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Selepas 30 tahun dimanjakan, Perdana Menteri kini mempunyai tugas sebenar yang perlu ditangani. Kemenangan BN bukan satu kemenangan yang manis. Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak perlu menyelamatkan BN dan dirinya. Lebih baik melakukannya sekarang sebelum terlambat. Akan tetapi, kenyataan beliau mengenai penyatuan nasional membuatkan saya segera terjaga. Beliau telah meletakkan penyatuan nasional sebagai perkara paling utama yang perlu disegerakan. Memanglah hal itu perlu disegerakan. Beliau boleh dikatakan telah hilang semua sokongan orang Cina dalam negara. Pada masa yang sama beliau telah menjadikan pelampau Melayu tambah berani dalam usaha mereka untuk memperkukuhkan lagi Ketuanan Melayu walaupun membahayakan perpaduan kita.
After 30 years of mollycoddling, the Prime Minister now has a real task at hand. The BN’s victory is not a sweet one. Datuk Sri Najib Tun Razak has to save the BN and himself sooner rather than later. His statement about national reconciliation, however, woke me up instantly. He has positioned national reconciliation as his most urgent priority, and so it should be. He has lost practically all Chinese support in the country, and has at the same emboldened Malay extremists to continue on their warpath to further strengthen Ketuanan Melayu, even if imperils our unity.
Ahad ini, penyanyi bersuara tenor yang agung Andrea Bocelli, akan menyanyikan lagu Time to Say Goodbye dalam konsert beliau di Bukit Jalil. Pada masa yang sama, rakyat Malaysia dari pelbagai lapisan masyarakat akan mengungkapkan kata-kata yang sama kepada para pemimpin Barisan Nasional. Ahad ini merupakan hari perhitungan.
Akan ada pemberian wang tunai secara besar-besaran pada saat-saat akhir sebelum menjelang pilihan raya. Walaupun ini berlaku, ia tidak dapat menyelamatkan konco-konco BN yang bermati-matian cuba berpaut pada saki-baki kuasa. Anda tahukan kenapa? Hal itu begitu kerana rakyat Malaysia akan memberikan respons mereka terhadap Barisan Nasional dengan cara yang mencerminkan nilai dan integriti kita bersama.
This Sunday the great tenor Andrea Bocelli will sing Time to Say Goodbye at his concert in Bukit Jalil. At the same time, Malaysians from all walks of life will be saying the same words to Barisan Nasional leaders. Sunday is the day of reckoning.
There will be massive last-minute cash handouts before the election but even this will not save the Barisan clique, which is desperately trying to cling to power. Do you know why? It’s because Malaysians will respond to the Barisan Nasional in the way that reflects our collective values and integrity.
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This speech was delivered at Amnesty International, London, in conjuction with the 50th anniversary of Malaysia's Internal Security Act - organized by The Solicitors International Human Rights Group and the Abolish ISA Movement UK - on April 2nd 2011.
The Internal Security Act, the ISA, is a source of constant consternation for Malaysian society. It is a piece of legislation that has succeeded in instilling fear into the hearts of every one of our citizens. So much so that parents no longer use the threat of the boogeyman to get their children to behave but rather the home minister and the ISA enforcer that will come and get them in the middle of the night.