KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians for Free and Fair Elections (MAFREL) has started
recruiting volunteers to help it observe the Kajang by-election.
MAFREL chairman Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh told a press conference today that his
group would observe polling at all 15 voting centres and planned to deploy
between 25 and 30 volunteers to serve as static and mobile observers.
He invited interested members of the public to register as volunteers by
contacting MAFREL official Arphan Ahmad by telephone (012-2731016) or email
(arphanahmad@gmail.com
).
He said MAFREL would monitor “all aspects of the election process” from
nomination day to polling day, focusing closely on the following:
Corrupt practices such as vote buying and abuse of public resources;
The level of security provided by police and other authorities;
Incidents of violent and dangerous acts such as the use of hate speech and
racist campaigning.
Syed Ibrahim criticised “certain political parties” for embarking on their
campaigns before nomination day, which is tomorrow.
“We are disturbed that certain political parties have already begun
campaigning even before the nomination day,” he said. “This is in direct
violation of the Election Act, which prohibits any form of campaigning or
publicity works being carried out before the nomination day.”
He urged the Election Commission (EC) as well as the police to be impartial
in performing their duties.
He also suggested that the EC dispense with indelible ink if it “cannot
guarantee that the fiasco of the 13th general election will not be
repeated”.
MAFREL was formed in 2003 and has observed three general elections in
Malaysia. It has also observed elections in the Philippines, Bangladesh and
Afghanistan.
The Kajang state seat fell vacant with the resignation of assemblymen Lee
Chin Cheh of PKR on Jan 27. Polling day is March 23.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
BERSIH 2.0 MEETING & PEMANTAU REPORT LAUNCH
Dear Friends,
We would like to invite you for a BERSIH 2.0 Endorsing NGO Meeting, which will be held on:
Date: 10th September 2013
Time: 4 - 7pm
Place: Perpustakaan Komuniti Petaling Jaya 389 Jalan Selangor,
46000 Petaling Jaya.
This NGO meeting will discuss important issues on the future direction of BERSIH 2.0, and the upcoming Steering Committee elections.
We've set the time at 4pm is because of logistical reasons. We are inviting all the state coordinators who were involved in organizing BERSIH 2.0 events, as well as PEMANTAU state coordinators who were part of the PEMANTAU Project. Also on the same day, at 8pm, we will be launching the PEMANTAU election observation report.
We hope very much that all of you will attend this meeting.
Agenda:
1. Update on the People's Tribunal
2. PEMANTAU Report update
3. Finance
4. New Leadership Proposal and Secretariat
5. Date for BERSIH 2.0 election
6. AOB
The PEMANTAU report launch will be held
on:
Date: 10th Sept 2013
Time: 8pm
Place:Perpustakaan Komuniti Petaling Jaya 389 Jalan Selangor,
46000 Petaling
Jaya.
Please help to spread information on the PEMANTAU Report launch! We would appreciate greatly any help with mobilising people to attend the launch, especially if they were involved in BERSIH 2.0 events and the PEMANTAU initiative.
Please confirm your attendance with Mandeep. If you have any inquiries, please call 03-7772 3275.
For state coordinators who will be coming from out of KL,please contact me for flight booking and accommodation.
Thank you.
--
Tel. No.: 03-7772 3275 / 019-4380428
We would like to invite you for a BERSIH 2.0 Endorsing NGO Meeting, which will be held on:
Date: 10th September 2013
Time: 4 - 7pm
Place: Perpustakaan Komuniti Petaling Jaya 389 Jalan Selangor,
This NGO meeting will discuss important issues on the future direction of BERSIH 2.0, and the upcoming Steering Committee elections.
We've set the time at 4pm is because of logistical reasons. We are inviting all the state coordinators who were involved in organizing BERSIH 2.0 events, as well as PEMANTAU state coordinators who were part of the PEMANTAU Project. Also on the same day, at 8pm, we will be launching the PEMANTAU election observation report.
We hope very much that all of you will attend this meeting.
