Teoh Beng Hock was the male who died whilst in the control of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) domicile in Shah Alam.
We read about him, you saw his print in the news, as well as you recollect the emotive images of his pathetic sister.
We knew him as the political worker.
He was law-abiding as well as guileless of the MACC, the supervision anti-corruption group - the great guys who go after the bad guys.
It was Teoh's fatal inapplicable designation in guileless them.
He had left to their bureau to assistance in their investigation over the teenager expense, RM 2,400 to be exact, incurred by his boss, the state representative who is the member of the Selangor exco (state executive committee).
We know the rest of the story.
We saw the vivid print of his physique sprawled upon the fifth building of the Plaza Masalam building where the MACC bureau was located.
We saw the ripped pants as well as you imagined his final thoughts moments prior to he hit the belligerent as well as his immature hold up ended.
A design paints the thousand words. A unhappy the single draws the thousand tears as well as creates the widow cry.
Teoh's desired ones, his parents, his sister as well as his wife done the widow after the post-mortem marriage, still can't speak about Beng Hock though choking as well as you clarity their grief as well as despair.
I could feel their pang as Teoh's widow wiped the tears from her eyes with her peaceful finger as well as could not answer the question. Such sorrow you cannot hide ! from the camera.
The large cover-up began prolonged prior to the headlines of Teoh's genocide got out.
To the countless series of Malaysians including I, who still indicate the finger during the MACC, Yeoh was the stranger to the public, another spoke in the political machinery where part-players have been never in the limelight.
Timely scrutiny by an insider
Tricia Yeoh in her award-winning documentary upon Teoh Beng Hock titled Rights of the Dead, released late final year, has brought him closer to us.
It is the timely work since similar to so many who died in puzzling resources Teoh can easily trip out of the open psyche in to history.
"I really longed for to uncover how the family suffered through it" pronounced Yeoh during the Freedom Filmfest gathering.
Her first-hand believe as the staffer of the Selangor supervision had since her an intimate believe of the "unresolved case."
The reduced movie provides the laconic comment of events prior to as well as after Teoh's genocide as well as leaves the spectator still with the whinging proverbial subject - "Who did it?"
After examination Yeoh's documentary which won the Justin Louis Award FFF2012, you realised which some-more than feeling discomfit during the supervision for his death, you owe Teoh Beng Hock the dignified requisite to finish what he had set out to do.
He longed for his nation to be the improved place.
I got to know some-more about the male who the open still consider was murdered notwithstanding an central inquisition as well as the stately elect of inquiry in to his genocide which resulted in an open verdict.
Teoh was the loyal Malaysian, the promising immature male who felt which working for the statesman was the single approach he could put self-assurance to work.
Unlike those who usually complain, he! acted a s well as got endangered in helping the statesman to shift the nation he loved.
It was the noble enterprise for which he paid the idealisation price.
Many Malaysians hold the supervision obliged for the deaths in MACC as well as military custody, as well as which have not been justly dealt with.
The culprits still roam free. The MACC male in assign of Teoh's case was promoted divided from where Teoh had died.
As for the police, they refused to action upon the recommendations of the stately elect to enhance military standards as well as accountability.
This action of repudiation has sealed the genocide warrants of some-more who will die in military control since the little consider which the military uniform is licence to action above the law.
But Teoh did not die in military control since he was the suspected criminal.
He died in the control of the government's anti-corruption agents whom he had left to help.
Teoh's genocide sounded the notice bells which something is drastically remiss with the MACC modus operandi.
" It can occur to any the single including me," pronounced Yeoh in an interview.
The stately elect blamed the MACC officers for their modus operandi which caused Teoh to die reduced of observant they killed Teoh.
But you have been none the wiser since the stately commission's final preference was conjunction homicide nor suicide. An progressing inquisition gave the verdict of self-murder which was opposed by Teoh's family as well as the public.
It left many unanswered questions though to many in the public, they know since Teoh died though they do not have the smoking gun. And inconclusive evidence whilst compelling, is not sufficient to make the government, mostly seen as prejudiced to the police, to move about any rapist charges.
