15-year-old shot dead by Malaysian POLICE

[kensington]

In memory of the 15-year-old shot dead by Malaysian Police
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U6CiQxuu25s&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U6CiQxuu25s&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Sayu terpisah
Hikayat indah kini hanya tinggal sejarah
Berhembus angin rindu
Begitu nyamannya terhidu wangian kasihmu

Hujan lebat mencurah kini
Bagaikan tiada henti
Kaulah laguku kau irama terindah
Tak lagi ku dengari

Kau pergi
Pergi
Sepi tanpa kata
Terdiam dan kaku tak daya kau ku lupa
Apa pun kata mereka
Biarkan kenangan berbunga di ranting usia

Hujan lebat mencurah kini
Bagaikan tiada henti
Kaulah laguku kau irama terindah
Tak lagi ku dengari

Kau pergi
Pergi

Hujan lebat mencurah kini
Bagaikan tiada henti
Kaulah laguku kau irama terindah
Tak lagi ku dengari

Kau pergi
Pergi
Kau pergi
Pergi
Pergi


For all those murdered by Royal Malaysian Police...
http://malaysia-today.net/index.php...an-bersama-arwah-aminulrasyid-&catid=58:video
----------------


Late-night visit of Special Panel to Aminulrasyid murder site “a circus, just PR show” – an insult to Aminul’s memory and concerned Malaysians

The late-night visit of the eight-man Special Panel headed by Deputy Home Minister Datuk Abu Seman Yusop to the Aminulrasyid murder site in Shah Alam yesterday was a circus, just a public relations (PR) show to assuage public outrage rather than substantive investigation and is therefore an insult to Aminul’s memory and the intelligence of concerned Malaysians.

I watched the 14.26 minute Malaysiakini video clip of the Special Panel’s visit and I am reminded of my visit, together with DAP Secretary-General and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to the bereaved Aminul family in Shah Alam Section 11, particularly the suffering mother Norsiah Mohamad last Wednesday, directly on touchdown from our flight returning from Sibu.

The video of businessman, Wah Rahim Tajuddin, whose house was the exact spot Aminulrasyid had finally crashed into, and whose son is a good friend of Aminulrasyid, showed him still very distraught emotionally when narrating to members of the Special Panel the events of the tragic early hours the previous Monday eight days ago.

At least Rahim did not break down and wept as he did when he recounted to me the shocking killing of Aminulrasyid which he did not know until the next morning, believing that the corpse he saw slumped head-down in the car was a criminal whom the police had killed.

As Rahim recounted, Aminulrasyid was a good friend of his son and that he used to send the two boys together to their part-time jobs in McDonald’s.

They also used to play futsal until late to the point where he had to drag both of them home.

It was Rahim who expressed the worry of the Shah Alam residents and their fear of the police who, instead of ensuring their security and safety, are now a threat to their security and safety – particularly concerned that youngsters who watch football games at mamak stalls into the early hours of the morning risk dangers like the fatal one which befell Aminul.

It was also at this encounter at the Aminulrasyhid murder scene last Wednesday that one of the neighbours shouted in anger, sorrow and despair “”This is not Manchester or Los Angeles, this is bloody Shah Alam” !

But when I watched the video of the Special Panel’s visit, one question bugged me: What was the purpose of the site visit as it served no purpose apart as being a circus and a PR exercise to deflect public anger not only at the police trigger-happy shooting and killing of a Form III student whose only offence was to drive underaged and without licence but also at the hamfisted mishandling of the Aminulrasyid killing by the authorities, particularly the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan and the Home Minister Datuk Seir Hishammuddin Hussein.

What is the use of the Special Panel’s visit to the murder site unless it has the powers to take over all investigations into Aminulrasyid’s killing and murder?

At first, Abu Seman had said that the Special Panel had no powers to inquire or even to make recommendations to the police; but after severe public criticisms, the Special Panel suddenly claimed super powers: to call up witnesses, to review the procedures involving the discharge of firearms and even to scrutinize the investigation papers at any time without needing the approval of the police or Attorney-General’s Chambers.

Under what law did the Special Panel derive all these “quick silver” powers – turning into from a powerless to a super-powered Special Panel?
If the Special Panel is a genuine and not a fake high-powered monitoring and investigating body, the first thing it should have done is to demand explanations why the police had been so sloppy and slipshod in their investigations that their investigation papers into Aminulrasyid’s killing was sent back by the Attorney-General’s Chambers, demanding further investigations?

