Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad who founded the Perdana Global Peace Organisation (Perdana) had condemned the government’s decision to allow Blair to speak at a local university.“Blair cannot be regarded as anything but a war criminal,” he said two days ago. From Malaysiakini.

Don't forget Mr Kutty that you have no moral right to condemn Tony Blair, when you allowed your close friend and buddy Suharto to conduct a genocide againt the East Timorese. Many tens of thousands of Timorese died as a result of this "'generalized warfare' of encirclements, bombing, uprooting of the population, malnutrition and generalized brutalities", constituting the bulk of the estimated 200,000 victims of Indonesia's genocidal occupation policies between 1975 and 1999.He actually supported the Indonesians, Mahathir, who often lectures Western countries for their ''hypocrisy and double standards'', has been a staunch defender of Indonesian behavior in East Timor.

Asked in Singapore to explain his opposition to East Timor's independence in light of his outspoken support for the right of Kosovo, which has a Muslim majority, to break away from Serbia, Mahathir said Indonesia was entitled to integrate the territory.' The difference between East Timor and Kosovo is that East Timor has been with Indonesia for 25 years, and during that time there were no massacres,'' Mahathir said. ''The Indonesians were not behaving like Serbs.'' Conveniently forgetting Indonesia eventually killed over 200,000 Timorese -- one-third of the population -- in one of the worst genocides since World War II.

Dr M's latest assault on Tony Blair looks like just the many shots in his career-long war against The West, whose leaders did far more than he ever did about putting a stop to ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. The victims of war on whose behalf he claims to be seeking redress are all, it seems, from places like Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon. And the war criminals he's targeting seem to be largely from the West, especially now, Tony Blair. To quote Dean Johns, "It's also fair and timely to remind Dr M and his fellow pacifist poseurs that it was the US warmongers who liberated Muslim victim Kuwait from Muslim invader Iraq, and who have since, albeit in their typically wasteful, wayward and wrong-headed manner, fought hard with the help of the UK and other nations to free the Muslim people of Iraq and Afghanistan from the murderous tyrannies of Sadaam Hussein and the Taliban." The source