Rusuhan di Xinjiang Meragut 140 Nyawa dan 828 Orang Cedera

Seramai 140 orang maut dalam rusuhan yang berlaku di bandar Urumqi, Wilayah Autonomi Xinjiang dan sekurang-kurangnya 828 orang lagi cedera.

Siasatan awal mendapati, rusuhan tersebut menyebabkan lebih 260 buah kereta musnah dibakar di samping 203 buah kedai dan 14 rumah penduduk awam dirosakkan.

Polis telah menangkap lebih seratus orang yang terlibat dalam kejadian ini serta meningkatkan perlindungan terhadap jalan utama di bandar, stesen TV dan syarikat gas asli.


Bilangan kematian itu dianggap sebagai yang teramai sejak berdekad-dekad lalu di China.

Keganasan di bandar raya Urumqi itu berlaku pada Ahad lalu dengan melibatkan ribuan penduduk sehingga menyebabkan operasi memerangi perusuh dilakukan oleh pihak berkuasa di seluruh Xinjiang.

Sebelum ini ketegangan berlaku sejak sekian lama berhubung isu penindasan pemerintah China terhadap penduduk etnik Uighur yang beragama Islam.

"Penduduk berada di dalam rumah. Perkara terbaik yang perlu anda lakukan ialah kembali ke hotel. Itu akan menyebabkan anda berasa selamat," kata seorang ahli perniagaan.

Agensi berita Xinhua yang memetik beberapa pegawai kerajaan menyatakan ratusan orang ditangkap kerana terlibat dalam rusuhan itu.

Namun, kumpulan-kumpulan entik Uighur yang beroperasi di luar China mendakwa pasukan keselamatan negara tersebut sebagai punca rusuhan.

Menurut kumpulan itu, pasukan keselamatan China bertindak keterlaluan dan melepaskan tembakan ke aras penunjuk perasaan.

Jurucakap kerajaan China, Wu Nong berkata, sebanyak 140 orang terbunuh dan 828 lagi cedera dalam rusuhan itu.

Menurutnya, angka kematian dijangka meningkat.

"Keganasan serius dan insiden jenayah itu menyebabkan kecederaan dan kematian lebih 1,000 orang yang tidak bersalah," kata Pengerusi Wilayah Xinjiang, Nur Bekri.

"Ketika ini, situasi masih rumit," katanya.

Imej di stesen televisyen CCTV menunjukkan beberapa lelaki menterbalikkan sebuah kereta polis dan memecahkan tingkapnya.

Terdapat imej yang menunjukkan seorang wanita ditendang ketika dia baring di tanah manakala beberapa buah bas dan kenderaan lain terbakar.

Menurut beberapa ahli perniagaan China berketurunan Han, terdapat 3,000 penunjuk perasaan etnik Uighur yang melakukan protes.

Kebanyakan penduduk di Uighur menyatakan mereka mengalami penindasan politik, kebudayaan dan agama.

Bagaimanapun, Setiausaha Agung Persatuan Uighur Amerika Syarikat (AS), Alim Seytoff memberitahu di Washington bahawa penduduk melakukan protes selepas dua etnik Uighur meninggal dunia di sebuah kilang di selatan China.

Insiden itu mencetuskan kebimbangan di luar negara apabila Setiausaha Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB), Ban Ki-moon meminta semua kerajaan menghormati kebebasan bersuara. - AFP

Chinese ethnic violence in Xinjiang

Map locating Urumqi in China's Xinjiang.

China has said at least 156 people were killed

hen Muslim Uighurs rioted in the restive region in

some of the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit the country in decades.
(AFP Graphic)

Chinese soldiers wearing riot gear tell a woman to
move on as they enforce a curfew in the
city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 7, 2009.
China said a riot that shook the capital of the
western Xinjiang region on Sunday killed
140 people and the government called the ethnic
unrest a plot against its power, signalling a security crackdown.
REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA CONFLICT MILITARY POLITICS)


Armed Chinese policemen march towards a group of
local women during a confrontation along a street
in the city of Urumqi, in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 7, 2009.
Hundreds of Uighurs protesting against the arrest
of relatives clashed with police in the capital of
China's Muslim region of Xinjiang on Tuesday
two days after ethnic unrest left 156 dead and 1,080 wounded.
REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA CONFLICT MILITARY POLITICS)