Abu Seman said clearly on video during the visit that the Special Panel hopes to meet once a week on every Friday. This is outrageous. If the Special Panel has become the most important body in the investigations into Aminulrasyid’s killing, it should be meeting every day and not every Friday!
The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein must end this rigmarole of the weekly Friday meeting of the Special Panel headed by Abu Seman.

If they are serious about the Special Panel and serious in their assurance to the bereaved family and the country on wanting to get to the bottom of Aminulrasyid’s killing, then the Special Panel should take over all investigations of the case from the police in the form of a public inquiry.

It was better late than never – just convert the Special Panel into a Royal Commission of Inquiry with former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Hanif Omar replacing Abu Seman as Chairman, and expanding its terms of reference from Aminulrasyid’s killing to all police shooting deaths since 2005.

http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2010/05...-therefore-an-insult-to-aminul’s-m/#more-8364

 

[kensington]

Lies, Lies and Lies!

by Din Merican

The mainstream media reported that the friend of 15 year old Aminulrashid who was shot dead point blank by the Police gave a press conference. In that press conference, the surviving friend, Azamuddin Omar, gave his version of the shooting incident that totally contradicts the police’s version. If the police knew he would do this, he would have been hunted down and shot dead too! And what was the police version explained by IGP Musa Hassan?

According to IGP Musa, the dead boy tried to ram into the policemen, forcing the police to shoot. According to Musa, the boy is a criminal because a parang was found in the car, implying that the boy was a criminal, a fleeing felon who can be shot at will. According to Musa, a moving car is a dangerous weapon, obviously ignorant of the meaning of dangerous weapon/arm in the statute. According to Musa, he/the Police are telling the truth; there is no cover up and if the Malaysian public does not trust what he says, he will pull back the police from the streets and “confine to barracks”. Confine to barracks is a military term to indicate a boycott. That means Musa wants to boycott the public. That means Musa wants to boycott Malaysia, because under the Police Act and the Federal Constitution, it is the Police’s duty to maintain law and order in a civil times.

Let us pause for a moment. Let us analyse Musa’s words, can and should the Malaysian public trust Musa Hassan, the No.1 Policeman in the country?

Is this not the same man who climbed the ranks to become IGP after fixing up Anwar Ibrahim with his mattress carrying antics in Sodomy 1. Isn’t he the same Investigating officer who made up stories about the scene of the sodomy when the building was not even ready? Isn’t he also the one who worked hand in glove with the Along syndicate and released that criminal and twice RR detainee Goh Cheng Poh @ Tengku Goh while 6 of his officers and the Director of Commercial Crimes Dato’ Ramli Yusuff and his lawyer Rosli Dahlan got charged? Wasn’t he the one who worked with Dato Christopher Wan to create a fictitious blog to fix up Dato’ Johari Baharom. That blog is like the parang that the poice now planted in Aminulrasyid’s car. Bapa borek anak rintik.

Isn’t he the same IGP who appeared as the 75th Witness in Dato’ Ramli’s trial in Sabah who was denounced by Judge Supang Lian as ” an incredbible witness whose evidence is not to be believed”? That is legal phraseology to say Musa is a Liar!

Is that any surprise then that Razak Baginda go scot free while 2 rank and file officers get the hangman’s noose in the murder of Altantuya? Is there any surprise that Malaysians do not believe the police, the MACC, The AG, the judiciary and ultimately the Government? People like Musa Hassan, Gani Patail etc are cancerous cells, and more are growing to be like them because they are deemed successful for willing to do all the wrong and evil things. And we Malaysians are to be blamed for keeping mum!

Just look at the charade in Teoh Beng Hock’s Inquest. It is most revolting to see the lies and cover ups perpetrated by all these guardians of our public institutions. They have become so bold that they will even lie to us openly. Pak Lah, that supposedly religious ex Imam-PM even lied about the two oil wells he surrendered to Brunei and in return got nothing. He lied about getting sovereignty over Limbang. If an Imam-PM like Pak Lah can lie openly, what do we expect from PM Najib whose image is much improved now although he was implicated in the Altantuya Shariibu Murder?

I am expressing all these anger and disgust because I am just about to leave for the KL Criminal Sessions Court No.10, located at the left wing of the Jalan Duta Courts’ complex, where Judge Bakar Katar presides over the trial of Lawyer Rosli Dahlan. I have seen lies by the MACC Deputy Director of Prosecution Anthony Kevin Morais when he gave evidence previously. After 6 days, he is still on the stand. Today will be his 7th day. I expect to see and hear more lies spewing from his mouth when he is cross examined by Dato’ K Kumaraendran, Rosli Dahlan’s counsel.

