To those who don't believe Selangor political aide Teoh Beng Hock could be a victim of homicide, they might change their minds after hearing the ordeal a Bernama photographer went through with the police.
On Sunday, a police officer threatened to throw him off the third floor of a bus terminal after the latter was detained for no apparent reason.
"(The officer) also told me he would soak me in a lake," said national newswire Bernamaphotographer Hairul Nizam Bahrin.
Hairul, 37, was taken to the police station in the Bandar Tasik Selatan Integrated Bus Terminal handcuffed and with his head covered, unaware of why he was detained.
The photographer was riding his motorcycle, returning from duty at about 11.45am yesterday at the Bandar Tasik Selatan Integrated Bus Terminal when he was stopped by plainclothes men.
"A motorcyclist came close to me and told me to stop. He was not dressed in a police uniform. Several seconds later, several other motorcyclists approached me and asked me to stop, but they too were not in uniform so I ignored them," he said.
In the report, lodged at the Jalan Tun Razak station last night, he said that he stopped about 500 metres ahead after he was blocked.
"One of the motorcyclists took my keys, so I took his in retaliation. Then they started yelling at me, telling to remove my helmet and hand over my identity card but I refused.
"This continued until an auxiliary police sergeant came and started pushing me. When I told him he had no right to touch me, he punched me on the lip," he said.
Police tried to "negotiate"
He was also hit on the head and torso after his helmet was removed, and was handcuffed when he struggled to break free.
"I yelled, saying that they cannot do this to me as I am not a thief. I also called my office to inform them that I had been assaulted and handcuffed, but the sergeant snatched the phone away," he said.
Hairul said that the handcuffs were removed when they reached the terminal police station, where he was asked to go to the back room to "negotiate" with a police officer.
"He got angry when I asked if the area that I had photographed is a restricted area, and if there was a letter from the Home Ministry to say so. That's when he threatened to throw me off the third floor," he said when contacted today.
Hairul was later brought to the Dang Wangi district police headquarters by the police auxiliary sergeant, and was eventually released from the ordeal which lasted for about an hour.
In confronting a crisis of epic proportions, one can do the heavy work of crafting a well conceived, comprehensive strategy. But why bother, when short-term gimmicks are politically more feasible. Thus we have this absurd counter-cyclical gimmick, the so-called “cash for POLICE” boondoggle, being offered by the NAJIB establishment as their “answer” to the massive problems
Some of you may think that theSEE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE HERE video is in bad taste. I mean, how can we make fun of Teoh Beng Hock’s death when we should instead be mourning him? Yes, it was a hard decision to make as to whether to publish that video or not. But we decided to do it anyway not with intent to make fun of Teoh’s death but to reveal the real circumstances behind his death. And the video best describes the events behind what really happened
The police askes why we are only looking at the police? Linggam asks why we are only looking at the judiciary. The parliament ask why are we only looking at the executives. The rulers ask why are only looking at the monarchy. In the end nothing gets looked at. We’re back to square one. No actions on complains. People who complain gets thrown into ISA for their safety. The corrupt in power gets bolder and increasingly obnoxious.
Great argument there, Hisham. You are another example why I have zero respect for my leaders. They are not smart. And they can’t sound smart even if their life depended on it. In fact, they dont even make sense half the times. Can somebody tell me the last time anybody in BN said something intellegent that is not already a well known fact?
You missed the point, Sham. This is not selective persecution. Pushing for the IPCMC is simply saying that crime is out of control as you Sham pourself has admitted and to check police abuse of power. Why are you and the PDRM so defensive? If they have nothing wrong, there is nothing to be afraid of. In fact, if the PDRM is innocent as alleged, they should welcome the IPCMC to clear their names independently. It is only those that has shit between their backsides that are afraid to be scrutinised. Plain and simple.
Why?
Because:
- Kugan was killed by the police
- The police personnel who are responsible for Kugan’s death is still walking free, still having a job at a police desk
- Because many others have lost their lives in police custody
- Because police are gangsters who arrest without valid reasons, like how they arrested the 5 lawyers who only wanted to represent their clients
- Because police are corrupt.
- Because mat rempits and snatch thieves roam free.
- Because police are pussies who are afraid of having a beat base in Jln Haji Taib
- Because police are not impartial, always obviously acting on umno orders.
- Because police do not respect the law, illegally removing a speaker from the dewan where it has no jurisdiction
- Because police are rude as hell (Mr headhunter the classic example)
- Because police has lost the faith of the rakyat
- Because the rakyat demands the police to be cleaned up.