A Han Chinese mob march up a street in Urumqi.
Thousands of angry Han Chinese armed with poles,
meat cleavers and other makeshift weapons stormed through
Urumqi as the flashpoint city riven by ethnic tensions descended into chaos.
(AFP/Peter Parks)




At least 200 Muslim Uighur women staged a fresh protest in China's Urumqi city
to demand the release of detained relatives, two days after deadly riots

Uighur women grieve for their men who they claim

were taken away by Chinese authorities after Sunday's

protest in Urumqi, China, Tuesday, July 7 , 2009.

Urumqi was tense Tuesday, with protests happening in

several parts of the city and both Han Chinese and

Uighur groups facing off with armed police.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Uighur women grab a police officer as they protest in
front of journalists visiting the area in Urumqi, China,
Tuesday, July 7, 2009. The city, where rioting and ethnic
clashes killed over one hundred people two days ago,
remained extremely tense Tuesday, as security officials
and police continued to work to restore order.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese go online to vent ire at Xinjiang unrest

By Ben Blanchard - Tue Jul 7, 2009 12:41PM EDT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese are venting their anger online after ethnic violence in the Muslim region of Xinjiang left at least 156 dead but are playing a cat-and-mouse game with censors who appear to be removing some posts and blogs.

Many of the comments demanded swift punishment for those involved, echoing remarks in official state media blaming exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer for masterminding the riots in the regional capital of Urumqi on Sunday.

"Destroy the conspiracy, strike hard against these saboteurs, and strike even more fiercely than before," said an anonymous posting on a blog on www.sina.com.cn by a person known as "Chang Qing."

Yet authorities have been working fast to remove comments about the violence, apparently to prevent ethnic hatred from spreading or Internet users questioning government policies toward regions populated by ethnic minorities.

Along with Tibet, Xinjiang is one of the most politically sensitive regions in China and Beijing has tried to control online debate about the violence across China.

Many blogs have simply posted articles from the domestic media about the unrest, but in the section where readers are invited to leave their thoughts is written: "There are no comments at this time" -- unusual, given the popularity of blogs in China with 300 million Internet users.

Some sites which had posted graphic images of beaten and bloody bodies, purportedly taken during or after the riots, also had them swiftly removed.

The government has cut access to the Internet in Urumqi, the city's Communist Party Chief Li Zhi said on Tuesday, to stop it being used to fuel further violence.

Also on Tuesday, access to social networking site Facebook seemed to be disrupted in some places. Users in Guangzhou Shanghai, Beijing and Chongqing said they could not reach the site, although Facebook spokesman Larry Yu said the company was not seeing any changes in traffic from China at this time.

This came on top of an apparent block on Twitter and search restrictions for Xinjiang topics on Chinese rival, Fanfou.com.

REVENGE VS UNDERSTANDING

Almost half of Xinjiang's 20 million people are Uighurs, a Turkic, largely Islamic people who share linguistic and cultural bonds with Central Asia.

They have long complained Han Chinese reap most of the benefits from official investment and subsidies, while making Uighurs feel like outsiders.

Postings showed a mixture of suspicion and sympathy for Uighurs in the wake of violence that critics have called a separatist plot, but overseas activists have said was a spontaneous outpouring of long-standing grievances.

Some warned Hans, China's predominant ethnic group, would take revenge -- shortly before thousands of angry Han protestors took to the streets of Urumqi seeking Uighur targets.

"The blood debt will be repaid. Han compatriots unite and rise up," wrote "Jason" on search engine www.baidu.com.

Others have sought to invoke the spirit of Wang Zhen, the Chinese general who is reviled and feared by many Uighurs for repression when he led Communist troops into Xinjiang in 1949 to bring it into the newly formed People's Republic of China.

"Study this hard," wrote one posting above a potted history of Wang apparently taken from a Chinese history book.

Still, a few people appealed for greater understanding of Uighur grievances.

"If your family members have no rights, no power, are discriminated against and made fun of, not only will your family collapse, you will already have sown the seeds of hatred," wrote "Bloody Knife."