Agenda:
1. Update on the People's Tribunal
2. PEMANTAU Report update
3. Finance
4. New Leadership Proposal and Secretariat
5. Date for BERSIH 2.0 election
6. AOB
Date: 10th Sept 2013
Time: 8pm
Place:Perpustakaan Komuniti Petaling Jaya 389 Jalan Selangor,
Please help to spread information on the PEMANTAU Report launch! We would appreciate greatly any help with mobilising people to attend the launch, especially if they were involved in BERSIH 2.0 events and the PEMANTAU initiative.
Please confirm your attendance with Mandeep. If you have any inquiries, please call 03-7772 3275.
For state coordinators who will be coming from out of KL,please contact me for flight booking and accommodation.
Thank you.
Mandeep Singh
BERSIH 2.0 SecretariatTel. No.: 03-7772 3275 / 019-4380428
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
PEMANTAU TRAINING SELANGOR/WP
For KL
and Selangor members who may like to serve as coordinators please register to
attend tonight’s 4hr training programme.
Email your Name, I/c No, Hp and Where
you vote to info@bersih.org
(Call for info: 03-7772 3275/016-967 0921)
Date: 30 January 2013
Place: KLSCAH, Theatre Room
Time : 8pm to 10pm
Training
details http://tinyurl.com/trainingSEL-WP
Thursday, January 10, 2013
REGISTER AS PEMANTAU RAKYAT
For MAFREL ELECTION OBSERVERS, REGISTER AS WELL AND SEND EMAILS TO MAFREL STATE COORDINATORS AS FOLLOWS
MAFREL's State
Coordinators
1. Kedah/Perlis
2.
2.Penang
Harryzan Yaakub
3. Perak
Megat Shariffudin
Ibrahim
+6012
522 2664
http://www.facebook.com/megat.ibrahim.9
4. Kelantan
5. Terengganu
6. Pahang
Sabrina Md Yusoff
7. Selangor & FT
Abdul Latif Adlin
+6012
286 0624
8. Negri Sembilan
Dr Shamsuri Abdullah
+6012
639 7049
9. Malacca
Aris Sipan
+6017 252 5300
http://www.facebook.com/arissipan
10. Johor
11. Sabah
Mairis Ombou @ Jerry
+6013
937 3937
http://www.facebook.com/mairis.ombou
12. Sarawak
Hj Ibrahim Mohamad
+6019
884 2120
http://www.facebook.com/IMProfessorSnapeMonday, January 7, 2013
PRESS STATEMENT
Kenyataan Media, 8 January 2013
Pemantau Pilihan Raya Rakyat – Satu Inisiatif Rakyat Untuk PRU 13
Menjelang tahun baru 2013, rakyat Malaysia sedang bersedia untuk menghadapi satu pilihan raya umum yang paling penting yang pernah dihadapi negara semenjak beberapa dekad yang lalu.
Pilihanraya Umum ke 13 (PRU 13) akan menjadi satu peristiwa penting bagi negara kerana satu perubahan yang jelas di k...alangan pengundi telah berlaku sejak pilihan raya 2008.
Anjakan ke arah sistem dua parti adalah langkah ke hadapan yang penting untuk demokrasi yang lebih bermakna dalam negara ini. Namun satu perkara yang lebih penting adalah kewujudan satu
sistem pilihanraya yang demokratik yang merupakan satu kemestian. Meskipun BERSIH 2.0 telah berusaha dengan bersungguh-sungguh menggariskan pelbagai kelemahan dalam sistem pilihanraya pada masa ini, namun sedikit sekali tindakan yang telah diambil oleh Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya (SPR)
dan kerajaan sendiri bagi melakukan perubahan yang bermakna.
