JUSTICE TO ALL MALAYSIANS
There’s a petition going on to demand that Najib set up a royal commission to replace the current farce of an inquest. They need at least 100,000 signatures. So do your bit!
Even if you are a BN supporter, this is not about politics. This is about custodial deaths. Next time, it could be YOU or ME. If we keep silent, we are just as responsible for the next death as the police / MACC officer who did the killing.
So, go and sign up here - http://www.petitiononline.com/m4bh/.
Please forward this message to your family and friends! Let’s get the 100,000 signatures!
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 — The Malaysians for Beng Hock movement is seeking public support to set up a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) to investigate Teoh Beng Hock’s death.
Chong Kok Siong, the group’s co-ordinator, told reporters today that it will be a three-month-long campaign to get 100,000 signatures, to be submitted to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
“It now appears that an independent, credible and professional RCI is the best way to bring about justice to Beng Hock’s family as the coroner’s inquest has failed to provide answers to the most crucial questions surrounding Beng Hock’s death in a believable way,” he said at Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH).
The 30-year-old Teoh was found dead on the fifth floor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam on July 16 last year after he was interrogated overnight by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in connection with suspected abuse of state funds by Selangor lawmakers. The Selangor MACC headquarters was then located on the 14th floor of the same building.
Teoh, who was the political secretary to Selangor state executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah, had been interrogated overnight by the MACC, from July 15 evening to July 16 morning, on allegations his boss had misused state funds.
Ng Yap Hwa, another co-ordinator of the movement, said he did not think it was premature to launch this campaign even as the inquest was still going on.
“Even at the beginning of this, when we found out about Beng Hock’s death, the family had already asked for a royal commission of inquiry. In the past one year, we see that the inquest is very unjust and that there are people who try to manipulate... it is an insult to Beng Hock and his family,” he said.
Chong pointed out that the Bar Council had already called for an RCI probe.
The ongoing inquest has grabbed national headlines and has been a hot topic on online social networks with video clips of DPP Datuk Abdul Razak Musa demonstrating the act of self-strangulation going viral, the rock-star look spotted by Thai forensic expert Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand and her witty remarks in court, and new evidence popping up unexpectedly.
The group claimed that it has already obtained more than 5,000 signatures from two recent events, and the signatures of Seputeh MP Teresa Kok and Serdang MP Teo Nie Ching.
“We urge the public and the civil society to turn their unhappiness into forces of hope, and to translate their sympathy into concrete action,” said Chong.
He said the public can sign the petition online at www.petitiononline.com/m4bh or contact the group for hard copies. At the end of the three-month-long campaign, there will be a “Justice for Beng Hock, Truth for Rakyat” gathering.
Dr. Adrian Wong
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1 comments:
Refer to the headline in Star 27 Jan 2011 on the 6 man panel on the commission of inquiry named to look into TBH’s death.
Dato’Dr.Bhupinder Singh should not be a member of the commission of inquiry in Teoh Beng Hock’s case. Being the head of forensic pathology service in the Ministry of Health as well as the senior most forensic pathologist, he would have been consulted in the post-mortem findings on TBH. As such Dato’ Dr.Bhupinder is a partisan to the post-mortem findings and is no longer an independent party. Surely, he will be defensive to the findings of his fellow forensic pathologist. In the scope of commission’s work, his words and expertise will carry a lot of weight and this may unduly influence the thinking of the team members and hence the line of questioning.
The real challenge is to find a neutral person who is not biased in this controversy. A neutral forensic pathologist from outside the country and the government should be more appropriate to the appointment, otherwise, a critical and more objective approach to the inquiry may not materialize and justice will not prevail.