| Family and PKR rally around as second clip from sex video screened to select media on March 21 is put on the Net.
As expected, PKR rallied around its de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim as the latest snippet from a "sex video" allegedly involving him was posted on YouTube today, with his family in the frontline.
PKR vice-president and Anwar's eldest daughter, Nurul Izzah Anwar, maintained that the person in the video is not her father.
"My family and I stand firmly with Anwar Ibrahim, and we maintain that the actor is not Anwar.
 "This latest, most disgusting effort is an attempt to destroy our fighting spirit and derail reforms so desperately needed in this nation. We shall not bow to nor be cowed by such tactics," Nurul Izzah (right) told Malaysiakini in a text message.
She later added a call to Malaysians to "rise above gutter politics".
"We call upon all our Malaysian brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers to rise above gutter politics. Let us remain strong-willed in our work to realise a better Malaysia," said Nurul Izzah, who is also the Lembah Pantai MP.
Turning the tables on the parties who had exposed the video first, Nurul Izzah also said that the ones on the wrong side of the law would be them instead.
“On all counts - legally, Islamically and natural laws - the real crime was committed by those who distributed and made public the said video,” she said.
'Snippet will not be the last'
Meanwhile, PKR communications chief Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said the snippet would also not be the last, accusing BN of being hell-bent on destroying Anwar.
"Anyone who sees the body will know that it's not Anwar.
"As far as we are concerned, BN will continue doing this until the general election. So they need to destroy Anwar at all costs," said Nik Nazmi, who was a former political secretary to Anwar.
"We've said this from the beginning and we've been very consistent on this. Our case has not changed," he said, reiterating the party's unwavering stand on the sex video.
 The video was meant to "play with people's imaginations", Nik Nazmi (left) said, and blamed it on Umno.
Asked if the snipped aired today, which had first appeared on pro-Umno blogger Papagomo's website, meant that the sex video was in Umno's possession, Nik Nazmi replied in the affirmative.
"Of course the video has always been in Umno's hands. It doesn't take a genius to know that.
"Everything has been pre-planned," he told Malaysiakini.
The 1:46 minute clip released today shows a man in a towel putting his clothes on. Also in the room is a naked woman, who goes into the next room while the man gets dressed.
This clip is believed to be from the end portion of the 22-minute video clip screened to journalists at Carcosa Seri Negara on March 21. |
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