The most stupid action of Universiti Utara Malaysia in charging students Choo Kok Wei, Medecci Linell Repong and Tengku Mohd Hasrul Tengku Malek for merely practicing their basic human rights and responsible students in voicing their dissatisfaction pertaining to students’ rights. UUM must understand students problem and should be solve in professional way. As Robert Kiyosaki said , intelligent not about what is right or what is wrong, but what is appropriate. This unintelligent move by UUM will make this self claimed management university a laughing stock in near future.
The action of the university to charge the students under the Universities and University Colleges Act (Uuca) is clear attempt to silence dissenting voices and to suppress the freedom of speech of the students.
The reason for charging Choo Kok Wei and Medecci Linell Repong is because they initiated an online protest petition to protest the increase in campus bus fares.
Rather than being punished, the trio should be reward as they have proved their ability and courage to fight for the students right.
Is this action a crime in Malaysia? Is it a crime to express your dissatisfaction on an issue affecting yourself? Why the students being denied to express their thought?
What is this country coming to? Is there no freedom to voice out about on issues affecting us? Is the university a jail where students cannot voice out anything but have to just follow, follow follow? If the answer if Yes, well I'm very sure that this university will produce more cow than intellectual graduates.
When someone tries to open his or her mouth, the Uuca is dangled in front of them to silence them. If this continues, the country’s graduates will be just mere followers and not thinkers. For sure, this stupid Act will make malaysian university looked like high school school thinking style.
We will be producing just passive citizens who would not be able to think for themselves or the nation. Is this what we want?
It is time the Uuca is abolished so that it cannot be used to restrict students independence and human rights. Uuca have damaged our students brain power.
Uuca is a political tool for the university authorities and the government to control students on campus and to not allow them to move freely.
Every lecturer or academic staff in UUM know that the freedom of expression is stated in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and Article 10 of the federal constitution. So, why they just silence or make no comment? I guess that they have no gut, preserving their job security, poor mindset, fear of failure and etc.. This kind of lecturer will make our university going bankgrupt of intelligent one day ahead.
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Say NO to UUCA, say YES to student rights and freedom to express their thought. University students are not kids anymore, let's make them our friends. We should share our problems with them and ask to help us finding solution.
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