who is going to protect us?

(picture shows 3 of the 4 chinese women, taken from the star report.)

by now many of you would have known of the 4 women from china, who was forced to strip at the police station. one had been slapped and another had her money taken away. well, these 4 women had then identified the policemen and one policewoman who abused them. well, so we thought that’s all well and good… but it was a shocker, when suddenly we heard that the police early yesterday morning suddenly raided the houses of 3 of the 4 women… all because these brave women dare to accuse them.

sad. and frightening. has our country really truly become a police state? these 3 women claimed that the police came a knocking on their door early in the morning at 2.00am.

“Instead of taking action against personnel said to be involved, the police went to the houses (of the complainants) at midnight and knocked on their doors. We cannot tolerate this. How can we trust them to fairly investigate any complaints against them?”
so said nazri, the parliamentary human rights caucus chairperson.

indeed. and is this suppose to instill fear in us that we should not lodge complain against the police if we feel they had done us wrong?

actually, it had been noted by some, that long ago, our country is already a police state. one fine example, read this article here by veteran journalist, mgg pillai, on another issue.

it is indeed disturbing for us to know that if we made a complaint against the police, one fine day, we may see the police at our doorstep, intimidating and bullying us for daring to complain. who is going to protect us then?

then there is also this case of a student getting sued by the police whom she had filed a corruption report against. (you can get to read it from the ‘beritamalaysia’ link i posted above, or it is also headlined front page in the star paper today).

huh? is this the first in malaysia? malaysia boleh?

transparency international malaysia president datuk param cumaraswamy said that because of cases like this that they had been lobbying for a ‘whistleblower‘s act’. many a times, whistleblowers had been found to be prosecuted or intimidated and thus this put fear in people to ‘blow the whistle’.

is this any surprise then that malaysians have the attitude of “as long as it doesn’t happen in my backyard, who cares”? they don’t want to be involved – to report any wrong-doings for fear of repercussions.

pak lah, what’s happenning to the police force?

i weep for my country. ; -(

NOTE: btw, the star is carrying out a poll to find out public’s opinion on whether they think the policeman’s action of suing the student is right. go, and tick a NO!!!