Just wanted to highlight to cases of abuse of police power from Suaram recently.
The first concerns the Emergency Ordinance – a lesser known cousin of the draconian ISA:
Suaram expresses disappointment and concern over the re-arrest of the three men under the Emergency Ordinance (Public Order and Crime Prevention) at Muar yesterday. The trio, M. Nandakumar (43), M. Thirugnanam (33) and K. Jayaraman (56), were charged with the murder of businessman Datuk M. Gunasegaran. They were released by the High Court yesterday after the prosecution dropped the charges. However, the police re-arrested three of them under the Emergency Ordinance (EO) once they stepped out of the court room.
This shows utter disrespect for the process of law and order. If the courts find nothing to charge these men with, how can the police be so sure they are the murderers?
If we are deciding people are guilty without proof that can hold up in court, we might as well go back to the feudal system right, where might is right?
Another case = the ridiculous arrest under the ISA of Cheng Lee Whee (who I think I heard speak at last year’s Suaram dinner) in Johor last year, who remains set to be charged in court :P Her crime?
Making a police report O_O
The case concerned a police siege (complete with anti-bomb squad :P ) on Kampung Baru Pelentong Tengah, a recap is below.
Kes Ahli Secretariat Suaram JB, Cheng Lee Whee yang didakwa dibawah Kanun Keseksaan Seksyen 182 akibat tindakan membuat laporan polis untuk mempertahankan hak-hak penduduk Kampung Baru Plentong Tengah (KBPT), telah ditangguhkan ke 25hb Januari tahun ini (Isnin) sementara Peguam Negara mempertimbangkan tuntutan untuk mengugurkan dakwaan ke atas Cheng Lee Whee.
Penangguhan tersebut adalah hasil tindakan penghantaran petisyen oleh 35 pertubuhan dan parti kepada Peguam Negara di Putrajaya pada 24hb November 2009 (Selasa) untuk menuntut supaya pendakwaan terhadap Cheng digugurkan. Sebanyak 35 pertubuhan dan lebih kurang 500 individu telah mengabsah (endorse) petisyen tersebut.
Timbalan Ketua Bahagian Pendakwaan Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria (b/p Penguam Negara Malaysia) dalam surat kepada Suaram KL yang bertarikh 11hb Januari 2010 menyatakan bahawa Penguam Negara setuju untuk mengugurkan dakwaan terhadap Cheng Lee Whee. Namun demikian, Cheng dan penguam beliau Encik Hassan Karim masih belum menerima surat rasmi daripada pihak mahkamah yang mengesahkan pengguguran dakwaan ke atas Cheng Lee Whee.
What’s with these unfulfilled promises? >:( Are they going to go ahead with this ridiculous charge?
Cheng Lee Whee seorang aktivis Suaram Johor telah ditahan untuk siasatan di bawah Seksyen 28 ISA oleh Polis IPD Seri Alam atas arahan Ketua Polis Negeri Johor, Datuk Mohd. Mokhtar bin Hj.Mohd Shariff selama 19 jam pada 18 Oktober 2008. Beliau ditahan kerana membuat aduan di Portal Polis Kontinjen Johor (www.polisjohor.gov.my) tentang pengusiran paksa yang berlaku di Kampung Baru Pelentong Tengah (KBPT) pada 10.00 am 16hb Oktober 2008.
Ketua Polis Johor Baru , Mokhtar Shariff menegaskan perintah reman telah dikeluarkan kerana menyebarkan ‘laporan palsu’ kononnya polis telah menyalah gunakan kuasa dalam operasi perobohan sebuah kampung setinggan di Johor. 27 orang ditangkap kerana menghalang pelaksanaan perintah mahkamah bagi merobohkan rumah-rumah kosong di Kampung Baru Plentong Tengah.
Pada 16 Oktober 2008, jam 10.30 pagi, lebih 200 penduduk termasuk kanak-kanak mempertahankan rumah kediaman mereka di Kampung Baru Pelentong Tengah (KBPT) supaya tidak dirobohkan oleh pihak pemaju. Mereka membina benteng manusia dan duduk dengan aman tanpa sebarang senjata di pintu masuk kampung KBPT. Pihak polis menghantar 553 anggota polis yang terdiri daripada pelbagai unit, termasuk Pasukan Gerakan Am (PGA), Pasukan Simpanan Persekutuan (FRU) yang dilengkapi kereta air cannon, Unit Udara Polis, Unit Marin Polis, Unit Anjing Pengesan, unit Pemusnah Bom, serta helicopter untuk berhadapan dengan penduduk kampung yang hanya seramai 200 orang penduduk yang tiada sebarang senjata untuk “mengawal” keadaan bagi memastikan proses meroboh beberapa rumah kosong berjalan lancar. Ramai penduduk cedera dalam pengusiran paksa tersebut dan seorang ahli JKB pengsan.
Hard-nosed Malaysia
Weeks before the December 31 High Court ruling allowing non-Muslims to use the word Allah, rumblings were already growing in Umno that a power tussle at the very top – between Najib and Muhyiddin – may finally be breaking into the open.Two incidents fired the rumours. One was the sudden call by Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi – previously regarded as a Najib loyalist but lately believed to have switched over to Muhyiddin – for Gerakan to surrender the Penang BN chair to Umno. The other was the messy way in which Zahid chose to expose the theft of two jet engines from a military base.
Both incidents embarrassed Najib. The Umno president is really not sitting as pretty as his minders have tried to make it appear. No doubt there have been gushing news reports and ‘independent’ polls that try to portray growing popularity, but the reality is that hard-nosed Malaysians have already had a whiff of the future and they don’t like what they smell.
-english.cpiasia.net
553 armed police force with water tank against 200 unarmed people (which is also composed of kids!)?
…I am not sure if i get this right? 553 vs 200? The 200 is made of what? Super-power human?
seriously, wtf?! that 553 can be divided into 110 teams of 5 to safeguard the country! That’s 110 potential mobile police team patrolling the streets!