The RPK Interview and the political conundrum

sunday, 02 august 2009

Here we publish a paragraph an Op Ed by our Editor Kazi Mahmood in his now very own blog: www.worldfutures.info. Malaysian politics is going into the doldrum and some will say down the drain. Both sides, the government and the opposition seem to be sitting on strong fences which are tough to be broken down by either groups. However, if you ask me, the opposition has the momentum going and it will be very interesting to see how the Umno and the BN handles the slippery road ahead of them. Wfol.tv interviews Raja Petra Written by kazi mahmood Sunday, 02 August 2009 03:50 In a revolution we can't avoid victims. People get hurt. And let's face it; what we are seeing in Malaysia today is a revolution of sorts. So we will see victims. Teoh was a victim. Anwar is also a victim. We shall be seeing many more victims before this revolution is over. But we shall make them all pay for this. When the government falls we shall see a lynching a la the French, Bolshevik, Iranian, etc., revolutions. This revolution may yet turn bloody. We never know. But Umno is certainly pushing its luck and one day it will push too far and blood will flow on the streets like it did once in 1969. These and other poignant phrases constitute the Wfol.tv website's first interview with Raja Petra Kamarudin, the Malaysian political activist and Malaysia-Today editor in chief. It is a good interview in which RPK (as he is popularly known) expresses himself on what we thought were the salient points of Malaysia's political development in the recent days. Malaysian politics is going into the doldrum and some will say down the drain. Both sides, the government and the opposition seem to be sitting on strong fences which are tough to be broken down by either groups. However, if you ask me, the opposition has the momentum going and it will be very interesting to see how the Umno and the BN handles the slippery road ahead of them. Here I publish some of the lambasting phrases from RPK: On the mysterious death of a Democratic Action Party (DAP) aide, Raja Petra says this event would have a great impact on Malaysian politics. He adds that this epitomises what the non-Malays have to endure at the hands of the enforcement agencies in Malaysia. "Teoh's death may have been the thing needed to really turn the stomachs of the Chinese. His death is most unfortunate. But his death woke up the Chinese like never before. Now the Chinese realise that their lives are cheap." he added in very powerful terms. I am sure the interview will make waves as he made a few more explosive statements that shows how much gut this personality who hails from a royal family in Malaysia have. It is impressive - interesting is far too small a word - to get RPK to answer to our questions. The interview was done via our office from Riau, Indonesia. My role was to read it, add some texts for our readers to understand what it was all about and get the picture of RPK up on the wfol.tv website. That is not so great a work to do for own organization but it is more than exciting to publish an interview - our very first in this series - on a Malaysian supremo.