Way to go Ragu, I will wallk with you to PM office at Putrajaya and I am sure at least 3,000LAWYERS more of us from the bar will too. Just say when.MALAYSIA MUST avoid yet another crisis. Although oscillating between corrupt civilian governments and POLICE dictatorships, crises have been a way of life for MUSA HASSAN But this crisis IS different. It was not particularly for or against a leader. It was the third act of a grass-roots movement, led by the lawyers, in favor of the rule of law under a constitutional framework.
MALAYSIA appears to be on the verge of emerging as a functioning Constitutional Democracy, witH primacy of laws and constitution that has eluded MALAYSIA for 51 years of its checkered history.
THIS times in the lawyers, men and women in their somber black coats MUST defied the illegal edicts of the case of judicial sodomy. and succeed in forcing the government to back down.
Ragunath said”I will tell him that these are the areas that need to be looked into so that there won’t be a recurrence,” he said.
Is Nazri admitting that the Home Minister screwed up? That’s the first! I just hope he won’t backpaddle. the council had also lodged a complaint with the Malaysian Human Rights (Suhakam) Commission as it was a matter concerning a breach of human rights.”For those matters that are linked to the police, I will hand the memorandum over to Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.
As the minister in charge of judiciary affairs, Nazri said he wanted to ensure that the rule of law was upheld
“The court action is still ongoing and we will definitely file it on behalf of the five lawyers,” he told reporters after handing over a memorandum to Minister in Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abd Aziz at the Parliament lobby here Tuesday.
bar council got some teeth ? way to go.
Show them that nobody is beyond the law.
Najib at Odds with Tun Dr. Mahathir
“If they are not united, how are we going to realise the 1 Malaysia concept? This will not only be detrimental to the Malays but also to other races…When we talk about Malay unity, we are not talking from the racism point of view. We have accepted the fact that there cannot be a government which is led 100 per cent by Malay leaders … we have been practising power sharing for so long”
In a speech that he was supposed to have delivered at the Harvard Club of Malaysia on 29th July 2002, this is what Mahathir is reported to have said :
“When I wrote The Malay Dilemma in the late 60s, I had assumed that all the Malays lacked the opportunities to develop and become successful. They lacked opportunities for educating themselves, opportunities to earn enough to go into business, opportunities to train in the required vocation, opportunities to obtain the necessary funding, licences and premises. If these opportunities could be made available to them, then they would succeed. …… So what is the new Malay dilemma? Their old dilemma was whether they should distort the picture a little in order to help themselves. The new dilemma is whether they should or should not do away with the crutches that they have got used to, which in fact they have become proud of. There is a minority of Malays who are confident enough to think of doing away with the crutches, albeit gradually. But they are a very small minority. Their numbers are not going to increase any time soon. They are generally regarded as traitors to the Malay race. ….
Distort the picture in order to help themselves!
That the truth then was that every marginalised Malaysian, regardless of race, “lacked opportunities for educating themselves, opportunities to earn enough to go into business, opportunities to train in the required vocation, opportunities to obtain the necessary funding, licences and premises”, was buried in the distorted picture that was presented, so that certain quarters could help themselves.
11 years before that reported speech to the Havard Club, in 1991, Mahathir launched his Vision 2020 where he also spoke of establishing a united Malaysian nation; a Bangsa Malaysia, as he put it. I have alluded to this in a previous post last year. This is what Mahathir had said in 1991 of that Bangsa Malaysia :
“By the year 2020, Malaysia can be a united nation, with a confident Malaysian society, infused by strong moral and ethical values, living in a society that is democratic, liberal and tolerant, caring, economically just and equitable, progressive and prosperous, and in full possession of an economy that is competitive, dynamic, robust and resilient. There can be no fully developed Malaysia until we have finally overcome the nine central strategic challenges that have confronted us from the moment of our birth as an independent nation…The first of these is the challenges of establishing a united Malaysian nation with a sense of common and shared destiny. This must be a nation at peace with itself, territorially and ethnically integrated, living in harmony and full and fair partnership, made up of one ‘Bangsa Malaysia’ with political loyalty and dedication to the nation…The eighth is the challenge of ensuring an economically just society. This is a society in which there is a fair and equitable distribution of the wealth of the nation, in which there is full partnership in economic progress. Such a society cannot be in place so long as there is the identification of race with economic function, and the identification of economic backwardness with race.”
