Murdered Mongolian translator Altantuya's father Shaariibuu Setev has made a passionate plea to the millions of Malaysians voting on Sunday: Please help bring justice for Altantuya, whose date of birth is May 6.
In a four paragraph statement, Shaariibuu said the two sons of his daughter, who was brutally murdered in Malaysia, have no mother since 2006.
NONE"The children's rights to call her 'mother' have been violated. Since the murder, we Mongolians have been waiting for an apology from Malaysians.
"The children have been waiting for access to and kind support from (Prime Minister) Mr Najib (Abdul Razak) for seven years.
"It is unfortunate, that the murder has lingered on, but it is still important to have a new court hearing and find justice.
"I would like to ask all Malaysians to vote for justice as the election is on the eve of Altantuya's birthday, on May 6," Shaariibuu says in the statement.
Had she been alive, Altantuya would be 35 years old on Monday.
NONEHuman rights NGO Suaram's lawyer Fadiah Nadwa Fikri (left) met with Shaariibuu last week, when she was in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbataar for a conference.
Shaariibuu met up with Fadiah and issued this statement that he wanted released in Malaysia.
Fadiah said she briefed Shaariibuu about the ongoing judicial inquiry in France, that the French investigation judge has promised to look into his daughter's murder, apart from the payment of illegal commissions and kickbacks.
Altantuya was brutally murdered in a forest near Puncak Alam, near Shah Alam in Selangor, sometime between Oct 18 and 19, 2006.
Three people were charged with her murder, including two Special Action Force officers Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar.
Political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, a close confidante of Najib, was charged with abetting in the murder.
However, Abdul Razak was acquitted without his defence being called while the two policemen were found guilty and sentenced to death.
The appeal against conviction and sentence by Azilah and Sirul is to be head by the Court of Appeal on June 11. -MK
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Altantuya's father pleads justice for his daughter
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It was to be expected. Following the damaging statements by Raja Petra Kamarudin about his former friend and ally Anwar Ibrahim, Pakatan Rakyat has gone into overdrive, suddenly dismissing the blogger, better known by his initials RPK, as "irrelevant." (This, of course, was the same word RPK used to describe Anwar's future, as irrelevant.)
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, we agree that he may be somewhat "irrelevant" and are delighted that PR has finally come to the same conclusion, even though for the wrong reason.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, we didn't hear PR labelling their former colleague as "irrelevant" or a "hired Umno blogger" when he made a statutory declaration accusing Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, of being present at the 2006 murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu.
ReplyDeleteOf course, we all know by now that RPK famously retracted his sworn statement in an interview in April last year, saying he had been fed incorrect information by people including de facto Opposition leader Anwar. Interestingly, it is PR, which is now referring to RPK's false allegations about Rosmah's involvement in order to discredit him.
ReplyDelete"We should not forget that Raja Petra, who is increasingly known as an 'Umno mercenary blogger', had once made sworn statements (on the Altantuya murder)," said PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution. Too bad Saifuddin didn't speak up back then. But at the time it wasn't convenient and in PR's political interest. Now it is.
ReplyDeleteThe ferocity and viciousness of PR's counter-attack is quite astonishing. After all, RPK's key message was legitimate (and likely what many people are quietly thinking): not whether Anwar is gay or not but whether he is really "the best person to run the country" and if "Pakatan has no use for Anwar anymore."
ReplyDeletePerhaps RPK touched on a sore spot. He went straight to the heart of widespread internal PR disenchantment and uncertainty about its future leadership. Anwar and his posse, however, are bound to twist and skew every facet of the story, as the narrative reaches its climax on January 9th, calling the latest developments part of Umno's "plot" and "desperation." Saifuddin urged Malaysians to see past these dirty tricks and focus instead on the alleged financial abuse at the National Feedlot Corporation.
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ReplyDeleteMeanwhile PKR deputy president Azmin Ali (pictured) is mobilising his troops for a mass rally on January 9th, which will culminate the eight states, six-day whirlwind tour during which Anwar will protest his innocence and reiterate his campaign for change.
ReplyDelete"We will gather 100,000 people at the court to show our support to the cause fought by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim," Azmin said. That contradicted the statement of PKR young wing leader, Shamsul Iskandar, who said, "we're expecting 20,000 people to turn up at the courthouse following the country-wide tour."
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ReplyDeleteEVERYONE KNOWS THAT Opposition getting desperate
ReplyDeleteTan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the opposition’s attempt to smear the Barisan Nasional’s (BN) image with all kinds of disparaging statements and fabrications as polling day for the 13th General Election on May 5 approaches, shows that they are getting desperate.
The Deputy Prime Minister was commenting on their resorting to the short-messaging-service (SMS), blogs and social media for their onslaught against the BN.
“I also received certain SMSes, among them which claimed we would be transporting 70,000 voters to Johor because the BN is losing, so we needed to bring in outsiders including Bangladeshis,” he told reporters after attending a 1Malaysia people’s gathering in Taman Tas here Thursday.
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT Opposition getting desperate
ReplyDeleteMuhyiddin said based on information he had received, the opposition was planning more attacks against the BN including creating a tense atmosphere on polling day.
In this regard, he said the present scenario had imposed an additional burden on the security forces and Election Commission (EC) to correct and diffuse the situation.
“The important thing is that the people know how to wisely decipher the information sent to them or in the blogs and social media,” he said.
As to the position of the BN in the election, Muhyiddin was confident they could achieve victory including in states won by the opposition in 2008.
