Found 74 matches for Hussein Onn
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| 2003-12-18 | Justice for Saddam amidst a clash of cultures and civilisations?
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| 2003-11-08 | Pak Lah makes a point
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| 2003-11-06 | The US sinks in an Iraqi quagmire worse than Vietnam
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| 2003-10-27 | BN veterans wants to stay on even if it makes BN weaker and the Opposition stronger Bodies and groups renew themselves by regularly renewing their members, with the older members making way for the new. The more often this is done, the more likely the body or group is relevant. This was how UMNO renewed itself in the past, the regular elections and challenges defined its role, and kept the Opposition at bay. But since the Malay political and civil service coup after the 1969 racial riots, power in UMNO was kept within a cabal led by its president, no less. Tun Abdul Razak and Tun Hussein Onn, the first two presidents after the coup held office for a total of ten years. The third, Dr Mahathir led it for 22 years. He brooked no opposition and to keep himself in power, he was prepared to destroy UMNO. He did that in 1988, when he allowed the courts to declare UMNO an illegal body if only so he could exclude his principal rival for the UMNO presidency - Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, along with his political enemies in he party - in his new UMNO.
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| 2003-10-07 | Pak Lah convenes a secret meeting - and shows how divided UMNO is WHEN DATO' Hussein Onn STEPPED DOWN as Prime Minister in 1981, he made his successor, Dato' Seri Mahathir Mohamed, promise he would appoint as his deputy prime minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. Dr Mahathir agreed, then ignored it, insisted on a contest, and backed, by word and deed, Dato' (now Tan Sri) Musa Hitam, the first of his four deputy prime ministers. This laid the ground for UMNO's subsequent travails. Tengku Razaleigh challenged Dato' Musa again for the deputy presidency in 1984, and Dr Mahathir in 1987 for the UMNO presidency. He won in 1987 but was robbed of victory by Dr Mahathir's political skulduggery. Several conspirators, whom UMNO later abandoned and are now with Tengku Razaleigh, described how it was done. Dr Mahathir realised, in 1987, that if Tengku Razaleigh is not stopped, he would be UMNO president and Malaysian prime minister in 1990. So he plotted the banning of UMNO, formed a new UMNO from which he excluded all he considered a threat. That now threatens UMNO, and the succession is far from certain.
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| 2003-07-25 | Why is Pak Lah defensive on his offensive?
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| 2003-07-13 | The PM would step down ... No, he would not! ... Yes, he would! ... No! ... Yes! ... Tun Hussein Onn was given a sinecure on his retirement as an
adviser in Petronas, and quietly ignored. He was a self-effacing
man who walked you to the door when you called on him. He was not
one to indulge in past hurts or current anonymity. But one could
see the pain far more hurtful than his father's, after he walked
out of UMNO in 1951. He told me once when we talked of his
father, Dato' Sir Onn Jaffar, that he admired his father's
stoicim when he was derided as a Malay traitor and how he bore
his fate with such dignity. He wondered if he would, indeed
could. He did. That is the strength of the man. But should he
have been forced to suffer the indignities and the hurt for
having been Prime Minister?
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| 2003-06-20 | UMNO GA 2003 - IV: The changing of the guard The first UMNO president, Dato' Sir Onn Jaffar, walked out
in a huff in 1951 when UMNO rejected his suggestion in horror
that non-Malays should be admitted as full members. At that time
it had associate members of non-Malays: the former high
commissioner to India and later president of the Industrial
Arbitration Court, Dato' S. Chelvasingham-MacIntyre, a Sri
Lankan, was one. The deputy public prosecutor in the
Attorney-General's Chambers, Tengku Abdul Rahman Putra al-Haj,
succeeded him, negotiated for independence, and was Prime
Minister and chief minister for 16 years. He stayed on too long,
and he was ousted from office in the wake of the 1969 racial
riots by a cabal led by the then deputy prime minister, Tun Abdul
Razak. Tun Razak died five years later in 1976, and was succeeded
by Dato' Sir Onn's son, Dato' (later Tun) Hussein Onn.
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| 2003-05-02 | Is the Iraqi Invasion a harbinger of worse to come?
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| 2003-04-05 | The War In Iraq: An Anglo-American conundrum
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| 2003-04-02 | The War in Iraq: The UK-US invasion is lost hardly had it begun
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| 2003-02-26 | Would the XIV NAM Summit be any different?
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| 2003-02-03 | Could General Elections be held this year?
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| 2003-01-26 | Malaysia shows how to shoot itself in the foot
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| 2002-12-11 | Malaysia flexes her Shafie Apdal muscles
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| 2002-11-11 | How to Praise Dr Mahathir
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| 2002-10-08 | Of Beards And Terrorism: Making allies of prejudice and fear
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| 2002-09-13 | The madness of 11 September
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| 2002-09-01 | Did a knighthood prevent Dato' Onn from being Prime Minister?
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| 2002-03-30 | The Oracle speaks: No racial discrimination in schools!
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This archive was created as a tribute to the late veteran
journalist MGG Pillai. We believed his writings are useful to develop a critical
thinking analysis.
By the way, the original mggpillai.com web site (2001-2006) was actually created
by one of us.
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