Only fools believe repeated lies. Obviously 80% of Myanmar Citizenry are not fools.
I have listened to some so called “Hate speech” By Ashin Wirathu. For those who insist on the speeches as hateful, how many truly understand the nuances of Bamar Saga (Burmese language)?
Interpretation usually ruin the fluid nature of this unique beautiful language especially the Sanga Speak.
Show this protagonist a true Buddhist who will categorically vouch for speech as Hateful, and this protagonist will show you a true bias liar.
Just for example, Ashin Wirathu called Korean UN rep as “Pha -“.
Bamar Saga hold no provisions for “prostitute, Women of the night— whore, red rose or any other myriad of western words describing women who engage in acts (usual sexual) for profit.
The interpretation one read in every news paper in the west is to “Liken the UN rep to a Whore”. Instead of using the most appropriate well known word of “prostituting/prostitution”.
Oi! Why let “a good choice of word” get in the way of denigrating the Buddhist.
Albeit the rise of Ma Ba Ta mean 80% of Citizenry are not convinced by the westerners hoopla of Buddhist Nationalist.
Unlike the west where being called islamophobe is the norm for mentioning any Islamic excesses, Myanmar citizenry call an ace,”an ace” when they see one . At least 80%, that is a super-majority in the westerners’ SENSE.
If Myanmar is so “masculine”, why isn’t a man leading the NLD ? Why did Burmese women have the highest literacy rate for women in southeast Asia in 1960 ? American man don’t often smoke cheroots, many Burmese women do. Finally, who controls the money in most Burmese families ? In some of the indigenous tribes in Myanmar, the Shamans are women not men. There are more women in Malaysia’s Parliament than Myanmar’s, but no woman can become PM of Malaysia; that is not the case in Myanmar. It may well be a relative of President Thein Sein, but there is little opposition to a female leader and far more (rightly so) to a Muslim leader of an 80 % Buddhist nation.
Then a monsoon country it has to be another Dam, unless Miss Kemp think cleaner/less CO2 producing Wind (Less likely in Myanmar regional terrain but used succeessfully in area like NgweSang) or Nuclear since Solar is still prohibitively expensive except for the rich.
The HR front which the author is more interested in her hearts bleed for the victims of this largess. How about the benefit to everybody else just as the 3 gorge dam in China has illustrated clearly.
If Miss Kemp will realized what has been buried by the construction of Aswan. Hoover and yes, Snowy Mountain, will make the future Singapore size dam a walk in the park as for as ‘the loss of Historical artifacts’ go.
This dam will set back the pR of this regime. However the benefit that it brings and the known and unknown challenges it bring will make this regime more accessible.
The only legitimate complaint is the benefit will be more towards the Cronies and Urban populace only secondarily to the
real needed rural area.
Miss Kemp might be right here partially, that mean wrong partially also.
Let us be practical alleviating poverty overall trounce anything else in HR related rules.
The way I see Jokowi is he is similar to the US Presidents that emerged after the US Civil War (ie the Gilded Age). The Gilded Age the defining period in US history, because it laid foundations for subsequent US power, even though the US Presidents that governed during this period were largely forgotten figures. From 1865-1900, the US was governed by unremarkable leaders.
Jokowi reminds me of Rutherford B Hayes (who governed from 1877-1881), 19th President of the US. Like Jokowi he was the first standing governor to be directly elected to the Presidency. Both succeeded a two term President who happened to be an ex-General. Both won in a polarized vote.
[…] the Department of International Development at Oxford, contributed an essay to New Mandala entitled “Roots of Difference.” Drawing from his recent fieldwork in Southeast Myanmar, he considers political contestation and […]
[…] the country would be in ruins.’ As well as ignoring the principle of habeas corpus, this distrust of his own people also led to him abolishing the jury system in 1969. In his Memoirs he explained: ‘I had no […]
Jean-Michaud and Amanda – these are wonderful and spot-on messages about your friend/colleague, father. I have known Nick since we were both PhD students under the same supervisor, Andrew Turton, at SOAS in London during the mid-1980s. Although we have had only occasional opportunities to meet during the intervening period, we recently published an edited volume together – not on the Hmong, but on the legacy of Andrew’s eclectic anthropological work on Thailand. Nick was a pleasure to work with, if a tad too modest about his own contributions to Thai Studies. In between our more academic exchanges, he talked about his family with great pride and pleasure. Nick’s departure is a great shock, and it happened much too soon.