“BN has the fundamentals for such confidence, which is not based on sheer claims,” he stressed.
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT Opposition getting desperate
ReplyDeleteOn the support of the Chinese community for the coalition, he said it could be seen at many levels: “For the rural areas, much better in the last three days and rest assured it will improve further,” he said.
Also present at the gathering were Pahang Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob, Paya Besar BN parliamentary candidate Datuk Abdul Manan Ismail, Sungai Lembing BN state candidate Datuk Md Sohaimi Mohamed Shah, Lepar BN state candidate Mohd Shohaimi Jusoh, and Pancing BN state candidate Datuk Mohd Zaili Besar.
BN likely to remain in power, says UUM-MPN poll
ReplyDeleteThe outlook is bright for Barisan Nasional (BN) to remain in power after the 13th general election (GE13) under the leadership of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who appears to have the support of the majority of voters.
According to a GE13 opinion poll conducted by the Institute of Malaysian Political Analysis of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) and the National Professors Council (MPN), 58 per cent of the respondents supported Najib as prime minister while opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim received 42 per cent support.
BN likely to remain in power, says UUM-MPN poll
ReplyDeleteAs for the preferred party, BN received 55 per cent support, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) 41 per cent while the remaining four per cent went to the Independents.
According to the survey too, Najib received the nod from 57.6 per cent of the respondents aged 30 and below while the remaining percentage chose Anwar.
The biggest support for Najib came from cohorts aged 30 to 50, at 59.1 per cent while those aged above 50 in favour of Najib made up 57.2 per cent.
The poll was conducted via phone involving 3,550 respondents who are eligible voters including in Sabah and Sarawak, using the random stratified sampling method with a 0.022 margin of error.
BN likely to remain in power, says UUM-MPN poll
ReplyDeleteIn terms of racial breakdown, 63.5 per cent of the Malay respondents supported Najib, Chinese 35.3 per cent, Indians 52.7 per cent and others 63.1 per cent.
Najib received 60.6 per cent of the support from female voters and 56.6 per cent from male voters, according to the poll conducted from April 28 to 30 during the second week of the GE13 campaign.
Based on the survey, BN is also expected to retain Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Perak, Perlis, Terengganu, Pahang, Sabah and Sarawak.
With the rather high level of support for BN in the central, north and east zones, BN also has a good chance to recapture Selangor and Kedah and to give the opposition pact a very tough fight in Penang and Kelantan.
The survey found that 72 per cent of the respondents in the south zone comprising Johor, Melaka and Negeri Sembilan supported Najib as prime minister with also 72 per cent stating they would vote for BN and 28 cent for PR.
BN likely to remain in power, says UUM-MPN poll
ReplyDeleteBN is seen as havng the edge in the central zone – Federal Territories (Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya), Selangor and Perak – with 53 per cent of the respondents stating support for Najib and the rest for Anwar.
In the north zone comprising Perlis, Kedah and Penang, support for Najib was at 55 per cent.
As for the party of choice, BN received the bigger percentage in the central and north zones at 48 per cent and 53 per cent respectively compared to that for PR and Independents.
In the peninsula’s East Coast states of Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang, it was 55 per cent support for Najib and 51 per cent for BN from the respondents, and 45 per cent for Anwar and 38 per cent for PR.
In Sabah and Sarawak, support for Najib was at 65 per cent and at 62 per cent for BN.
Overall, although PR is giving BN a stiff fight in their obsession to capture Putrajaya, BN is still expected to win comfortably in the GE13.
The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) will consider reopening investigations into the 2006 murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu if there is new evidence, Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said.
ReplyDeleteThe Bar Council urged the AGC recently to reopen the murder case after lawyer Americk Singh Sidhu revealed at the Malaysian Bar’s annual general meeting that senior lawyer Tan Sri Cecil Abraham was responsible for drafting the late private investigator P. Balasubramaniam’s second statutory declaration (SD) on Altantuya’s murder.
ReplyDelete“We will consider the Bar Council’s suggestion, but we just cannot re-open all cases, including those of the 1960s. There must be new evidence to justify the re-opening of a case,” Abdul Gani was reported as saying.
ReplyDelete“If there is only talk, we cannot re-open. There must be evidence,” he added. Abdul Gani stressed that caution was needed in order to avoid setting a bad precedent.
ReplyDeleteNewly-installed Malaysian Bar president Christopher Leong said two weeks ago that the Bar Council would lodge a complaint of professional misconduct against Abraham with the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board (ASDB).
ReplyDeleteThe ASDB, which is a body independent of the Bar Council, is statutorily tasked to investigate professional misconduct. Leong also said that the Bar Council would request Americk and carpet dealer Deepak Jaikishan to provide formal statements.
ReplyDeleteDeepak has admitted that he helped to get Balasubramaniam to repudiate his first SD, including finding two lawyers to draft the new statement.
ReplyDeleteBalasubramaniam or “PI Bala” accused several top federal government personalities of being involved in Altantuya’s death in his first SD in 2008, two years after the brutal killing of the 28-year-old woman.
ReplyDeleteBut he retracted the SD the following day and signed a new one omitting the names of these personalities. Balasubramaniam died of a heart attack earlier this month, weeks after returning home from self-exile.
ReplyDeleteTwo former elite police commandos – Sirul Azhar Umar and Azilah Hadri – have been convicted for Altantuya’s murder and are facing death sentences. The Court of Appeal will hear their appeal in June.
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