Malaysia’s Kangaroo Courts And Laws Of The Jungle
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Malaysia’s Bar Council is pretending that Malaysia’s judiciary and legal system was destroyed during the time when Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was Prime Minister from 1981 to 2003, and that now Malaysia’s judiciary and legal system is the best in the world.
I remember a joke we used to relate back when Mahathir was prime minister. And the joke went as follows:
Mahathir visited Saudi Arabia back in the 1990s and he was introduced to the kingdom’s Minister of Railway.
“How come Saudi Arabia has a Minister of Railway when you do not have any railway?” asked Mahathir.
“Well, Malaysia has a Minister of Justice when you do not have any justice,” came the reply.
Have things really changed since Mahathir’s time?
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Usual Raja Petra hogwash.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Railways_Organization
Saudi has had freight railways since 1951, mainly to support the oil industry..
At that time, in the 1990s Saudi was seriously looking at reviving the Saudi Hejaz passenger railway , with modern technology with serious oil money.
Hence the rile of the Railway Ministry
Anyone who has done the background research will know the Ottoman Empire operated one of the world's longest single railway lines in Saudi. Go watch Lawrence of Arabia for the historical context.
Today. Saudi operates the 2006 completed 2 750 km line from Riyadh to the Jordan border.