I am revolted by all these lies. They do it in the newspapers, in Parliament and even in the courts while under oath. That Kevin Morais will lie in order to do in an innocent man like Rosli Dahlan has re-affirmed my resolve to expose all their lies. I will expose all these lies until we bring about genuine reforms!”

http://dinmerican.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/lies-lies-and-lies/

 

[kensington]

Special Panel into Aminulrasyid’s death is not grounded in law and legal procedure and is a diversion and public relations exercise


We view with extreme concern the establishment of the Special Panel on Aminulrasyid’s killing as headed by Deputy Home Minister Datuk Abu Seman Yusup. The “special panel” is neither here nor there because there is no legal provision for such a panel. It is not a Royal Commission of Inquiry nor is it a Suhakam Inquiry where there are established laws and practices governing its powers, conduct and procedures.

It is therefore not surprising that the Deputy Home Minister has fumbled badly on what exactly are the terms of reference, purpose and powers of the Special Panel. He initially said that the Special Panel can neither inquire on its own nor make recommendations to the police. After much public criticism, he then said that the Special Panel is empowered to call up witnesses, to review the procedures involving the discharge of firearms and scrutinise the investigation papers of the police or Attorney-General’s Chambers. Where did the Special Panel get such powers?

Is Malaysia a country governed by laws and legal procedures or by political dictates and whims as seemingly exemplified by the conduct of the Deputy Home Minister and the Special Panel?

We are further shocked and appalled that the Special Panel has started its inquiry in the middle of last night without the presence of both the lawyers and the deceased family. It looked more like a public relations exercise rather than the beginning of a serious inquiry because if they were serious and transparent, the lawyers and family would have been involved. We have written to the Home Ministry on 3 May on behalf of the family requesting a meeting and stating our interest in the Special Panel’s work and yet to date, there has been no response.

There is also an additional concern that Abu Seman as the Deputy Home Minister should chair the Special Panel as obviously there is a conflict of interest as he is the Deputy Home Minister in charge of the police force.

The Government should stop covering for the police and immediately disband the Special Panel as it is clearly a diversion and a public relations exercise. We reiterate our calls for the Government to immediately establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Aminulrasyid’s killing, and in the wider interest of improving and safeguarding the competency, professionalism and accountability of the police force – the establishment of the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) as recommended by the Royal Commission to Enhance the Operation and Management of the Royal Malaysia Police in 2005.


N. Surendran and Latheefa Koya
Lawyers for the family of Aminulrasyid
Lawyers for Liberty


http://malaysia-today.net/index.php...-exercise&catid=18:letterssurat&Itemid=100129

 

[kensington]

Musa Hassan – resign as IGP as the tearful eye-witness testimony of traumatized 15-year-old Azamuddin on the police killing of Form III student Aminulrasyid has completely destroyed your credibility and authority!

I will like to tell Tan Sri Musa Hassan – resign as Inspector-General of Police as the tearful eye-witness testimony of traumatized 15-year-old Azamuddin Omar on the police killing of his friend, Form III student Aminulrasyid Amzah some 100 metres from the latter’s house in Shah Alam a week ago has completely destroyed your credibility and authority.

If you love the Royal Malaysian Police Force, then you have no other option but to resign immediately to protect the police from the consequences of your gross failures of police leadership as IGP.

For the love of the country and the police force, resign now as IGP!

Let a new IGP start the difficult, painful but not impossible process to restore public confidence in the police where they regard the police as friend and protector and not as threat and even killer of innocent Malaysians, including school-children.

As final amends, in your resignation letter, make two recommendations to the Home Minister and Prime Minister, viz:


1.the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry headed by former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Hanif Omar to inquire not only into the fatal police shooting of Aminulrasyid but also all police shooting deaths since 2005; and

2.endorse the proposal of the Dzaiddin Police Royal Commission for the establishment of the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) as a key step to create an efficient, incorruptible, professional and world-class police service. If the IPCMC had been set up in 2005 and not blocked in a campaign led by you, Aminulrasyid will still be alive today for there would be a greater sense of professionalism among the police.

This is what I would like to tell Musa but I do not know whether he is amenable to this drastic remedy I have proposed to restore justice to Aminulrasyid and to redeem the good name of Aminulrasyid’s family and that of Azamuddin defamed by public police accounts describing the two schoolboys as “criminals”.

However the cost of Musa’s stubborn refusal to bow to public pressures will be a high one – causing even further estrangement of the police from the Malaysian public and a sharper loss of public confidence in the Malaysian police.

The Malaysian Insider in its report today “Anger against police over Aminul’s death building up on Facebook” said that a week after the Form III boy’s tragic death, more than 60,000 fans had signed up on a Facebook demanding justice and expressing growing anger and concerns over cases of police violence.

