Sunday, 23 May 2010 17:21
PETALING JAYA – Raja Petra Kamarudin has challenged the Malaysian government to bring him to trial in Britain, saying he was employing Sun Tzu's tactics to fight an enemy from a position of strength.The Malaysia Today's fugitive editor said he would seek a level playing field in his fight against charges of defamation and sedition as well as his appeal against his detention under the Internal Security Act. An online news portal reported that he was in London and said these in his speech at a hall at the BPP Law School yesterday.
“I will take on the government and I will fight them but I will do what Sun Tzu said:'Fight him in your territory.' “So my territory is here in the UK,” he said. Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese military general who is believed to have written The Art of War, an influential book on military strategy.Different situation than Anwar. Raja Petra refuted the notion that he should return home to defend himself at a Malaysian court, adding that it's the prosecution's job to prove guilt.He also said that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is facing a sodomy charge, was in a different situation. “Anwar has accepted the fact that he has to stay (in Malaysia) as he aspires to be the next prime minister. I have no political aspirations. I'll probably be a free man longer than Anwar,” he said in The Star report.Raja Petra also said that one of the Federal Court judges who was supposed to hear the government's appeal against his release from detention under the ISA, was also the same person who had presided over Anwar's first sodomy trial.
Source from : http://www.malaysianmirror.com
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