Kulap some people requested anonymity. I protect sources if needed.
Since writing its has become worse. This came in this morning.November 3, 2015
Naypyidaw’s escalated offensive in central Shan State displaces over 6,000; four civilians injured by indiscriminate shelling and shooting
The SHRF strongly condemns the escalated attacks in the past week by the Burma Army against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in central Shan State, involving indiscriminate shelling and shooting of civilians. The attacks have caused displacement of over 6,000 civilians from 22 villages in three townships since early October.
Naypyidaw has deployed 14 battalions to Mong Hsu, Mong Nawng and Ke See townships in a large scale offensive against the SSPP/SSA since October 6, allegedly to force SSPP/SSA to withdraw from “unauthorized” territories. In fact, the territories now being defended by SSPP/SSA have been under Shan administration for decades, as recognized by SSPP/SSA’s bilateral ceasefire in January 2012. Naypyidaw is therefore blatantly violating its existing bilateral ceasefire agreement.
Initial attacks to seize the strategic Ta Sarm Boo river crossing in Mong Hsu caused over 3,600 villagers to flee from their homes. Despite SSPP/SSA withdrawal from Ta Sarm Boo on October 15, Napyidaw troops are now advancing closer to the SSPP/SSA Wan Hai headquarters in Ke See. Fighter jets flew over Wan Hai on October 25, terrifying local villagers, who feared they would be bombed.
On October 26, the Burma Army shelled the village of Wan Mwe Taw, south of Wan Hai, damaging civilian houses, and seriously injuring a 25-year-old villager, who was trying to run away from the shelling. On the same day, Burma Army troops shot and injured a 53-year-old farmer from Wan KoongNim village, southeast of Wan Hai, who had fled from his home in early October, but was returning to tend his farm.
At midnight on October 28, the Burma Army began firing 120 mm shells at Wan Hai, precisely as hundreds of villagers were gathering at a temple to celebrate the end of Buddhist Lent. Eight shells landed in and around the village, damaging two houses and injuring two villagers, a 40-year-old woman and her 5-year-old daughter, who were sleeping at home.
This attack has caused the entire civilian population of Wan Hai, about 2,000 people, to flee from their homes and seek refuge in nearby villages and towns. Together with ongoing displacement from other areas, this brings the total number displaced by the current offensive to over 6,000. These displaced have had to abandon their homes and farms, and are in dire humanitarian need. 14 schools have been forced to close, with over 1,250 children unable to attend classes. Since November 1, 2015, the Burma Army has blocked all vehicles and people from accessing Hai Pa IDP camp.
SHRF deplores this relentless military invasion of Shan administered territories, and the scale of human suffering being inflicted on local civilians. Naypyidaw is entirely responsible for these attacks, displacement and abuses. The attacks rip the mask off the so-called peace process, making it clear that Napyidawhas no interest in a negotiated settlement to the conflict, but only in military subjugation of the ethnic peoples.
SHRF strongly urges the international community to publicly denounce Napyidaw’s military aggression and to withhold further support for the “peace process” until Napyidaw ends these systematic offensives against the ethnic peoples.
Once again Peter, your sense of outrage exceeds your grasp of the facts. But thanks to alerting me to the insidious coven of kaffiyeh-wearing reds under the bed watering down the use of the word genocide to trivialize the Holocaust. I guess you using the g-word to describe what happened in Armenia 30 years prior to that was just a slip of the keyboard.
There is no such thing as “Rohingya”. There are only illegal Bangladeshi Muslim migrants in Myanmar. I have seen no concern for the systematic persecution of non-Muslims in Bangladesh (or any Islamic nation, for that matter). If there is a “genocide”, why is the Bangladeshi population in Myanmar growing. The Left long ago co-opted “genocide” as a way to delegitimize the Holocaust as a unique experience, and to belittle it’s impact on Jew; don’t even mention the Armenian Genocide is hardly even mentioned. These two events resulted in a total of 7.5 million dead. There are not 7.5 million dead Bangladeshis in Myanmar. This typical hypocrisy of the Left/Islamist alliance to engage in disingenuous historical revisionism results from poor education and low self-esteem. There is no genocide in Myanmar; there are no “Rohingya” and the attempted “Palestinisation” of Myanmar, the Left having gotten bored with DASSK and realizing that Israel won’t bow, is an insult to Myanmar and it is hardly an issue of “radical” Buddhism. NLD did not field a Muslim candidate because there is no indigenous Muslim candidate and DASSK wisely knows which side of her bread the butter is on, and it’s not the Western side.
