This is the first full year report card on the PH government’s human rights record. Unfortunately, like the previous BN government, detention without trial, enforced disappearances, killings and tardy police action remain the top civil and political rights concerns. There is a serious credibility crisis of police efficacy and the home minister’s lack of accountability.
And more than 10 years after the death of Teoh Beng Hock, there are still no criminal investigations into the culpable homicide surrounding his death. Syed Husin Ali has called this “kleptocratic cronyism” but it is basically the same privatisation of national assets to cronies of the ruling elite. In August 2018, the entire Khazanah Nasional Bhd board resigned after Dr Mahathir Mohamad allegedly refused to grant a meeting with Khazanah’s CEO Azman Mokhtar, giving Mahathir carte blanche to select a new board and CEO.
Under Mahathir, the rural and regional development ministry now controls five state development statutory bodies, Mara and a long list of other GLCs. These have gone against Harapan’s manifesto promise to end such political appointments. There has also been a slew of changes at Felda, FGV, Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera and Tabung Haji, with extensive shifts and moves at the top, replaced by those considered sympathetic and aligned to Mahathir.
Mahathir defended the sales, saying they were needed to raise funds in a bid to clear debts incurred by the previous government, a very convenient way to justify the privatisation sales. The ongoing negotiations to sell PLUS, the highway toll concessionaire owned by Malaysian taxpayers are being carried out in a non-transparent manner.
There are reported to be at least 25,000 sites that are prone to landslides throughout the country and, according to the 2017 Malaysian Environmental Quality Report, in terms of biological oxygen demand , none of the monitored rivers has been categorised as clean in 2017. In December 2018, Deputy Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister, Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis, told Parliament that the country has 51 ailing rivers.
And while the country is supposed to be suffering from a trillion-ringgit debt crisis, the Penang government seems intent on going ahead with the RM46 billion Penang Transport Master Plan . With the impending climate crisis, the fragility of Penang’s coastal environment and the livelihood of fishermen there, the wisdom of the RM70 billion land reclamation project is highly questionable.
Poor SUARAM. They thought by supporting PH, they will get better Government. But Harapan tinggal Harapan.
PH in its infancy is still struggling to have a grasp of governing the country as a whole. There is no concerted effort among its ministries and State Govt which all have its' own individual agenda eg. Flying car, 3rd National car etc Only Mestecc is aligned with PH's objectives
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