One person, called "zfc883919" and writing on Xinjiang portal www.tianya.cn, said he did not understand how the police could have let the death toll rise so high.

"What on earth were you doing? That was 156 living beings. I hope relevant authorities really learn a lesson, so that this kind of tragedy is not repeated."

(Additional reporting and writing by Emma Graham-Harrison; Editing by Benjamin Kang Lim and Sophie Hares)

At least 150 dead in Chinese ethnic violence

REUTERS/ … By Chris Buckley Chris Buckley – Tue Jul 7, 4:32 am ET

URUMQI, China (Reuters) – Riot police on Tuesday fired tear gas to try to break up rock-throwing Han and Uighur protesters who clashed in the capital of China's Muslim region of Xinjiang two days after bloody clashes killed 156 and wounded more than 1,000.

Hundreds of protesters from China's predominant Han ethnic group, many clutching meat cleavers, metal pipes and wooden clubs, smashed shops owned by Uighurs, a Turkic largely Islamic people who share linguistic and cultural bonds with Central Asia.

Some Han Chinese protesters shouted "attack Uighurs" as both sides hurled rocks at each other.

Police used tear gas to try to disperse the crowd, but it only emboldened the demonstrators, caught between two sets of anti-riot police 600 meters apart.

Some used water to wash the gas out of their eyes as they pressed toward police at the mainly Uighur end of the street.

"They attacked us. Now it's our turn to attack them," a man in the crowd told Reuters. He refused to give his name.

Along with Tibet, Xinjiang is one of the most politically sensitive regions in China and in both places the government has sought to maintain its grip by controlling religious and cultural life while promising economic growth and prosperity.

The violence, which has showed signs of spreading in the volatile region, appeared to have little impact on China's financial markets. Stocks slipped on technical factors while the yuan was trading higher against the dollar.

Xinjiang has long been a hotbed of ethnic tensions, fostered by a yawning economic gap between Uighurs and Han Chinese, government controls on religion and culture and an influx of Han Chinese migrants who now are the majority in most key cities.

Beijing has poured cash into exploiting Xinjiang's rich oil and gas deposits and consolidating its hold on a strategically vital frontierland that borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia, but Uighurs say migrant Han are the main beneficiaries.

"TIME TO FIGHT BACK"

Part of the crowd briefly surged forward singing the Chinese national anthem before police drove them back with tear gas.

Anti-riot police armed with clubs and shields pushed protesters away from a Uighur neighborhood but hundreds managed to break through police lines.

There was a standoff between police and a crowd of mainly Han Chinese and some Hui Muslims. They chanted slogans including "Unity is Strength" and "Defend Stability, Protect the People."

Many of the Uighur protesters were women, wailing and waving the identity cards of husbands, brothers or sons they say were arbitrarily seized in a sweeping reaction to Sunday's rioting in the city of Urumqi.

"My husband was taken away yesterday by police. They didn't say why. They just took him away," a woman who identified herself as Maliya told Reuters.

The crowd began to march toward the Xinjiang regional government, saying the government was too weak. "Now it's time to go to the government," one protester surnamed Zhang said.

Abdul Ali, a Uighur man in his 20s who had taken off his shirt, held up his clenched fist. "They've been arresting us for no reason, and it's time for us to fight back," he said.

Ali said three of his brothers and a sister were among 1,434 suspects taken into custody. Of the 156 killed, 27 were women.

Human rights groups have warned that a harsh crackdown on Uighurs in the wake of Sunday's violence could merely exacerbate the grievances that fueled ethnic tensions.

Urumqi Communist Party boss Li Zhi defended the crackdown.

"It should be said that they were all violent elements who wielded clubs and smashed, looted, burned and even murdered at the scene," he told a news conference.

Earlier on Tuesday, Xinjiang's Communist Party boss Wang Lequan said that although Sunday's unrest had been quelled, "this struggle is far from over."

Xinjiang's state-run media quoted Wang as calling for officials to launch "a struggle against separatism."

But Human Rights Watch's Asia advocacy director Sophie Richardson called for an independent investigation.

UNREST SPREADING?

