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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Razak Baginda's daughter spars with NGO over race


Eyebrows shot at a forum today when political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda's daughter sparred with Tindak Malaysia's leader over race and electoral reform.

The smartly-dressed woman, who introduced herself as Rowena, had queried Tindak Malaysia chief Wong Piang Yow over the absence of race in his presentation of proposed electoral reforms at a Bar Council forum in Kuala Lumpur.

rowena abdul razakShe noted that Malaysians still voted along racial lines and asked how could the minority community protect the Malay majority's status.

"If you look at Bahrain, you have a Sunni minority government and they are unable to protect the majority Shiites. In Malaysia, you are proposing something where the minority would be empowered, how then do you protect the rights of the majority," Rowena (left) asked.

Wong said the question was strange, stating that it was the norm for the majority to protect the minority and not other way round.

"The majority race, throughout the world, will usually produce the prime minister.

"You are asking how the minority can protect the majority - the minority cannot even protect themselves, how can they protect others?" he said.

Rowena's question appeared to rile up some members of the audience as a couple of elderly women began openly criticising her.

She then asked Wong how many Malays were in Tindak Malaysia, an electoral reforms pressure group, to which he replied less than 10 percent.

"I'm pointing out, you are not representing Malaysia as a whole, if the population of the majority are Malays and you have only less than 10 percent of Malays, that is fundamentally wrong," she said.

Abdul Razak was an instrumental figure in the procurement of two submarines from France. He was also charged with and acquitted of abetting in the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.
'Poverty hurts democracy'

Responding to this, Wong said Tindak Malaysia comprised of volunteers who contribute their sweat and money without expectation and invited Rowena to join him, to which she declined.

Earlier, Wong spoke at length about the various electoral systems in the country with a focus on the first-past-the-post system which Malaysia currently uses.

wong piang yow tindak malaysiaWong (left) added that his organisation had also engaged in projects such as chicken rearing to help uplift the poor community as democracy will take a back seat when people are hungry.

"Poverty, we feel, is more important consideration for free and fair election," he said.

However, the forum took a strange turn when the audience began to query more about the chicken-rearing project, and Rowena's mother Mazlinda who lashed out at her daughter's critics also joined the queue for questions.

Sensing that the questions was going off course, Bar Council Human Rights Committee chief Andrew Khoo intervened and ask that the attention be focus on electoral reform.

When it was Mazlinda's turn to ask her question, she merely said: "We're not here to talk about chicken" and went back to hear seat.

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