Detention without trial in Malaysia

Being ISA detainee ‘095’ for seven years

By Clara Chooi

August 01, 2010

Read about a former ISA detainees seven years of detention without trial in oppressive Malaysia.

Please click HERE

MURDEROUS MALAYSIA , MANY MURDERS MANIFESTING MALE FIDE

Getting away with murder in Malaysia is not that uncommon, if you are well connected you can get actually away with cold blooded murder in Malaysia, read the article from Asia Sentinal by clicking HERE, then you will know what goes on in Malaysia.

read also HERE

It is utterly disgusting, so shameful, undoubtedly unjust and downright despicable, but if has happened, and no doubt will continue to happen, in Malaysia while the BN / UMNO government is in power with apparent impunity and immunity!

Male Fide means:

bad faith, noun: intentional dishonest act by not fulfilling legal or contractual obligations, misleading another, entering into an agreement without the intention or means to fulfill it, or violating basic standards of honesty in dealing with others. Most states recognize what is called "implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing" which is breached by acts of bad faith, for which a lawsuit may be brought (filed) for the breach (just as one might sue for breach of contract).

bad faith noun abjection, abjectness, abscondence, apostasy, artifice, base conduct, betrayal, betrayment, breach of faith, broken faith, broken promise, collaboration, complicity, connivance, cozenage, debasement, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, defection, delusion, delusiveness, dereliction, dereliction of duty, deviation from rectitude, deviousness, disaffection, disavowal, dishonesty, dishonor, disingenuousness, disloyalty, disobedience, double-dealing, duplicity, fallaciousness, false pretension, false swearing, falseheartedness, falseness, forswearing, fraud, fraudulency, furtiveness, guile, hypocrisy, ignominy, improbity, indiscretion, infidelity, insidiousness, insincerity, inveracity, lack of conscience, lack of fidelity, lack of principle, lack of probity, mala fides, malversation, mendaciousness, mendacity, misfeasance, misrepresentation, obliquity, perfidiousness, perfidy, pettifoggery, pretense, pretext, punic faith, recantation, recreancy, reprobacy, sedition, spuriousness, subterfuge, subversion, subversive activity, suppression of truth, surreptitiousness, traitorousness, treacherousness, treachery, turpitude, unauthenticity, unconscientiousness, underhand dealing, unfairness, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unfaithworthiness, ungenuineness, unloyalty, unsteadfastness, untrueness, untrustiness, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, unveracity, venality, violation of allegiance, violation of duty

OF BAD FAITH: Perhaps a most apt expression for BN / UMNO?

Commodum ex iniuria sua nemo habere debet

No person ought to have advantage from his own wrong

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

False in one thing, false in all

UMNO Spin or Fact?

Truth or Lies, or even different versions of the Truth & Lies?


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Real, Generated or Blatant

Perhaps Nik Aziz did indeed commend Kartika Sari Sewi Shukarno for accepting her whipping punishment, without an appeal, but did he actually say all that was reported by the NST?

Read this news (please click HERE) reported by the Malaysian UMNO controlled newspaper New Straits Times.

If what Nik Aziz is reported to say is really true, and not the result of UMNO spin doctoring, then it may be a much needed boost for UMNO's flagging support.

If it is untrue, then it will be yet another nail in the UMNO / BN coffin.

Most Malaysians would, I feel, prefer a more secular government, rather than a fundamentalist Islamic one under which brutal, cruel and inhuman punishments like, whipping, amputation, stoning to death and beheading are the norms.

This news has so far NOT been seen in any other news media, including the PAS on-line daily news Harakah Online click HERE.

Salva veritate

With truth preserved

Medio tutissimus ibis

You will go safest in the middle. (Moderation in all things)

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishments in Malaysia

One frame from a smuggled video showing a prisoner being caned in Malaysia.

Source of picture

Female model (a Singapore resident) Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnor was fined RM 5,000 (US$ 1,411) or three years in jail and in addition ordered to be flogged (by whipping or caning) six times by an Islamic Court judge in the state of Pahang, Malaysia for drinking a glass of beer

Is Malaysia degenerating into a narrow minded, inward looking, cruel, extreme, unthinking fundamentalist Islamic State?

Where will it go from here?

Public executions by beheading,

Amputation of limbs,

Stoning to death?

Etc.

