Utusan Malaysia says normal for corruption witnesses to commit suicide



By Clara Chooi
July 24, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul twenty-four Utusan Malaysia currently downplayed a cause of Teoh Beng Hocks death, observant which it is usual for witnesses in crime cases to dedicate self-murder to equivocate degrading their families or organisation.

Awang does not assimilate it has been made such a vital issue whether a chairman commits self-murder during or after interrogation, Awang Selamat wrote currently in Mingguan Malaysia, a Malay dailys Sunday edition. In many other countries, a action of sacrificing oneself is not something visitor to a crime case.

Awang Selamat is a pseudonym underneath which editors of Utusan Malaysia write.

Teoh was found dead upon Jul 16, 2009, upon a fifth-floor mezzanine of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after he was questioned overnight by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers during their then-Selangor headquarters upon a 14th floor.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report upon Teohs genocide ruled which a former DAP help had committed self-murder as a result of aggressive, relentless, oppressive as well as unscrupulous inquire by MACC officers.

Despite a self-murder conclusion, Teohs family members as well as opposition leaders have been land a MACC responsible for a youths death, observant which forced self-murder amounts to homicide.

To spell out how self-murder is usual in crime cases, Awang cited a example of how several polite servants in China were reported to have killed themselves final year out of depression. Many, he said, were related to crime scandals.

In another example, Awang related how a key declare in a crime trial of a mother of former Taiwan president Chen Sui Bian had attempted self-murder hardly hours after she testified in Dec 2008.

In Japa! n, he wr ote, several senior public servan ts as well as LDP party members took their lives during a review of a high-profile crime liaison in 1989.

In a Philippines, former armed forces chief General (rtd) Angelo Reyes committed self-murder during a review upon a misappropriation of armed forces funds, pronounced Awang.

There have been many more cases of those committing self-murder or attempting to dedicate self-murder when their deeds have been exposed or have been being investigated by graft busters or a police, he said.

What more when it involves a cartel, when a situation is even more complex. Although many of these other cases do not involve genocide in a premises of a authorities, a issue is a same a accused or declare is embarrassed, stressed as well as depressed enough to find their own shun route.

In a probable anxiety to Teoh, Awang pronounced which there were additionally many cases of those who were rebuilt to take their lives to equivocate betraying their bosses or their organisations.

Teoh was called in for questioning by a MACC as a commission had reportedly longed for to vigour him in to apropos a declare in their box opposite his boss, Seri Kembangan representative Ean Yong Hian Wah, for alleged abuse of open funds.

Many experts, including Dr Alex Lickerman from a University of Chicago, who is additionally a columnist for Psychology Today, perspective which many of these cases result from a psychological vulnerability of a individual, he said.

Awang additionally referred to a box in Malaysia when a Form 6 Chinese propagandize student, who was accused of derisive a female student, jumped off a building after receiving advice from a counsellor.

This tyro too had a splendid future forward as well as his family mislaid a many valued asset a child. But in understanding his suicide, should a solicitor be faulted? pronounced Awang.


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