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I refer to the Malaysiakini report Tamil daily Makkal Osai banned .

At a time when the nation is still reeling from its post-election throbbing, the government again sets the clock back with the non-renewal of license for the Makkal Osai newspaper.

While the Hindraf detainees' issue is still smarting in the hearts of many Malaysians, the Home Ministry's refusal to give legitimate and adequate reasons for the ban further rubs the hurt feelings the wrong way.

The out-pouring of disagreement from various quarters clearly hammers home the point of injustice. Likewise, citizens - particularly the Tamil language readers - will only further be driven to subtract any iota of sympathy they may have left for the Barisan Nasional.

And as rightly pointed out by concerned citizens' groups, the watching world is certain to further minus points for our sense of press liberty and that in itself speaks volumes of our non- progressive stance.

Do our leaders not have access to common sense? Or is all this the work of internal strife and a diabolic strategy to bring down certain leaders on a fast track?

Hanging screaming party banners demanding for the removal of leaders and allowing words that champion racial demarcations are far more seditious than a newspaper attempting to report news as it unfolds.

Yet such anti-nation building banners are spared while the newspaper is butchered. What is the rational if not some suspicious agenda?

From a political public relations perspective, such acts by the government are not going to help get the government back on track following its almost derailed performance in the recent general elections.

On the contrary, it will be only be speeding towards further loss of credibility and trust. What more when on the one hand there are attempts to mend bridges with the punctured judiciary but we continue to exercise injustice over the media.

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