Some Xinjiang newspapers carried graphic pictures of the violence, including corpses, at least one of which showed a woman whose throat had been slashed.

Despite heightened security, some unrest appeared to be spreading in the volatile region, where long-standing ethnic tensions periodically erupt into bloodshed.

Police dispersed around 200 people at the Id Kah mosque in Kashgar in southern Xinjiang on Monday evening, Xinhua said.

The report did not say if police used force but said checkpoints had been set up at crossroads between Kashgar airport and downtown.

Almost half of Xinjiang's 20 million people are Uighurs, while the population of Urumqi, which lies around 3,300 km (2,000 miles) west of Beijing, is mostly Han.

Chinese officials have already blamed the unrest on separatist groups abroad which it says want to create an independent homeland for Uighurs.

The Chinese embassy in the Netherlands was attacked by exiled pro-Uighur activists who smashed windows, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. China condemned the attack.

(Additional reporting by Emma Graham-Harrison, Yu Le and Benjamin Kang Lim in Beijing; Paul Eckert in Washington; and Ben Blanchard in Shanghai; Editing by Nick Macfie and Jeremy Laurence)

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Aktivis Amerika Adakan Kempen Boikot Produk Israel
June 25, 2009

Pada hari Sabtu, 20 Jun, kumpulan aktivis yang dikenali sebagai Don’t Buy Into Apartheid-QUIT (Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism) berkumpul di Trader Joe di Oakland dan San Francisco, Amerika Syarikat bagi menuntut pemberhentian syarikat-syarikat pasaraya dari menjual barangan Israel.

Para aktivis membuang produk buatan Israel dari rak-rak jualan sebagai satu protes dan isyarat keapda para pelanggan untuk tidak membeli produk Israel. Mereka juga bertemu dengan pengurus-pengurus kedai dan memohon agar mereka memaklumkan kepada ibu pejabat mereka bahawa mereka tidak lagi membekalkan produk-produk buatan Israel, seperti herba dan keju. Tindakan-tindakan serupa telah diadakan di Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Seattle, Washington, dan Sacramento, California. Aktivis tersebut telah mendapat inspirasi bagi mengadakan kempen tersebut setelah mengetahui pendekatan tersebut dilakukan oleh aktivis dari Wales dan Perancis.

Aktivis mengeluarkan produk Israel dari rak jualan

Salah seorang pengurus yang bekerja di Trader Joe memberitahu aktivis-aktivis itu, “Jika anda meyakinkan pelanggan-pelanggan kami untuk berhenti membeli produk Israel, kita akan berhenti menjual kepada mereka.”

Kumpulan aktivis ini memberikan kupon-kupon untuk para pelanggan kepada petugas juruwang di situ agar mengagihkan kepada pelangan mereka untuk tidak membeli produk Israel. -
Menurut Sunaina Maira, Profesor Madya dari Asian American Studies at University of California-Davis, Israel merupakan antara Negara yang mengamalkan polisi penghapusan etnik dan dasar aparteid, dan masih meneruskan pelanggaran resolusi-resolusi Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu sehingga hari ini. Pemulauan produk mereka adalah satu strategi yang berkesan dan tidak ada unsur keganasan. Melalui pendekatan ini akan dapat memberi tekanan kepada mereka bagi mematuhi undang-undang antarabangsa.”

Isu Selatan Thailand, Teras desak wujudkan badan bebas

Sumber : Harakahdaily.net
Muhammad Arif Ismail
Sun Jun 28, 09 7:57:41 am MYT

KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Jun (Hrkh) - Kerajaan Thailand didesak wujudkan badan bebas bagi menyiasat bukan sahaja peristiwa yang berlaku di Masjid al Furqan, Kampung Air Tempayang, malah di tempat lain kerana ia berkaitan dengan kepercayaan penduduk terhadap pihak berkuasa di negara itu.


Perkara ini ditegaskan oleh Presiden Teras Pengupayaan Melayu (Teras), Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid yang berpendirian bahawa Kerajaan Negara Gajah Putih itu mesti dengan segera mewujudkan satu badan secara bagi menyiasat tragedi ini dan sehingga sekarang masih belum ada jawatan bebas tersebut.

