Honouring the memory of Corporal Zal Azri Abd Somad

ARCHIVES 2013

By admin-s On Sep 25, 2013

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Those who live in Malaysia have little respect for the police. We have nothing but disgust for the previous and current Home Ministers who have responsibility for the Police Force.

The previous Home Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein has shamed us in many ways. I will mention only five of them here.

Hisham waved the keris at several Umno meetings from 2005 – 2008 in the context of Malay nationalism, commonly viewed as Malay Supremacy. Many political commentators linked Hisham’s keris waving to the political tsunami in 2008 when Umno-BN lost its two-thirds majority in the Federal Government.
Hisham rose to the defence of a brazen group of about 50 Muslims who marched with the head of a cow from a mosque in Shah Alam to the Selangor state government headquarters, then stomped and spit upon it to show how they felt about a proposal to build a Hindu temple at a site in Section 23, Shah Alam.
Hisham defended the police when six members of the Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) were immorally detained in 2010 for 28 days and were maliciously accused of many falsehoods including attempts to use force to attempt an insurrection.
Hisham defended the police use of tear gas, acid-laced water and various kinds of brutality upon peaceful protesters during the BERSIH marches.
Hisham even had people arrested because they wore yellow!

The current Home Minister, Zahid Hamidi has been in the job for only 3 months, but has also shamed us in many ways. I will again restrict my recall to five shameful things:

Zahid was ordered by the Court of Appeal to answer charges that he assaulted businessman Amir Abdul Bazli on 16 January 2006 in Kajang.
Zahid, in one of his first statements as Home Minister, said those who are not happy with the government (which means the majority of those who voted in the 13th General Elections this year) should leave the country.
Zahid, without any investigation, said the police were not complicit in the attempted assassination of Sanjeevan who heads the MyWatch anit-crime watchdog group.
Zahid watches idly as the police detain close to 6,000 alleged gangsters for up to 72 days through “Ops Cantas,” but charge only a minute number of them.
Zahid who lives in fear of Chin Peng’s ashes, says Chin Peng did not take two chances given to him to return to Malaysia, while Chin Peng’s lawyers say all of Chin Peng’s applications to return were denied.

We have no respect for the Home Ministers who are responsible for the police force. (You can add much to my list, including their terms as Education and Defence Ministers.)

We have no respect for the top echelon of the Police Force because we have too often seen them lying about deaths in custody. In fact, in Malaysia, many consider it dangerous to go to police stations. Even an ex-cop like P.I. Bala disappeared after voluntarily going to a police station. And Teoh Beng Hock, Ahmad Sarbani, Darmendran and many more.