Suaram decries police extortionists


The NGO criticises a military force for their alleged practice of seeking cash in exchange for report or other favours from family members of those detained.
PETALING JAYA: Suaram lambasted a military over what appears to be a prevailing enlightenment of their officers requesting bribes from family members in exchange for report upon a whereabouts of their incarcerated loved ones.
The latest allegation involves a mother of genocide in custody victim, P Chandran, who pronounced she was asked to compensate RM300 for report upon her father just prior to he died in detention.
N Selvi pronounced she attempted to check with a military upon a whereabouts of her father so which she could pass him medication for hypertension problem.
"Suaram is gravely concerned during a steady exercise of hurtful practices by a police," pronounced Suaram coordinator R Thevarajan.
He pronounced which this was not a first time such allegations have been brought to Suaram's attention.
In a single instance, pronounced Thevarajan, military had requested RM13,000 as "release fee" from parents of teenagers incarcerated underneath a Emergency Ordinance in 2011.
He also pronounced which according to Suaram's records, military have, via a years, never claimed any responsibility for a genocide of detainees.
"Suaram is disturbed during a means of genocide as well as recounts which every death-in-custody was possibly attributed to a victim's health or passed off as a box of accident," he said.
Thuggish attitude
Suaram wants a officer-in-charge of a Dang Wangi lock-up, w! here Cha ndran was detained, to produce his daily journal for "scrutiny as well as an eccentric inquest".
Thevarajan pronounced which an inquest should be hold within a month.
"Suaram repeats a call for a setting up of an Independent Police Complaints as well as Misconduct Commission [IPCMC].
"The military establishment needs an eccentric disciplinary resource prior to such thuggish perspective becomes a official code of conduct of a institution," he said.
Dang Wangi military chief ACP Zainuddin Ahmad told Bernama which Chandran died from heart mildew in a Dang Wangi military station lock-up upon Sept 10.
An attempt by FMT to get further response from Zainuddin was unsuccessful.
PKR's Kapar MP S Manickavasagam announced which he is helping a family to move a suit against a supervision as well as military for neglect.
Chandran was apparently arrested for suspected kidnapping of a baby in Cheras.
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