the woman who breathed two worlds by selina siak chin yoke

This is the country I want to remind Malaysians of in the books which will form The Malayan Series. In the Malaysia I knew, a law proposing the chopping off of limbs as punishment would have been unthinkable. The rubicon of hand-chopping, if crossed, will have consequences for the entire country and each and every Malaysian. In principle, the bill was not the government’s and is supposed to apply only to one particular state in the country, but these are beside the point. Indeed, there was yet another attempt last week to table a bill in Parliament that could pave the way to hand-chopping in Malaysia.

The rise of Islamic fundamentalism is a troubling trend in Malaysia – a trend on which the supposedly moderate government has remarkably little to say. She has now been released, but not before the Malaysian police promised to crack down on people participating in vigils to have her freed.īefore Maria Chin Abdullah was detained, she had actually been threatened with ISIS-style decapitation. Bersih’s chairwoman, Maria Chin Abdullah, was thus held in solitary detention – without charge, I might add – and not allowed to see her lawyer or family for a week. After all, its raison d’être now is to cling on to power (and the nation’s coffers) by whatever means it can.

The right to dissent.ĭaring to demand an end to corruption is too much for the Malaysian government.

Bersih (which means ‘Clean’ in Malay) has been campaigning for basic democratic rights for several years. The previous week, the chairwoman of a civil rights group, Bersih, was also arrested. Zunar’s arrest is part of a string of troubling developments in Malaysia. This is presumably to set an example: look what happens when you dare call a spade a spade! Zunar’s arrest has made international news, but what is less well-known is that he was also punched up beforehand by stooges of Malaysia’s dominant political party, UMNO, the United Malay National Organisation. Zunar was arrested for criticising Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Najib Razak. He had been participating at the George Town Literary Festival, arguably the country’s best-known lit-fest. On Saturday a leading political cartoonist, Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar, was detained under Malaysia’s draconian Sedition Act.

The woman who breathed two worlds by selina siak chin yoke