Posted by United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva! on April
20, 2011 at 09:39:25:
In Reply to : What a coincidence-two blackouts posted by Dudong and
senadin!! on April 20, 2011 at 09:32:05:
From FMT 20.4.2011
KUALA LUMPUR: The incident in Sarawak's Senadin constituency involving
PKR candidate Dr Michael Teo will be presented to the United Nations
Human Rights Commission in Geneva today.
The disputed results on April 16 will form the spine of a presentation
to be made by Sarawak Report (SR) and other observers of the recently
concluded 10th Sarawak election.
According to SR blogger Clare Rewcastle Brown, "we will tell exactly
what happened (in Sarawak)".
Citing Senadin, she said PKR was leading by 1,000 odd-votes during the
last ballot counting in Miri City Stadium when suddenly a blackout
"conveniently occurred".
The blackout, she said, lasted an hour during which time the Election
Commission (EC) continued counting.
"Suddenly they brought in 'postal' votes at an illegally late hour and
SUPP was declared 'winners' with a slim 58-vote majority.
"The EC also announced 158 spoiled votes favouring PKR. The commission
refused a recount despite the fact that there was a clear case for
it," she said.
Brown added that the Senadin incident was only one example that SR was
planning to present to the UN.
She said SR's report to the UN would include the "mass
disenfranchisement of much of the population in the interior".
This, she said, enabled Taib to operate a "rotten borough system"
where seats are decided by just a tiny number of people whom he can
pressure and influence.
"Some 470,000 natives do not voting rights out of Sarawak's 2.5
million population.
"There is also the illegal touting of projects and votes by Barisan
Nasional politicians, including the prime minister, in the run-up to
the election.
"These are used as a direct bribe and form of blackmail. They tell the
voters that they will not get the projects and worse, may be
discriminated against in the provision of basic amenities if they do
not vote BN, " she said in her posting on SR.
Postal votes and bribery
On postal votes, she said this was another issue which would be made
known to the UN.
She said SR would inform the UN about the abuse of postal votes and
the "outrageous targeting of postal votes at single constituencies" BN
wants to influence.
"We will also tell them about the practice of doubling up by sending
in postal votes by the army and then bringing in plane loads of the
same soldiers to vote in person as well and the introduction of
suspicious last-minute 'postal votes' in order to try and boost BN's
tallies far later than legally allowed."
The other areas that the report will highlihgt include the use of
gangsters to intimidate and turn away voters from the polling
stations, the abuses by the EC which included switching voters'
polling stations away from their home areas to distant places they
cannot get to and hiding ballot boxes.
The UN will also hear of the tampering of Form 14, cutting off mobile
phone networks on polling day as well as the "naked bribery by BN" of
poor voters on the eve of the election.
Brown said the scale of these bribes went sky high at this election
and was indicative of how unpopular BN is.
BN secured 55 seats against the opposition's 16 in the April 16 polls.
COMMENTS:
This is not a strange news at all. Could UN do something about money
politics in Malaysia??? There is lawlessness when comes to election
campaign period.
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