IGP must act to restore
confidence
The recent police shoot out in Klang that killed five suspected criminals is
regrettable and deeply disturbing.
Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Musa Hassan righty said that the
responsibility of the police is to protect and rescue law-abiding citizens, and
not to protect criminals who kill to escape arrest. It is clearly within the
right of the police to act in self-defense and protect the lives of innocent
by-standers. If the police really acted in self defense as he claims, then
there is absolutely no reason to question them for their actions. However if
otherwise,as claimed by many, then we have some serious problems to address as
we had lost five young Malaysians at the prime of their lives who were yet to
be proven to be criminals.
The IGP strongly denied all allegations by various quarters including some
members of parliament that the police was trigger happy and only targeted the
Indian community. These are serious allegations that have instilled fear and
anxiety in the minds of the vast majority of the Indian parents regarding the
safety of their children who are decent law abiding citizens.As Indian parents
we fear the safety of our young children when they are out with their friends
even for healthy activities.
While the IGP’s reassurances are welcome he must do more to allay the fears
among the people as a number of questions remains unanswered regarding the
recent shooting in Klang where five suspected criminals were shot dead by the
police.So far we only have the police side of the story which the people are
not willing to believe as result of past experiences.
This is not the first time for such a controversial police action. A number of
similar shooting incidences before were ignored despite calls for thorough
investigation. This has created a negative public perception of the police.
These perceptions may be wrong but the onus is on the IGP and the police to correct
it with some urgency as the fear among the people for their safety in genuine.
The shooting must not be made into a racial issue as that will only lead to
cover up and pushing the problem under the carpet. Instead it questions the
professionalism of our police force and the IGP and the government should act
to prove that the assault on the alleged robbers was in accordance with the set
laws governing such operations. They must ensure that all rules were followed
and all precautions taken to avoid unnecessary deaths.
Was indiscriminate force used by the police? What was the evidence to indicate
that the suspects were the real criminals? Did the suspected criminals open
fire at the police? These are the questions that need to be answered. This can
only be done by a professional and unbiased investigation into the incident to
reveal the truth.
Only by doing so can the allegations against the police be proven false and the
negative image erased from the minds of the people at large. There have been
too many such incidences that brings into question the reputation and integrity
of our police which was held in high esteem. The IGP and the government must
take this opportunity to restore the confidence of the rakyat on the police
force as the true guardian of their safety.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Inconsiderate driver;
Bus Company : Ekspres Sutera
Plate No : 7877
Destination : KL - Ipoh
Date : 14/11/09
Departure time : 2pm (from KL)
The driver is smoking in the bus along the way. Inside the bus there's no ventilation, therefore the passengers inhale the smoke which is very heavy.
Enjoy the 2009 Games all athletes and spectators, you will all be, a part of the Games at Laos.
Let the friendly atmosphere of Asean,be a shining beacon to games at Laos ,on 9th December.
The games in Laos in 2009,will help Laos gain much exposure, it needs to improve itself.
Let the Games , help build love for sports among all youths, in our common neighbour nations ,in Asean.
GO SEA GAMES 2009,GO. Good luck to all Asean athletes at Games. To participate in games in full sportmanship,is what ,is wanted for the games.
Let spirit of sportmanship unity be also a beacon ,that guides Sea Games 2009.
Let the feet,body and arms of Asean perform in unity,for excellence of Sports in Asean.
In this interconnected WWW world of ours, more damage is done to a nation and its people by misrepresentation of facts rather than by outright lying.
This seems to be the new modus-operandi of covert "war" that is being waged around the globe , often by-proxy using "independent" news channel like Channel 4 and Al-Jazeera, against selected nations.
Last week, it was Fauziah Ibrahim and Amos Roberts with the unwitting victims of the RELA officers on night raid, the Deputy Home Minister Abu Seman Yusop and the guards of the Lenggeng Detention Center in
"Refugees on the run".
Tonight, it was Aidan Hartley on Channel 4+1 with
"Malaysia: Refugees for sale".
Again, he was allowed to film and interview the illegal immigrants in raids by RELA and again, RELA and the Malaysian Authorities were depicted as heartless entities.
In addition, Aidan obviously is trying to "out-do" Amos by the even more sensational allegations by the illegal immigrants that they were being sold to Thai gangsters for slavery, prostitution and child labour by the Malaysian immigration officers.
And just like that, the judgement has been passed by the great supreme beings, Aidan Hartley and Amos Roberts.
The illegal immigrants accuses. The reporters agrees.
The Malaysian Immigration Officers were not given a chance to refute any of these allegations so they must be true.
And it is the first time that I have been told that KL have "Ghettos".
To many Malaysians, it doesn't mean much but to Europeans, it means the concentration camps in Poland and Germany during World War 2.
Words clearly chosen to have the maximum impact in western viewers minds.
Another vicious lie designed to wreck the image of Malaysia and Malaysians alike on the International platform.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/4od#3010255 (video)
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/episode-guide/series-2009/episode-19
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/articles/malaysia-reporters-log
The RELA officers, were depicted as "militia" out to hound and harass "innocent" people, the Deputy Home Minister, as ignorant and incompetent and the guards, treating the detainees "worst than animals", as described by the detained illegal immigrants in film.
