Who’ll benefit from racial strife? Under-probe former govt leaders, service vets say
“There are several leaders from the previous administration awaiting trials and under investigations. The stakes for them are very high, and like drowning men who will do anything, even to destroy our nation”
(MMO) – Like drowning men clutching at straws, the country’s former leaders now under investigation for mismanagement will do anything for power, including stirring up racial tensions, according to the National Patriots Association.
Without naming anyone, its president Datuk Mohamed Arshad Raji suggested today that such former government leaders were behind the calls urging Muslims, Malays and other Bumiputera to rally in the national capital next month to protest a proposal for Malaysia’s ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
“Cui bono, or who benefit if there are racial strife and ruins? The answer is obvious. There are several leaders from the previous administration awaiting trials and under investigations. The stakes for them are very high, and like drowning men who will do anything, even to destroy our nation,” he said in a statement.
Arshad, a retired brigadier-general, said veteran servicemen are very concerned over the increasing displays of bravado by certain groups making racially and religiously provocative statements that have been circulating through social media.
He said such messages were cause for alarm as they sought to use the anti-ICERD mass rally as a catalyst to stage riots and spread chaos throughout the country.
“Even in the New Malaysia era there is a limit to free speech, such as those by the newly-formed NGO Gagasan 3 which is aimed at provoking hatred and instigating a racial riot,” he said.
Arshad declared the leaders of Gagasan 3 “nobodies” who had never fought for any issue of national note and were incapable of “articulating issues, even of race and religion, in a civil and intelligent manner”, noting that the group had only shown themselves to be anti-DAP and racial provocateurs to date.
“The Inspector-General of Police should move swiftly against hate speech on social media before it is too late.
