Friday, October 23, 2009 23:39

S’pore govt refused to sanction NGO rep’s presence at AICHR launch

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Excerpt from The Irrawaddy:

Asean civil society delegates protest the exclusion of five delegates from a meeting
with Asean heads of government. (Photo: Simon Roughneen)

Sinapan Samdorai, the convenor of the Task Force on Asean Migrant Workers in Singapore, said his government refused to sanction his presence at the meeting.

He told The Irrawaddy, “Singapore has adopted Asean’s lowest common denominator here, by aping the anti-democratic tactics used by the Burmese junta.” 

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Despite the fanfare, the real worth of the AICHR already has been widely questioned. Since the terms of reference for the body were announced earlier this year, the AICHR has been criticized for having a limited mandate.

Aung Din, the executive director of the US Campaign for Burma who testified before the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Oct. 21, told The Irrawaddy, “It will be run by government officials. Burma, along with Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Brunei, will resist and block any meaningful action proposed by other more open members.”

Read the full report on The Irrawaddy.

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yaris
Oct 24, 2009 0:14

what do you expect from a country that doesn’t even treat its own citizen well..

Loyola
Oct 24, 2009 1:10

What a shame.

don't judge me
Oct 24, 2009 1:23

got shame meh? All they need to do is to AGREE TO DISAGREE…

all singaporeans
Oct 24, 2009 2:26

look at the face of lky son.. to us it look like a piece of crap.
shame of him and his entire familee..
singaporeans will no longer support them anymore. just wait and see the next election. if they want to cheat on the vote to make them win then we singaporeans will know well what will happen in singapore,
just don’t test us!!

all singaporeans
Oct 24, 2009 2:30

TO LKY HIS SON AND ENTIRE FAMILEE AND HIS PAP

time is running out.. just be prepare to pack up your bags and go away.

with this people around running the goverment….we singaporeans will be either dead sooner or ending up being a slave a 3rd citizen in our own country and begging foreign for a living while goverment squeeze our blood daily.

VOTE THEM OUT!

yes this time it will happen.

Mr. E
Oct 24, 2009 6:35

Just another club that meets in a resort once in a while to meetup to drink champagne, play with girls and generally waste peoples money whilst doing nothing.

massivelosses_sohow?
Oct 24, 2009 9:30

If Sgp removes fear factor, a lot of kiasi people would vote and support freely. Of course, they need to use fear.

$9.99
Oct 24, 2009 11:15

so many people congratulated in news for being awarded leh.
so many pay for news space to congrat the award receipients leh.
wow, businessmen so happy hor.
so many elderlies attend events organised with help from Remote Control members leh.

wow, whole village mobilised wor.

Political Salesman
Oct 24, 2009 13:39

At all singaporean:
PAP don’t have to cheat! Remember in 2001 Election they use some one from the opposition ward to swing the vote , Now they have work on the ground for the past few years to bring in the Foreign citizen to top up the gap. they sure to win. plus the older singapore citizen, they pray him like god. Maybe we have to wait for another vision. The damages the PAP had done for Singapore they still insist to do more Damages again. The most critical damages LKY had done the “POlicy Stop At Two” had murdered Half A Million of Inncocent & Defenceless Fetue.
He must pay for his “Crime”. The HUMAN Right Group Must Bring Him To Trial.
He must pay for the life of this Innocent & Defenceless Fetus.

amiacommunist?
Oct 24, 2009 20:15

[i]As a former law practitioner, Mr. Magnus is well qualified to understand the ‘bureaucratic processes’ involved in ASEAN to make AICHR a reality. Yet unlike the Thai representative to AICHR who was selected by the Thai civil sector, Mr. Magnus was selected by the Singapore’s foreign ministry. As former ASEAN secretary-general Ong Keng Yong said:

‘The Government’s position is to pick the best person for the job, not just someone who understands the points of view of the civil society groups.”[/i]

now from the above ^ELECTED^ top district judge being given the task to lead who knows the LAWS by the hands with the singapoor government who guranteed this is the ^bestman^ for the assisgment
how come onced again NUTS?
no u-turn sickness…. again and again better than duracells advert….
is our prince the prime minister is takin his urinal tool to hit his own cancerous forehead?…
want to wayan also cannot be liked that
~zhee~

HaiGong
Oct 24, 2009 21:23

To all ASEAN members:

Those countries in ASEAN who has suppressed human rights and Singapore is one of them should be condemned. Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines should lead the human rights agenda in ASEAN.

JokeIsnt IT
Oct 24, 2009 23:09

Indo ? thai ? phil ? bird of the same flock…haha

tookie
Oct 25, 2009 10:40

HaiGoing, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines are not exactly guilt-free when it comes to human rights abuses.

