squat-gate incident – rest in peace?

the heading says ‘put to rest the outcry over nude squat controversy‘ followed by the following paragraph:
the national outcry over the nude squat controversy last december should be put to rest today when the commission on Inquiry headed by former chief justice tun mohamed dzaiddin abdullah submits its findings to the yang di-pertuan agong and the prime minister.

huh? the report will be submitted to the two top-most persons – the king and the prime minister, and that’s it? end of the squat-gate incident? only the king and PM will get to see the report? shouldn’t the report be made public, then only the incident might be consider put to rest? well, even when the report is made public, there will bound to be questions from the public… but that’s it i suppose – just questions with no answers since the report is already finalised. the commission had spoken (via the report) and we the public can’t speak anymore.

well, the star said that the proceedings of the commission left some questions unanswered anyway. here are the questions, of which i will look into them:

who shot the infamous video clip that sparked the furore?
i’m sure the commission would have known after the hearing, wouldn’t they?

how did it come to be shot? during the four-day hearing, at least two police witnesses blatantly contradicted each other.
well, wasn’t it then up to the commission to find out who was telling the truth? maybe it was a ‘pakat’ between two of them, and now one of them chickened out and blame each other?

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if it was an “inside job”, what measures will be taken against the “culprit”?

by right, of course it should but knowing how our gomen/police works, who knows – the culprit might be scout free.

why was the home affairs minister despatched so hastily to china – to apologise for a raft of “misunderstandings” – when he could certainly have demanded a full and immediate report from the police?
i am puzzled at this one too. it will be so simple to just ask the police to reveal the identity of the woman… at least just to him. did he believe, like what most public believe, that the woman concerned was a chinese national?

and why was the china press journalist who originated the article not called up as one of the 16 witnesses?
when they don’t want the press, they don’t want them. when they want the press, they make sure they got what they want – to make the press as scapegoat to ‘prove something’.

indeed, two editors have since resigned in exchange for not having the paper’s licence for its evening edition revoked.
why picked on the china press?

but the government which issues press licences also wants the press, which is quick to point the finger at instances of corruption and abuse of power, to practise the highest standards of journalism before passing judgment on others.
then shouldn’t the gomen also practice a high standard of judgment themselves – judge not only one paper that made the mistake of identifying the woman, but others as well like utusan melayu.

what are the safeguards in an age of sophisticated technology and anonymity?
technology no matter how sophisicated, will be of no use, if humans abuse it.

what are the physical safeguards in police lock-ups to ensure strict privacy for detainees?
easy. ensure there is no window or any window openings or that window are closed. or have a special room for check-up of detainees, certainly not in a locker room.

and most of all, the month-long national outcry showed a racial cleavage in malaysian society.
ain’t no surprise.

why were malaysians of chinese origin so ready to identify with a chinese from china – as opposed to a malaysian, irrespective of racial origin?
that was because it so happened that at that time several chinese nationals reported police abuse.

after 48 years of hoisting the flag together and sharing durians, why are some of us so unmalaysian?
what to do? sad but true. happens at the top too. see, the fact above (malaysian chinese identify with a chinese national), the fact of picking on the china press, the fact that there is NEP… tells us that malaysians are not ready for a bangsa malaysia but instead prefer to stick to their own bangsa.