Hindraf calls for a royal commission of inquiry into police killings based on the recent admission by the Home Minister of his tacit crime busting policies.
COMMENT
By N Ganesan
Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is creating very dangerous tendencies within Malaysian society with what are totally irresponsible statements, firstly total violation of the freedom to life and liberty contained in the Federal Constitution, and secondly inflammatory given the racial profiling contained in it.
This calls for an urgent reset if we are not to get into more serious trouble.
Implying that since crime affects the Malays and so it is serious is a grave implication. The dangerous part for Malaysian society is that statements such as these, coming as they do from a senior minister in government and senior leader in Umno, opens up all kinds of possibilities for the most right wing elements in government and party, the underworld aligned with the ruling elite and the racially bent elements in our society.
They are all being given open licences to muscle their positions along this racial line and extend what the Home Minister has implied, deeper into the fabric of our society.
The statement from the Home Minister that “I think the best way is that we no longer compromise with them ( the suspects). There is no need to give them any more warning. If (we) get the evidence, (we) shoot first.” This is clearly a violation of the supreme law of the land.
We have to conclude from these statements that what we have been fed, up to now, is a pack of lies that the police were independently responsible for the shooting and killing of suspects.
The admission by the Home Minister that he gives the orders, lays bare the true source of the decisions to shoot and kill.
Given the numbers of shootings and killing around, in the words of international law, this works out to crimes against humanity and therefore the minister is not only in violation of Malaysian law, he is violation of international law as well.
To maintain the esteem of Malaysia in the community of nations and also for us to exorcise our country of these bedeviling tendencies, Hindraf calls upon the government to set up a royal commission of inquiry to investigate all the police killings that have occurred in the past.
This is to attempt to move the country truly forward instead of pursuing these regressive policies and laws.
This may look like a tall call given the trend of things, nevertheless it requires that human rights defenders speak up no matter. Otherwise we would be condoning the eventual death of human rights in our country.
The writer is Hindraf’s national advisor.
- See more at: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/10/08/investigate-all-police-killings/#sthash.hdwxNmQz.dpuf
COMMENT
By N GanesanHome Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is creating very dangerous tendencies within Malaysian society with what are totally irresponsible statements, firstly total violation of the freedom to life and liberty contained in the Federal Constitution, and secondly inflammatory given the racial profiling contained in it.
This calls for an urgent reset if we are not to get into more serious trouble.
Implying that since crime affects the Malays and so it is serious is a grave implication. The dangerous part for Malaysian society is that statements such as these, coming as they do from a senior minister in government and senior leader in Umno, opens up all kinds of possibilities for the most right wing elements in government and party, the underworld aligned with the ruling elite and the racially bent elements in our society.
They are all being given open licences to muscle their positions along this racial line and extend what the Home Minister has implied, deeper into the fabric of our society.
The statement from the Home Minister that “I think the best way is that we no longer compromise with them ( the suspects). There is no need to give them any more warning. If (we) get the evidence, (we) shoot first.” This is clearly a violation of the supreme law of the land.
We have to conclude from these statements that what we have been fed, up to now, is a pack of lies that the police were independently responsible for the shooting and killing of suspects.
The admission by the Home Minister that he gives the orders, lays bare the true source of the decisions to shoot and kill.
Given the numbers of shootings and killing around, in the words of international law, this works out to crimes against humanity and therefore the minister is not only in violation of Malaysian law, he is violation of international law as well.
To maintain the esteem of Malaysia in the community of nations and also for us to exorcise our country of these bedeviling tendencies, Hindraf calls upon the government to set up a royal commission of inquiry to investigate all the police killings that have occurred in the past.
This is to attempt to move the country truly forward instead of pursuing these regressive policies and laws.
This may look like a tall call given the trend of things, nevertheless it requires that human rights defenders speak up no matter. Otherwise we would be condoning the eventual death of human rights in our country.
The writer is Hindraf’s national advisor.
- See more at: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/10/08/investigate-all-police-killings/#sthash.hdwxNmQz.dpuf
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