Please address the actual issues of the country and not the Umno issues

Malay leaders urged to sit down and talk

Malay leaders in the country have been urged to sit down together and discuss the future of the Malays in the country.

Bandar Tun Razak Umno division acting head Rahim Baba said Malay leaders from the ruling and opposition coalitions should sit together and listen to “the pleas and cries of the young Malays.”

“We hope to convey to our Malay leaders - from Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to Deputy Premier Najib Razak, and Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Muhyiddin Yassin, Ku Li, Anwar Ibrahim, Abdul Hadi Awang, Nik Aziz and others to come together and understand the pleas and cries of the young Malays”, he said at the division’s EGM today.



It is most saddening that we have Malays leaders still talking about the interests of the Malays only and forgot that Malaysia is a multicultural and multi-ethnic country. The welfare of the country is the only priority that should be considered, we are in the same boat and either we sink or we float together.

Malays, Chinese, Indians, Dayaks, Kedazaan-Dusun and all other ethnic groups should work towards making the country a better place for all to live and prosper. Politics is the key to the country reform and only a clean and efficient government can guaranteed the future of the country.

The BN has ruled since Merdeka with an iron grip and Malaysia's rot are the end results of its failed policies of divide and rule and its ethnic-based policies such as the NEP and race-base quota systems. How can a country progress with such policies whereby corruption, nepotism and cronism are the norm instead of the exception in the BN's adminstration?

The March 8 general election should have taught the BN a lession, a lession that it has never been taught before. But the UMNO leaders are still trying to play "treat or trick" instead of sitting down to discuss the state of the country such as judicial rot, the rampant and blantant corruption of the BN, the high inflation and the high oil prices, the unfair treatment of many ethnic groups including the poor Malays and the crimes that seize the people.

The Pakatan Rakyat should be very careful of the tricks of the UMNO in addressing the none-issue such the Malay rights as that was the by products of the BN administration. Only the "changing of the guard" could possible solve the issues of unfair distribution of wealth accross all ethnic groups.

David Wong
1-5-2008