ps- There is a gathering tomorrow, Thursday 11th Feb, at SUHAKAM (Menara Tun Razak) at 11am, to present a memorandum on this case. Show some support if you can.
I have been meaning to write about the Norizan case for some time now. Of the material and coverage I’ve come across, the best narrative appears to be from Merdeka Review – I read the BM version, edited by an old friend of mine, Hong Siang.
Using this article and the police report that was made, I have pieced together the following narrative. Comments follow:
On the 30th of October 2009 at around 4.30am, Norizan bt Salleh – a single mother of a 10 year old child with no criminal record – was traveling with three friends, getting a ride to her home in Segambut. She was seated in the back of the car on the left side.
An MPV filled with police suddenly appeared alongside them, and the police asked them to stop. Norizan asked the driver to comply, but he refused. Without warning, the police then began opening fire into the vehicle.
Norizan was shot five times before the car was forced to stop. Two shots hit her arm and wrist, another hit her chest, causing uncontrollable bleeding. As she crawled out of the car, unarmed and pleading for help, she was kicked and stomped on by the police until her rib cages broke.
At no point was there any procedural detention or interrogation. Norizan said all her friends in the car were brutalised and in an attempt to force a confession to robbery. Norizan has still not been charged with any offense.
Her medical bills, including treatment at the National Heart Institute for the wound near her heart, have run up to some RM 20,000. The police have refused to pay for this cost.
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What the hell kind of country do we live in?! Some cowboy town?
At no point were the police under threat, and there is absolutely no indication that non-lethal means to force the car to stop were exhausted before resorting to a shooting spree.
They instead demonstrated complete and utter lack of discrimination between possible suspects and innocents within the car, and displayed the worse acts of inhuman cruelty to an unarmed, almost mortally wounded woman crawling out of a car pleading for help.
Norizan was lucky to have escaped with her life. Others were not.
When will it all end?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – we can’t vote the police out of anything, but we sure as hell can vote their bosses out.
I don’t ever want any of my loved ones to suffer anything like this just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
NO MORE!
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