BEDAH AI: TEMPOH KATA-PUTUS DILANJUTKAN

Kerajaan masih tidak membenarkan Anwar dirawat di luar negara sedangkan kesakitan Anwar antara lain berpunca daripada pukulan luarbiasa oleh pegawai keselamatan tertinggi kerajaan dengan dahsyatnya. Ia cuma memberi lanjutan tempoh untuk Anwar memikirkan samada ingin dibedah di dalam negara setelah tamat tempoh itu pada Selasa lepas. Tetapi tidak diberitahu pula sampai bila.

Keadaan Anwar kini sudah semakin teruk kerana kerajaan sengaja menyusahkan pemberian rawatan yang sebaiknya sehingga sudah semakin kritikal jadinya. Kerajaan Umno terlalu takut Anwar yang sihat akan menyakitkan lagi Umno walaupun Anwar masih dan tetap berada di dalam penjara selagi Mahathir berkuasa.

LIMA BULAN KERAJAAN MEMBEDAH APA?

Sudah 5 bulan (Nov 25-April 29) Anwar tersiksa dan dilengahkan dari mendapat rawatan yang terbaik untuknya kerana politik telah menjadi doktor yang lebih berkuasa. Kesihatan politik Umno lebih dipentingkan dari kesihatan seorang manusia yang pernah memacu Umno kemercu kegemilangannya.

Bayangkan betapa lembabnya kerajaan yang bercogankata 'masyarakat penyayang' menangani kes sakit akibat dera pegawai kerajaan sendiri kepada seorang bekas pemimpin Umno yang pernah berjasa kepada negara. Kerajaan asyik bermain 'sorong papan tarik papan' sehingga penyakit itu kini sudah menjadi semakin kritikal. Jika Anwar tidak dibedah segera dia akan menghadapi risiko lumpuh selama-lamanya.

Walaupun kerajaan mengatakan mempunyai cukup kepakaran - itu cuma pembedahan biasa sahaja sedangkan Anwar kini memerlukan pembedahan mikro di mana teknik membius pun perlu secara mikro juga kerana di tulang belakang inilah terletak deria yang sensitif pada manusia. Kepakaran sebegitu tidak ada di dalam negara kerana peralatannya terlalu canggih dan sensitif kerana memerlukan ketepatan yang tidak terhingga. Memunggahnya kesini adalah kerja gila yang lagi membahayakan pesakit.

PERBICARAAN DITANGGUHKAN

Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, perbicaraan untuk pertuduhan tambahan ke atas Anwar ditangguhkan sehingga Mei 12 kerana keadaan kesihatan Anwar yang membimbangkan. Jika kes ini didengar terlalu hampir dengan perhimpunan Agung Umno kita menjangkakan pemimpin Umno akan sakit dan merana juga terkena tempiasnya.

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Malaysia Extends Deadline For Anwar's Decision On Surgery

KUALA LUMPUR (AP)--The government has agreed to give jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim more time to decide whether to accept surgery locally for a back injury, Malaysia's No. 2 leader said Saturday.

Authorities ordered Anwar earlier this week to decide by Tuesday whether he was willing to undergo the operation at a state-run Malaysian hospital. They warned the former deputy premier that he would be returned to prison soon if he refused to let local doctors perform the surgery.

Anwar has been hospitalized since Nov. 25 for a slipped disc which he claims was caused in part by a police beating he received in 1998. He wants to have surgery performed on him by Dutch specialist Dr. Thomas Hoogland, who examined Anwar earlier this year and recommended a minimally invasive procedure best performed at his clinic in Munich.

But government officials say Anwar can't travel overseas because he's serving prison sentences totaling 15 years for corruption and s###my.

On Saturday, Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Anwar would be given more time to make his decision. He didn't specify how long the government would wait.

"We are not forcing Anwar to make his decision, as the choice of treatment depends on him," Abdullah was quoted as saying by the national news agency, Bernama.

Local doctors insist they have enough experience to operate on Anwar using a conventional method of surgery with a high success rate. They have warned that Anwar risks permanent disability if he postpones the operation for much longer.

Anwar has said he needs time to consult his lawyers and relatives before making a decision.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad fired Anwar in 1998 amid differences over how to handle the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis. Anwar claims Mahathir wanted him out of the government to short-circuit a political challenge. Mahathir has denied it.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires 28-04-01

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Crt Hearing For Charges Against Malaysia Anwar Postponed

KUALA LUMPUR (AP)--A hearing to determine whether jailed Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim will face trial on outstanding charges has been postponed because he is too sick to attend, his lawyer said Friday.

Sankara Nair said officials at the hospital where Anwar is being held under guard with a back injury told government lawyers he couldn't make it to the hearing, scheduled for Saturday, and that it had been called off.

"The hospital informed the attorney-general that Anwar is not fit to attend Saturday's hearing," Sankara told The Associated Press.

The court had rescheduled the hearing for May 12, he said.

Government officials Wednesday confirmed Anwar's case would return to court, where prosecutors are expected to announce whether they will pursue four counts of s###my and one of corruption against the former deputy prime minister. Alternatively, prosecutors could drop the charges.

Each count of s###my carries a maximum 15-year prison term; the heaviest sentence for corruption is 14 years.

The charges date back to 1998, when Anwar was arrested shortly after being fired from Cabinet by his former mentor Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and charged with multiple counts of corruption and s###my. But he was tried for only four counts of corruption and one count of s###my.

Anwar is now serving sentences totaling 15 years as a result of the convictions. He claims the charges were concocted to crush his challenge to Mahathir.

Government lawyers previously said they would decide whether to pursue the remaining charges against Anwar after his appeals against the earlier convictions are completed.

The Federal Court, Malaysia's highest court, is expected to hear his appeal against that corruption verdict later this year. No appeal has been heard as yet for Anwar's s###my conviction.

Opposition leaders have urged the government not to proceed with the outstanding charges, saying it would be tantamount to persecuting Anwar.

Anwar has been hospitalized since November for a spinal injury which he claims was the result of a police beating on the night of his arrest. Doctors say Anwar must undergo surgery soon to avoid being permanently disabled.

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