September 29, 2011
Memali: A Policeman Remembers
by Din Merican
I have just returned from a Royal Lake Club, Kuala Lumpur where we was during a Book Launch. we was since a honour to speaker a occasion.
Memali: A Policeman Remembers is created by YM Tunku Muszaffar Shah, who was a OCPD Baling. Kedah from 1981-1986. Tunku Zain Al-Abidin, a founder of Institute of Democracy as well as Economic Affairs (IDEAS),launched Memali a book.
Tunku Muszaffar's book is a first hand comment of a tragedy which continues to this day to show up a conscience of law abiding as well as peace amatory citizens. It promises to be a good read.
Why did a Police come in a village though firearms even when Bukit Aman was told by internal comprehension crew which a villagers were armed with machette as well as parangs as well as were willing to die to strengthen a leader, Ustaz Ibrahim Mahmood aka Ibrahim Libya?
Why were Policemen being asked to subject themselves to foolish risks. Why did a tip coronet in Bukit Aman ignore internal intelligence? Why was a impediment celebration instructed to withdraw if a villagers resisted? In a indirect confront upon Nov 19, 1985, what went wrong? eighteen Malaysians were killed including Ibrahim Libya who had been regulating a Islamic cause as a front to help a organisation of politicians to seize power. This book attempts to answer these questions as well as more.
In browsing through a book this morning after a launch, we review a Afte! rword by Senator YM
Tunku Abdul Aziz garbage bin Tunku Ibrahim. we wish to highlight two issues.
One, it was usual knowledge afterwards as well as right away which (Tun) Musa Hitam was a Deputy Prime Minister as well as Minister of Home Affairs obliged for internal security as well as open order. His sequence to equivocate any spilling of red blood though since was a sequence abandoned by those "bemedalled armchair warriors" in Bukit Aman (Tunku Aziz)?
Yes, why? Tan Sri Amin Osman, afterwards a Acting Inspector General of Police, should answer this question. According to Tunku Aziz:
"[T]he Royal Malaysian Police leadership contingency live up to a core principle of policing, as well as which is to strengthen life as well as property. It contingency not allow itself to be used as a domestic apparatus as well as thereby prostitute oneself as well as compromise its convention values of use in a open interestThe Memali situation is a good e.g. of what could go wrong when a Police allow themselves to take operational orders from politicians. Policing as well as politics someway do not brew well. They have stranger bedfellows."(p.157)
Two, where was (Tun) Dr. Mahathir, a Kedahan dignified by his nation folks, when a Memali tragedy happened. we suspicion he was abroad upon vacation a little nation , perhaps upon a investigate mission. Wrong. According to Tunku Aziz:
" Musa Hitam had to carry a blame for a massacre during Memali. Mah! athir, w ho once berated Israel for fighting its wars by proxy, was himself not antithetic to vouchsafing others do a unwashed work for him. Mahathir a nonconformist is well well known for his disintegrating acts during your convenience an unpopular preference had to be implemented.
On this particular occasion, it was put about during his insistence which he was not in a country. He was in a nation as well as was apprised of developments by Musa Hitam as well as Mohamad Amin. Both pleaded with him not to leave upon his official revisit to China as a security as well as open sequence situation in Memali was looking decidedly dicey as well as dangerous.He was reminded by Musa which Kedah was, after all, his home state. Mahathir insisted which he had to go since a Chinese had done arrangements to receive him. So much for his sense of his open duty. When it came to removing out of a gummy situation, he knew all a dodges."(p.156)
pg 156, Memali: A Policeman Remembers by Tunku Muszaffar Shah Bin Tunku Ibrahim.
After 26 years it is timely to simulate upon Memali as well as come out with an unbiased comment of a tragedy. The round is in a government's court.
September 29, 2011
www.malaysiakini.com
OCPD:Bukit Aman done bad decisions in Memali
by Andrew Ong@www.malaysiakini.com
Sep 29, 11
4:20pm
Former Baling district military chief Tunku Muszaffar Shah Tunku Ibrahim (left), in his book 'Memali: A Policeman Remembers', pronounced a bad decision-making was a result of domestic division as well as underestimation of a persistence of Ibrahim's followers. The bloody situation upon Nov 19, 1985 resulted in a death of Ibrahim, 13 of his supporters as well as 4 military personnel, after a second botched try to detain him under a Internal Security Act (ISA) 1960.Muszaffar wrote which a tip officers in Bukit Aman should never take orders from their "political masters" as well as reject requests which have been not in line with military norms or procedures. "The option as well as movement of a military as to how they would go about you do their avocation should be according to prevalent belligerent situations," he wrote.
Musa Hitam's Order
At a time, a Police were under a assign of Musa Hitam in his genius as Home Minister. Dr Mahathir Mohamad was afterwards a Prime Minister during a incident.
According to a White Paper tabled in Parliament in February 1986, a government justified attempts to detain Ibrahim under a ISA by accusing him of substantiating a Islamic Revolutionary Movement which aims to topple a sovereign government by force.
Although Muszaffar did not request any examples of domestic interference, he did note which Musa had released specific orders during a first botched detain try upon Sep 2, 1984.
In a book, Muszaffar pronounced Musa had ordered Bukit Aman to ensure which a impediment celebration did not use force when impediment Ibrahim as well as withdraw should they confront resistence.
Led by a district special bend chie! f, a imp ediment celebration went to Ibrahim's home in Kampung Charok Puteh during 2.45am upon which day, though withdrew after they were met by about a dozen people armed with sharpened bamboo poles as well as other weapons.
According to afterwards Ibrahim follower Muhamad Yusof Husin's comment of a incident, which forms a chapter of a book, a botched first detain try led to supporters deciding to guard him from arrest.
Educating future commanders
Muszaffar additionally criticised afterwards Bukit Aman leaders, including a then-acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), who was not named, for underestimating a insurgency which Ibrahim's supporters would put up.
Attempts by a vast military commission to detain Ibrahim during his home in Nov 1985 saw supporters aggressive a military with firearms as well as pointy weapons, before a charismatic preacher was killed.
In a book, he described such higher officers as "armchair generals" who saw it fit to detain Ibrahim during his bastion, knowing which his supporters were waiting as well as a little of them had shotgun licences.
Speaking to reporters after a book launch during a Lake Club in Kuala Lumpur, Muszaffar pronounced which his first-person comment of a situation was an try to teach future military officers. He stressed which his comment does not contradict a White Paper, which was additionally reproduced in full in his book.
"My book might upset a little people though my purpose is to teach a immature military commanders not to repeat a mistakes," he said.
He pronounced which he began a book plan in 2009 after being heavily swayed by his elder hermit Tunku Aziz, who is a former vice-chairperson of Transparency International as well as right away DAP vice-chairperson.
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