Raky
Oct 25, 2009 12:24

Lately, all foreign visits are to countries that have voted for Change – Malaysia,Japan and now USA.
They must be fearful Singapore will be next – hope they wake up to the fact that much damages have been done .
A case of TOO LITTLE TOO LATE !

A Tan
Oct 25, 2009 15:00

#14 Raky

Change will come if there is popular discontent. Is there?

Can you seriously tell me that outside TOC, TR, SDP, Reform and other like-minded fellow travellers, there is discontent? Even WP and Chiam’s gang seem to be happy with staus quo.

Look at the property prices, for low and mid-level private, and HDB apts. Can you seriously say that S’poreans are that discontented with PAP? If they were, would they be taking out 20-30 yr loans? Or is this all the work of FTs and PRs?

Remember in 2006, if the Net was to believed, PAP would lose big time. It was not a gd result for them. But 67% did vote for them.

Let’s wait for next GE to find out if S’poreans still support PAP, and by how much. If they do, others will have to accept the will of the majority.

all singaporeans
Oct 26, 2009 1:28

foreigners pay more taxes and levy than singaporeans and siingaporeans should be thankful to foreigners? oh really??

singaporeans:

1) pay high income tax

2) pay high property tax

3)pay high gst

4)pay high town counsil

5)pay high SP bills

6)pay high transportation fare

7)pay high medical fee

singaporeans are force to accept lower paid jobs

so this is what basically singaporeans are paying for the rest of their life and with low income how do you expect singaporeans to have even a small amount of savings for the future to retire old age?

or is there a retire for us singaporeans? we don’t see that yet.
the pap and the goverment have made a way that singaporeans are to earn within the limit as not to allow us to have savings and our saving is in the hand of the goverment and it is up to them if they wish to give it to us or to pocket in the own banks.

with low income and no savings..singaporeans are merely a slave working harder and harder each day to survive and what we earn are basically not ours, we only see the digits of our pay but do we really own it? NO!!

this is to contain singaporeans in this country as not to allowed any of us lower income earn to flee the country. the goverment knows well what it would be is one singaporeans were to give enough money and savings.., resulting them not wanting to live in singapore and flee away. why is this so? ask the goverment!!

so this is why poor singaporeans have no choice but to accept the indirectly of human slavery and torture and to let us live in pain despite knowing that we are suffering they simply doesn’t care as all this long in their mind is….WHICH SINGAPOREANS DARE TO VOICE UP?? the answer is NONE!!

vote after vote singaporeans blindly give in and hoping the goverment will pity and the old folks and the child to help them come up in live and feel the life they dreaming to live in. but the goverment simply do not have this time for us singaporeans

all their concern is:
you work you pay us
you sick you pay us
you want a house a place of shelter you pay us
you want help? sorry goverment has no money for us singaporeans

this is what will happen if singaporeans keep voting for them and they think we fear them
singaporeans think opposition will make our life more worst.
so are our life now any good? NO!!

as lky says..look at singapore now..yes singapore is beautiful!! with casino,F1 track, hotels,lots and lots of tourist attractions,lots and lots of entertainment for tourist

and what is singaporeans citizen getting out of all this? nothing. we have to keep sweating out daily to support and give the goverment the money they need to make more of this to attract tourist, foreigner working here and to give them support and welcome them with an open heart and help them even to land here with a high paying jobs and living in luxuries properties.

we singaporeans are carrying their loads.

ukrain in the ns?well…why not put the whole china national ,indian ,vietnamese ,japanese, korean and more.. into our army? must as well call in osama bin laden to join our army too as things would be easy for singapore to be destroy in any country finger tips. is this what we call defending our country?
STUPID LEE KUAN YEW!! you are exposing our country to disaster and open our country and selling piace by piece to foreign landing here. is this the promise you made for us singaporeans to vote you for the past 50years??!!

WE WILL VOTE YOU OUT THIS TIME AND WOULD NOT CONSIDER OVER YOUR GOODIES BAGS!!

tiredsingaporean
Oct 26, 2009 11:41

This is all about money and making more monopolised money and nothing else.

Brendan
Oct 27, 2009 11:50

“WE WILL VOTE YOU OUT THIS TIME AND WOULD NOT CONSIDER OVER YOUR GOODIES BAGS!!”

How about this?

WE will TAKE YOUR Goodie Bags, and still VOTE YOU OUT.

all singaporeans
Oct 27, 2009 19:55

18) Brendan on October 27th, 2009 11.50 am

lol i never thought of that. yeah we take the goodie bags and we vote them out

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