Oleh itu, dengan menjelangnya pilihanraya dalam tempoh beberapa bulan yang akan datang,BERSIH
2.0 bersama-sama dengan Malaysians for Free and Fair Elections (MAFREL) dan Pusat KOMAS berhasrat untuk melancarkan kempen yang akan memainkan peranan yang besar bagi memastikan PRU 13 bebas dari penipuan.PEMANTAU, atau nama penuhnya, Pemantau Pilihan Raya Rakyat, bertujuan untuk terus meningkatkan lagi aspirasi rakyat yang mahukan satu pilihanraya yang bebas dan adil dengan menggerakkan rakyat untuk berperanan semasa PRU 13 untuk memerhati proses pilihan raya, bagi menghalang dan mengurangkan usaha-usaha penipuan dan salah laku semasa pilihan raya.
Usaha ini tidak akan mengganggu perjalanan pilihanraya yang dilaksanakan oleh SPR serta tugas badan-badan
pemerhati pilihanraya yang telah diberi akreditasi oleh SPR.
Malah, usaha PEMANTAU akan menjadi usaha pelengkap kepada usaha untuk mencegah amalan penipuan seperti membeli undi, keganasan, pengaruh tidak wajar dan ugutan, penyalahgunaan
sumber awam, media yang berat sebelah dan banyak lagi. PEMANTAU akan memantau proses pilihan raya semasa tempoh berkempen serta pada hari pengundian dan just akan menjalankan
pemantauan media.
Ini akan dilakukan dengan cara yang tidak berpihak serta menggunakan metodologi yang memenuhi piawaian dan amalan antarabangsa.BERSIH 2.0 menyeru kepada seluruh rakyat Malaysia yang sebelum ini telah menunjukkan keberanian yang tinggi untuk memperbaiki keadaan demokrasi di Malaysia, untuk tampil ke hadapan dan menyumbang dengan cara yang bermakna bagi mencapai matlamat tersebut. Kita adalah warganegara Malaysia dan mempunyai hak untuk bertindak secara bertanggungjawab untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara yang lebih baik.Usaha ini memerlukan para sukarelawan yang ikhlas dan berani serta bersedia untuk menyumbang
masa mereka semasa tempoh berkempen dan pada hari mengundi itu sendiri.
Tugas kita adalah untuk menjadi pemerhati yang adil bagi memastikan PRU 13 bebas dari sebarang penipuan.
222 kawasan Parlimen di seluruh negara akan memerlukan jumlah pemerhati yang ramai, namun PEMANTAU mensasarkan untuk memantau sebanyak mungkin kerusi bergantung kepada jumlah
sukarelawan yang bersedia digerakkan. Keutamaan akan diberikan kepada kerusi-kerusi yang dijangkakan akan menjadi “kerusi panas”, marginal, bilangan pengundi baru yang tinggi atau yang
telah terdapat banyak perkara yang tidak munasabah yang berlaku di situ.
Satu sasaran minimum yang konservatif sebanyak 10,000 sukarelawan diperlukan agar pemerhatian yang berkesan dapat dilakukan di peringkat akar umbi.Dalam minggu-minggu yang akan datang, sesi latihan dan pendaftaran sukarelawan akan dijalankan di setiap negeri dan bandar-bandar utama di seluruh negara. Satu senarai penuh tarikh akan diumumkan tidak lama lagi. Jadual awal buat masa sekarang ialah:
• Sibu - 19 Januari
• Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor - 30 Januari
• Johor Bahru – 2 Februari
Nantikan pengumuman lanjut dan layari laman web kami (www.bersih.org) dan Facebook
(http://www.facebook.com/
Bagi membolehkan usaha ini berjalan dengan lancar, kami merayu kepada orang ramai yang telah memberi sokongan kuat kepada usaha-usaha BERSIH sejak dua tahun yang lalu untuk memberi
sumbangan kewangan. Semakin kita menghampiri PRU 13, ini adalah satu lagi detik penting bagi mereka yang bersedia untuk melangkah ke hadapan. Kami menggesa orang ramai untuk menderma RM10 (atau lebih) untuk projek ini, seperti butiran di bawah:
Sokong kempen "RM10 untuk PEMANTAU" dengan menderma kepada BERSIH 2.0:
No Akaun: 12380000661-10-0
Nama Akaun: Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor
Bank: CIMB Islamic, Section 52, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Terima kasih.
Salam BERSIH!