18 years on from that inspirational speech of his, why is it that we do not appear to be anywhere near establishing that one ‘Bangsa Malaysia’ with political loyalty and dedication to the nation ?
Was Mahathir’s Vision 2020 no different from his ‘Look East’ policy that he innovated soon after taking office, in that both were made up of inspiring rhetoric with little political will to carry through and which got us all sufficiently distracted so that the privileged hands that were raiding the national coffers could work at will and unnoticed?
What is the difference between Mahathir’s Vision 2020 and Najib’s 1Malaysia?
Is there such a difference between Mahathir and Najib that we should be encouraged to believe that, whilst Mahathiir had little impact in taking us anywhere near the Bangsa Malaysia he spoke of, with Najib, it will be otherwise ?
by Haris Ibrahim
Almost everyone knows, because they have read the above article which informed them of the relevant law applicable, which is that it is the Assembly who decides the question of the disqualification of a member of the Assembly and not the Election Commission. It is only when a member has been disqualified would there be a vacancy in the Assembly.
Now that we, the ordinary people, know the law we could very easily judge the competence of these judges of the Federal Court.
Recently, they have handed down a written judgment dated June 8, 2009 which was delivered by Nik Hashim bin Nik Abd Rahman FCJ as the judgment of the court.
The judgment appears to be oblivious of the fact that the general public is now aware of the law applicable. Since the people has been apprised of the law it would be foolish for any judge to …
What’s wrong with the maLAYSIAN society: Innocent get killed, CRIMINALS get respectIn 2007, six (6) police officers and two (2) underworld figures signed Statutory Declarations alleging that senior police officers right up to the IGP have links with the Chinese drugs, prostitution, illegal gambling and loan-shark syndicate based in Johor and which was expanding its operation throughout Malaysia. Another police officer made a police report alleging that his family was kidnapped by the ACA to force him to change his statement while the head of the CCD and his lawyer were arrested and charged for alleged criminal offenses for detaining underworld bosses under the Emergency Ordinance.
i BELIEVED THAT THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THIS LAND ARE ALSO INVOLVED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN THIS DASTARDLY CRIME ..AA CRIME AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF MALAYSIA…
Innocents are shot dead without a thought while CRIMINALS under the garb of politicians can slaughter the soul of the nation but are spared. This is a sad reality in today’MALAYSIA IGP sent ASP Hong to Chennai to look for Bala.. Oh,polis you are really disgusting.BALANEVER LEFT MALAYSIA THE DAY HE WAS KIDNAP FROM HIS HIS HOUSE IN RAWANG BY OUR SPEACIAL BRANCH AND WAS PUT UP IN PRINCE HOTEL WHAT YOU KUGAN HIM TO CHANGE HIS S.D SO IMPORTANT FOR IGP TO PROTECT A NAJIB SO THAT IGP CONTRACT CAN BE RENEWED TO
MAKE MORE MONEY
PDRM = “Anjing UMNO”TDM is the biggest crook of all. He knows a lot of things including RPK complaint about Najib’s offer to shut his mouth. Instead of disposing the culprit, he could just joke with him to share the offer.
I hate Malaysia’s politicians especially BNs.
The PDRM that never takes any action against a person who is remotely a VIPI, too, have my questions, let’s put those aside.
PDRM is more interested in making money, protecting UMNO goons than caring the safety of the Rakyat.
If i were you ASP Hong Kin Hock, better resign or you also will be one of them because you are force to work in their system, you get it !!!
All I can say is the police and the courts are really efficient when it comes to Raja Petra son’s crimes. I salute them. Hope they can be as efficient when it comes to other crimes, too.
PDRM is more interested in making money, protecting UMNO goons than caring the safety of the Rakyat.
If i were you ASP Hong Kin Hock, better resign or you also will be one of them because you are force to work in their system, you get it !!!
I wonder, when it comes to big and internationally acclaimed crimes like murder by military/c4 explosives, we still do not yet know WHY the hell did those two cops blow up Altantuya, when they didnt even know her.
Nobody could tell us WHY are the then DPM Najib Tun Razak’s bodyguards involved in a love/domestic/sex affair(as we are told to believe) that they have to blow up the poor woman and leave her two sons orphaned?
Are these kind of tasks (like blowing up jilted girlfriends of political analysts close to high ranking officials) part of the cops/VIP bodyguards’ job?
Are they being paid an extra allowance for it?
