Raja Petra Kamarudin, the owner and editor of the infamous Malaysia Today blog has been detained by police under the sedition act [here] on Tuesday (May 6th) after publishing the blog post titled “Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell” on April 25th, 2008. A very interesting read, I might add.
Now, in the old Chinese saying, “Kill one to warn many” and believe it or not, Raja Petra Kamarudin, or commonly known as R.P.K (his initial) is the first Malaysian blogger to be charged under Malaysia Sedition Act. Is this the warning to the people (blogger) not to write the truth or facts? Oh, did I mention that our dear people up there said they lost the general election to the blog-space before? So is this the way to ensure that they will win the next general election by jailing all the bloggers? Of course not. I think it is a way to stop someone like R.P.K when they get too near to the truth about the whole Altantuya saga.
Or some people are speculating that the government is using R.P.K as a test case because the Sedition Act has never been applied to a blogger before, so they want to see if it works. If it does, I believe more people will be dragged into the Sedition Act very soon.
After R.P.K was detained, there is an uproar in the blogger community to demand for his release. There was even an online campaign to raise fund for his bail, and rumors has it that the online portal has raised more than RM20K. Furthermore, there will be a Candle Light Vigil at Dataran Merdeka at 8PM on May 8th for the release of R.P.K. Go show your support if you want to because it is good that some one speaks the truth for a change. What we heard over the mainstream media are nothing but lies, and reading R.P.K’s post is like a fresh air, a change of time. But the truth in those posts are questionable, just like what the mainstream medias are reporting. But I choose to believe as I think R.P.K will not post something without the backing of some evidence.
My heart goes to R.P.K and I hope he will get out of this mess in one piece, and I will pray for his release. If not, if the cronies win, more bloggers whom dare to speak the truth will be put away for a long long time.
If you want to support R.P.K. but don’t know how, here are a few things you can do:
1. If you have Facebook account, join Support Raja Petra Kamaruddin [click on the link here].
2. Join the Candle Light Vigil at Dataran Merdeka on May 8th at 8pm.
3. Donate money.
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