Jawatankuasa Pemandu
Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil 2.0 (BERSIH 2.0)
Jawankuasa Pemandu Bersih 2.0 terdiri daripada:
Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan (Pengerusi Bersama), Datuk A. Samad Said (Pengerusi Bersama), Ahmad
Shukri Abdul Razab, Andrew Ambrose, Andrew Khoo, Anne Lasimbang, Arul Prakkash, Arumugam K.,
Awang Abdillah, Dr Farouk Musa, Hishamuddin Rais, Liau Kok Fah, Maria Chin Abdullah, Matthew
Vincent, Niloh Ason, Richard Y W Yeoh, Dr Subramaniam Pillay, Dato’ Dr Toh Kin Woon, Dr Wong
Chin Huat, Dato’ Yeo Yang Poh dan Zaid Kamaruddin
Pemantau Pilihan Raya Rakyat – Satu Inisiatif Rakyat Untuk PRU 13
Menjelang tahun baru 2013, rakyat Malaysia sedang bersedia untuk menghadapi satu pilihan raya umum yang paling penting yang pernah dihadapi negara semenjak beberapa dekad yang lalu.
Pilihanraya Umum ke 13 (PRU 13) akan menjadi satu peristiwa penting bagi negara kerana satu perubahan yang jelas di k...alangan pengundi telah berlaku sejak pilihan raya 2008.
Anjakan ke arah sistem dua parti adalah langkah ke hadapan yang penting untuk demokrasi yang lebih bermakna dalam negara ini. Namun satu perkara yang lebih penting adalah kewujudan satu
sistem pilihanraya yang demokratik yang merupakan satu kemestian. Meskipun BERSIH 2.0 telah berusaha dengan bersungguh-sungguh menggariskan pelbagai kelemahan dalam sistem pilihanraya pada masa ini, namun sedikit sekali tindakan yang telah diambil oleh Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya (SPR)
dan kerajaan sendiri bagi melakukan perubahan yang bermakna.
Oleh itu, dengan menjelangnya pilihanraya dalam tempoh beberapa bulan yang akan datang,BERSIH
2.0 bersama-sama dengan Malaysians for Free and Fair Elections (MAFREL) dan Pusat KOMAS berhasrat untuk melancarkan kempen yang akan memainkan peranan yang besar bagi memastikan PRU 13 bebas dari penipuan.PEMANTAU, atau nama penuhnya, Pemantau Pilihan Raya Rakyat, bertujuan untuk terus meningkatkan lagi aspirasi rakyat yang mahukan satu pilihanraya yang bebas dan adil dengan menggerakkan rakyat untuk berperanan semasa PRU 13 untuk memerhati proses pilihan raya, bagi menghalang dan mengurangkan usaha-usaha penipuan dan salah laku semasa pilihan raya.
Usaha ini tidak akan mengganggu perjalanan pilihanraya yang dilaksanakan oleh SPR serta tugas badan-badan
pemerhati pilihanraya yang telah diberi akreditasi oleh SPR.
Malah, usaha PEMANTAU akan menjadi usaha pelengkap kepada usaha untuk mencegah amalan penipuan seperti membeli undi, keganasan, pengaruh tidak wajar dan ugutan, penyalahgunaan
sumber awam, media yang berat sebelah dan banyak lagi. PEMANTAU akan memantau proses pilihan raya semasa tempoh berkempen serta pada hari pengundian dan just akan menjalankan
pemantauan media.
Ini akan dilakukan dengan cara yang tidak berpihak serta menggunakan metodologi yang memenuhi piawaian dan amalan antarabangsa.BERSIH 2.0 menyeru kepada seluruh rakyat Malaysia yang sebelum ini telah menunjukkan keberanian yang tinggi untuk memperbaiki keadaan demokrasi di Malaysia, untuk tampil ke hadapan dan menyumbang dengan cara yang bermakna bagi mencapai matlamat tersebut. Kita adalah warganegara Malaysia dan mempunyai hak untuk bertindak secara bertanggungjawab untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara yang lebih baik.Usaha ini memerlukan para sukarelawan yang ikhlas dan berani serta bersedia untuk menyumbang
masa mereka semasa tempoh berkempen dan pada hari mengundi itu sendiri.