If the answer is “no” and they do it for “free”, then I say that the cops are a frenzy lot.
When it comes to petty crimes, wow, they are excellant, they are fast.
When it comes to arresting protestors wearing BLACK, wow, cepat-nya! So speedy!
This is the problem with this nation. The MALAYSIAN Police are still governed by the same Police Act which the British had formulated in 1940S to rule over the natives. The act that treated MALAYS as subjects and where police were not for the security of the colonial natives but the ‘White Masters’
Today the White Master is replaced by the VIP. This VIP is a strange term in a democratic nation. In MALAYSIA, a VIP is one, who is either a politician, a filthy rich businessman, a filmstar, a crackpot or anybody from comedian OR WHO RENTS HIS ASS TO ROSMAA.
This list includes everyone who has either got a few billions or is visible on TV. He has the right to mibehave with the rest of ‘mere mortals’. He can be a JJ he can be a SAMY VALU who slaps a airline manager and he can be a ‘politician’ like ZAMBRY who can let loose his cadre on tens of thousands of people.
But never, the cane of police will never even touch ZAMBRY or his goons. Of course, Why still no charge against Kugan’s killers? Or investigations into Toyota’s alleged unaccounted for wealth, or KJ’s and Ali Rustam’s corrupt acts for which they were censured by UMNO?
We have to blame ourselves for this situation. Haven’t we given the police and politicians this right? We fight over religion, RACE and all such things that eventually end up ceding our rights and getting civil liberties curbed. We, of course, never speak up for justice and liberty.
Remember the two China doll lover Frogs?
What is happening to their corruption charges…are the tainted courts too occupied with only ‘opposition’ (whether politicians or individuals)to the UMNOscumbags gomen. THIS IS BOHONLAND AT HER BEST!
This UMNO judiciary is nothing new with surprises…Yaki, you have done your masters proud! Rest are also divided on the basis of their ‘other affiliations’. [Any affiliationf or law!] Society supports the encounters just like they happen in movies and feels that’s the ideal way without realising its danger for the civic society.
Of course, when unrestrained police gets corrupted and politicised to such levels that a common man gets thrown in lockup for a brawl for weeks while a VIP is allowed to go scot-free even after getting people killed and goes out on ‘bail’ and we still don’t speak up, can there still be hope?
Aren’t we a selfish and hypocritical to the core.when the son of custom director general was caught having porn items, people ridiculed BN for having a father of a paedophile as the custom officer.
when malaysia today has a criminal as a son, we all keep quiet and blame everyone else.
There are Muslims speaking for Muslim suspects and there are Hindutva organisations speaking for the ones like
2Peraks 2MBs 2Speakers 2Election Commissions 2Police Systems 2MACC Systems 2Judicial Systems. That is the reason for the “SUPER SPEED” and “INDECENT HASTE”.
See the “super speed” and “indecent haste” in handing down Zambry’s appeal. Within a matter of about 3 hours, the single-handed Court of Appeal judge was able to grant the stay of the declaration which Nizar had obtained against Zambry but without giving any reason for his decision. Whereas, the appeal by Nizar has been delayed by more than a week.
See the “super speed” on how they physically dragged Sivakumar out of the Perak State Assembly when they acted on the “no-shame” and “illegal” speaker. Whereas, when Sivakumar requested for the removal of the 7 suspended ADUNs and the 3 frogs, Sivakumar’s request was totally ignored. But innocent and ordinary citizens have none speaking for them. Who will speak for them, who are nothing, just ordinary MALAYSIANS
What’s wrong with the maLAYSIAN society: Innocent get killed, CRIMINALS get respectIn 2007, six (6) police officers and two (2) underworld figures signed Statutory Declarations alleging that senior police officers right up to the IGP have links with the Chinese drugs, prostitution, illegal gambling and loan-shark syndicate based in Johor and which was expanding its operation throughout Malaysia. Another police officer made a police report alleging that his family was kidnapped by the ACA to force him to change his statement while the head of the CCD and his lawyer were arrested and charged for alleged criminal offenses for detaining underworld bosses under the Emergency Ordinance.