Almost at the end of the first decade of the 21^st Century Malaysia is seemingly reverting to the ways of the past, blindly following Saudi Arabia and other extreme regimes which inflict cruel, inhuman, brutal and degrading punishments on offenders.

I was under the impression that Malaysia was a modern Parliamentary Democracy, which is aiming to be a highly developed, rich and well respected nation. Perhaps my perception was totally incorrect?

To know what two lady politicians have to say about this matter, please read news reports from news reports in Malaysia, [click HERE & HERE] and then read another news story from Singapore [by clicking HERE]

Nemo sine vitio est

No one is without fault

Nosce te ipsum

Know thyself

Cui bono?

For whose benefit is it?

In Memory of Teoh Beng Hock

The people demand the truth and justice!

Teoh Beng Hock was laid to rest today

Memoria in aeterna - In everlasting remembrance

Those who are responsible, directly or indirectly, for the death of Teoh Beng Hock must be brought to justice.

Also, the idiotic and rhetorical statements, by UMNO / BN supporters, about the political opposition in Malaysia targeting Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) because is a Malay race dominated government agency, should stop. What inane stupidity to even suggest that!

This matter extends beyond skin colour, it’s not about race, or religion or ethnicity; wake up you blinkered, narrow minded, hypocrite dumb arses who wrote, or were quoted, in the UMNO / BN controlled main stream media.

Let all in Malaysia follow this ideal:

“I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,

But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Edward Everett Hale

This issue not about politics, it is not about race, it is purely about justice!

All those who are guilty must be severely punished, without fear or favour.

Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur

Many fear their reputation, few their conscience.

Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

Inhumanity is harmful in every age

More tax-payers' Money Down the Drain reinventing RELA

RELA

RELA training centres nationwide will, it has been reported, be upgraded to ensure members are better trained and able to play their role effectively to 'help maintain the nation's security'.

The RELA director general, Zaidon Asmuni, was reported as saying recently that present there were only four training centres nationwide and it was his target to establish one in each state in the near future.

He added RELA aimed to provide members with the best training available to ensure they were well prepared to carry out their duties and also able to take on new challenges.

Utter bullshit, pure and unadulterated.

Please enlighten everyone: What contribution does RELA actualy make to Malaysia's security in 2009?

What is RELA supposed to be?

Ikatan Relawan Rakyat Malaysia (RELA) was established on 11th January 1972 vide the (Essential Powers) Emergency Act 1964 – Essential Rules (Ikatan Relawan Rakyat) (Amendment) 2005.

RELA's establishment was supposedly formed to enable the masses to volunteer and be a member of a volunteer force to preserve and maintain the national peace and security.

Subsequently, under Section 2 of the (Essential Powers) Emergency Act 1964, the Yang Di Pertuan Agong (King) gave the consent to approve the Essential Rules (Amendment) 2005) (Ikatan Relawan Rakyat) with effect from 1st February 2005.

This rule gave certain powers to RELA to try to tackle Illegal Immigrants, but they have been condemned for their ineptness, incompetence and thuggishness.

Apart from that they currently seem to be more like political tools for Barisan Nasionals; effectively BN's eyes and ears, snooping on the populous and reporting back to their BN / UMNO political masters!

Disbanding RELA will surely benefit all except the BN / UMNO.

Let all right thinking Malaysians join hands to say good bye RELA, a relic of bye gone days.

RELA, you are unimportant, you have over stayed your welcome, and your usefulness; therefore please go, be gone, sayonara, bye-bye, cheerio, farewell, goodbye, so long, see yah, adios, adieu. arriverderci, au revior, auf wiedersehen, smell you later, ttfn, adyos, ciao, tata, twáme naw, farvel, hino koh noh, kopiruba kawagu, vaarwel, beoð ge gesunde. oant sjen, mi yahee, mus zoo, slán go fóill, sugeng tindak, doi noh ko noh, 'aere ra, paalom na po, güle güle gidin, hwyl fawr, zayt gesunt, sala kahle & hundreds more farewells from our planet Earth.

Ave atque vale

Hail and farewell

Abi in pace

Depart in peace

Part 2 The Gates of Hell Home at Kuala Kubu Baru

Where the Ray of Hope was extinguished

The Mindful Mariner's own comments:

This so called sheltered home (it is more like a Hell Hole) belongs to and is run by the Malaysian Government, through the Department of Social Welfare which is under the control of the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development.

