Complaints over campus polls KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.
Suhakam has received complaints that student-body elections carried out on campuses across the country are not being conducted fairly, Suhakam commissioner Datuk Mohd Hamdan Adnan said today.
The complaints include intimidation and other transgressions.He said there were also complaints of high-handedness by university authorities in the 2005/2006 campus elections."The students are requesting the elections be organised by an independent committee in a fair and just manner," Hamdan added.He cited several charges listed by the students against the officials in University Malaya, UiTM and Universiti Utara Malaysia.Hamdan said that Suhakam had held discussions with all the deputy vice-chancellors of public universities last month."All they said was that the issue would be brought to their respective vice-chancellors’ attention because they were the ones with the proper authority to make decisions regarding this matter," he said.On Sept 13, Suhakam also requested permission from 17 universities and colleges to monitor the process of their campus elections. To date, only five universities have replied, referring Suhakam to the Higher Education Ministry for permission.The ministry had yet to provide an official reply to Suhakam, Hamdan said.
(As reported in NST on the 29th of September)
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