Tugas kita adalah untuk menjadi pemerhati yang adil bagi memastikan PRU 13 bebas dari sebarang penipuan.
222 kawasan Parlimen di seluruh negara akan memerlukan jumlah pemerhati yang ramai, namun PEMANTAU mensasarkan untuk memantau sebanyak mungkin kerusi bergantung kepada jumlah
sukarelawan yang bersedia digerakkan. Keutamaan akan diberikan kepada kerusi-kerusi yang dijangkakan akan menjadi “kerusi panas”, marginal, bilangan pengundi baru yang tinggi atau yang
telah terdapat banyak perkara yang tidak munasabah yang berlaku di situ.
Satu sasaran minimum yang konservatif sebanyak 10,000 sukarelawan diperlukan agar pemerhatian yang berkesan dapat dilakukan di peringkat akar umbi.Dalam minggu-minggu yang akan datang, sesi latihan dan pendaftaran sukarelawan akan dijalankan di setiap negeri dan bandar-bandar utama di seluruh negara. Satu senarai penuh tarikh akan diumumkan tidak lama lagi. Jadual awal buat masa sekarang ialah:
• Sibu - 19 Januari
• Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor - 30 Januari
• Johor Bahru – 2 Februari
Nantikan pengumuman lanjut dan layari laman web kami (www.bersih.org) dan Facebook
(http://www.facebook.com/
Bagi membolehkan usaha ini berjalan dengan lancar, kami merayu kepada orang ramai yang telah memberi sokongan kuat kepada usaha-usaha BERSIH sejak dua tahun yang lalu untuk memberi
sumbangan kewangan. Semakin kita menghampiri PRU 13, ini adalah satu lagi detik penting bagi mereka yang bersedia untuk melangkah ke hadapan. Kami menggesa orang ramai untuk menderma RM10 (atau lebih) untuk projek ini, seperti butiran di bawah:
Sokong kempen "RM10 untuk PEMANTAU" dengan menderma kepada BERSIH 2.0:
No Akaun: 12380000661-10-0
Nama Akaun: Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor
Bank: CIMB Islamic, Section 52, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Terima kasih.
Salam BERSIH!
Jawatankuasa Pemandu
Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil 2.0 (BERSIH 2.0)
Jawankuasa Pemandu Bersih 2.0 terdiri daripada:
Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan (Pengerusi Bersama), Datuk A. Samad Said (Pengerusi Bersama), Ahmad
Shukri Abdul Razab, Andrew Ambrose, Andrew Khoo, Anne Lasimbang, Arul Prakkash, Arumugam K.,
Awang Abdillah, Dr Farouk Musa, Hishamuddin Rais, Liau Kok Fah, Maria Chin Abdullah, Matthew
Vincent, Niloh Ason, Richard Y W Yeoh, Dr Subramaniam Pillay, Dato’ Dr Toh Kin Woon, Dr Wong
Chin Huat, Dato’ Yeo Yang Poh dan Zaid Kamaruddin
BORANG PENDAFTARAN
Thursday, September 20, 2012
UMNO's NSTP report
http://www.nst.com.my/top-news/plot-to-destabilise-govt-1.146549
KUALA LUMPUR: INVESTIGATORS probing into the financial background of several non-governmental organisations have uncovered attempts by foreign hands to destabilise the government.
Sources revealed that from 2005 to 2011, almost RM20 million, courtesy of the Washington- based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) had allegedly been channelled to: SuaRaM (RM1.6 million);
NatioNal Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) (RM4.6 million);
MkiNi Dotcom Sdn Bhd (RM298,000); and, otheRS (RM13.3 million).
The monies were also allegedly channelled to the Southeast Asia Centre for e-Media (Seacem), Southeast Asian Press Alliance and the Centre for Independent Journalism.
