Jakarta, 23 April — Indonesian migrant workers group Migrant Care staged a protest outside the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta on Friday demanding the Malaysian government be responsible for the alleged shootings of three Indonesian nationals last month accused of committing robbery.
On a lighter note, George Aeria tells us what we must do the next time any of us has to report to the police or MACC.
A string of civil society groups have expressed shock at the news that another six Burmese migrants have died while in detention in Malaysia because of a suspected waterborne disease.
Reading of the recent death under police custody, we are bewildered and have to pose this question to our Prime Minister, “Will there be no end to this?”
Why are there so many deaths under police custody? And why do these corpses bear marks of police brutality? Do we have professional personnel or sadists interrogating suspects? Do we really get to the truth or force confessions out of these unfortunate suspects through coercion and brutal means?
Munching popcorn in a cinema, Wong Soak Koon ponders over a string of intriguing issues such as involvement in society, erosion of media ethics, and culpability for loss of lives in times of war.
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