Any Joe Public could fall victim
And right away Malaysians have been confronted with another genocide in military custody, which of Cheah Chin Lee, 36, in Penang. And again the genocide is hidden in mystery, the male who had no reason to kill himself was found hanged in the military lock-up.
In her reduced documentary Tricia Yeoh succeeded in sketch the spectator closer to Beng Hock, the male of conviction, not usually the plant of murder.
And viewers have been poignantly reminded which they 'cannot be neutral' in light of injustice, pronounced Yeoh in an interview.
Maybe you have the soft mark though who could be so inhuman as to not be affected when the movie allows you to take the closer demeanour during someone's black death. It could have been someone tighten to us it could have been you or me, as Yeoh did not forget to remind us.
The video brought the law closer to my heart as well as the tears to my eyes. It was such the gratuitous as well as meaningless genocide as well as you keep asking myself since over as well as over again.
Why do Malaysians die in supervision control in the local military lock-up, in the prisons, in the MACC office?
Why have been there so many deaths in control as well as still there is no stately elect in to those deaths? There is no open outrage, no receiving to the streets. No denote it is all starting to stop.
If the 'system sucks' as they contend it is since you concede it as well as do not criticism enough. And Yeoh creates her indicate in the polite though touching way.
I theory you can't demonstrate over each unaccompanied action of misapplication since many believe the shift of supervision as well as the purge of crime competence make the radical difference.
To heal any sickness you have to! provide the cause not the symptoms as well as you can't be unexcited or neutral. He or she who is not against immorality abets it as well as competence be the victim. Yeoh could not sojourn neutral since the system compels us to take political sides as well as it is not the political party though what it does which wins the support.
Many holes in MACC story
Teoh Beng Hock did not merit to die no Malaysian deserves to die when in the presumably protected hands of the military or coercion officers who have been trained to defend the law as well as protect the public.
No the single can convince me which Teoh Beng Hock was not tortured or roughed up as to wish to cling to around the MACC bureau when he could have left after the interview, if in fact you accept the MACC explanation.
The central story did not smoke-stack up.
The answers to deaths in control never do. And the victims as well as their desired ones never get probity in many cases. Those who emanate novella to cover up the fact as well as their culpability will in the future have to own up, hopefully, not always upon their genocide bed.
If in law it was loyal Teoh asked to stay back, he contingency have indispensable to redeem from his ordeal, which competence have enclosed earthy abuse, it explains since Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip pointed to the unexplained pre-fall injury upon Teoh's neck as well as her opinion which he was 'murdered'.
And the anecdotal sworn statement of someone interviewed in the documentary, who was once roughed up by the MACC, backs the guess of Teoh's own diagnosis during the hands of his interrogators.
Beng Hock was 'collateral damage'
Tricia Yeoh (left) the first-time film-maker weaved the elementary storyline regulating headlines footage as well as personal interviews as well as guided u! s throug h the intricacy of witnesses including the former tip supervision crime questioner who spoke of shortcomings in military investigations in to Teoh's death.
The stroke upon me was not the brilliance of the production, many of it was the elementary indicate as well as record unaccompanied camera work, though the flawlessness as well as poignancy of Teoh's genocide itself as well as the small sum similar to his enterprise to offer his nation which filled the pieces in the jigsaw for me.
Yeoh got to the indicate as well as there's usually so many you can cover in the reduced movie as well as she succeeded in her aim.
If there was the consequential missing piece, it is 'Why?' the whinging question.
Why take divided the hold up of someone who did not fool around any pivotal role in politics? Why did Teoh Beng Hock have to die?
Because you know he would not have killed himself when he had so many to live for an approaching wedding as well as brand new role as the husband, as well as the suspicion of having the son would be sufficient reason for any male to wish to live.
There have been many hypotheses upon Teoh's genocide though there is the single foregone conclusion: Teoh was the collateral repairs in what right away appears the political witchhunt.
The law of how he died competence emerge the little day as it mostly does in Malaysia since scandals have been mostly buried in shoal graves as well as the skeletons will climb to tell the truth.
Cover-up has always been the approach of evading the truth. And it is immature people similar to Tricia Yeoh who will keep the glow for probity burning.
