Sack Saifuddin, A-G over ‘mishandling’ of international treaties

Bernard Saw Chan Kok Leong Bernard Saw, Chan Kok Leong Updated 5 years ago · Published on 8 Apr 2019 1:10PM · 8 Comments

About 20 protesters demanding the resignation of the attorney-general and foreign affairs minister outside the Parliament gates today. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, April 8, 2019.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Saifuddin Abdullah and Attorney-General Tommy Thomas should be sacked over the “mishandling” of recent issues, such as the Rome Statute and an anti-discrimination treaty, said a group of civil society groups linked to Barisan Nasional.

The group, led by former Umno Federal Territories Youth chief Mohd Razlan Rafii, staged a protest outside the Parliament gates this morning. They marched to the building to present a memorandum.

“NGOs and Malaysians have lost faith in Saifuddin and Thomas as they cannot defend the importance of the constitution.

“The two incidents are against Malaysians and the constitution,” said Jazlan, who led a group of about 20.

He was referring to the Putrajaya’s intention to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court.

Following backlash, Malaysia decided not to proceed with ratifying ICERD, while it has withdrawn its accession to the Rome Statute.

The Malay groups’ memorandum today said the ratification of ICERD would have led Malaysians to a “social life without limitations”.

On the Rome Statute, it said “polemics” would not have occurred had the government not rushed into it.

When Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced Malaysia’s withdrawal from the statute last Friday, he blamed “political confusion” caused by those with “vested interests”, highlighting an unnamed member of the royalty. – April 8, 2019.        

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  • Oh the Malays... my fellow Malays. You lot of malays will never progress, you are lazy and always look for handouts and subsidies. You are constantly exploited, for a small amount of money, to protest.

    Posted 5 years ago by Mo Salleh · Reply

  • You have no comprehension of the real world you'd rather be protected by a bunch of corrupt and thieving regime than to fight for equality and succeed.

    Posted 5 years ago by Mo Salleh · Reply

  • Where were you when all the previous issues and fiasco crops up or you guys are just plain stupid to draw the line between right and wrong. Where were you when the cowgate scandal blew up, where were you when 1MDB caught the attention of the world, where were you when the couple of Tan Sri's were booted out of office in trying to bring justice on 1MDB, where were you when Felda almost lost its prime land, where were you when taxi drivers lost their bid to stop e-hailing from coming in, where were you when the appointed contracted were paid 80% of the project while they only delivered hardly 20% of the projects, where were you people all this while??? did you woke up this morning from the wrong side of the bed or are you people the so called dedak eaters???

    Posted 5 years ago by Teruna Kelana · Reply

  • The first thing we should do is to get rid of the brainless hardliners.

    Posted 5 years ago by Awang Bilis · Reply

  • Revamp the bureaucracy, and reshuffle the state cabinets lest they confuse and poison the ignorant minds.

    Posted 5 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • Bodoh si bodoh! You should demand to sack the 4 kangkong professors for giving false informations on the Roman Statute to the council of rulers!.

    Posted 5 years ago by Chee yee ng · Reply

  • The nonsense these brainless nitwit is capable of defies all human logic. They created a problem out of an otherwise sound statute and then ask the people responsible for doing the right thing to resign. Sick people

    Posted 5 years ago by Mike Mok · Reply

  • There were four idiots. Then, there are other idiots!

    Posted 5 years ago by Tunku Mohar · Reply