May 5, 2012
A Panel to Investigate Police Brutality: For Cover-Up?
by Teoh El Sen| May 4, 2012@www.freemalaysiatoday.com
The supervision has promised to set up an eccentric row to examine allegations of military savagery during last Saturday's BERSIH rally, though perspective leaders have been asking: Who will be the panellists, as well as is there any indicate in having the inquiry?
One emanate which keeps cropping up is which open certainty in open inquiries is during an all time low. Among the most critical of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's proclamation yesterday was Dr. Lim Teck Ghee, who pronounced it was an an election ploy.
"On the one hand, Najib concludes which BERSIH is an attempt to overpower the government. The next moment he says we'll have an eccentric panel. It is clearly domestic given the election is coming, as well as he is not sincere during all," pronounced Lim, who heads the Centre for Policy Initiatives.
The Malaysian knowledge with stately commissions of exploration as well as alternative supposed eccentric panels was which the odds were stacked in the government's favour, he said.
"It won't be eccentric as well as would simply be there to present the BN as well as Police points of view. It will be used for domestic spinning. We should reject this panel, unless the supervision changes its routine of selection. The terms of reference additionally should be looked during carefully."
Asked to suggest names for the panel, Lim pronounced the suggestions should come from the main stakeholders organisers o! f the BE RSIH rally, Suhakam, the Bar Council, the Police as well as the Media.
Bar Council vice-president Christopher Leong concurred which having the row without bite would 
be pointless."We have had in the new past disappointing practice with open inquiries in which their recommendations have been not heeded," he said.
Plenty of evidence
Leong cited the Royal Commission upon Police Misconduct as well as the more new exploration in to the genocide of Teoh Beng Hock.
"Even the annual reports of Suhakam have been not tabled as well as debated in Parliament. There is no indicate in having the elect of inquiry, or an eccentric row of exploration or the Suhakam exploration if the findings as well as recommendations have been ignored.It would be merely the routine of buying time or wasting time as well as resources."
Leong remarkable which the Police had pronounced they were able to identify from videos as well as photos the convene participants who had misbehaved as well as would have them prosecuted.
He asked which the Police do the same with Policemen who misbehaved, adding which there were copiousness of justification upon the Internet.
"The Police should thus name these officers as well as have the A-G prosecute them. Don't waste time, take action."
Leong pronounced which if the authorities wished to have an eccentric row of inquiry, the following questions should be addressed: Who have been starting to be the members? What would be the panel's terms of reference? What powers would it! have as well as where would it get such powers from?
"It is not productive to have the row of exploration which in conclusion has no bite." Leong additionally questioned if the row would be only about violence against the media, saying: "What about the allegations of military violence against the alternative members of the open the clerks, secretaries, managers, doctors, engineers, lawyers, architects, bankers, commercial operation people, IT people, farmers, stall owners, students, retirees, accountants, pilots, labourers, nurses, artists, etc?"
'We unequivocally need neutrality'
However, the Chairman of the ASLI Centre of Public Policy Studies, Ramon Navaratnam, pronounced having such the row was "still better than none during all" nonetheless he would have elite the Suhakam inquiry.
He suggested the following names as choices for the proposed commission's chairman: former
Police arch Tun Mohammed Haniff Omar, UMNO maestro Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, former Deputy Prime Minister Tun Musa Hitam as well as former Chief Justice Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah.
"One good person would be preferably the decider who has no tie with the police. Not me. We need somebody of higher standing than that," he said.
"This investigation contingency be done quickly the one-month deadline, as well as we come up with conclusions as well as recommendations. There is plenty justification from all sides."
Social Care Foundation chairman Robert Phang additionally pronounced Suhakam would be the best body to investigate."Suhakam is viewed to be anti-government, though in fact that's not true," he said.
"In any case, there's no indicate putting in anybody who is mediocre. We need someone who is fair as wel! l as jus t. One name we can consider of is (Suhakam Vice-chairman) Simon Sipaun. Suhakam arch Abu Talib Othman also. We unequivocally need neutrality. But the question is: what is neutral? Neutral in the eyes of politicians or the public? We should omit politicians since they have been blindfolded. Perhaps the media should suggest some names."
Najib pronounced yesterday which "credible, gifted as well as respectable" people will make up the eccentric panel, adding which it was expected to be formed by next week.
An online portal quoted DAP's Tony Pua currently propelling the supervision to use Suhakam to control an exploration as well as pronounced the government's proposal to set up the separate eccentric row was unnecessary.
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