SUBANG JAYA, Sept. 11 -- Veterans group Persatuan Patriot Kebangsaan (Patriot) has released a poem-video to chastise the country's leaders and to highlight Malaysia's standing issues.

The 12-stanza poem titled Obor Akinabalu (Torch of Grandfather Mountain) was composed by natural medicine practitioner Saroja Theavy Balakrishnan and takes aim at politicians and parties which put their own interests above that of the nation.

Its accompanying six-minute long video features air stewardess and singer Assya Yen dressed in traditional Sabahan clothing and reciting the poem amid a backdrop of pictures of the state.

Patriot president Brigadier General (Rtd) Datuk Mohamed Arshad Raji said the poem speaks of corruption, misbehaving parliamentaria...