Malaysians will protest Rohingyan plight with rage, then they forget
The point is the fact that so many Malaysians only pay attention to social issues when it is popular and trendy. Then they forget.
The point is the fact that so many Malaysians only pay attention to social issues when it is popular and trendy. Then they forget.
When comedy becomes a threat to national security, we know society is heading down a deep, dark chasm where everyone has lost their sense of humour, personality and just plain humanity.
I went in expecting that those I spoke to would vehemently defend their leaders and say they are clean and that corruption doesn’t exist.
Malaysia has never really taken any official stand for the Rohingya or against the Burmese government, despite it being such a big problem that affects the country and the region.
It looks like political thuggery is fast becoming legit and commonplace in Malaysia. The perception that state-sponsored thuggery is proliferating among many citizens.
With ignorance, there is fear and misunderstanding – two very dangerous elements in a country as deeply polarised as Malaysia.
It would be easy to assume that the government is trying to kill any interest in the scandal that Malaysians have by stopping all discussion, dialogue or talk surrounding it.
The NLD government in Burma (Myanmar) is only a year old. Let’s hope that the illusion that is Suu Kyi does not fade. Or maybe it already has.
Journalist, writer, documentary filmmaker, lecturer and, apparently now social activist, Zan Azlee, uses logic and rationale to appeal to logical and rationale people who already support his ideas.
There has to be a very pressing reason for tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people to actually want to organise themselves.