The transcript of the interview (as close as it can be transcribed from the ramblings of the Information Minister):
ZAM: ....I commend your journalists trying to project, to exaggerate more than what actually happened. That, that, that, that's it. We, we are not, the, the -- and I, I congratulate your journalists behaving like an actor, that, that's ---
AJ: As you say that, sir, we're watching scenes of protesters being sprayed by chemical-filled water ...
ZAM (interrupts) : Ya, I am watching, I hear, [?] .... trying to do it everywhere but in Malaysia people are allowed, to, you know [?] ... Police have allowed the procession to go to the Istana Negara, you know, do police, first police, like, they handle them, they [?] them, they ... the police don't, don't, don't fire anybody ...
AJ: Our correspondent came back to the office, sir, with chemicals in his eyes!
ZAM (speaking over her): ... You, you, you, you are here with the idea, you are trying to project, what is your mind, you think that we are Pakistan, we are Burma, we are Myanmar, everything you, you are thinking ...
AJ: Well unfortunately when you refuse to let people protest, it does appear so.
ZAM (speaking over her): ...Ya, ya, we are not like you, you have early perception, you come here, you want to project us like undemocratic country. This a democratic country!
AJ: So why can't people protest then, if it's a democratic country?
ZAM (interjects at "protest then"): Ya, people protest, people then -- first they protest, we are allowing protests, and they have demonstrated. But we just trying to disperse them and then later they, you know, disperse, but later our police compromise. They have compromised and allowed them to proceed to Negara. Police, our police have succeeded in handling them gently, right? Why do you report that and you take the opposition, someone from opposition party you ask him to speak, you don't take from the government, right?
AJ: Why did you not break up these protesters --
ZAM (interrupting) : Pardon? Pardon? Pardon?
AJ: Why did you not break up these protests more peacefully?
ZAM: I can't hear you. I can't hear you..
AJ: Why did you not break up these protests more peacefully?
ZAM: No we, we are, we, this protest is illegal. We don't want, this, the, normally ... (slight pause, then continues to talk while she interjects)
AJ (interjecting) : OK, so let me return to my former question. Why is this protest illegal?
ZAM (babbling on): Ya it's illegal protest because (AJ: Why?) we have the election in Malaysia. It's no, no point on having the protest, we are allowing to have every, an election every five years, never fail. We not our like, are not like Myanmar, not like other country. And, and you are helping this. You Al-Jazeera also is helping this, this forces, the, you know, these forces who are not [?], who don't believe in [?] ...
AJ (seems to want to say something, but decides not to): I don't ... many thanks for joining us.
ZAM: I don't, ya, you, Jazeera, this is, is Al-Jazeera attitude. Right?
(she doesn't reply. In the background, the chants of the protesters fill the silence)
6 comments:
ntahlaa cik Zam... buruk bebeno kee bebudak Al Jazeera tu? lps tu ekau kutuk plak Burma, Myanmar (a.k.a Burma) n Pakistan?
assalamualaikum semua...
saya nie bukanlah pandai sangat dalam arena politik, sekadar mengikuti sahaja perkembangan sana sini tu adalah... tetapi andai kata sesebuah negara itu berdemokrasi, saya rasa tidak salah kalau semua pihak, baik parti pembangkang diberi peluang untuk bersuara, berhujah dan andai kata keadaan semakin tidak terkawal maka itu barulah diambil tindakan... sesebuah pemerintah itu harus bijak menanangi situasi itu dengan professional dan secara rational. andai kata sudah dimaklumkan adanya perhimpunan bagi sesebuah parti maka hendaklah dibuat persiapan dan kawalan yg seadanya agar perhimpunan itu masih lagi dapat dikawal... dan sekiranya mereka diberi sedikit ruang untuk menyuarakan pandangan mereka dan diberi peluangan sepertimana parti yg sedia ada di dalam pemerintahan untuk berhujah pada masyarakat umum agar masyarakat diberi kelonggaran dan lebih pilihan untuk pilihanraya yg akan datang.
demokrasi itu adalah untuk memberi semua pihak kebebasan untuk bersuara agar masyarakat diberi pilihan yg meluas dan undian mereka adalah atas dasar kepercayaan mereka pada sesebuah pemimpin itu untuk melaksanakan tugas mereka dengan amanah, bersih dari cengkaman rasuah dan cekap menangani setiap masalah dengan bijak tanpa menuduh dan menyinggung perasaan mana2 pihak.
Cik / En ? Lisa wan..
sebagai tambahan.. perarakan itu dibuat hanya setelah aduan kpd kerajaan dan spr telah tidak dipedulikan..
Apalagi yg pihak alternatif boleh buat ? Nak keluar dlm tv? Nak keluar dlm media masa ? Jangan mimpilah..padahal parti pembangkang pun adalah parti yg berdaftar dan sah disisi undang-undang.
Dimana lagi tempat mengadu?
Tahlah dgn m'sia kini.Apa nk jadi dgn kerajaan skrg.Ada kuasa tp
digunakan utk mgkaya diri sendiri..gunakan wang rakyat utk membuat perkara2 yg lebih banyak memebazir dari menguntungkan,walhal ramai lg rakyat yg susah perlukan bantuan.Nak dapat bantuan seratus dua pun susah..kesian mereka..
Aper ker punya menteri jawab soalan x profesional n english berterabur... Kalau jadi menteri english berterbaur, baik pi masuk kelas english daa... AJ tanya lain ko jawab lain, pastu nk tuduh AJ berat sebelah coz ambik keterangan dari opposite, kalau AJ berat sebelah dah tentu dia x call ko pakcik zam oiii.... jawab soalan x tentu hala, penuh emosional... buduh punya menteri!!
Yg gomen pun satu hal, hak orang aaa nak berhimpun... bukan ada yg mampos pun... kalau memoradum setakat 4 orang jer gi istana negara n then submit, saper pun x pandang.... bila reramai berhimpun, baru gomen nak buka mata... .
zam is a complete jackass...stupid indian muslim who claims to be malay..
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