Thread by @olliekarp

In today's #dailysoup, I'll introduce Malaysian political analyst, activist, and NGO head, Chandra Muzaffar.

He's best known for heading Just International (@justworldtweets), which is flooded with blatant anti-West, pro-Russia, and pro-China peepotalking remarks.

1/23

Chandra's daughter, Samirah Muzaffar, was charged in 2019 for the "murder of Nazrin Hassan, the CEO of a Malaysian company, Cradle Fund". Three years later, in 2022, Samirah was acquitted of the murder charges.

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Before his career in handling Just International, Chandra became one of the founders of "Aliran Kesedaran Negara", a multiethnic reform group in Malaysia established in 1977 aiming to address ethnic and democratic issues among Malaysians.

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Chandra is also the board chairman of Yayasan Perpaduan Malaysia. Originally known as "Yayasan 1Malaysia", it changed its name after Chandra took a stand condemning Yayasan's role in the infamous 1MDB scandal.

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Chandra was involved in a legal dispute with Anwar Ibrahim. In 2008, Anwar filed a defamation lawsuit against Chandra, alleging that "Chandra said during a Petaling Jaya forum in 2008 that Anwar promoted racial unrest during the Kampung Rawa dispute in 1998".

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Although the Chandra-Anwar defamation case closed in 2014 after both parties withdrew their accusations, apologies were not present despite prior calls for Chandra to apologise to Anwar.

6/23

The stances of Chandra and his NGO, Just International, are somewhere along the lines of "promoting multipolarity cuz we need to make the world more equal and the West is always dominating through war and violence".

7/23

The articles in Chandra's JI are written by contributors spewing anti-West, pro-Russia, and pro-China peepotalking remarks.

One of the contributors of JI is a souped entity from #vatniksoup, CODEPINK. Another article promoted a conspiracy theorist, Robert Kennedy Jr.

8/23

One month after Russia stole Crimea, Chandra's JI started a petition requesting Washington and the UN to have "US/NATO forces out of Eastern Europe and Russia".

Chandra's JI mentioned "the Ukraine", which is a pro-Russia term of "Ukraine as just the borderlands".

9/23

Chandra's JI petition article was flooded with pro-Russia "Maidan-was-a-US-funded-coup" peepotalking remarks.

The article cheered for "the independence referendums of the DNR", peepotalking about "40 people being massacred at Odessa on May 2, 2014, by Kiev militants".

10/23

Chandra claimed that the evidence pointing to Russia downing the MH17 was "fabricated by Washington and Kiev to make Putin look like a murderer", comparing it to US' role in the Iraq and Vietnam wars.

A JI article blamed Ukraine for "routing the MH17 to a war zone".

11/23

Contrary to Chandra's claims on the downing of the MH17, Bellingcat (@bellingcat) did an excellent job in showing evidence that Russia was the one that downed the MH17 in 2014.

12/23

Chandra claimed that the "Syrian rebel forces were behind the Ghouta chemical attacks", adding that "some parties are trying to blame al-Assad's forces for the attacks".

Contrary to his claims, OPCW investigations concluded that al-Assad's forces were behind the attacks.

13/23

Chandra claimed that the chemical weapons attack at Idlib was a "false flag made by the British to make an excuse for US forces to attack Syria and oust al-Assad".

In the same article, Chandra mentioned "Deep State", a term typically used by conspiracy theorists.

14/23

Few days after 02/24, Chandra peepotalked about that imaginary so-called "agreement from Gorbachev that NATO should not expand eastwards", which was followed by traditional "NATO-expansion-provoked-Russia" peepotalk usually uttered by the vatniks mentioned in #vatniksoup.

15/23

In the same article, Chandra compared the "NATO provocation of Russia" to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, implicitly suggesting that "Western forces should withdraw from Ukraine if it wants peace".

I noticed that Chandra used the term "special military operation".

16/23

Chandra claimed that the sanctions against Russia are "signs of Western dominance", "means to prolong the war in Ukraine", and a "crime against humanity". One JI article contained a petition calling for "an end to supplying weapons to Ukraine and sanctioning Russia".

17/23

Chandra's Just International is polluted with contributors with blatant pro-Russia peepotalking remarks, including Vanessa Beeley's claims that "there were NATO chemical weapons in Ukraine" and Countercurrents Collective's claims that "the US blew up Nord Stream 2".

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Moreover, I saw more blatant pro-Russia peepotalking remarks in JI's contributors, including "the war crimes in Bucha are a false flag staged by Ukrainian forces" and "there are US biolabs in Ukraine".

They even cited "souped" peeps from #vatniksoup,...

19/23

...including Seymour Hersh, Scott Ritter, Aaron Mate, and Noam Chomsky.

Chandra is also known for his pro-China peepotalking remarks. He called the BRI as "the evolution of a new epoch in history", while he claimed that "the West is using Taiwan to provoke China".

20/23

An article from Chandra's JI blamed the West for "contributing to the destabilisation of the Hong Kong government, especially during the HK pro-democracy protests".

Martin Jacques' article on his claims that "China is HK's future" is also included in JI.

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When it comes to the SCS dispute, Chandra suggested that "ASEAN and China should jointly harness the wealth of the SCS".

A former president in my country did that "joint exploration" thingy before, but it went badly. Read more here:

22/23 https://t.co/tSFtJwM2Ot

https://twitter.com/olliekarp/status/1669050585499467776?s=20

Chandra is also a denier of the Uyghur Genocide. During a webinar, Chandra claimed that "the forced labour claims in Xinjiang has not been established by any independent body", adding that "it is an attempt to destroy China's image".

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Pro-CCP peepotalking points - https://t.co/0UwyfHqK9P

Russian narratives (#vatniksoup) - https://t.co/7tIKhxzix9

Vanessa Beeley (#vatniksoup) - https://t.co/zvdDo14sHsbuymeacoffee.com/olliekarp

https://twitter.com/olliekarp/status/1650225950024667136?s=20

https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1634168118992949251?s=20

https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1634543183399907328?s=20

Shoutouts:
@P_Kallioniemi, @Aaron_MatthewIL, @outlierplanet, @NervosaCafe, @LukeShiga

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