i BELIEVED THAT THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THIS LAND ARE ALSO INVOLVED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN THIS DASTARDLY CRIME ..AA CRIME AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF MALAYSIA…
Innocents are shot dead without a thought while CRIMINALS under the garb of politicians can slaughter the soul of the nation but are spared. This is a sad reality in today’MALAYSIA IGP sent ASP Hong to Chennai to look for Bala.. Oh,polis you are really disgusting.BALANEVER LEFT MALAYSIA THE DAY HE WAS KIDNAP FROM HIS HIS HOUSE IN RAWANG BY OUR SPEACIAL BRANCH AND WAS PUT UP IN PRINCE HOTEL WHAT YOU KUGAN HIM TO CHANGE HIS S.D SO IMPORTANT FOR IGP TO PROTECT A NAJIB SO THAT IGP CONTRACT CAN BE RENEWED TO
MAKE MORE MONEY
PDRM = “Anjing UMNO”TDM is the biggest crook of all. He knows a lot of things including RPK complaint about Najib’s offer to shut his mouth. Instead of disposing the culprit, he could just joke with him to share the offer.
I hate Malaysia’s politicians especially BNs.
The PDRM that never takes any action against a person who is remotely a VIPI, too, have my questions, let’s put those aside.
PDRM is more interested in making money, protecting UMNO goons than caring the safety of the Rakyat.
If i were you ASP Hong Kin Hock, better resign or you also will be one of them because you are force to work in their system, you get it !!!
All I can say is the police and the courts are really efficient when it comes to Raja Petra son’s crimes. I salute them. Hope they can be as efficient when it comes to other crimes, too.
PDRM is more interested in making money, protecting UMNO goons than caring the safety of the Rakyat.
If i were you ASP Hong Kin Hock, better resign or you also will be one of them because you are force to work in their system, you get it !!!
I wonder, when it comes to big and internationally acclaimed crimes like murder by military/c4 explosives, we still do not yet know WHY the hell did those two cops blow up Altantuya, when they didnt even know her.
Nobody could tell us WHY are the then DPM Najib Tun Razak’s bodyguards involved in a love/domestic/sex affair(as we are told to believe) that they have to blow up the poor woman and leave her two sons orphaned?
Are these kind of tasks (like blowing up jilted girlfriends of political analysts close to high ranking officials) part of the cops/VIP bodyguards’ job?
Are they being paid an extra allowance for it?
If the answer is “no” and they do it for “free”, then I say that the cops are a frenzy lot.
When it comes to petty crimes, wow, they are excellant, they are fast.
When it comes to arresting protestors wearing BLACK, wow, cepat-nya! So speedy!
This is the problem with this nation. The MALAYSIAN Police are still governed by the same Police Act which the British had formulated in 1940S to rule over the natives. The act that treated MALAYS as subjects and where police were not for the security of the colonial natives but the ‘White Masters’
Today the White Master is replaced by the VIP. This VIP is a strange term in a democratic nation. In MALAYSIA, a VIP is one, who is either a politician, a filthy rich businessman, a filmstar, a crackpot or anybody from comedian OR WHO RENTS HIS ASS TO ROSMAA.
This list includes everyone who has either got a few billions or is visible on TV. He has the right to mibehave with the rest of ‘mere mortals’. He can be a JJ he can be a SAMY VALU who slaps a airline manager and he can be a ‘politician’ like ZAMBRY who can let loose his cadre on tens of thousands of people.
But never, the cane of police will never even touch ZAMBRY or his goons. Of course, Why still no charge against Kugan’s killers? Or investigations into Toyota’s alleged unaccounted for wealth, or KJ’s and Ali Rustam’s corrupt acts for which they were censured by UMNO?
We have to blame ourselves for this situation. Haven’t we given the police and politicians this right? We fight over religion, RACE and all such things that eventually end up ceding our rights and getting civil liberties curbed. We, of course, never speak up for justice and liberty.
Remember the two China doll lover Frogs?
What is happening to their corruption charges…are the tainted courts too occupied with only ‘opposition’ (whether politicians or individuals)to the UMNOscumbags gomen. THIS IS BOHONLAND AT HER BEST!
This UMNO judiciary is nothing new with surprises…Yaki, you have done your masters proud! Rest are also divided on the basis of their ‘other affiliations’. [Any affiliationf or law!] Society supports the encounters just like they happen in movies and feels that’s the ideal way without realising its danger for the civic society.
Of course, when unrestrained police gets corrupted and politicised to such levels that a common man gets thrown in lockup for a brawl for weeks while a VIP is allowed to go scot-free even after getting people killed and goes out on ‘bail’ and we still don’t speak up, can there still be hope?
