Top 10 facts from the PDRM fatal shootings statistics (2000 – 2009)

By Lawyers for Liberty

1.  Lowest number of deaths: 5 (2001);

2.  Second lowest number of deaths: 9 (2000);

3.  Highest number of deaths: 88 (2009);

4.  Second highest number of deaths: 82 (2008);

5.  Total number of deaths from 2000 to 2009: 279 victims;

6.  The increase from the lowest number of deaths at 5 (2001) to 88 (2009) is 17-fold;

7.  Fatality percentages/numbers according to race/nationality:  Indonesians: 40.5% (113 deaths); Indians: 21.8% (61 deaths); Chinese: 18.6% (52 deaths); and Malays: 15% (42 deaths);

8.  So Uthayakumar was right to say that Indians are disproportionate victims of fatal police shootings;

9.  The number of deaths without proper identification: 80 victims;

10. A Liberian UNHCR registered refugee/ asylum seeker was killed in 2008, and classified under “Negro”!