It is a terrible indictment on the professionalism of the IGP that he continued to defend the police version that the two students were criminals when Azamuddin had lodged a police report and even given police statement on the same day of the tragic killing at 2 am the previous Monday.

Aminulrasyid has picked up Azamuddin in his sister’s car about midnight last Monday and they had gone to watch a football match (Chelsea vs Stoke) on TV as a restaurant in Section 7, Shah Alam.

Recounting the tragic course of events, Azamuddin was the lone passenger in the car when Aminulrasyid was shot in the back of his head, trying to flee home to seek protection from his mother and family.

Azamuddin categorically denied police claim and testified that Aminulrasyid did not try to ram policemen with his sister’s car.

The Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein should take heed of this mounting public anger, particularly from the young generation of Malaysians.

His reputation and credibility are also on the line if he refuses to act decisively and do what is right to ensure justice for Aminulrasyid, Azamuddin and their families and end the rigmarole of a Abu Seman Special Panel which has no powers to inquire into Aminulrasyid’s death or make recommendations to the Police and forthwith to support the establishment of a Tun Haniff Royal Commission of Inquiry into Aminulrasyid’s death.


http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2010/05...has-completely-destroyed-your-cred/#more-8351

 

[kensington]

SHAH ALAM, May 5 — Azamuddin Omar stuck to his story today when questioned by investigators for the third time over what happened the night schoolboy Aminulrasyid Amzah was shot dead by police.

The 15-year-old son of a policeman, who was a passenger in the car Aminulrasyid was driving last Monday, continued today to dispute an official account of events.

He had told a press conference earlier this week that he and Aminulrasyid were returning home after watching a late-night football match at a restaurant when they were involved in a minor accident.

The two boys then fled the scene of the accident in a panic but were pursued by several motorcyclists before police joined in the chase.

Azamuddin repeated to investigators today his claim that policemen had opened fire on their car, with one shot hitting Aminulrasyid in the back of his head.

”The crux of the questioning today was when the final and fatal shot was fired.” said lawyer N. Surendran.

He said police wanted to know if the final shot was fired before or after the car had crashed into a drain.

“The witness was consistent that Aminulrasyid was shot in the head and his body fell in his lap before it crashed. No more shots were fired after that.”

Surendran said the investigating officer had also asked Azamuddin (picture) how many shots were fired that night.

“Azamuddin told police that he believes at least 15 shots were fired but he cannot be sure because he was in a state of fear.”

He told investigators that he was also distracted by the blood and having his friend’s body on his lap.

Surendran said the witness was questioned this evening for about 45 minutes at the Selangor Police Headquarters here.

“The questioning was cordial and conducted professionally.”

Azamuddin was also accompanied by lawyer Latheefa Koya today.

Police maintain they opened fire after Aminulrasyid attempted to reverse the car into them.

-----------------


The car was stuck in a stormwater drain, how the fuck to reverse ?
You fucking cops kena pawned again by your own lies....

 

[kensington]

By Pak Bui

One evening in September 1999, a young doctor, Tai Eng Teck, was shot dead by the police in Melaka. He was “dating” with a nurse in a car. The nurse later testified that they were terrified when they heard someone knocking loudly on the car window and shouting angrily. They were uncertain whether the people outside were muggers or vice officers – and we are all aware that there is little to choose between the reputation of vice officers and thugs in Peninsular Malaysia.

The doctor tried to drive away. The police alleged the doctor tried to run them over, and a police constable Tony Beliang, a Sarawakian, killed the driver in a hail of bullets. The Sessions Court judge said the policeman had fired “non-stop, without knowing who and how many people were in the car, and what they were doing”, and sentenced him to eight years in jail.

The infamous High Court judge Augustine Paul heard the appeal, and overturned the Sessions Court verdict, saying the police should be given every encouragement to enforce law and order, if necessary by opening fire. If policemen are taken to court for using force, he argued, the police might then hesitate in carrying out their duties and “think of other possibilities before using their weapons.”

Heaven forbid that the police should consider other options besides lethal force on an unarmed man.

To this day, the mere mention of Augustine Paul’s name raises scornful and sardonic laughter among well-informed Malaysians. His legacy as one of the most venal and despised judges in Malaysian history continues to outlive him. In this case, his warped reasoning was put right by the Appeals Court, which eventually upheld the Sessions Court judgment and the policeman’s jail sentence.

