunist" and said his
involvement in the Altantuya murder was tarnishing
Malaysia. They also said Malaysia was on a decline due
to "incompetent politicians".
Najib had tried to keep a lid on these explosive
comments by asking Malaysians to ignore the
Singaporean comments. But tremendous pressure
from Malay groups have forced him to issue a letter of
protest to the Singapore High Commission.
Police had earlier set up road blocks nearby to Taman Melati but decided to allow the
ceramah to carry on as a permit had already been obtained.
Malaysia Chronicle