MaBaTha is not a polite ‘tech savy’ association that ‘civil society and ‘the international community’ need to engage with in order to instil liberal sensibilities. It is an undeniably fascist force that has been cultivated by the state. It is complicit with the slow burning genocide of the Rohingya, and has various forms of state violence at its disposal. Experts, NGOs and bilateral and multilateral donors are not going to stop the forces that are causing genocide – especially not if they continue to perpetuate the myth that the whole issue boils down to ‘communal violence’ or some minor lack of democratic or multicultural sensibilities on the part of the main perpetrators. As should now be clear, the genocide of the Rohingya, which MaBaTha is playing a major role in, is a systematic and calculated attempt to not only disenfranchise, but reduce a large group of people to ‘bare life’ and exclude them from the very most basic provisions and services that support life. It is also clear, especially in the context of the elections, that these activities are bringing benefit to certain groups. To avow the seriousness of the situation, and treat it as some technical issues that liberal minded experts and ‘civil society’ groups can solve is itself a very violent act.
Assuming this is actually a sincere question, you can look up anything to do with the UWSA in Jane’s Defence Weekly, for a start.It is such common knowledge that any exposition would be redundant.
Hear, hear. It’s not only time for the Myanmar people to have their say but listened to and fulfil their dreams. There’s everything to play for. VOTE NLD!
Under the Columbo Plan Australia’s SMEC has been building irrigation dams and hydro-electric dams in Burma since early 1950s with Burma Irrigation Dept first and later with Ministry of Electric Power.
>>>Hydrodams, supported by the World and Asia Development Banks and International Finance Corporation, are now proliferating in Southeast Asia, as nations compete to produce energy for the urban wealthy at the cost of rural communities.
I guess ADB is still funding a few (eg Laos). Not that Lao has much in the way of urban wealthy. Bigger motive is to sell power to neighbors but also to provide electricity to its own population. Cambodia doesn’t have much in the way of urban wealthy either.
But the World Bank and its private sector funder, the IFC? Where? Wasn’t the Pak Mun dam about 20 years ago the last time the World Bank got involved with big dams in Asia?
Actually, one Shan State Army did sign the ceasefire.
What are the views of the various Shan political parties? There must be a half dozen fielding candidates in the elections.
Its an intricate web to get into. UMNO Baru(not UMNO) is a very complex and self serving entity and this has to be broken, though not impossible albeit an up hill task.
Two significant factors that has to be taken into consideration is that namely; the country is still in a state of emergency and secondly another engineered May 13 and the country gets back to a NOC government.
Another factor is the electoral system. Its based on parliamentary seats not majority number of votes. So to stay in power all that needs to be done is delineation of parliamentary constituencies depending on which direction the wind is blowing. In all probability BN either lost GE13 or just scrapped through.
The opposition are running around like headless chickens.
So the solution lies within UMNO Baru or UMNO Baru gets de-registered for whatever reason and a United Malaysian National Organisation(UMNO) comes into being along the lines of Onn Jaffars aspirations. The best bed will be for Tengku Razaleigh to lead this and we may see some light at the end of the tunnel. BN is done away with all together along MIC and MCA.
Currently there is a lot brewing in the country and more so within UMNO Baru which could spell the demise of this entity or a complete change over or utter disaster.
On the sidelines Johor is flexing its muscles and I don’t wish to take this lightly. May end up with one less state and an Islamic republic being declared and a First President and First Lady in the making. This may sound far fetched but looking at the current scenario and the blatant abuse of power, I say why not? The buttons are being pushed beyond imagination.
The situation now is far more intricate than it was before GE13 and the man on the Bronc is not about to give up.
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A masculine Myanmar and the vote
Very good explanationтШ║it make me thoughtful on Myanmar political culture .
Ma Ba Tha and the vote
Only fools believe repeated lies. Obviously 80% of Myanmar Citizenry are not fools.
I have listened to some so called “Hate speech” By Ashin Wirathu. For those who insist on the speeches as hateful, how many truly understand the nuances of Bamar Saga (Burmese language)?
Interpretation usually ruin the fluid nature of this unique beautiful language especially the Sanga Speak.
Show this protagonist a true Buddhist who will categorically vouch for speech as Hateful, and this protagonist will show you a true bias liar.
