JITRA 23 Dis. – Lokasi kemalangan yang mengorbankan tiga sahabat karib di Kilometer 23.5, Lebuh Raya Utara-Selatan di sini pagi semalam tidak mempunyai pagar di kawasan tepinya sehingga membolehkan lembu ternakan penduduk di kampung berhampiran memasuki lebuh raya itu. Tinjauan Utusan Malaysia mendapati ladang kelapa sawit itu tidak dipagari dengan sempurna sehingga membolehkan lembu yang berkeliaran di ladang berkenaan bebas bergerak sehingga memasuki kawasan lebuh raya.
Ulasan: Pihak penerima konsesi PLUS bertanggung jawab untuk menyediakan lebuh raya yang selamat. Jangan hanya seronok bila mendapat untung dari pelanggan.
Pilihan raya Uzbekistan: Kuasa Presiden Islam Karimov makin mantap
TASHKENT 23 Dis. – Rakyat Uzbekistan keluar mengundi hari ini pada pilihan raya yang dilihat bakal dimenangi oleh Presiden Islam Karimov yang telah memerintah selama 18 tahun. Kritikan terhadap pemimpin dari Parti Komunis itu adalah sesuatu yang dilarang dan kumpulan hak asasi manusia antarabangsa pernah menuduh Karimov melanggar hak kebebasan di negara tersebut.
Ulasan: Repression and dictatorship in Uzbekistan. Islam Karimov became leader of the Independent Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan in 1990. After the country gained its independence in 1991 he continued in power. His party, the People’s Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, is simply the old Uzbek Communist Party with a different name. All political parties in Uzbekistan support Karimov. Those which do not support him are banned.
Karimov rules Uzbekistan through attacks on freedom of the media, attacks on members of NGOs critical of the government, the imprisonment of thousands of political opponents, the systemic use of torture, and the use of brute force to crush potential dissent at birth.
Uzbekistan is a throwback to the Soviet Union. It is effectively a one-party state. Political dissidents have been despatched to psychiatric hospitals. Karimov wins presidential referenda with a Soviet-style 99% share of the vote. Since Uzbekistan gained its independence not a single election has been recognised as free and fair by international observers.
328 of the 471 newspapers in the country are state-owned. The remainder are so small-circulation that the regime does not bother about them. And only four of them report any news. The remainder carry only adverts and horoscopes. Television channels are even more tightly controlled by the government than are the printed media.
12,000 local neighbourhood committees (“mahalla”) keep local residents under constant surveillance, maintaining extensive files on families and gathering information on their religious practices. Residents who appear to be acting suspiciously are reported to the security forces.
A 1992 law allowed for the formation of trade unions. In reality Uzbek “trade unions” are state-controlled organisations, as was the case at the time of the Soviet Union. There is no legal right to strike, and there are no reports of any strikes having been organised.
Karimov on “Islamic extremism”. “Such people must be shot in the forehead! If necessary, I’ll shoot them myself…!” President Karimov, upon the 1998 adoption of a highly restrictive religion law, warning parliament not to be soft on “Islamic extremists.”
Many peaceful Muslims have also been rounded up in the sweeps of “fundamentalists.”
(from Neo-Stalinism in Uzbekistan http://www.workersliberty.org/node/4233)
Teruskan perjuangan untuk mendapat kerajaan yang bersih dan adil. Rakyat akan menang jua.
Umi Azlim dianiaya
KUALA LUMPUR: "Pak cik yakin Umi benar-benar dianiaya orang. Pak cik percaya yang dia tak bersalah kerana kami sekeluarga tahu Umi seorang pelajar cemerlang yang lurus sikapnya. "Daripada tangisannya, pak cik tahu dia sangat sedih dan menyesal kerana terpedaya dengan iklan kerja di Internet yang menjeratnya," kata Mohamad Lazim Jusoh, 50, bapa kepada pelajar Malaysia, Umi Azlim Mohamad Lazim, 24, yang dijatuhi hukuman mati dan kini ditahan di Pusat Tahanan Shantou, China kerana cuba menyeludup 2.983 kilogram heroin.
Harian Metro Jumaat lalu melaporkan mengenai Umi Azlim yang memberitahu ibu bapanya dia diumpan iklan Internet yang menawarkan bayaran lumayan untuk menjadi penghantar barang. Mohamad Lazim juga menasihatkan anak-anak muda, terutama mereka yang baru tamat belajar supaya tidak mudah terpedaya dengan iklan tawaran kerja seperti yang diterima anaknya. "Saya berharap kejadian ini menjadi iktibar kepada seluruh rakyat Malaysia lain supaya ia tidak berlaku kepada orang lain pula," katanya yang masih menunggu proses mendapatkan bantuan guaman untuk Umi Azlim.
Ulasan: Di samping mempunyai degree, kita juga perlu jadi street smart walaupun kita lurus supaya kita tidak di tipu.
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