Disciplinary action needs to be taken from top to bottom, at both the Ministry & the Department; in fact the honourable thing initially, would be for the Minister (Sharizat Abdul Jalil) and the DG of the Social Welfare Department (Meme Zainal Rashid) to resign forthwith.

Then all types of care homes, shelters, orphanages and other similar institutions, public and private, should thoroughly checked and independently audited. After that they should all, without exception, be required to be operated to impeccable international standards of best practice.

Subsequently the Social Welfare Department should conduct regular frequent and comprehensive inspections of all shelters, care homes and orphanages for the disadvantaged in Malaysian society.

To ensure:

1. They are all fully equipped, sanitary and are run in a professional, caring, humane way.

2. That the are staffed by sufficient numbers of qualified, able, caring and dedicated staff.

3. That all the residents receive good quality, nutritional healthy food in sufficient quantities.

4. That all residents receive regular medical examinations and adequate health care.

And many other things, about which others are better qualified than me, need to be set out in full clearly mandating what has to be done.

PS But I am not too hopeful that effective sustained action will be taken.

There will be buckets of faux tears, sympathetic [or perhaps a better word is pathetic] remarks, much empty talking, but very little or more likely no effective action, as per usual!!!!

Commented on 05 July 2009 at 20:52

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The statements by th Malaysian Bar Council:

Bar Council constitutional law committee chairman Edmund Bon said he was shocked to learn how the residents were being treated, describing it as “cruel and degrading”.

Statement by a human rights lawyer:

Amer Hamzah, human rights lawyer called on those responsible for the care of the residents to be charged with a criminal offence should there be any evidence of physical abuse resulting from the treatment.

See the news report HERE

Lots of reaction and a flurry of what is probably an attempt at 'clearing yardarms' and 'reactive damage control' from the government and their agencies:

Civil servants from the Social Welfare Department, the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, volunteers and hoards of media personnel descended upon the home on Sunday 5^th July 2009, after the wicked, cruel and degrading conditions there were exposed by the Star newspaper.

Minister of Health Liow Tiong Lai, reportedly ordered his staff to check on the residents of the home in Kuala Kubu Baru, and said he was wants those who are confirmed to have mental problems, to be transferred to government hospital psychiatric wards for treatment.

Click HERE

Other related Stories HERE, HERE, & HERE

Oh Shit! Add a little to a little, and there will be a great heap.*

Watch out for the swarms of politicians!

*Adde parum parvo, magnus acervus erit

Of course the politicians involved, and their minions, will now be buzzing around like flies round a turd trying to gain political mileage out of the misery they have directly or indirectly inflicted on the inmates of government run shelter homes.

"Politicians love visible beneficiaries and invisible victims." Dr. Walter Williams

"God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell." P.J. O'Rourke

"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." H. L. Mencken

Human Rights in Malaysia: Different Day, Same Shit

So June 2009 is already here, and we are not that far away from the end of the first decade of the 21st Century, yet in many ways Malaysia is still, it seems, in the middle ages!

Malaysia still has many archaic, draconian and loosely worded 'catch-all' laws which result in people receiving, inhuman, cruel, degrading punishments.

Prisons, Detention Camps and the illegal immigrant Detention Centres run by the immigration department are all places where the living conditions, the food, the health care and the general facilities are to say the least appalling and inhuman.

The recent outbreak of leptosporosis at the illegal immigrant Detention Centre near Juru recently is a case in point, which highlights how unhealthy and insanitary such places are.

Prisons should provide reasonable living conditions, nutritious food, clean water and be fit for purpose. Surely it is punishment enough to be locked up away from family and friends, without the addition suffering cause by inhuman and unhealthy living conditions.

The UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

Adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held at Geneva in 1955, and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolution 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977

This old set of Rules, lays down minimum standards, one can but wonder even if these basic minimum standards are met in Malaysia even now in the 21st Century.

Click HERE for more information.

Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem


As long as we are among humans, let us be humane


Ut sementem feceris, ita metes


As you sow, so shall you reap

Amnesty International Malaysia

THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 2009 ON MALAYSIA was recently published, and in it you can read what this report says, you will find if you click HERE

Headlines cover such things as:

Freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of he press are denied in Malaysia

Detention without trial, is a common practice, which is condoned by evil laws

Excessive use of force by the multitude of enforcement authorities in Malaysia is not uncommon

Migrants have few if any rights, refugees and asylum-seekers are not afforded adequate protection

True freedom of religion is not practised

Discrimination is common, and in fact it is the norm in many instances

The Death Penalty is still in force in Malaysia and cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments are still standard practice.

