Monday, January 26, 2009

malaysiakini and DEATH in Police Custody. Where is the OUTRAGE?

The reaction of the Home Minister about the alleged morgue incident involving relatives and friends of the murdered police detainee A Kugan is hardly surprising.
When the reporter was detained under the ISA, it was to "protect her."
Now the minister is complaining about the 2 Deputy Ministers who dared to encroach on police turf as described in this malaysiakini article 'Morgue raid': Deputy ministers can face action.
It is good that a second post-mortem is being conducted and we hope that appopriate action will be taken against the guilty parties.
When the nude squat incident occurred about 3 years ago, there seemed to be more public outrage. Have we become insensitive to such incidents in Malaysia today?
I suggest the police should not be the authority to control post-mortems. Perhaps the court should be the place to apply for such approvals.