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2009/11/20091111899350442.html (video)
One-to-one short interviews were given to the illegal immigrants who described all kinds of abuse and professed their innocence to the end.
The documentary also went on to condemn Malaysian immigration officers for detaining immigrants who claimed that they have the UNHCR card, and conveniently omitting the fact that even in the documentary itself, you can see the immigration officers in full uniform checking the documentations of the immigrants with laptops in the back of the police vans.
The fact that false UNHCR cards have been in circulation since 2005, which has been confirmed by UNHCR in a press release, was also conveniently omitted from the report.
See:
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/search?page=search&docid=422842bf4&query=malaysia
So, if the checks with the computers shows that 6 immigrants who claims to have a "genuine" UNHCR card shows that this is not the case, then the officers are duty bound to detained them until they can prove otherwise.
Although Amos did his best to demonised our authorities, the truth is very different.
Do a search on Malaysia on the UNHCR site, sort by date and display 50 results at a time:
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/search?page=search&query=malaysia&skip=0&querysi=malaysia&searchin=title&display=50&sort=date
There is only one mention of Malaysian authorities arresting UNHCR card holders in 2007 in the last 11 years up to 1998. The UNHCR have also admitted that there are false UNHCR documentations in circulation as mentioned above.
The other unjust demonisation is of our RELA officers.
They have been pictured as "militia" trained for only 2 days and then unleashed to "give hell" to all immigrants and refugees.
Strange then that the detained illegal immigrants can still keep their handphones, make calls and be interviewed by foreign journalist without any prior screening.
The truth is that RELA and the Home Ministry have been too welcoming to reporters with hidden agendas like Amos and Aidan.
They have been too naive in expecting an impartial reporting of the good and dangerous work that the RELA and Immigration officers are doing to keep the country safe for its Citizens like you and me.
To allow them access to the detention centres, regardless of good intention was just foolish, for the centres are now portrayed as "ghettos" all over the world.
What makes me really furious and sad at the same time is that all the officers interviewed and filmed as part of the documentary clearly went out of their way to be hospitable and helpful to Amos and Aidan.
They were clearly proud and competent of carrying their duties for the good people of Malaysia.
To be depicted as the "hound-dogs" from hell for the equally unfortunate illegal immigrants is just a stab in the back on the international stage.
As such, these people should know how their hospitality has been abused by these reporters from Al-Jazeera and Channel 4.
Please let them know if you recognise anyone in the videos above.
To put things in perspective, Malaysia have to deal with over 2 million illegal immigrants. UK between 300K to 500K, Australia a measly 7,900 illegal immigrants arriving by boat in 1998-99 and Singapore police caught a paltry 35 illegal immigrants during January-March 2009 compared with 46 a year ago.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/amnesty-on-illegal-immigrants-is-worth-1636bn-to-uk-472164.html
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/singapore/2009/04/18/204752/Singapore-coast.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/899166.stm
And yes, unlike Malaysia, Australia is a signatory of the United Nations 1951 Refugees Convention.
Despite this fact, they still hold the "refugees" or "illegal immigrants" in detention centres and turn away boats carrying illegal immigrants and refugee seekers from their own shores.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/899166.stm
Why?
Simple.
The convention requires each and every country who signed the convention to provide anyone who seeks the refugee status on arrival the same rights as the citizens of that country with regards to employment, health care, social benefits and even travel documents.
Who decides who is a "refugee" ?.
The short answer is the person seeking the status of a refugee.
See Articles 17, 18, 22, 23 and 34 of the Refugee Convention at:
http://www.unhcr.org/3c0f495f4.html
The ugly truth is the Australian themselves keep their own refugees locked away on a remote island, behind razor wires, 1,650 miles away from the mainland.
A measly 1200 in number and they are already panicking.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/asia/05island.html
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/815/41907
What Amos and the Australian government wants us to do is to take in all these refugees, who have left their own homes because of the wars that Australia and the other Western nations have created in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Middle East.
They basically want to "shame Malaysians" into cleaning after the mess that they created in the first place.
For us to take in the swarming uneducated and unemployed refugees while they themselves cherry-pick the professionals and cream of the crop for themselves.
How nice.
It really made my blood boil when in one of the scenes, the refugees were filmed crying their hearts out saying that everything would be perfect if only they could get to Australia, the promised land.
If only the Malaysian immigration officers would not arrest them for being illegal immigrants and trespassing Malaysia en-route to Australia.
They obviously have no clue what they are talking about and the wool have been pulled over their eyes by the producers of the "documentary".
Australia portrayed as the land of paradise. Malaysia, the land of hell unleashed.
By the way, Amos Roberts, the reporter is Australian.
I think it would be a good idea for the Malaysian authorities to seriously consider facilitating the passage of these people who are looking for their promised land on humanitarian grounds.
We should not "stand in their way".