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum


So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds

Claims that Malaysia Handed 1,000s of Burmese Illegal Immigrants to Human Traffickers

The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has urged Malaysia to probe claims by refugees from Myanmar (Burma) that Malaysian immigration officials handed them over to human traffickers on Malaysia's border with Thailand.

A Senate report on 23 April 2009 that claimed illegal Burmese immigrants deported from Malaysia were often turned over to human traffickers and forced to work in brothels, fishing boats and restaurants in Thailand if they had no money to purchase their freedom.

The report was based on a one year review by committee staff who spoke to migrants from military-ruled Myanmar, also known as Burma, and human rights activists.

According to the report, in recent 'a few thousand' Burmese immigrants may have become victims of extortion and trafficking once they were deported to Malaysia's northern border with Thailand.

'Upon arrival at the Malaysia-Thailand border, human traffickers reportedly take possession of the migrants,' the report stated.

Read the full news report HERE

Please also click HERE for a more detailed story on this shocking human trafficking


This appears to be clear example of man's inhumanity to man!

Facta, non verba

Deeds, not words

Emitte lucem et veritatem

Send out light and truth

DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL AND TORTURE IN MALAYSIA

THE ISA AND OTHER SUCH DRACONIAN,
INHUMANE, OPPRESSIVE AND UNDEMOCRATIC LAWS
MUST BE ABOLISHED NOW!

"SPY" HELD UNDER ISA FINALLY RELEASED, BUT MANY MORE PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING DETAINED WITHOUT TRIAL IN MALAYSIA.

See the news report from NSTP online HERE

A previously fit and healthy 25-year-old man, detained since 28^th July 2007, on the order of the Minister of Home Affairs, and secretly detained, without trial, under the archaic, cruel and draconian Malaysian Internal Security Act (ISA) on suspicion of being a foreign spy, was released on Tuesday 9^th September 2008.

After his horrific ordeal, and suspected torture, he is left crippled, paralysed and is now wheelchair bound.

Those guilty of this atrocity must be weeded out , charged, tried and punished to the full extent of the law.

Detention without trial, torture and denial of medical treatment are evidently still alive and well in the oppressive third-world nation of Malaysia under the UMNO controlled BN Federal Government.

Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane

Cyclone Nargis, who are the real killers?

Envisat captured Cyclone Nargis, making its way across the Bay of Bengal just south of Myanmar (Burma) on Thursday 1st May 2008, with its Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument working in Reduced Resolution mode to deliver a spatial resolution of 1200 meters.

Credit: European Space Agency

[Click on image for bigger picture]

A United Nations official says Burma’s military junta has seized all the food and equipment that the World Food Program had flown into the country for cyclone victims.

He says the WFP 'has no choice' but to suspend further aid shipments until the matter is resolved.

UPDATE: It has just been announced that there will be two WFP flights later today, Saturday 10th May 2008.

WFP spokesman Paul Risley said on Friday 9^th May 2008, that all 'the food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has been confiscated'.

The shipment included 38 tonnes of high-energy biscuits.

Risley said it is not clear why the material was seized. It was also not clear if the shipment seized was the one that was flown in on Thursday or another shipment.

Earlier on Friday, the junta announced said it was not ready to let in foreign aid workers, rejecting international pressure to allow experts into the isolated nation where disease and starvation are affecting cyclone survivors.

A week after the devastating storm killed many tens of thousands, Burma's generals, who rule with an iron fist, and are deeply suspicious of the outside world, said that whilst the country needed outside aid for those who were still alive, they would deliver it themselves, without outside help.

The Burmese foreign ministry announcement came as a top UN official warned that time was running out, and that is was imperative to quickly move in disaster experts and supplies to prevent hunger and diseases that could claim many more victims lives.

The foreign ministry, even said some relief workers who arrived on an aid flight from Qatar on Wednesday had been deported from Burma.

The dictatorial military regime that rules this now impoverished country has long been wary of any influences that could threaten their dictatorial, and oppressive iron grip on power, which it has maintained for almost 50 years. During this half century, conditions for the ordinary Burmese within Burma, have deteriorated more and more.

