Malaysia gives rights assurance
NZPA-Reuter Kuala Lumpur. The United States Secretary of State George Shultz, said Malaysia had assured him that political detainees would be accorded their basic rights. “The Prime Minister assures me that those
remaining under detention would be accorded full statutory and constitutional rights,” he told reporters after a 90-min-ute meeting with the Malaysian leader, Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad, on Saturday. Malaysia arrested over 100 people last October in what officials described as a
move to diffuse racial tension in the country whose population is made up of Malays, Chinese and Indians. Thirty-three people, including the Opposition leader, Lim Kit Siang, are still in detention. Twenty-eight United States Congressmen and a human rights group, Asia Watch, had peti-
tloned Mr Shultz to raise with Mr Mahathir what they called the abuse of human rights by Malaysia. Mr Shultz, who described his discussion with Mr Mahathir on the subject as “fundamentally a satisfactory one,” left for Indonesia on Saturday night.
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