{"id":4355,"date":"2013-03-04T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T07:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2013-03-04T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T09:41:40","slug":"guarantee-our-territorial-integrity-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/guarantee-our-territorial-integrity-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Guarantee our territorial integrity and security"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Any leader of any country must defend his nation\u2019s sovereignty and the security of his people.<\/p>\n

Failing to do so is a grave betrayal of the people\u2019s trust in its government. Therefore, Pakatan Rakyat urges the present national leadership to do that which is required of them, to defend our land and never to compromise the safety of each and every Malaysian, and the test of those principles is ongoing in and around Sabah\u2019s Lahad Datu and Semporna with the escalating violence brought by armed foreigners.<\/p>\n

In Lahad Datu two of members of our security forces have lost their lives, while the latest acts in Semporna have claimed six of our men in uniform. We express our sincere condolences to these men\u2019s families and may God bless them for they have given the highest sacrifice for a grateful nation.<\/p>\n

Support our security forces<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pakatan Rakyat calls on all Malaysians to show unreserved support to our security forces, both the police and military. And pray that they remain safe while defending our nation and its people from harm.<\/p>\n

Pakatan realises the recent incidents in Sabah raise concern and fear, but we urge the public to remain calm and not to act rashly and hurt their fellow countrymen.<\/p>\n

The coalition takes this opportunity to restate its confidence in the capacity and capability of our security forces to protect our country\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Weak federal government<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are disappointed with the weak leadership show by the federal government whose responsibility is to keep Malaysia\u2019s security intact.<\/p>\n

While we are convinced that national security transcends political divides and all citizens must support the security forces\u2019 efforts, it does not abrogate the federal leadership for its lax treatment of the whole affair.<\/p>\n

This leadership has failed to pass accurate information quickly so that the public is aware of what is happening, an error which has caused rumour-mongering to be rife.<\/p>\n

We understand that the government is investigating the leader of opposition to over the armed intrusions in Sabah. We would like to state categorically that Dato\u2019 Seri Anwar Ibrahim is in no way involved with the escalation of violence in Sabah nor the cause of it.<\/p>\n

Four weeks since Sabah intrusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sabah intrusion is now into its fourth week (Day 23) \u2014 fourth day of hostilities \u2014 and the federal leadership appears not to have a clear plan to overcome the violation of our sovereign territory, or to stop any further intrusions. Instead Putrajaya is irresponsibly trying to avert the eyes of the people from its own role.<\/p>\n

It is time the federal government realises its jobs is to defend and protect Malaysia, its people and the warriors on the frontline.<\/p>\n

Pakatan urges for an immediate meeting between the leadership of our coalition and the prime minister, home minister and defence minister, followed by a special sitting of Parliament to discuss the intrusion.<\/p>\n

We strongly demand Putrajaya stops finger-pointing at others especially Pakatan Rakyat and never to betray the trust of the Malaysian people.<\/p>\n

Dato\u2019 Seri Anwar Ibrahim\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dato\u2019 Seri Hadi Awang\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lim Kit Siang<\/wbr><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Leader of the Opposition\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PAS President\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DAP Parliamentary Leader<\/wbr><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Any leader of any country must defend his nation\u2019s sovereignty and the security of his people. Failing to do so is a grave betrayal of the people\u2019s trust in its government. Therefore, Pakatan Rakyat urges the present national leadership to do that which is required of them, to defend our land and never to compromise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}