How did he go from an opposition supporter to being labeled a traitor? In form 3, he was finally transferred to Victoria Institution KL. There, he met friends of all race and religion, including his future wife a few years later , whom he married when he was Raja petra is on the extreme right in the back row.
Image from viweb. His business was successful, and he moved to Terengganu as part of a decision to keep the business growing. His business was so successful and famous , it made his family millions of ringgit. But as Raja Petra himself confessed , due to the nature of his business, some contracts were only awarded to his company because of well placed bribes to certain officials.
I won probably RM million or so government contracts over those 20 years and towards the end we were doing RM1 million turnover a month. Not wanting to continue in that culture, he moved back to KL and began writing as a cycling and motorcycle columnist with The Star.
This was actually, the beginning of his transformation into a political writer, as his involvement in politics actually begun earlier than his motorcycle business. This was despite the fact that Anwar would stand up for Raja Petra when he got bullied by the other kids.
What did you say about my mother!? Image from gelombangrakyat. Image from darulehsantoday. But then came a crucial moment in time where Raja Petra had to choose between his friends. This was when he got into writing about politics , and soon, became thrown in politics personally. Because shopping at Giant is a crime. Image from from dinmerican. Senior members of the ruling Barisan Nasional National Front coalition, which has held power since independence in , have dismissed Raja Petra's allegations as lies and called him a "traitor" who should have his citizenship revoked.
The Malaysian government says it wants to bring Raja Petra to justice but it seems unlikely that the British government would agree to extradite him in such circumstances. And, as Raja Petra notes, the UK government abolished the offences of criminal libel and sedition in January, so any extradition request would be unlikely to pass the legal test of "dual criminality" — that the offences in question must be criminal acts in both countries.
Maintaining his website, which he says gets ,,, hits a day, is a full-time occupation. His latest scalp came last month when a member of the prosecution team in the ongoing sodomy trial of the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was dropped after Raja Petra alleged that she had had an affair with the key prosecution witness. Kgen: RPK is feeling homesick. He may as well close down his blog after this attack because nobody will want to read his blog.
He once took a tough stand against Umno and they broke him morally, spiritually and financially. Now he is instructed to do what Umno wants based on a deal he had struck with the ruling party. The Pakatan cause is for change and though there are a lot of bad elements in Pakatan itself, change must start somewhere. It must start with the end of Umno and BN. That is why it is so dissapointing to see somebody like Raja Petra selling the nation out. The above is a selection of comments posted by Malaysiakini subscribers.
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