Recently there is a very hot topic in Facebook - Malaysia general election (GE) 13. This topic is so hot because this was the dirtiest election ever and both parties had a very close race. 5th May was also the darkest day in Malaysia history.
Let me confessed something first before I continue, I didn't register as voter and hence I had never vote before. I missed the vote registration period for GE 12 because I was in US for relocation and by the time I back to Malaysia, the registration was closed. Since I am married to Chun and will stay in US, I don't register after that as I was thinking it probably hard for me to go back since I am so far away. So I am not voting this time too. Trust me, I felt guilty and bad.
In GE 13 election, there were a lot of dirty tricks done by government in order to remain in power to govern Malaysia. Among the tricks they had: imported foreigner workers and give them IC to allow them to vote, openly bribe people to vote for them by give them money, free meals etc, created a lot of phantom voter in state that won by opposition, had addition ballot box coming in from no where when they were losing and the most ridiculous was have black out in the middle of counting vote and suddenly the vote count number became different. All kind of dirty tricks you can or cannot think of appeared in this election which made people really angry, sad and disappointment with the result and democratic.
There were something different in this election. I started seeing people talk about a clean and fair government. They no longer playing racial card and spoke as Malaysian instead of Malay, Chinese and Indian. I was so touched when seeing Malaysians are so united this time to perform their duty as voters (higher voting rate this time), involved in politic talks to know about what government had done to us and helped to catch "ghost" (foreigner voter). They will fighting to save our country and future for children . People started to speak up and wanted their voice to be heard. Even my mum who is not high educated person and didn't expose to internet started to tell me that BN is so dirty and there were a lot of corruption happening. I was really surprised. She usually didn't care about politic but this time she said we should vote them out. My friend's Yen Ping's mum even took effort to educated the foreign workers who are guards in their housing area to not vote for BN even though they have received money from BN. But I knew that there still people who vote for BN for their own advantages. For example, a boss in local car company asking their employee to vote for BN because if PK win, the car price is gonna dropped and people will start buying import car and they will lose their job. Teachers are threaten to vote for BN because they work for government. Rich people with luxury life style and high education urge to vote for BN because they already have the "network" set up for their kang tao and if PK wins, they have to rebuild a new "network". Shame on these selfish people whose betray their heart for money and also so short sighted.
Me and Chun were in US during the election day. Both of us stayed up late to get latest update from news website and facebook on the election. We were really anxious and hope that even though there were so many dirty tricks played by BN, somehow PK will still win. Unfortunately this was not what happening. After the blackout that happened in the middle of counting vote, BN suddenly won by a lot. In a few places where PK was initially leading by a lot in vote compare to BN suddenly lost after the blackout. Blackout trick when vote counting is in progress was no new to Malaysia politic. Someone started using this since last election and more people continue to use the same trick this time. So BN still won majority seats in parliment. But based on the total vote, PK won ~51% and BN won ~46%. And interesting is the total vote and total voter are different. The number of voter was less than the vote their received. There were addition of 250 thousand phantom vote. That's a lot! Without these phantom votes, UBAH operation may have succeed! This is really frustrating when we knew that there were so many fraud in this election and yet we can't do anything about it. The government and SPR just don't care the noise people made.
This unfair election made me think about my uni life. Whoever went to local university will know what I am talking about. We were living under the same threaten from lecturers and workers there. We didn't dare to fight or voice out because afraid that lecturers will mark us and failed us. Lecturers wrote something wrong on board, no one will point out. Lecturer scolded us for no reason with harsh words, we had to keep quiet. I remembered one of my friend had a very bad grade for one of the subject and she happened to find her exam paper outside of lecturer room and her paper showed she should get A instead. She brought the paper to see the lecturer. Guess what the lecturer said? He said if she complaint again, he will make her fail and retake the subject. My friend can't do anything, she walked out with tears in her eyes and can only blame for being bad luck. On my graduation day, I was so happy mainly because I was so done with this kind of life for 5 years and I am free now. This is exactly the same thing our government is doing to Malaysian now. The only difference is in uni, we knew we can get out of this life in 5 years time when we graduated. But with this government, we can't unless we overthrow them.
It had been 3 days since the election, the voice from people never stop. I wish the voice continue so something can be done for a clean re-election. Really thankful and salute those PK leaders. They fought for whole life and yet they never give up. So we shouldn't give up as well so easily!
My heart is always with all Malaysian who willing to fight for a better future. I promise to do my part as well. I will make sure I register as voter the next time I am going back to Malaysia!
UBAH UBAH UBAH! FIGHTING FIGHTING FIGHTING!
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