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Subject:
[sangkancil] [MGG] Anwar Ibrahim Goes On A Hunger Strike
Date:
Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:10:07 +0800 (MYT)
From:
M G G Pillai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sang Kancil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, SK
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THE SUNGEI BULOH PRISON authorities would not allow the former deputy
prime minister, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, to visit his sick mother
recently. He had visited her a fortnight earlier, her condition
deteriorated since, the authorities would not relent. Appeals are
useless. The Home Ministry decides, not the prison authorities, how he
should be treated as a prisoner. He is in solitary confinement, which
under prison regulations, should be for misbehaviour while serving
sentence. The courts and the authorities bend over backwards to make
his
prison sojourn as uncomfortable as possible. So, he went on a hunger
strike to visit his terminally ill mother. He is not well. He
outstared
the authorities, upped the ante in this ceaseless confrontation between
the Prime Minister and the Prisoner. The prison authorities backed
down,
and he visited his mother in hospital.
He Who Must Be Destroyed At All Cost should not expect special
treatment, an UMNO bigwig bellowed into my ears. He is a criminal
serving
a sentence, and he should not expect special favours, he insisted. But
he
is not. He does not ask for special favours. He wanted to see his
seriously sick mother. Is the prison regimen so insentive that
prisoners
are not allowed to visit a terminally ill parent or other member of his
family even more frequently than the rules allow? If so, something
wrong
with a penal system that prevents it. This is as serious as, if not
more,
than the jueveniles held in adult prisons waiting for their cases to be
heard. When a man goes to jail, he loses his liberty, but he is not
shut
out from his family and his world. But if a prisoner has to go on a
hunger strike before he is allowed to visit his sick mother, then surely
something is wrong somewhere. Besides, if he is barred, under prison
regulations, to visit her on compassionate grounds, why did they relent
when he went on a hunger strike? Rules, surely, must be rules.
The courts convicted him of sodomy and corruption, he is deprived
of
his liberty since September 1998, his appeals against a total of 15
years
imprisonment wend its way through the courts, which must be successful
in
the present regime. When the chief justice refuses to recuse in a
routine
appeal despite an impassioned request from Dato' Seri Anwar on grounds
of
corruption and other malfeasance of office, the political framework of
the
appeals are set. Freedom of expression is no better expressed than when
an accused is allowed to speak on his behalf. But the courts would
rather
he keep quiet. His continued incarceration is political, as former
President Nelson Mandela of South Africa was though sentenced to life
imprisonment on criminal charges. The Prime Minister cannot discuss the
state of the economy or the environment or the world in foreign climes
without a question about Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim. His visits overseas
are rudely interrupted by pro-Anwar supporters, many of whom Malaysian,
and only when overseas would he dare to speak before a Malaysian
audience.
His difficulties in this regard is the way his administration has dealt
with his former deputy prime minister.
As I have argued before, it does not matter what happens to Dato'
Seri Anwar. The movement he spawned, not deliberately but as a
consequence of what happened to him, took a life of its own and remains
a
thorn in the Prime Minister's shoe. The momentum is not what it was,
but
it energised the Malaysian Malay diaspora to demand changes in his
political and cultural worldview. Many of its websites are dormant, as
are many organisations that rose in sympathy. But an active core of
webmasters and political supporters act, sometimes impetiously and
mistakenly, at other times brilliantly, that the National Front and UMNO
is kept on its toes. UMNO, whose deputy president Dato' Seri Anwar once
was, is vitrified, unable to function because the Malay political and
cultural ground, even amongst its members, cannot disabuse from their
minds the horrendous injustice meted out to its once leader-to-be. Not
only UMNO. The civil service openly defy the Prime Minister, with
senior
adminstrative and diplomatic service officers openly telling him, as
they
did in December last year, he must go, that the Anwar imbroglio upsets
them all, and that he if he did not go soon, the administative and
political doldrums must continue. All because a man changed his
residence from the deputy prime minister's to Sungei Buloh prison!
M.G.G. Pillai
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