Echoes of bad faith

This sad story has many familiar echoes in the recent killing of Aminulrasyid Amzah, 14, by Shah Alam police. The police also claimed they shot the schoolboy when he tried to ram his car into them, a story contradicted by an eyewitness.

The police announced they had discovered a parang (machete) in the car, and tried to paint Aminulrasyid as a criminal. This was greeted with derision, and denounced as a slur on the dead boy’s name by his family and friends. The boy, a well-liked member of his community, often frequented the mosque, according to his weeping mother.

“While we concede that police have the right to self-defence, in cases such as this, the public won’t buy the story. They even doubt the report that police found a parang in the car,” Suhakam commissioner Siva Subramaniam told the Nut Graph.

According to Azamuddin Omar, a 15 year old witness who was in the front passenger seat of the car next to Aminulrasyid, the frightened driver had never tried to run the police over. He had simply been heading for the safety of his home, a couple of hundred metres away, when the police started pumping bullets into the car.

“When he was shot, his body fell on my lap, but his foot was on the accelerator,” the witness told a press conference. Even after Aminulrasyid had slumped over dead, and the car had struck a wall, Azamuddin said, the police kept shooting.

The fact that the Form Three student had come forward to be a witness, after the police had punched and kicked him when he escaped from the mayhem, says a great deal about the courage of Azamuddin and his family, as well as the outrage felt in the Malay and other communities at this vicious injustice.

It also tells us that the emergence of a fledgling two-party system in Peninsular Malaysia has opened doors for the truth to be revealed, and has made it far harder for any government to intimidate and suppress witnesses in any injustice.

A pandemic of violence

According to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), Malaysian deputy home minister Chor Chee Heung announced in Parliament in 2002 that a total of 579 people had been shot dead by the Malaysian police over the previous 20 years – an average of 29 killings a year. Among the 579 were 82 foreign nationals. Chor added that 19 policemen had been killed in the line of duty during the same period.

However, DAP leader Lim Kit Siang pointed out that Chor had contradicted his predecessor as deputy home minister: Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir had told Parliament in 1999 that 635 people had been shot dead by the police in the past 10 years, an average of 64 a year.

Another deputy home minister, Zainal Abidin Zin(left), revealed in Parliament in 2003 that fatal shootings by the police numbered 33 in 2000, 14 in 2001, 54 in 2002 and 27 in the first nine months of 2003.

In 2008, according to Suaram, there were 44 deaths, and in 2009, based on MP Charles Santiago’s monitoring of media reports, there were 39. These are clearly underestimates: not all police killings are reported in the media.

An examination of these figures provides an average of between 30-60 people gunned down by Malaysian police every year. To provide some perspective, the Ministry of Health has recorded 80 deaths from influenza A, H1N1, since the pandemic began over a year ago.

Lying in “self-defence”

“In most cases, the claims by the police were similar: the suspects shot at the police, causing the police to return fire, killing the victims. The victims were then depicted as highly dangerous and wanted criminals,” the Asian Human Rights Commission stated in its report on Malaysia.

“However, in many cases, there were suspicious circumstances leading to doubts over claims made by the police,” the international human rights body continued. One of these instances took place in Tumpat, Kelantan in 1998: the deaths of six men at the hands of the police.

A magistrate at the inquest decided the police had acted “reasonably” and in “self-defence” – the keywords needed to open fire – in delivering a volley of 47 bullets. The High Court judge found that there was, in fact, no evidence for the police’s claim that they had been shot at by the men. A pathologist testified that multiple bullet wounds were found on the head, forehead and eyes of the six victims. The Star reported the judge as saying: “I was quite stunned by the magistrate’s decision as it bordered on the preparation of the defence of the police over-zealousness”.

Further recent shootings have included five bullets pumped into an unarmed Norizan Salleh, followed by the usual story that the driver of her car had tried to ram the police, and by the inevitable “discovery” of parangs in the car. No charges were brought against the policemen although they had shot, stepped on and kicked Norizan, a single mother.

Cruel and inhuman

Some pompous, self-righteous Malaysians have blamed Aminulrasyid of being out too late, without a driving licence, and Norizan of being in the company of two men whom the police tested positive for drugs.

But nearly all of us have surely had some experience of such transgressions, either in our own lives or those of close family members. Did Aminulrasyid’s misbehavior, staying out late in his sister’s car, warrant capital punishment? Did young Kugan Ananthan deserve to die after being brutalised in police custody because he was a “suspected” thief of luxury cars?

These extrajudicial killings are a form of cruel and inhuman punishment for the victims, and their families, and for the rest of Malaysian society.

http://hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/6796/

 

[Teo Kok Eng]

Malaysians police are crazy, got to be careful when in mudland