From last year, several other set-ups, namely Bersih, Merdeka Center for Opinion Research, Lawyers for Liberty, Liberal Banter Sdn Bhd as well as the International Republican Institute, began receiving funds from NED, an organisation that had been claimed to have “played a significant role in attempting to destabilise legitimate governments and replace them with client proxies”.
Bersih co-chairman Datuk S. Ambiga was reported recently to have admitted that Bersih had received funds from the NDI as well as New York-based Open Society Institute, the administrator for programmes under the Open Society Institute founded by maverick currency speculator George Soros.
NED, on its website, said "it is a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world".
It also claims to be a unique institution where it could provide "flexibility that makes it possible to work in some of the most difficult circumstances, and to respond quickly when there is an opportunity for political change".
It is believed that organisations with "programmes consistent with its objectives" are awarded grants.
Sources also revealed that Suaram, which is under several investigations, including for allegedly raising funds while operating as an unregistered society as well as for serious violations of at least five sections of the Companies Act, along with Suaram and Suara Inisiatif Sdn Bhd the company that is linked to it, had four known foreign funders.
Aside from NED's estimated RM1.6 million already in its coffers, Suaram is also believed to have received RM774,000 (between 2008 and last year) from New York-based Open Society Institute, the administrator for programmes under the Open Society Institute.
The German embassy, meanwhile in 2010, allegedly gave Suaram RM21,400.
It was reported that the embassy had admitted that it funded Suaram's project that particular year.
Another RM34,000 was also allegedly channelled to Suaram by Seacem.
The links of these establishments are apparent, with Seacem on its website acknowledging that it was supported by OSI.
Seacam, meanwhile, under its fellowship programme, offers its fellows placement in Malaysiakini.
Suaram's accounts and "money trail" are also allegedly being looked into by Bank Negara Malaysia.
Recently, Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob called on Bank Negara to probe Suaram under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001.
He had also asked the Home Ministry and Registrar of Societies to determine Suaram's status.
Many quarters have questioned the need to have outside influence interfering in the country's political agenda.
They have also called on several key opposition figures including Parti Keadilan Rakyat's Tian Chua, Suaram director Kua Kia Soong and co-founder R. Sivarasa to explain why Suaram was being funded by foreign parties, including by Soros, when he had allegedly masterminded plans to bring the country's economy down.
They had also been asked to clarify whether they had received foreign funding to support their political activities.
Former PKR leader Ng Lum Yong had demanded that the trio publicly explain Suaram's funding as the people wanted to understand its true role as an organisation.
"The people have the right to know about Suaram's true political agenda and its motives," Ng said.
In an interview with BH last night, International Movement for a Just World (JUST) president Professor Dr Chandra Muzaffar said NED had been known to lend substantial financial support to NGOs in particular countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria.
He claimed it had been uncovered that such efforts had been going on aggressively over the past five years in the name of democratic freedom with the objective of making people rise up against leaders who were allegedly deemed to be cruel.
He also claimed they handed out assistance with the objective of stirring up the people, and their contribution was akin to udang disebalik batu.
"We know of their activities in several countries as what has happened in the Arab world, leading to the Arab Spring uprising.
"There is also proof they provided assistance to groups opposing leaders in South and Central America at one time with the excuse that the leaders were tyrants and undemocratic.
"Similarly, they were believed to have assisted rebels to oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin."
Chandra, who is also the chairman of 1Malaysia Foundation, said the credibility of such an organisation which claims to support institutions of freedom and democracy was questionable as it could threaten global security.
He added that those behind the body included Zionist groups which maintain good relations with the Jewish government.
Read more: Plot to destabilise govt - Top News - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/top-news/plot-to-destabilise-govt-1.146549#ixzz273bPkD5J
KUALA LUMPUR: INVESTIGATORS probing into the financial background of several non-governmental organisations have uncovered attempts by foreign hands to destabilise the government.
Sources revealed that from 2005 to 2011, almost RM20 million, courtesy of the Washington- based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) had allegedly been channelled to: SuaRaM (RM1.6 million);
NatioNal Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) (RM4.6 million);
MkiNi Dotcom Sdn Bhd (RM298,000); and, otheRS (RM13.3 million).