Just for example, Ashin Wirathu called Korean UN rep as “Pha -“.
Bamar Saga hold no provisions for “prostitute, Women of the night— whore, red rose or any other myriad of western words describing women who engage in acts (usual sexual) for profit.
The interpretation one read in every news paper in the west is to “Liken the UN rep to a Whore”. Instead of using the most appropriate well known word of “prostituting/prostitution”.
Oi! Why let “a good choice of word” get in the way of denigrating the Buddhist.
Albeit the rise of Ma Ba Ta mean 80% of Citizenry are not convinced by the westerners hoopla of Buddhist Nationalist.
Unlike the west where being called islamophobe is the norm for mentioning any Islamic excesses, Myanmar citizenry call an ace,”an ace” when they see one . At least 80%, that is a super-majority in the westerners’ SENSE.
A masculine Myanmar and the vote
If Myanmar is so “masculine”, why isn’t a man leading the NLD ? Why did Burmese women have the highest literacy rate for women in southeast Asia in 1960 ? American man don’t often smoke cheroots, many Burmese women do. Finally, who controls the money in most Burmese families ? In some of the indigenous tribes in Myanmar, the Shamans are women not men. There are more women in Malaysia’s Parliament than Myanmar’s, but no woman can become PM of Malaysia; that is not the case in Myanmar. It may well be a relative of President Thein Sein, but there is little opposition to a female leader and far more (rightly so) to a Muslim leader of an 80 % Buddhist nation.
A damning tale of megaprojects in Myanmar
Does Myanmar need more energy production?
If it is an unequivocal: YES
Then a monsoon country it has to be another Dam, unless Miss Kemp think cleaner/less CO2 producing Wind (Less likely in Myanmar regional terrain but used succeessfully in area like NgweSang) or Nuclear since Solar is still prohibitively expensive except for the rich.
The HR front which the author is more interested in her hearts bleed for the victims of this largess. How about the benefit to everybody else just as the 3 gorge dam in China has illustrated clearly.
If Miss Kemp will realized what has been buried by the construction of Aswan. Hoover and yes, Snowy Mountain, will make the future Singapore size dam a walk in the park as for as ‘the loss of Historical artifacts’ go.
This dam will set back the pR of this regime. However the benefit that it brings and the known and unknown challenges it bring will make this regime more accessible.
The only legitimate complaint is the benefit will be more towards the Cronies and Urban populace only secondarily to the
real needed rural area.
Miss Kemp might be right here partially, that mean wrong partially also.
Let us be practical alleviating poverty overall trounce anything else in HR related rules.
A man and a myth: Jokowi’s first year in power
The way I see Jokowi is he is similar to the US Presidents that emerged after the US Civil War (ie the Gilded Age). The Gilded Age the defining period in US history, because it laid foundations for subsequent US power, even though the US Presidents that governed during this period were largely forgotten figures. From 1865-1900, the US was governed by unremarkable leaders.
Jokowi reminds me of Rutherford B Hayes (who governed from 1877-1881), 19th President of the US. Like Jokowi he was the first standing governor to be directly elected to the Presidency. Both succeeded a two term President who happened to be an ex-General. Both won in a polarized vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes#Inauguration
Like Jokowi, Hayes was a weak and upstanding individual surrounded by sharks.
Roots of difference
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NLD needs to lift the standard
[…] NLD needs to lift the standard […]
Lee Kuan Yew’s political legacy – a matter of trust
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A tribute to Nicholas Tapp
Jean-Michaud and Amanda – these are wonderful and spot-on messages about your friend/colleague, father. I have known Nick since we were both PhD students under the same supervisor, Andrew Turton, at SOAS in London during the mid-1980s. Although we have had only occasional opportunities to meet during the intervening period, we recently published an edited volume together – not on the Hmong, but on the legacy of Andrew’s eclectic anthropological work on Thailand. Nick was a pleasure to work with, if a tad too modest about his own contributions to Thai Studies. In between our more academic exchanges, he talked about his family with great pride and pleasure. Nick’s departure is a great shock, and it happened much too soon.
Phil Hirsch
A damning tale of megaprojects in Myanmar
Kulap some people requested anonymity. I protect sources if needed.
