Why MCMC wants Malaysiakini to remove the second video
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In my ‘Malaysiakini stands up to defy the oppressors’ post, I had asked if the reason might be to avoid ministerial embarrassment and had suggested that if that were so, it was a case of too little, too late.
MCMC’s reasoning, applicable to both videos, is that the “videos contain offensive contents with the intent to annoy any person, especially Indians”.
The Malaysiakini report of the press conference by Hishamuddin, which is the subject matter of the second video, had the Home Minister saying that the “residents did not know the organisers and did not know a cow’s head would be brought during the demonstration” , and added that the police would investigate the incident to identify who brought the cow’s head to the protest.
The report has it that this press conference took place after Hisham had an hour-long closed-door meeting with residents’ representatives at his office in Putrajaya.
It also reported that when asked why no police action was taken when the head of the cow was brought to the scene of the protest, he claimed that action had been taken and then said that “I was monitoring it myself and reporting it to the prime minister”.
At this point, I will make the observation that it is reasonable to assume that as Hisham was ‘monitoring it’ himself and reporting to the PM on the matter, he must surely have watched video footage when the head of the cow was carried to the protest and the disgraceful things that were done to it, before he went into that hour-long meeting.
That video footage can in fact be found in the first video that MCMC have asked Malaysiakini to remove from their website.
It is already available on Youtube.