Aren’t we a selfish and hypocritical to the core.when the son of custom director general was caught having porn items, people ridiculed BN for having a father of a paedophile as the custom officer.
when malaysia today has a criminal as a son, we all keep quiet and blame everyone else.
There are Muslims speaking for Muslim suspects and there are Hindutva organisations speaking for the ones like
2Peraks 2MBs 2Speakers 2Election Commissions 2Police Systems 2MACC Systems 2Judicial Systems. That is the reason for the “SUPER SPEED” and “INDECENT HASTE”.
See the “super speed” and “indecent haste” in handing down Zambry’s appeal. Within a matter of about 3 hours, the single-handed Court of Appeal judge was able to grant the stay of the declaration which Nizar had obtained against Zambry but without giving any reason for his decision. Whereas, the appeal by Nizar has been delayed by more than a week.
See the “super speed” on how they physically dragged Sivakumar out of the Perak State Assembly when they acted on the “no-shame” and “illegal” speaker. Whereas, when Sivakumar requested for the removal of the 7 suspended ADUNs and the 3 frogs, Sivakumar’s request was totally ignored. But innocent and ordinary citizens have none speaking for them. Who will speak for them, who are nothing, just ordinary MALAYSIANS
KIDNAPING OF EVIDENCE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE
Everyone knows that the Barisan Nasional government has done many stupid things. However, its decision not to appeal Razak’s acquittal was, no doubt, a stupidity of the highest order. It was unfortunate that hitherto no reasons have been advanced by the government in not filing an appeal against such an absurd acquittal.By Mohamed Hanipa Maidin, The Malaysian Insider why baginda had wait till its decision not to appeal Razak’s acquittal before his press conferance,
MARCH 13 — An explosive expose of the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder hit the streets of Paris on March 5 with a two-page expose in the Liberation newspaper. An online version has been posted on its website in PDF format.
The expose came with four colour photographs of the main personalities involved including Razak Baginda, who was charged with abetting the murder and who has been acquitted by the High Court.
Everyone knows that the Barisan Nasional government has done many stupid things. However, its decision not to appeal Razak’s acquittal was, no doubt, a stupidity of the highest order. It was unfortunate that hitherto no reasons have been advanced by the government in not filing an appeal against such an absurd acquittal.
As far as the men on the street are concerned Altantuya’s bloody tragedy began with Razak. Without his intimate involvement with the late Altantuya nobody knew who Altantuya was.
Whether Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak also knew Altantuya is a matter of speculation. Nevertheless since Razak was close to Najib it is hard to dismiss the speculation that Najib might have also known her.
Without Altantuya’s harassment, Razak had no reasons to engage the services of policemen Sirul Azhar Umar and Azilah Hadri. Why should Sirul and Azilah come into picture if Razak had not contacted them? And why should not Razak have contacted Sirul and Azilah when he was consistently harassed by Altantuya.
Razak needed help to get rid of Altantuya and he got these two policemen. One of them, according to Razak’s affidavit in his application for bail, proudly confessed to him that he had previously killed six people.
The decision of the Attorney-General not to file an appeal against Razak’s acquittal was definitely not a wise decision. It has left many questions unanswered.
The refusal to appeal implies that the decision of the High Court was so strong that there was no room for appellate interference.
If this is the excuse given by the government our short answer will be — do not insult our intelligence.
Since when has the A-G been easily convinced by a decision of the court in the first instance in a crime of murder. Since when has an appeal become an expensive enterprise for the A-G.
If Haneef Basri’s acquittal in Norita Samsudin’s murder prompted the A-G to appeal against such an acquittal, why is Razak’s case different? Why was Razak given preferential treatment vis a vis other murder cases?
Altantuya’s murder was not a run-of-the-mill crime. The fact that C4 explosive was used in the murder depicts the ugly picture of the crime. By using C4 explosive, the crime has strong elements of washing away the evidence. Apart from C4, the crime also involved a powerful individual who has close and strong connections with the Deputy Prime Minister.
The reputation and the integrity of our administration of justice has been closely attached to this trial. If the prosecution of Razak brought a glimmer of hope to our justice system, the government’s decision not to file an appeal has thrown that little hope into the drain.
The government’s decision has once again brought our justice system into disrepute. It seems that our justice system will forever become a laughing stock.
The people have a right to know the actual and truthful reasons behind the decision not to appeal. Is it because the decision of the High Court judge was so powerful? Or was it the pressure by the ruling elite that led to the decision of the A-G not to appeal?…
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