Give them food, fuel and water and let them continue their journey, on humanitarian grounds, of course. This will then show to the rest of the world that we Malaysians have hearts too.
We can then make our own Astro "documentary" on how these poor souls are then treated on Christmas Island in Australia.
For we have no right to keep them from their dreams to a country who is a signatory of the UN Refugee Convention, unlike Malaysia and Singapore.
As for the good people of RELA who steps forward to the call of keeping our country safe for the good people of Malaysia, I salute you.
All of you.
If not for your sacrifice on a volunteer basis, there would have been even more snatch-thief robberies and death, armed robberies and other crimes in the country.
Below is a post from a RELA member describing their "2 day" training and duties. It is indeed a selfless act, to join RELA and make our country safe for all.
RELA Homepage
http://www.kdn.gov.my/eng/template01.asp?contentid=52
english
http://www.kdn.gov.my/eng/template01.asp?contentid=54
e-RELA
http://irela.moha.gov.my/
The People's Volunteer Corps (RELA)
"Ikatan Relawan Rakyat Malaysia (RELA) was established on 11 January 1972 with the effective of (Essential Powers) Emergency Act 1964 – Essential Rules (Ikatan Relawan Rakyat) (Amendment) 2005.
RELA's establishment enable the masses to volunteer and be a member of a volunteer force to preserve and maintain the national peace and security.
Under Section 2 of the (Essential Powers) Emergency Act 1964, the Yang Di Pertuan Agong has given the consent to approve the Essential Rules (Amendment) 2005) (Ikatan Relawan Rakyat) with effect from 01 February 2005. This rule has given certain powers to RELA Officers in tackling Illegal Immigrants (PATI)."
The RELA Reservist (A BBC article)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4329067.stm
A taxi driver by day, Peter has been in Rela, Malaysia's volunteer reserve, for almost five years.
"Usually when they need us they'll call us to go for duty," he said. "Sometimes... we go together with the immigration [officers] to pick up those illegal foreigners."
Peter sees his volunteer work as his national duty
He and the 300,000 other members of the reserve are supposed to go for weekly training sessions.
"We go marching every Saturday, and shooting with the M16 [assault rifle]," he said.
For Peter, playing his role in the reserves is his contribution to the country's safety.
With hundreds of thousands of foreigners living outside the law and widely blamed for rising crime, he sees the job of rounding them up as a social duty.
"Especially the illegal immigrants for Indonesia, they always give us a lot of trouble. They break into the house, they rob, they steal everything," he said.
"Most Malaysians worry about it."
Being a volunteer is not easy. According to Peter, encounters with illegal immigrants can often be dangerous.
"Sometimes they jump from three storeys, two storeys, they even go through the drains," he said.
"We don't carry weapons, we just carry a stick to protect ourselves in case they carry knives. Sometimes they carry a parang - a knife [machete]."
But like most Malaysians, Peter is aware that foreign labourers, legal and illegal, do jobs that he and his fellow citizens would not dirty their hands with.
He has some sympathy for genuine workers.
"Some of them they really work here, so sometimes when they work here we give them a chance because we are human beings - we let them go."
So join RELA if you are worried about the security of our country. It shows who really steps forward amongst all the people of Malaysia in this picture that Aidan took with the RELA corps, whom he criticised and unfairly depicted on the same evening on film.

Aidan with RELA Officers
Aidan with the RELA Officers
As for Aidan, he is definitely not an English Gentleman at all.
Machiavelli should be his name.
The lesson to be learnt is that Malaysians should not be so unreserved with our trust and hospitality, especially to western reporters with both a hidden agenda and dagger.
Doubt what you know. Know what you doubt.
Hidup Malaysiaku !!!

A way forward
http://www.harakahdaily.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23332:nik-aziz-disenarai-50-tokoh-berpengaruh-di-dunia-islam-2009&catid=41:utama-muka-depan&Itemid=125
http://www.rissc. jo/muslim500v- 1L.pdf
When are you guys gonna wake up???
We have the biggest crooks & criminals in front of our very eyes and all of you still treat them as VVIP!( Very Very impolite People)
Lol,talking about stupidity!
Talk about the recent UPSR Aptitute Test my son did not even receive a result despite sitting for the exam. The class teachers told me 'keputusan anak anda tercicir dari senarai ' can you believe it so i don't even know what he got. The code T for tidak hadir is printed on the slip which is pasted on the school's announcement board despite him attending the exam.
How can this happen? I was very furious and demanded an explanation. The class teacher told me that they have made a complain regarding it to the state education department and would inform the out come soon. They suspect its a clerical error or his paper had gone missing!!!!!!!!
He was not the only one there were few other students with the similar case. What i could't understand if tercicir how come on his result slip they have printed the code 1(peka). The best part my boy got 5A's.
He really did a lot of practice online and in books as a preparation for the exam. Really dedicated, he wanted to get a full band all gone to sheer waste i suppose.
Arsenal’s climb to second certainly does not surprise me, it was coming. Determination and hard work from Wenger and his boys has paid off. There is one problem for them though, they miss the injured van Persie, he is key to their success...