Teoh Beng Hock is the political martyr. Yeoh's documentary has positively done it probable as well as easier to continue to tell Teoh Beng Hock's story as well as to find contingent probity for him, his family as well as friends.
But there is no video of Teoh's talk with the MACC officers.
A recording would have saved his hold up as we! ll as yo u certitude it is customary procedure right away for the MACC as well as it should additionally be in places where people have been hold in custody.
Story told for the sake of the son
A documentary movie of this nature was not done with the unaccompanied target to win awards during movie festivals. Films of this genre have been not done to perform us as well as stir us with the artistry in the making.
I competence not be haughty which Tricia Yeoh, the talented as well as endangered immature Malaysian, the fine woman of demur had meant which you take the summary of the movie to heart as well as action upon it.
It was the story which had to be told. It is the movie which deserved to win the award as well as Yeoh succeeded in her goal. Its summary to me is which you need to vindicate Beng Hock's genocide by bringing his murderers, whether conscious or otherwise, to probity as well as to safeguard which it can never occur again.
Justice is doubtful to be since underneath the obligatory supervision as well as another genocide did occur again, not prolonged after Teoh's.
Ahmad Sarbani Mohammed, the Malay law military officer was the plant this time, as well as Malaysians contingency have felt the clarity of deja vu, since similar to Teoh Beng Hock he additionally fell to his genocide whilst in MACC custody.
We know even reduction of this man's genocide than you do of Beng Hock's. He too deserves to have his story told.
The slightest you can do for Beng Hock is to safeguard his immature son will get the hold up his father would have since him had he returned from the MACC bureau which fatal day.
"Your Daddy was the hero, he died portion his country," you contingency tell the boy.
Whatever the feelings upon governing body or the allegiances, probity contingency be master.
Putting The System underneath scrutiny
Justice delayed is probity denied, as well as probity denied is the crime unpunished as well as the plant doubly victimized whilst the perpetrator goes scot free.
And you goal the families of Kugan, the many well well known of Indian deaths in military control as well as others who additionally died in control will get the probity their families as well as friends demand as well as deserve, as well as which the open wish to see.
Corruption is the country's cancer though the supervision which does nothing about deaths in custody, as well as in fact promotes those obliged for Beng Hock's genocide sends the wrong message.
Teoh Beng Hock, Kugan, Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed their unjust deaths have come to symbolize the restraint of immorality which contingency be challenged for underneath tighten scrutiny it is the same bloody immorality which gave us the murders in the killing fields as well as which shock us to the core.
Evil rears the nauseous head in opposite ways as well as opposite places though the victims always humour an unjust as well as black genocide as well as their desired ones get the hold up sentence of pang as well as sorrow.
Whoever you are, you simply cannot stand by as well as watch others die during the hands of sanctioned criminals whoever they have been who abuse the power you gave them.
We have been the brother's screw as well as you have been obliged to prevent the widow's tears.
The system contingency change. The hurtful contingency go.
We contingency work for great governance since crime results in the deaths of trusting Malaysians as well as any genocide in the control of the supervision is the single genocide too many.
A opinion for the shift Beng Hock wanted
The Rights of the Dead is the documentary each Malaysian should watch as well as realise which you can never certitude any supervision group whi! lst you have been in their control since of what happened to Teoh Beng Hock.
It is the notice not to be treated lightly which those who have been unfortunate to be placed in the control of the authorities over the many teenager make the difference competence end up dead.
It is not to cow us though to enforce us to move the culprits to probity as well as to safeguard immorality never triumphs since the great will do something.
The usually safeguard is to safeguard usually the infallible get to hold bureau as well as the system creates any lawbreaker accountable as well as no the single is authorised to be above the law.
Responsible care as well as obliged systems have been the country's best safeguards.
I am blissful Tricia Yeoh did the movie as well as demeanour forward to some-more of such films as well as the Freedom Film Festival people have been the genuine item to amiability as well as the movie attention as well as you extol them.
A opinion for Teoh Beng Hock is the slightest you can do for him as well as the nation he loved. A opinion for Teoh is the opinion for the shift he wanted.
Change will improved safeguard the rights of the living.
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