Still-Menteri Besar Zambry claims he was maligned by his enemies on the prize committee, vows to carry on the fight for justice
(TP) – IPOH: Still-Menteri Besar Datuk Zambry Abdul Kadir announced this morning in a press conference that he had information from reliable sources indicating that his selection as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate will be cancelled due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
“I entered this week full of elation, until I heard I had been sidelined due to these so-called unforeseen circumstances. When I called up the Norwegian Nobel Committee to ask what these circumstances were, I was told that decisions made by the committee were confidential and not privy to external parties. What an utter load of tahi! It’s obvious someone was trying to main with my nomination.
“I will not stand for this. I will file an appeal to the Norwegian government to grant a stay of execution so that I have time to get to the bottom of this and find out who on the committee is for me and who is against me.”
Still-Menteri Besar Zambry had wrote on his blog earlier last week that he was confident of getting the Nobel Peace Prize, and that he was certain of this because he had two friends who sat on the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and a third committee member had recently pledged to support his nomination. Moreover, Still-Menteri Besar Zambry had added, his struggle for truth, justice and the Malaysian way was internationally renowned and his humanist work against the politics of hatred and the promotion of world peace had provided evidence beyond doubt that he deserved the Nobel prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee receives hundreds of nominations each year from experts and prepares a shortlist of fifteen candidates from which one would be chosen by a simple quorum of three votes. There are five places on the committee.
“I have done everything I could to keep everybody happy. When a member of the committee complained about her government-issued Volvo, I even gave her a new Proton Perdana V6, which has one more cylinder than her old car. And now this happens to me. That ungrateful b****.”
Still-Menteri Besar Zambry also apologized for any misunderstanding he may have caused when he was accused of comparing himself with past Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela and five-time nominee Mahatma Gandhi.
“My words have been twisted and used out of context to suit the liberal media’s purposes, and have been intentionally misquoted by malicious bloggers who have an axe to grind with me over the Perak state government issue.
“Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi were outstanding humanitarians and distinguished global citizens who have sacrificed much to stand for what they believe in. There are few out there who can claim to be on par with them.
“However, my work in dealing with the wayward and unruly Pakatan juveniles is an exception, and not only is it political, it is also a labour of promoting fraternity between fellow Perakians, which makes it twice as hard, if not more so, than what Mandela and Gandhi were doing. My actual intention in writing that blog post that is now giving me so much grief is to draw the allusion that my work surpasses Mandela’s and Gandhi’s. This is different from what the liberal media is trying to paint me with.”
Still-Menteri Besar Zambry also implied that there might be a degree of racism in the decision to remove him from the shortlist.
“Look at Gandhi. He was nominated five times, and didn’t even win it posthumously. The official reason given was that the award could not be given to the deceased. I call bulls*** on this. Hammarskjöld was just as dead as Gandhi was and yet he became a laureate! If you ask me, the only difference was that Gandhi had the wrong skin colour and didn’t have a Nordic-sounding name.”
Dag Hammarskjöld was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations and a Swedish diplomat who won the Peace Prize in Dec 1961 after his death in a plane crash in September.
“With this latest decision, it seems like the committee is still set in its old ways. We must use non-violent, Ketuanan Melayu means to convince the committee that its ways are wrong and they should abhor themselves.”
When contacted, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Nobel Committee had told The Petai that they were aware of Still-Menteri Besar Zambry’s claims and explained that a lot of these were false.
“Yes we are aware of a Datuk Zambry who keeps calling here to protest about his imagined nomination. We have called the Malaysian police to complain about these prank calls and hopefully that will be the end of it.
“We have always maintained that we regretted not giving Gandhi the prize in 1948, and that this was not because of racism or fear of the British but rather because Gandhi had died before the nomination date for that year and according to the will of Alfred Nobel could not be a laureate because the prize is to be given only to living nominees. Dag Hammarskjöld was an exception because we announced his award while he was still alive but unfortunately he didn’t live long enough to see the ceremony.
“We really detest accusations of racism. If we were really racist, why would Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Desmond Tutu, Yasser Arafat, the Dalai Lama, Mohamed ElBaradei or Kim Dae Jung be in our distinguished list of laureates?
“I don’t know about Zambry’s claims that he gave a committee member a new car. Personally I don’t think many people would give up a Volvo for a Proton.”
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