Malaysia's Bar Council Socks It To Mahathir.
The Bar Council said the on-going criticism by Dr Mahathir against the current administration had rekindled discussions of the numerous deeds and misdeeds of the government under more than two decades of the previous leadership.
Yes and they are absolutely right. When Mahathir himself has a dubious track record in his 22 years of power, which has been variously described as despotic, tyrannical and dictatorial and having presided over numerous instances of serious mismanagement, it is only fair that now that he is accusing the present administration of all sorts of wrongdoings, that his own misdeeds be not only exposed but thoroughly investigated.
The Bar Council has demanded that a complete review of the sacking of three of Malaysia's top judges nearly 20 years ago be carried out. The three judges sacked for misconduct by a special tribunal set up by the then government were former Lord President Tun Salleh Abas and Federal Court Judges Datuk George Seah and Datuk Wan Suleiman Pawanteh.
Yesterday Bar Council president Yeo Yang Poh, in a statement called for a thorough review of the 1988 sacking of the three judges, during the tenure of then Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, which he described as the "darkest days for the Malaysian judiciary".
Yeo said an impartial re-examination of the attack by the Executive then on the judiciary was necessary to restore the honour of the judges.
The Bar Council's statement was issued in the wake of the on-going allegations by the former prime minister against his successor Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Tun Salleh Abas was tight-lipped over the proposal by the Bar Council. The media-shy former top judge, when met by reporters, said he had yet to read the Bar Council's proposal and thus had no comment to make."Let me read it first...I have not read the report," he said.
I say well done Bar Council. It is incumbent upon the government to set right all the misdeeds of the previous administration if at all possible, and that those who suffered under Dr Mahathir's rule may belatedly be given some justice. It should also serve as a reminder to the former premier that he cannot expect to throw 'darts' at the present government and get away scot free without exposing his own faults, omissions and commissions. You reap what you sow.
Yes and they are absolutely right. When Mahathir himself has a dubious track record in his 22 years of power, which has been variously described as despotic, tyrannical and dictatorial and having presided over numerous instances of serious mismanagement, it is only fair that now that he is accusing the present administration of all sorts of wrongdoings, that his own misdeeds be not only exposed but thoroughly investigated.
The Bar Council has demanded that a complete review of the sacking of three of Malaysia's top judges nearly 20 years ago be carried out. The three judges sacked for misconduct by a special tribunal set up by the then government were former Lord President Tun Salleh Abas and Federal Court Judges Datuk George Seah and Datuk Wan Suleiman Pawanteh.
Yesterday Bar Council president Yeo Yang Poh, in a statement called for a thorough review of the 1988 sacking of the three judges, during the tenure of then Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, which he described as the "darkest days for the Malaysian judiciary".
Yeo said an impartial re-examination of the attack by the Executive then on the judiciary was necessary to restore the honour of the judges.
The Bar Council's statement was issued in the wake of the on-going allegations by the former prime minister against his successor Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Tun Salleh Abas was tight-lipped over the proposal by the Bar Council. The media-shy former top judge, when met by reporters, said he had yet to read the Bar Council's proposal and thus had no comment to make."Let me read it first...I have not read the report," he said.
I say well done Bar Council. It is incumbent upon the government to set right all the misdeeds of the previous administration if at all possible, and that those who suffered under Dr Mahathir's rule may belatedly be given some justice. It should also serve as a reminder to the former premier that he cannot expect to throw 'darts' at the present government and get away scot free without exposing his own faults, omissions and commissions. You reap what you sow.
posted by The Malaysian. at 8/16/2006 05:32:00 PM
1 Comments:
After releasing Anwar from prison, this is the ONE thing left for Pak Lah to do to restore dignity to those who have been terribly wronged by the previous PM.
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