"Yang ada hanyalah Polis yang membuat soalan-soalan kepada penduduk kampung tetapi tidak ada badan bebas yang berkredibiliti untuk mengembalikan kepercayaan kepada negara dan pihak berkuasa," katanya dalam sidang media baru-baru ini.

Beliau menegaskan bahawa penduduk di Selatan Thai sudah hilang kepercayaan kepada pihak polis, kerajaan dan tentera.

Katanya, oleh itu, Teras dapati bahawa isu ini tidak boleh diselesaikan selagi polisi yang diamalkan oleh beberapa Perdana Menteri Thai iaitu dari Taksin hinggalah Abishit tidak berubah dengan meminggirkan penduduk di Selatan Thai dalam semua aspek.

"Polisi tetap sama, kawasan tersebut dijadikan satu kawasan medan politik untuk pihak tertentu menggunakan ketegangan di Wilayah itu bagi mendapatkan pengaruh di Thailand.

"Jadi kita kesal, adanya suatu konspirasi pihak atasan di negara itu yang menjadikan umat Islam sebagai mangsa kepada konflik dalaman kerajaan.

"Akhirnya, apa yang kita tuntut ialah undang-undang darurat yang telah dikuatkuasakan sejak 2005 mesti ditarik balik. Akta darurat tersebut memberi kebenaran kepada pihak tentera untuk menangkap sesiapa sahaja tanpa bicara.

"Kemudian pihak tentera juga boleh menyerbu kemana sahaja yang mereka hendak dan mendakawa sesiapa sahaja.

"Ini ada asasnya untuk rakyat di wilayah itu berasa selesa. kalau tidak rakyat akan melihat mereka akan sentiasa diawasi oleh pihak keselamatan," jelasnya.

Teras juga menutut kerajaan Thai agar segera memberi perhatian terhadap keresahan ini bukan sahaja dari segi bantuan semata-mata.

"Apa yang dimahukan ialah hak mereka sudah dirampas sejak 200 tahun lalu iaitu pada tahun 1902 apabila Kesultanan Melayu Islam Patani dibatalkan oleh British dengan perjanjian Anglo Bangkok pada tahun itu.

"Sejak daripada itulah, umat Islam Selatan Thai hidup dalam penghinaan. Bahasa, identiti dan hak mereka untuk mendapatkan perlindungan dihapuskan," tegas beliau.

Beliau yang lebih mesra dipanggil cikgu berkata, penduduk di Selatan Thai juga bahawa ini adalah satu kezaliman dan kebimbangan ini bukan berpunca dari soal pembangunan tetapi politik yang telah dicerobohi oleh Kerajaan Thailand.

Patani, menurutnya merupakan satu wilayah yang berdaulat dan mereka berhak menuntut. Soalnya, Kerajaan Thai hendak tunduk kepada tuntutan untuk memberikan kuasa autonomi adalah soa yang harus dibincangkan.

"Tetapi untuk mengatakan bahawa wilayah selatan Thai mesti tunduk kepada apa yang dikehendaki oleh Bangkok itu, kita rasakan tidak wajar sama sekali kerana fakta sejarah yang tidak dapat dinafikan bahawa Patani pernah menjadi satu wailayah yang berdaulat," ujar beliau.

Sementara itu, beliau juga menegaskan bahawa Pertubuhan Negara-Negara Asia Tenggara (Asean) didesak agar serius menangani konflik yang berlaku di rantau ini.

Menurutnya, Asean perlu melihat isu ini dengan serius kerana sekarang kit adapati konflik diantara agama di rantau ini semakin memuncak dan bertambah parah.

"Tengok saja peristiwa yang berlaku di Mindanao, Selatan Thai dan di Myammar yang mana rakyat Rohingya yang beragama Islam turut ditindas dan akhirnya berlaku konflik di antara agama," katanya.

Ini sangat serius, katanya, kalau Asean membiarkan isu ini berlarutan maka, rantau ini akan berhadapan dengan potensi untuk menjadi konflik antara agama yang sangat berat.

