ANWAR NOT LIKE SUU KYI, SAYS US WRITER

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 (Bernama) -- People's Justice Party (Parti Keadilan
Rakyat - PKR) de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim should not equate himself with
Myanmar's democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, said a writer of an American
right-wing website.

Rachel Motte, writing in the New Ledger, an American web publication which
publishes the right-of-centre opinions, said the equation should not have been
made as Anwar's personal case was different from that of Suu Kyi's.

In addition, Malaysia's political landscape has little in common with
Myanmar's, she said.

"If anyone has suffered for the cause of democracy, Suu Kyi has ... not
Anwar Ibrahim, who has enjoyed the benefits of a trial, a team of lawyers,
access to local, national and international media outlets, his own political
party and the freedom to travel the globe.

"Anwar is no Aung San Suu Kyi. Indeed, his actions as the co-founder of a
front organisation for the Global Muslim Brotherhood indicated that he is in
fact opposed to the democratic ideals she has sacrificed so much for," Motte
wrote.

The writer claimed that Anwar was using Suu Kyi's recent release to attract
attention to his own political problems when speaking on social justice and
democracy in Sydney, Australia, early this week.

The People's Justice Party is a centrist political party in Malaysia formed
in 2003 by a merger of the National Justice Party and the older Malaysian
People's Party.

-- BERNAMA