by e.s.shankar
On 3 April 2019, PM Mahathir, deliberately and shockingly, without an iota of
shame, dismissed as “hearsay”, Suhakam’s considered verdict that the abductions
of activist Amri in Nov 2016 and Pastor Raymond Koh in Feb 2017 constituted
acts of “Enforced Disappearances” by the Special Branch (SB) of the Royal Malaysian Police.
CLICK HERE.
Enforced Disappearance is defined by the UN adopted International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
(ICPPED) as:
Arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of
liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups acting with the authorization,
support or acquiescence of the State.
I do not know if Mahathir is aware that there are two other missing
persons, Malay Muslim convert Pastor Joshua Hilmi and his wife Ruth Sitepu,
whose disappearance in Nov 2016, without a shadow of a doubt, falls in the same
category of “enforced disappearance” as Amri and Koh. Joshua Hilmi was arrested
under the Internal Security Act 1960 in 1987 by Mahathir’s orders and released
a few years later.
CLICK HERE. Most likely, all 4 are dead, tortured and ruthlessly murdered in cold blood, given there
have been no demands whatsoever to-date for money or anything else by their
abductors.
That Mahathir was the first to spring to THE SB’s defence is no more
than a continuation of 38 years of Ketuanism (Malay Supremacism) and its second
tenet that the Malay Muslim face must be saved at any cost. Its first tenet is
that the Malay Muslim can do no wrong. As soon as Suhakam’s report was released
on the morning of 3 April 2019, there was a twitter barrage demanding explanations
from ex-Inspector General of Police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar, during whose tenure these
abductions took place and current IGP Fuzi Harun, who was the SB Director then.
For a while there was no response from either. But later that
afternoon, Khalid latched on to Mahathir’s lifeline and pleaded “hearsay”! Three
days later Fuzi responded by saying he was disappointed with Suhakam releasing
its report as it amounted to “punishing the police”.
CLICK HERE. He did not specifically deny the SB’s involvement but added that the police would "take appropriate action", which begs the question as to what exactly they have been
doing for the past two years. Fuzi seemed to be hinting that the report should have been suppressed so that a total cover-up could be instituted by the police.
It was apparent to anyone following Suhakam’s hearing that some
members of the RMP were doing their level best to be evasive, obstructive and sabotaged Suhakam. The hearing was brought to a halt on Jan 2018 when police
planted evidence and framed cock-eyed charges against a purported abductor, a
taxi driver. Had UMNO/BN not lost the 2018 General Election, it is a certainty
that the Suhakam hearing would have never resumed.
Mahathir’s despicable “hearsay” pronouncement is an act of treachery,
given that among the top reasons Pakatan Harapan was voted into power was its
promise of justice for murdered and C4’d Altantuya, the Teoh Beng Hock-MACC “suicide”
and these “abduction” cases. Beyond that, his undermining of Suhakam Head, Mah
Weng Kai, is diabolical and an act of cutting one’s nose to spite one’s face.
Mah, a top and highly respected private practice lawyer of 25 years standing,
was also a former Bar Council President and a retired Court of Appeal judge. Do
people like him blindly or incompetently point the finger at our shadowy SB?
But, you know what is the really low point of this entire episode so
far? We have not heard a peep from the Royals, Anwar Ibrahim, Wan Azizah, Nurul Izzah, Muhyiddin, Lim
Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng, Antony Loke, M.Kula, Gobind Singh, Teresa Kok, Hannah Yeoh, Teo Nie Ching, Shafie Apdal, Mat Sabu, Dzulkefli Ahmad, Khalid Samad
or any other Minister or MP? Where is Wong Tack who in 2013 famously inspired us with his incendiary 'Let's burn Lynas down'? The sole exception is DAP's Klang MP Charles
Santiago who bravely demanded IGP Fuzi be investigated. The rest seemed to have
suddenly lost their testicles.
Why this open spineless display? Because being in power, like
possession, seems to be 9/10 (nine tenths) of the law. Principles, ethics, morals, integrity and honour have all been thrown out the nearest window by PPBM, DAP, PKR, Amanah and Warisan,
on the altar of power and money. Yes, we all fought long and hard and voted for
PH to unseat one of the most evil governments (Najib/UMNO/BN) of the 21st
century. But that does not mean DAP and PKR in particular, must kow-tow wholesale
to Mahathir and PPBM, the minority party within the PH coalition.
If push comes
to shove, they should challenge Mahathir publicly on what he really wants – UMNO
3, continuation of Ketuanism and highway robbery affirmative action policies or
to lay the foundation for a lasting united progressive and prosperous nation. Note that when the newly
minted Economic Affairs Minister Azmin Ali talked about re-structuring, he
blurted out that he was working on a New Malay Economic Policy. Finally, they
have stopped being hypocritical and dropped the ‘Bumiputra’ rubbish under which
the Umnoptras from West Malaysia conned native Malaysians, Sabahans and
Sarawakians!
This is as pathetic, disgraceful, cowardly and shameful as it can get! Abductors, murderers, rogue police and SB officers and religious extremists must be brought to heel. The government must get to the bottom of what the
Mufti of Perlis knows. Would Mahathir have so nonchalantly said he would look into the abductions AFTER IGP Fuzi retires in May if it were his son or daughter who had been abducted?
We must once again stand up and fight for what’s right. It’s OUR
Malaysia and we must take it back from the Mahathirs, Ketuanists and other
extremists once and for all. Hesitate and the Talibans and death squads and stoning squads will form the next
government of Malaysia in 2023! BE WARNED!
NB Suhakam Reports on the enforced disappearances of Raymond Koh and Amri:
CLICK HERE.