Since writing its has become worse. This came in this morning.November 3, 2015
Naypyidaw’s escalated offensive in central Shan State displaces over 6,000; four civilians injured by indiscriminate shelling and shooting
The SHRF strongly condemns the escalated attacks in the past week by the Burma Army against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in central Shan State, involving indiscriminate shelling and shooting of civilians. The attacks have caused displacement of over 6,000 civilians from 22 villages in three townships since early October.
Naypyidaw has deployed 14 battalions to Mong Hsu, Mong Nawng and Ke See townships in a large scale offensive against the SSPP/SSA since October 6, allegedly to force SSPP/SSA to withdraw from “unauthorized” territories. In fact, the territories now being defended by SSPP/SSA have been under Shan administration for decades, as recognized by SSPP/SSA’s bilateral ceasefire in January 2012. Naypyidaw is therefore blatantly violating its existing bilateral ceasefire agreement.
Initial attacks to seize the strategic Ta Sarm Boo river crossing in Mong Hsu caused over 3,600 villagers to flee from their homes. Despite SSPP/SSA withdrawal from Ta Sarm Boo on October 15, Napyidaw troops are now advancing closer to the SSPP/SSA Wan Hai headquarters in Ke See. Fighter jets flew over Wan Hai on October 25, terrifying local villagers, who feared they would be bombed.
On October 26, the Burma Army shelled the village of Wan Mwe Taw, south of Wan Hai, damaging civilian houses, and seriously injuring a 25-year-old villager, who was trying to run away from the shelling. On the same day, Burma Army troops shot and injured a 53-year-old farmer from Wan KoongNim village, southeast of Wan Hai, who had fled from his home in early October, but was returning to tend his farm.
At midnight on October 28, the Burma Army began firing 120 mm shells at Wan Hai, precisely as hundreds of villagers were gathering at a temple to celebrate the end of Buddhist Lent. Eight shells landed in and around the village, damaging two houses and injuring two villagers, a 40-year-old woman and her 5-year-old daughter, who were sleeping at home.
This attack has caused the entire civilian population of Wan Hai, about 2,000 people, to flee from their homes and seek refuge in nearby villages and towns. Together with ongoing displacement from other areas, this brings the total number displaced by the current offensive to over 6,000. These displaced have had to abandon their homes and farms, and are in dire humanitarian need. 14 schools have been forced to close, with over 1,250 children unable to attend classes. Since November 1, 2015, the Burma Army has blocked all vehicles and people from accessing Hai Pa IDP camp.
SHRF deplores this relentless military invasion of Shan administered territories, and the scale of human suffering being inflicted on local civilians. Naypyidaw is entirely responsible for these attacks, displacement and abuses. The attacks rip the mask off the so-called peace process, making it clear that Napyidawhas no interest in a negotiated settlement to the conflict, but only in military subjugation of the ethnic peoples.
SHRF strongly urges the international community to publicly denounce Napyidaw’s military aggression and to withhold further support for the “peace process” until Napyidaw ends these systematic offensives against the ethnic peoples.
Cara Menghasilkan Uang Dengan Bermain Dominoqq
Very significant insights Sayyed.
It appears far-fetched but these days nothings is entirely far-fetched.
It would be a pity if this is what Malaysia comes too, but then again, we reap what we sow.
I wonder if ordinary Malaysians could themselves do something about it, rather than relying on “existing leaders”.
Ma Ba Tha and the vote
Once again Peter, your sense of outrage exceeds your grasp of the facts. But thanks to alerting me to the insidious coven of kaffiyeh-wearing reds under the bed watering down the use of the word genocide to trivialize the Holocaust. I guess you using the g-word to describe what happened in Armenia 30 years prior to that was just a slip of the keyboard.
Ma Ba Tha and the vote
There is no such thing as “Rohingya”. There are only illegal Bangladeshi Muslim migrants in Myanmar. I have seen no concern for the systematic persecution of non-Muslims in Bangladesh (or any Islamic nation, for that matter). If there is a “genocide”, why is the Bangladeshi population in Myanmar growing. The Left long ago co-opted “genocide” as a way to delegitimize the Holocaust as a unique experience, and to belittle it’s impact on Jew; don’t even mention the Armenian Genocide is hardly even mentioned. These two events resulted in a total of 7.5 million dead. There are not 7.5 million dead Bangladeshis in Myanmar. This typical hypocrisy of the Left/Islamist alliance to engage in disingenuous historical revisionism results from poor education and low self-esteem. There is no genocide in Myanmar; there are no “Rohingya” and the attempted “Palestinisation” of Myanmar, the Left having gotten bored with DASSK and realizing that Israel won’t bow, is an insult to Myanmar and it is hardly an issue of “radical” Buddhism. NLD did not field a Muslim candidate because there is no indigenous Muslim candidate and DASSK wisely knows which side of her bread the butter is on, and it’s not the Western side.
