Aliran is appalled at the determined effort by the police to crush today’s peaceful march to the palace to submit a memorandum to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong calling for the abolition of the much abused draconian law, the infamous Internal Security Act.
The controversy surrounding the death of a young political assistant at the MACC office will now force Malaysians to look seriously into the decline in standing and credibility of our state institutions, and to ask how they can arrest the slide in performance and credibility of public institutions such as the anti-corruption commission, observes Farish Noor.
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The death in police custody of Kugan Ananthan, a 22-year old who was arrested on suspicion of being part of a luxury car-theft racket has eroded the credibility of the police force among a significant section of the Malaysian people. Unless there emerges the political will to deal with the record of abuses in the police seriously and openly, this credibility is not about to be recovered soon, observes Farish Noor.
Charter 2000-Aliran is deeply disturbed by Deputy Internal Security Minister Fu Ah Kiow’s warped logic when he highlighted the purported concern of the mainstream media over what they regard as an uneven playing field for both the print and Internet media.
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