"Oleh kerana itu, kita desak Asean supaya mengadakan sidang tergempar untuk diadakan di peringkat tertinggi pertubuhan itu," tegasnya. - mks._

"Kami hanya perlukan doa dari rakyat Malaysia"

Sumber : Harakahdaily.net

Muhammad Arif Ismail
Sun Jun 28, 09 7:52:56 am MYT

KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Jun (Hrkh) - "Kami memohon kepada seluruh rakyat Malaysia agar dapat berdoa kepada tuhan supaya diberi ketabahan melalui hidup ini, ini yang kami mahukan.

"Mereka tidak meminta bantuan dan kekayaan tetapi mengatakan nasib mereka perlu diberi perhatian daripada seluruh rakyat malaysia yang cintakan kedamaian,"demikian pengalaman yang diceritakan oleh Presiden Teras Pengupayaan Melayu (Teras), Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid semasa menyertai rombongan ke tempat peristiwa berdarah di Masjid al Furqan di Cho Airong yang terletak 50 kilometer dari bandar Sungai Golok yang berlaku baru-baru ini.

Seramai 11 orang jemaah masjid berkenaan telah dibunuh secara kejam oleh 6 lelaki yang bersenjatakan rafile dan tidak berpuas hati dan masuk ke dalam sebelum melepaskan beberapa das tembakan bagi memastikan semua jemaah terbabit benar-benar mati.

Menurutnya yang membuat lawatan ke tempat kejadian pada 14 Jun lalu, mereka memohon kepada rakyat Malaysia agar dapat berdoa supaya dapat melalui hidup ini dengan tabah.

Beliau berkata demikian dalam sidang media yang diadakan di Dewan Masjid Al Muhsinin, Taman Danau Desa, dekat di sini yang turut dihadiri oleh Presiden Sekretariat Himpunan Ulama Asia (Shura), Ust. Abdul Ghani Samsudin dan Timbalan Yang Dipertua Persatuan Ulama Malaysia, Dato' Md. Saleh Ahmad.

Katanya, ketika menceritakan pengalaman beliau semasa menyertai rombongan yang dianggotai oleh 15 dari 11 badan bukan kerajaan (NGO) Malaysia, mereka diiringi oleh lebih kurang 30 anggota tentera dan polis serta ditemani oleh seorang Mejar Jeneral dari Bangkok.

"Mereka dihantar untuk mengiringi kami dengan kawalan keselamatan yang ketat dengan hampir 15 'check point' dan dari Patani ke Narathiwat tempat kejadian terdapat lebih kurang 10 'check point'.

"Ini sangat ketat serta sangat sukar untuk orang biasa untuk pergi ke tempat kejadian itu.

"Mereka mengawasi setiap pertemuan kita dengan penduduk kampung, tetapi alhamdulilah semasa kami pergi ke kampung tersebut tiada masalah dari segi kami hendak meyatakan rasa simpati atas yang yang menimpa," katanya.

Sambung beliau, kami juga menyampaikan derma sebanyak RM 30,000 hasil daripada kutipan derma rakyat Malaysia dan pihak berkuasa juga menyaksikan ketika kami menyampaikan derma tersebut kepada penduduk yang terlibat dalam pembunuhan kejam itu.

Suasana di sana katanya, sangat memilukan setelah mengadakan pertemuan dengan semua balu-balu kerana suami mereka semuanya berumur dalam lingkungan umur yang paling muda sekitar 33 tahun dan yang tua pula berumur dalam lingkungan 60 dan 70 tahun.

"Kami juga melihat sendiri keadaan masjid itu di mana peluru yang digunakan dengan begitu banyak dan kesannya dapat dilihat pada dinding masjid.

"Sama sekali kita merasa sangat-sangat sedih terhadap suasana masjid al Furqan itu yang dikelilingi oleh suasana kampung yang sangat damai tetapi mereka berhadapan dengan kejutan itu," katanya.

Namun katanya, mereka tabah menghadapi semua ini, masih lagi nampak kuat. Tetapi para balu itu mengatakan ini merupakan satu trauma yang sama sekali tidak akan hilang dalam hiudp mereka.

"Mereka juga memikirkan bagaimana hendak mengatasi kehidupan dengan menyara anak-anak yang menjadi yatim akibat peristiwa ini yang kami hitung lebih kurang seramai 22 orang," ujar beliau. - mks._