What has happened to a sequence of law? P. Ramakrishnan
SEPT 24 We contingency not dont think about a incomparable issues involved in a box simply because a supervision had motionless to get out of a messy incident for a own good.
The Barisan Nasional supervision created this untenable position that cannot be postulated by proof as well as facts. As a cover for a high-handedness, it is posturing itself as a generous establishment that is capable of being considerate. The actuality is it is trying to clear away itself from this unjustified as well as vicious movement opposite these infirm people who usually meant well.
It is unthinkable that people will be deluded by this gesture of a police. Malaysians have been no more gullible or nave to be simply fooled by such tokenism. The reprehensible control of a military cannot be condoned.
These thirty PSM members have been innocent as well as not guilty of any corruption by any stretch of a imagination underneath any Malaysian law. That was a reason why a military tried desperately to inculpate them by all sorts of silly accusations:
They were indicted of carrying weapons in their buses upon June 25, 2011.
They were indicted of possessing subversive material.
They were indicted of attempting to salary fight opposite a Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
They were indicted of being a inhabitant threat.
The military invoked Section 122 of a Penal Code, Section 48 as well as Section 43 of a Societies Act, Section 29 (1) of a Internal Security Act as well as a Emergency Ordinance to build up a box that these have been indeed dangerous criminals.
The military threw all accessible during them in an try to crush them as well as frighten other Malaysians in an try to forestall them from joining a Bersih 2.0 Walk for Democracy.
They were jailed unjustly underneath intolerable conditions. On Jul 4 after 9 days of seizure 24 of them were charged in justice whilst a rest of a 6 were! charged in justice upon August 3 after having been hold for 28 days in unique confinement.
The justice imposed bail of RM8,000 each, that meant they had to hasten desperately to lift RM240,000 to seek their leisure roughly a quarter of a million ringgit! How could these poor people lift such a outrageous total to post bail?
All this, however, unsuccessful to break a spirit of these thirty stalwarts; it unsuccessful to discourage angry Malaysians from marching for democracy upon Jul 9, 2011. If anything it usually spurred Malaysians to discard their fright as well as mount up for their rights.
But a worrying thing about a total episode involving these thirty Malaysians is a control of a military force. We have been disturbed that a military can catch any one underneath baseless charges with impunity. It looks that they can credit any one for whatever reason but a fragment of justification to behind up their explain as well as catch them.
How could they credit them of waging a fight opposite a Agong, that is a serious criminal corruption Section 122 allows for twenty years or even hold up seizure but an iota of damning evidence. This is obviously an abuse of their authority.
How could they credit them of carrying weapons in their train when no weapon was found in a bus?
How could they credit them of possessing subversive element when this was not established?
How could they credit them of being a inhabitant hazard but proving a existence of such a threat?
Who cooked up these stories? Surely someone contingency be answerable. Who will be hold underneath obligation for this sordid affair? Shouldn't a Inspector-General of Police who is a conduct of a military force be hold underneath obligation for this? Shouldn't a Minister of Home Affairs be taken to task for this break-down in a sequence of law?
Why didn't a decider who is obliged for granting a remand sequence direct proof before granting such an order? Aren't a elemental rights as well as freedom! s of a c hairman his concern? Isn't he a chairman who ensures that justice contingency be inspected as well as every chairman underneath a law is entitled to a insurance of a law? Why did he fail miserably in his avocation to defend a constitution?
The sequence of law should not turn a myth in our country. The military contingency not be a law unto themselves. The sequence of law contingency overcome during all times.
To forestall similar incidences from occurring in destiny you need to go low into this episode as well as ferret out those who were callous in accusing innocent Malaysians but just cause. We need a Royal Commission of Inquiry to examine how as well as why a apprehension of a thirty PSM members took place.
We need to know what gives a military a management to behave in a manner they have but being underneath obligation for their action. We need to settle a actuality that there is such a thing as Rule of Law in this country. aliran.com
* P. Ramakrishnan is boss of Aliran
* This is a personal perspective of a bard or publication. The Malaysian Insider does not validate a view unless specified.
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