Burma is a member of the association of South East Asian Nations, (ASEAN), however the leaders of the other ASEAN members have kept very quiet up to now, except for the Thai prime minister, who has announced he will travel to Burma to talk with the generals this weekend.

Even though the country is devastated and battered by the tragic aftermath of cyclone ‘Nargis’, the generals insist they will hold a constitutional referendum on Saturday, brushing aside any criticism that they are ignoring the plight of the hungry, the sick and the homeless, not to mention the disposal of tens of thousands of rotting corpses of humans and animals which are left lying about, whilst they are selfishly devoting valuable already scarce resources to the vote.

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy said the junta should delay the vote, an exercise her party says will merely enshrine military rule.

Had the cyclone early warnings, issued by the India Meteorological Office and others, been heeded, and had an evacuation of the areas most at risk been carried out, many thousands of lives could perhaps have been saved, but the generals chose to totally ignore these warning. Satellite imaging gave several days prior warning too, but this warning was obviously not heeded either.

The Burmese military junta leaders, and their supporters both within and outside of Burma (that includes their silent supporters in ASEAN) should be held jointly and severally responsible by the international community for the deaths of all those thousand who have died or will die from lack of care after the cyclone struck, the junta's lack of early action and non-cooperation with outside aid organisations and other governments should be classed as a form of conspiracy to cause suffering and death amongst the Burmese people, it can even perhaps be regarded as manslaughter, mass murder or even genocide.

PUTTING ALL THAT ASIDE, WHAT IS NEEDED NOW IS IMMEDIATE, MASSIVE UNITED RELIEF EFFORTS, SUPPLIES OF FOOD, WATER, MEDICAL SUPPLIES, MATERIALS TO MAKE TEMPORARY SHELTERS, AND OF COURSE TRAINED PERSONNEL TO PROVIDE THE SKILLS AND EXPERTISE WHICH ARE REQUIRED.

SANITATION INCLUDING THE PROPER DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD, BOTH HUMAN AND ANIMAL IS ALSO A VITAL PART OF THE RELIEF EFFORT.

THERE IS GREAT POTENTIAL FOR DISEASES, THEREFORE DOCTORS AND OTHER MEDICAL STAFF WILL BE NEEDED IN LARGE NUMBERS.

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit


- A wise man does not urinate against the wind

100,000 + dead? Burma's leaders facing growing international condemnation

The Affected area Before & After
NASA satellite image, (click image for larger view)

Because of the Burmese military junta's stubborn reluctance to accept foreign aid, six days after the devastating Cyclone 'Nargis' devastated much of the area in the Irrawaddy delta and beyond, those suffering from the aftermath of the devastation and flooding are unable to receive effective help.

This is a direct result of inhumanity of the oppressive, dictatorial Burmese military junta

The United Nations has reported that its planes, carrying essential food, and other supplies, cannot enter because they still do not have permission to land.

The regional ASEAN group has reportedly urged the military regime to allow in aid flights "before it's too late". The call from ASEAN, of which Burma is a member has thus far been rather half-hearted and weak, whilst millions of people are suffering, ASEAN seems to be almost indifferent, this is perhaps a reflection of how cheap life is seen to be in the countries which make up the regional grouping called ASEAN.

It has been said that the death toll easily could reach 100,000, and go even much higher if immediate effective aid is not received.

Some relief teams which have finally managed to reach some of the worst-hit areas have described harrowing scenes; aid workers have reported bodies rotting in the fields and desperate survivors fighting each other for what little food and water there is.

Burmese troops are moving into the affected areas but, according to reports, their resources are totally inadequate to deal with a disaster on this scale. Only a massive international, well coordinated effort will be able to provide adequate help for those affected by last Saturday’s Cylone ‘Narjis’.

The reclusive, dictatorial and oppressive Burmese military junta has however spurned some offers of aid, including one from the USA, which offered to deploy US Navy Ships.

Meanwhile, foreign aid workers are being held up by red tape are having to queue for Burmese entry visas.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said three UN flights from Bangkok, Dhaka and Dubai with 40 tonnes of high energy biscuits were still awaiting clearance by Burmese authorities.

WFP spokesman Paul Risley told AP news agency: "It is especially frustrating that critically needed food aid is being held up."

Late on Wednesday, 7^th May 2008, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Burma should let the international community help.

"It should be a simple matter. It's not a matter of politics. It's a matter of a humanitarian crisis," she said.

Libertas inaestimabilis res est



- Liberty is a thing beyond all price