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Friday, July 24, 2015

Malaysia could end up a failed state, warns Anwar

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, writing from behind bars to The Wall Street Journal, says it was not surprising that foreign investors were increasingly wary and that the ringgit recently fell to a 16-year low, amid decades of economic mismanagement in Malaysia. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, July 24, 2015.Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, writing from behind bars to The Wall Street Journal, says it was not surprising that foreign investors were increasingly wary and that the ringgit recently fell to a 16-year low, amid decades of economic mismanagement in Malaysia. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, July 24, 2015.
Jailed former opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today warned of Malaysia ending up as a failed state after decades of economic mismanagement.
Writing on The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Anwar who is prison serving a 5-year imprisonment over a sodomy conviction, warned that increased political repression in the country could drive some to give up on the political system and consider change beyond the legal means.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has blamed "concerted efforts by certain individuals to undermine confidence" in the Malaysian economy and a bid to remove a democratically-elected prime minister, following WSJ's report that some US$700 million was channelled into his personal bank accounts.
He said the Najib-led government was sowing communal and religious tensions among the Malay-Muslim majority and the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities, citing Barisan Nasional (BN) blaming a "Chinese tsunami" for losing the popular vote in the 2013 national polls.
"Such actions undermine the fragile fabric of Malaysia’s multi ethnic and multi religious society.
"In four decades in public service, I cannot recall a time when racial and religious sensitivities have become so inflamed, and at the same time so poorly managed by the country’s political leadership," said Anwar, who was deputy prime minister until his sacking in 1998.
He said the opposition believed a bright future was possible for Malaysia through good governance and rule of law.
"We believe in the dismantling of Malaysia’s system of race-based privileges that has devolved into nothing more than rent-seeking for the privileged few.
"We believe that corruption is a slow bleed that robs future generations of the education and business opportunities that will make them prosper," he wrote in the commentary.
Anwar said a new generation of young, millennial Malaysians were committed  to building an inclusive, democratic and economically vibrant country.
"Still, there is real danger ahead, middle-income nations like Malaysia – after several decades of economic mismanagement, opaque governance and overspending –  can devolve into failed states.
"The irresponsible manner in which the current leadership is handling religious issues to curry favour from the extreme right is fuelling sectarianism," he wrote.
He said a clear path out of the current mess was to "return to the underpinnings" of the Federal Constitution, which preserved and protected the rights of all Malaysians.
"Yet there remains a clear path out of this mess, a return to the underpinnings of the Malaysian Constitution, which preserves and protects the rights of all Malaysians; a devolution of power from the executive, whose role now resembles that of a dictator more than a servant of the people; elections that are truly free and fair; and a free media unafraid to challenge authority," he wrote.
Saying Malaysia was ready for change, Anwar said he continued to fight for a peaceful and democratic reform from his prison cell, despite the heavy burden on his family.
"While I am physically behind bars my spirit remains with them, the people of Malaysia, and people all around the world who continue the struggle for dignity and for freedom."
- TMI

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