Taib and His paid Cronies
Blaming others for what they do themselves
Wed May 16 19:08:34 2001



The trip by Ministry of International Trade Minister and Officials are known to Taib's Number ONE Crony and Crown Prince, Datuk Effendi Norwawi through the Cabinet Papers. And the details are within reach of Datuk Leo Michael Toyad being the Deputy Foriegn Minister.The former Foreign Ministry officials performing all the BLACK OPERATIONS to salvage YAB Datuk Taib Mahmud in this most critical election are Abdullah Sani and Hj Ahmad Ronnie Assim. The link with Bruno Manser and to all NGOs ,local and foreign, is none other that YAB Chief Minister's Special Public Relations Officer and Veteran Journalist James Ritchie.
Their main objective is to divert the issues of the coming elections away from the LAND ISSUES. James Ritchie used to help organise NGOs and Bruno Manser et al to develop 'controlled'
international protests on excessive loggings in Sarawak. The fact that the Chief Minister hastened Bruno Manser's departure a few years ago against the wishes of the Police who wished to investigate further is a clear indication of CM's and his cronies' involvement.James Ritchie even wrote a beautiful book on his and Taib's best friend, Bruno Manser, who continued to belittle Dr Mahathir at many international forum.
James Ritchie, Datuk Effendi Norwawi, Ahmad Ronnie Assim and YB Aidan Wing were deeply involved with foreign NGOs over Timor-Timor campaigns in Malaysia and producing films and videos for public screening in Kuala Lumpur.They part-financed the infamous Asia Hotel dialogue which was disrupted by UMNO Youth. Records of $50,000 donation from YB Aidan Wing for this purpose is common knowledge to authorities in Kuala Lumpur. Perhaps there are more to this and East Kalimantan projects that these personalities are previously involved that the Malaysian authorities have not fully investigated.

Implicating names like Hj Suhaili, Abu Bakar, Persatuan Kebangsaan Melayu Sarawak, Dr Patau Rubis etc are common methods to incite public anger against Hj Suhaili Bin Hj Hamid, Datuk Abang Abu Bakar Datuk Bandar Abang Hj Mustapha, ex YB and STAR's President, Dr Patau Rubis and members of Persatuan Kebangsaan Melayu Sarawak from doing legitimate political activities within the provisions of the constitution. There is however no such person by the name of Hj Suhaili bin Hj Daud in Persatuan Kebangsaan Melayu Sarawak.
The other objective is to implicate ex-Defence Minister, Datuk Abang Abu Bakar and his followers for campaigning in a style that disrupts public peace at home and damages Malaysia's name in foreign countries.They hope the YAB Prime Minister and YB Datuk Paduka Rafidah Aziz(Ketua Wanita UMNO) would come on hard against Abang Abu's group who are campaigning to win and bring UMNO to Sarawak.
YAB Datuk Taib and his Cronies is well known for making rough actions agains political opponents. Datuk Abang Abu Bakar's office at Jalan Hj Taha was recently ransacked very badly after a succesful Political rally on 7th April,2001.
The death of a potential candidate in Simunjan in 1990 is widely believed the work of Datuk Taib's family together with former director of Kemas, Hj Iskandar Abdullah, the father-in-law of the current speaker of Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak, YB Datuk Asfia Awang Nassar. The irony in all these allegations are the obvious pride of some strong supporters of the Chief Minister when confronted with these facts because the massive fear effects it caused on potential political opponents.
Datuk Taib's warning on violence caused by opponents should be taken seriously. His brothers are known to be involved in bringing a lot of Indonesians illegaly into Sarawak on the pretext of providing manpower for their massive plantation projects. But recently the employment of rowdy characters does not seem to be for simply plantation purposes. With the involvement of personalities like Abdullah Sani, Ahmad Ronnie Assim and many others, some preplanned vilence against Taib political opponents must not be ruled out. It is common knowledge that Datuk Taib and Tun Rahman in the late 60's used this tactics to gain power. Many people involved with the arson activities under their specific instructions are still alive.In moments like the present critical campaign period, when their political survival is obviously at a critical stage, they may resort back to their old tactics but blame others for their dirty deeds.Abdullah Sani used to bribe senior Police officers with women at 'The Hicienda' and a Mercedes car to salvage YB Datuk Wahab Dollah from being implicated in a clear case of murder of a young girl in Wisma Saberkas.
In light of this background and the common knowledge that the Chief Minister is hardpressed to gain open support from UMNO leaders that they have been attacking through ADIL and PAS in West Malaysia and Sarawak, many people in Sarawak are not surprised with this style of smear campaigns.

A thorough investigation on the recent movements of these personalities would reveal the double-game that Datuk Taib and his cronies are resorting to salvage their critical situation.