Ma Ba Tha and the vote
MaBaTha is not a polite ‘tech savy’ association that ‘civil society and ‘the international community’ need to engage with in order to instil liberal sensibilities. It is an undeniably fascist force that has been cultivated by the state. It is complicit with the slow burning genocide of the Rohingya, and has various forms of state violence at its disposal. Experts, NGOs and bilateral and multilateral donors are not going to stop the forces that are causing genocide – especially not if they continue to perpetuate the myth that the whole issue boils down to ‘communal violence’ or some minor lack of democratic or multicultural sensibilities on the part of the main perpetrators. As should now be clear, the genocide of the Rohingya, which MaBaTha is playing a major role in, is a systematic and calculated attempt to not only disenfranchise, but reduce a large group of people to ‘bare life’ and exclude them from the very most basic provisions and services that support life. It is also clear, especially in the context of the elections, that these activities are bringing benefit to certain groups. To avow the seriousness of the situation, and treat it as some technical issues that liberal minded experts and ‘civil society’ groups can solve is itself a very violent act.
A damning tale of megaprojects in Myanmar
Assuming this is actually a sincere question, you can look up anything to do with the UWSA in Jane’s Defence Weekly, for a start.It is such common knowledge that any exposition would be redundant.
Time for the vote
Hear, hear. It’s not only time for the Myanmar people to have their say but listened to and fulfil their dreams. There’s everything to play for. VOTE NLD!
A damning tale of megaprojects in Myanmar
SMEC is not a stranger in Burma.
Under the Columbo Plan Australia’s SMEC has been building irrigation dams and hydro-electric dams in Burma since early 1950s with Burma Irrigation Dept first and later with Ministry of Electric Power.
Sea folly and US-China relations
US is not alone in doing this. They got a lot of help from the other four of the Five Eyes.
A damning tale of megaprojects in Myanmar
>>>Hydrodams, supported by the World and Asia Development Banks and International Finance Corporation, are now proliferating in Southeast Asia, as nations compete to produce energy for the urban wealthy at the cost of rural communities.
I guess ADB is still funding a few (eg Laos). Not that Lao has much in the way of urban wealthy. Bigger motive is to sell power to neighbors but also to provide electricity to its own population. Cambodia doesn’t have much in the way of urban wealthy either.
But the World Bank and its private sector funder, the IFC? Where? Wasn’t the Pak Mun dam about 20 years ago the last time the World Bank got involved with big dams in Asia?
Actually, one Shan State Army did sign the ceasefire.
What are the views of the various Shan political parties? There must be a half dozen fielding candidates in the elections.
>>A spokesperson for the Shan
Way too vague.
Cara Menghasilkan Uang Dengan Bermain Dominoqq
Hi Greg,
Its an intricate web to get into. UMNO Baru(not UMNO) is a very complex and self serving entity and this has to be broken, though not impossible albeit an up hill task.
Two significant factors that has to be taken into consideration is that namely; the country is still in a state of emergency and secondly another engineered May 13 and the country gets back to a NOC government.
Another factor is the electoral system. Its based on parliamentary seats not majority number of votes. So to stay in power all that needs to be done is delineation of parliamentary constituencies depending on which direction the wind is blowing. In all probability BN either lost GE13 or just scrapped through.
The opposition are running around like headless chickens.
So the solution lies within UMNO Baru or UMNO Baru gets de-registered for whatever reason and a United Malaysian National Organisation(UMNO) comes into being along the lines of Onn Jaffars aspirations. The best bed will be for Tengku Razaleigh to lead this and we may see some light at the end of the tunnel. BN is done away with all together along MIC and MCA.
Currently there is a lot brewing in the country and more so within UMNO Baru which could spell the demise of this entity or a complete change over or utter disaster.
On the sidelines Johor is flexing its muscles and I don’t wish to take this lightly. May end up with one less state and an Islamic republic being declared and a First President and First Lady in the making. This may sound far fetched but looking at the current scenario and the blatant abuse of power, I say why not? The buttons are being pushed beyond imagination.
The situation now is far more intricate than it was before GE13 and the man on the Bronc is not about to give up.