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Malaysia victim of WikiLeaks

By: (Dec 12, 2010)


PETALING JAYA (Dec 12, 2010): Revelations about what Singapore leaders and diplomats think about Malaysian leaders are among 1,000 cables provided by WikiLeaks to the Australian media.

The cables, leaked exclusively to The Sun-Herald by WikiLeaks, are from separate meetings between senior US officials and Singapore's Foreign Affairs chiefs Peter Ho, Bilahari Kausikan and Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh.

Among others they claim that "Malaysia's dangerous decline is fuelled by incompetent politicians", according to leaked US State Department cables.

Kausikan, who is currently permanent secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, claimed Malaysia was "confused and dangerous, fuelled by the distinct possibility of racial conflict".

The trio, who at the time of the 2008 and 2009 cables occupied some of the most senior positions in the foreign ministry, gave US officials damning assessments of Malaysia. According to one cable detailing a meeting in September 2008, Kausikan told US Deputy Secretary of Defence for East Asia David Sedney there was a "distinct possibility of racial conflict" which could see ethnic Chinese "flee" Malaysia and "overwhelm" Singapore.

Ho's assessment of Malaysia in March 2008 to another US official includes claims that former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pix, top) had been "throwing stones" at his successor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

This, however, is not news as Mahathir had been openly critical of Abdullah, although Ho did mention that Abdullah's family ties would be a matter of concern.

"The political knives will be out for Abdullah's son-in-law, Umno politician Khairy Jamaluddin (pix, below), whom nobody likes because he got where he is through family ties," the cable records Ho, who just retired as head of the civil service, as saying.

The cables also revealed Singapore's concerns over the effects the case of murdered Mongolian model Altantuya Shaaribuu may have on the nation.

It also revealed Singapore senior minister Lee Kuan Yew's opinion on the sodomy charges against Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (pix, above, left).

This US State Department cable, quote exchanges between the Singaporean intelligence services and Australia's Office of National Assessments, which said Lee believed the charges against Anwar.

In a Twitter response, Anwar dismissed the allegations saying there was no proof and that the source, Malaysia's Special Branch police, was unreliable.

"Source? Polis SB Msia. Bukti tak ada (Who is the source? Malaysian police special branch. There is no proof whatsoever," he tweeted.

But the cables also alluded to entrapment. "It was a set-up job and he probably knew that, but walked into it anyway,'' the cable stated, according to Sydney Morning Herald.

The cable also stated that Anwar criticised then Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd for not meeting him during his visit to Australia last year, saying Rudd was too obsessed with bilateral interests.

Meanwhile, Bernama reports: Singapore said the latest leaked reports by whistleblower WikiLeaks implicating the republic's Foreign Affairs Ministry's officials should not be taken out of context.

"Any communication must not be taken out of context," Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo was quoted by local media as saying to reporters who asked him on private comments made by his senior ministry officials on foreign leaders in the region.

One of the reports published by WikiLeaks today was on comments by Singapore leaders who bel