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HUNGARY, UK ENVOYS RUFFLED BY DR M'S ROASTING

BY M.K. MEGAN

KUALA LUMPUR, FRIDAY


Top diplomats from Britain and Hungary walked out on Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as he was speaking on human rights here today.

At a public lecture organised by Suhakam, the Malaysian Human Rights Commission, Dr Mahathir was roasting the United States and Britain for invading Iraq, referring to their military action as "acts of terror", when the diplomats and their officers left the ballroom of the Le Meridien Hotel here.
Commenting on the incident at a Press conference later, Dr Mahathir said: "I am sorry, but as much as they have the right to criticise me, I have the right to criticise them. It is their right to walk out if they want."
In his speech, he had said the two nations had taken it upon themselves to invade Iraq to remove an allegedly authoritarian government.
"The result of the invasion is that many more people have been killed and injured than Saddam Hussein was ever accused of," he added.
That was when British High Commissioner Bruce Cleghorn and Hungarian ambassador Tomas Toth, and their officers,left the premises.
When contacted, Cleghorn said he had been invited by Suhakam to attend the opening of the conference.
"I accepted out of respect for Suhakam and for Tun Dr Mahathir as a previous prime minister of Malaysia," he said.
"Unfortunately, I found myself listening to abuse and misrepresentation about my country. I therefore left."
Dr Mahathir was speaking on "Human Rights and Globalisation". There was no US representative present at that time.
US Embassy Press attache Kathryn Taylor said the embassy did not send a representative for the morning session but did for the afternoon session.
Among those who spoke in the afternoon session were former Malaysian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Tan Sri Hasmy Agam and Professor Vitit Muntharbhorn of Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University.
Dr Mahathir said the big powers which were supposed to save the Iraqi people had broken international laws on human rights by detaining Iraqis and others and torturing them.
"The British and American bomber pilots came, unopposed, safe and cosy in their state-of-the-art aircraft, pressing buttons to drop bombs, to kill and maim real people who were their targets, just targets. And these murderers, for that is what they are, would go back to celebrate ‘mission accomplished’.
"Who are the terrorists? The people below who were bombed, or the bombers? Whose rights have been snatched away?"
Dr Mahathir said these nations practised not just double standards but "multiple standards".
As an example, he said, Israel had nuclear weapons, but was provided with bombers to bomb purported nuclear research facilities in other countries.
Dr Mahathir said the US and Britain invaded Iraq because they claimed it had weapons of mass destruction. But this claim was proved wrong.
"So can we accept that these big powers alone have a right to determine when to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries to protect human rights?"
Saying people in Malaysia "seem to be quite happy", he added the country did not need foreign powers to ensure there was no abuse of human rights.
(Source: News Straits Times, 10 September 2005, Saturday)

My View:

He gave them a punch right onto their nose, BRAVO TUN!!! The moral of the story is, what goes around; comes around, what you give you get back. Keep it up Tun, you are forever my hero. That is the right way to teach the people who think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like them. They deny other people rights to talk. They are the people who think they are always right.

Remember what alGore did when he came to Kuala Lumpur?

That's the way ahak, ahak, I like it ahak, ahak!

That's my hero (our hero he really is)...TUN MAHATHIR.

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