The monies were also allegedly channelled to the Southeast Asia Centre for e-Media (Seacem), Southeast Asian Press Alliance and the Centre for Independent Journalism.
From last year, several other set-ups, namely Bersih, Merdeka Center for Opinion Research, Lawyers for Liberty, Liberal Banter Sdn Bhd as well as the International Republican Institute, began receiving funds from NED, an organisation that had been claimed to have “played a significant role in attempting to destabilise legitimate governments and replace them with client proxies”.
Bersih co-chairman Datuk S. Ambiga was reported recently to have admitted that Bersih had received funds from the NDI as well as New York-based Open Society Institute, the administrator for programmes under the Open Society Institute founded by maverick currency speculator George Soros.
NED, on its website, said "it is a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world".
It also claims to be a unique institution where it could provide "flexibility that makes it possible to work in some of the most difficult circumstances, and to respond quickly when there is an opportunity for political change".
It is believed that organisations with "programmes consistent with its objectives" are awarded grants.
Sources also revealed that Suaram, which is under several investigations, including for allegedly raising funds while operating as an unregistered society as well as for serious violations of at least five sections of the Companies Act, along with Suaram and Suara Inisiatif Sdn Bhd the company that is linked to it, had four known foreign funders.
Aside from NED's estimated RM1.6 million already in its coffers, Suaram is also believed to have received RM774,000 (between 2008 and last year) from New York-based Open Society Institute, the administrator for programmes under the Open Society Institute.
The German embassy, meanwhile in 2010, allegedly gave Suaram RM21,400.
It was reported that the embassy had admitted that it funded Suaram's project that particular year.
Another RM34,000 was also allegedly channelled to Suaram by Seacem.
The links of these establishments are apparent, with Seacem on its website acknowledging that it was supported by OSI.
Seacam, meanwhile, under its fellowship programme, offers its fellows placement in Malaysiakini.
Suaram's accounts and "money trail" are also allegedly being looked into by Bank Negara Malaysia.
Recently, Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob called on Bank Negara to probe Suaram under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001.
He had also asked the Home Ministry and Registrar of Societies to determine Suaram's status.
Many quarters have questioned the need to have outside influence interfering in the country's political agenda.
They have also called on several key opposition figures including Parti Keadilan Rakyat's Tian Chua, Suaram director Kua Kia Soong and co-founder R. Sivarasa to explain why Suaram was being funded by foreign parties, including by Soros, when he had allegedly masterminded plans to bring the country's economy down.
They had also been asked to clarify whether they had received foreign funding to support their political activities.
Former PKR leader Ng Lum Yong had demanded that the trio publicly explain Suaram's funding as the people wanted to understand its true role as an organisation.
"The people have the right to know about Suaram's true political agenda and its motives," Ng said.
In an interview with BH last night, International Movement for a Just World (JUST) president Professor Dr Chandra Muzaffar said NED had been known to lend substantial financial support to NGOs in particular countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria.
He claimed it had been uncovered that such efforts had been going on aggressively over the past five years in the name of democratic freedom with the objective of making people rise up against leaders who were allegedly deemed to be cruel.
He also claimed they handed out assistance with the objective of stirring up the people, and their contribution was akin to udang disebalik batu.
"We know of their activities in several countries as what has happened in the Arab world, leading to the Arab Spring uprising.
"There is also proof they provided assistance to groups opposing leaders in South and Central America at one time with the excuse that the leaders were tyrants and undemocratic.
"Similarly, they were believed to have assisted rebels to oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin."
Chandra, who is also the chairman of 1Malaysia Foundation, said the credibility of such an organisation which claims to support institutions of freedom and democracy was questionable as it could threaten global security.
He added that those behind the body included Zionist groups which maintain good relations with the Jewish government.
Read more: Plot to destabilise govt - Top News - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/top-news/plot-to-destabilise-govt-1.146549#ixzz273bPkD5J
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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