{"id":73199,"date":"2018-11-23T20:57:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T12:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/?p=73199"},"modified":"2018-11-23T20:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T12:57:01","slug":"icerd-demo-to-continue-on-dec-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/icerd-demo-to-continue-on-dec-8\/","title":{"rendered":"ICERD Demo To Continue On Dec 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA BHARU: The large-scale demonstration planned to oppose the government\u2019s plans to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) on Dec 8 in Kuala Lumpur will go ahead as planned, says Pas vice-president Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p>This, he said, is because of government\u2019s failure to adopt a firm stand in rejecting the ratification.<\/p>\n<p>Amar said although Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had hinted that the ICERD would not be ratified, doubts remain over the government\u2019s actual position on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mOHD-aMAR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73201\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mOHD-aMAR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1540\" height=\"1064\" \/><\/a>\u201cAll the statements, especially that of the prime minister, show that there is no guarantee that ICERD would not be ratified. Instead, we are only told that it would be \u2018difficult\u2019 and \u2018impossible\u2019. We have been hoping for a firm stand but till today, there has been none.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are of the view that concerns still exist over the issue. This is why the assembly will continue in order to make our stand clear and send a signal to the government concerning ICERD,\u201d he told reporters after attending the state\u2019s exco meeting at the Darul Naim Complex here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department, P Waytha Moorthy, was quoted as saying that the government will ratify six international accords, including ICERD, in the first quarter of next year.<\/p>\n<p>The move has sparked concern among various quarters, especially Umno and Pas, who believe that it could, among others, signal an erosion of Malay and Bumiputera special rights,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA BHARU: The large-scale demonstration planned to oppose the government\u2019s plans to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) on Dec 8 in Kuala Lumpur will go ahead as planned, says Pas vice-president Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah. This, he said, is because of government\u2019s failure to adopt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":73200,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":768,"height":442,"file":"2018\/11\/IMG-20181119-WA0109.jpg","filesize":228533,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1543006231","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":73199,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG-20181119-WA0109.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73202,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73199\/revisions\/73202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}