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Father helps daughter’s killer avoid gallows
Socialist gives Mahathir his-story lesson
Akmal sticks ‘toe’ in Zahid’s olive branch
Father helps daughter’s killer avoid gallows
Shaariibuu Setev, whose daughter Altantuya Shaariibuu was brutally murdered in 2006, penned a letter in support of her killer’s bid to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
The Mongolian national’s lawyer, Sangeet Kaur Deo, revealed that her client is a firm believer in the sanctity of human life.
"His deep respect for the sanctity of life compels his support for commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment.
"He believes that the right to life is fundamental, a principle that allows for reflection and the hope for change, even amid difficult truths,” she added.
She said the family is satisfied with the Federal Court’s decision to sentence the former police officer to 40 years in prison with 12 strokes of the rotan instead.
Azilah, 48, is expected to finish serving his jail sentence in 2034 after remission, as it is to run from the date of his arrest on Nov 1, 2006.
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Socialist gives Mahathir his-story lesson
When former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad urged the government to intervene in order to prevent conflict arising from the growing division between the rich and the poor, it led to a socialist’s nostrils flaring with rage.
PSM deputy chairperson S Arutchelvan claimed that the 99-year-old politician was the “father of neoliberalism and cronyism” in Malaysia.
“Most importantly, he is the father of billionaires Mirzan and Mokhzani, whose wealth the MACC is investigating,” he told Malaysiakini.
He said the nonagenarian could not be faulted for suffering from the “mudah lupa” selective amnesia.
Arutchelvan offered to remind Mahathir and Malaysians of the interventions he did and failed to do during his first tenure as prime minister for more than two decades.
Among others, he cited the bailouts which took place during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, which included Tajudin Ramli, who at the time owned a controlling stake in troubled national carrier Malaysian Airline System, as well as Mahathir’s son Mirzan’s Konsortium Perkapalan Berhad.
“When (then deputy prime minister) Anwar Ibrahim raised the matter, he got the sack,” he added.
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Akmal sticks ‘toe’ in Zahid’s olive branch
Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has shot down the proposal for Pakatan Harapan to apologise for painting their former foe-turned-friend as corrupt.
The deputy prime minister also urged Umno leaders to cease “teasing” component parties of the coalition government.
However, Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh, who is no stranger to locking horns with his allies, appeared to state a condition in order for peace to be maintained.
Without referring to Zahid’s statement, he said: “Do not step on our toes first if you are scared to have us step on yours.
“Do not think that we will remain quiet when you mess with us. While some might (keep quiet), we won’t,” he cautioned.
Previously, supreme council member Nur Jazlan Mohamed, in the aftermath of Umno’s triumph in the Makhota polls, suggested that Harapan apologise for “all the slander, allegations and perceptions created” over the decades.
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