PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Harapan's reforms on the human rights front a year after coming into power have been a “profound disappointment”, says the Human Rights Watch.
Its deputy Asia director Phil Robertson said that while they were excited by the reform pledges in Pakatan's manifesto, the government has done little to fulfil its promises and had even back-pedalled.
In its manifesto, Pakatan promised sweeping changes, including reforming key government institutions and revoking certain laws that were deemed to be repressive. Robertson said that facing objections from Umno and PAS, the government reversed its commitments and delayed other promised actions. “If you look at the way most governments proceed, it is in the first year of their governance that the most reform is made. This is when the political momentum is there and people are expecting for things to change.
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