pakatan rakyat unite to call for justice on teoh beng huat

ok, this is an update to yesterday’s post ‘6000 people at the public forum for the late teoh beng hock’.

who were the one who spoke?

DAP – chong eng, chow kon yeow, prof. ramasamay DCM II, mansor DCM I,tengku aziz, lim kit siang, lim guan eng
PKR – saihuddin
PAS – salahuddin ayob, mahfuz omar (both are PAS VP), mujahid

and there were lots of others MPs and assemblymen present on stage who did not spoke, like jeff ooi and liew chin toong. those chinese DAP speakers spoke in both mandarin and english, while the non chinese DAP and PAS, PKR spoke in both english and bahasa. to me, i feel that the best speakers were saihudin from PKR and mahfuz omar from PAS. very dynamic and powerful.

most of them touched on more or less the same thing – the main ones being this issue is not a racial issue, everyone wants a royal commission, everyone believe beng hock did not jumped, MACC serving its politcial masters and criticising BN – but of course each of them have their own styles in delivering the speeches.  i’m giving only a brief commentary of their speeches of course – interesting ones which i jotted down.

chong eng (DAP) mentioned about the mansion of zakaria and khir toyol running into millions, not investigated but in beng hock’s case only on RM2,400, MACC was wuick to act. she also said that MACC is not acting profesionally at all but acted like thugs, thus it is time to stand up against BN’s 50 years of corruption.

mujahid (PAS) got the crowd into a frenzy when he started off by  shouting loud that “this – where all races come together to fight the evil of BN  – is the true 1 malaysia!.  he also made the crowd roared with laughter when he said “when i’m walking down the street after midnight, i’m not scared! but ohh… when i’m inside MACC, i’m so scared – anything may happen.”

chow kon yeow (DAP) mentioned that we should not let BN use the police and MACC to threaten or intimidate PR. while he was talking halfway, lim guan eng came in. wow! he’s so popular. he came in through the front entrance, with announcement and music accompanying, and walked down the aisle, shaking hands with the people. whereas all the others speakers when the walked in, the went through the side door, without music accompanying.

chow kon yeow  also mentioned about ‘a certain paper’ that accused ‘the opposition’ of racialising the issue of teoh beng hock but he said that the presence of PAS, PKR, DAP speakers here tonight clearly show that it is not about race at all.

prof. ramasamy (DAP) poked fun at najib’s 1malaysia saying it is zero malaysia. he was the one who first mentioned the name of altantuya, when he talked about justice for beng hock – he said justice for beng hock, kugan and altantuya.  he also said BN had ‘kacau’ perak, and now is doing the same to selangor and also to penang through kg buah pala.

mansor (PKR) started by asking all to stand up and be silent for a minute to pay respect to beng hock.  did not write out what he said as was distracted and amused at how he kept uttering beng hock’s name as ‘beng huat’. a few people in the crowd keep shouting ‘beng hock’ and yet he kept saying ‘huat’ instead of ‘hock’. one irritated old man stood up with fist raised and shouted loud a few times “beng hock! beng hock!”.  i think he did not get it too until the MC passed him a note.

lydia ong (DAP) spoke only 5 mins or so but it was a passionate plea to all mothers – that if they want their kids to be safe in malaysia, write a letter to the PM.

tengku aziz (DAP) was next to speak. earlier, one of his popular article ‘old wine in new bottle’ was passed around to all those in the hall. he said he was sad that he had been proven right about what he wrote about MACC in that article (which i think was written a month ago).  the lost of beng hock, he said was a total un-necessary lost of live. like the others, he mentioned about MACC not being independent but work on the instructions of their political masters. he urged us to reject najib’s 1malaysia.

at his conclusion, he asked jeff ooi to translate into mandarin what he said. i’m not too sure about this… that is hope i’m right… i stand corrected. he mentioned his friend, robert phang is in the MACC had called him every 2 hours or so to say that MACC must go. he also mentioned something about robert phang agreeing to made some donations or what… couldn’t quite catch him.

saifudin (PKR) was next to speak and i like the way he spoke because it was kind of ‘poetic’ some of his phrases used.  he said the death of beng hock was ‘mysterious yet telling’, ‘shocking yet revealing’, and he also mentioned well anything can happen in our country because this is bolehland. then he  said that our anger has nothing to do with race at all and mentioned that the very first hint of racism creeping in was when that berita hairan editor wrote that piece of article.  then i like it when he said, to umno, when everything fail, they’ll use racism. how true. fully agree. “i am a muslim” he said, “my religion tell me to do the right thing, the right way. umno must learn to do it right; if no, allah will make things wrong.”

this is a very good one too. i believe, actually most people believe, someone order MACC to haul up those from pakatan… they planned all these things well already but then suddenly something went wrong – the death of beng hock – something unexpected to those who planned it. see, so this means, they were not doing the right thing, and allah has a way to make things go wrong for them – the death of beng hock. that’s who i see it when i heard saifudin’s remark as above.

when lim kit siang spoke, it is expected he mentioned about nazri accusing him of being racial. he said he had challenged nazri to point out where and how exactly he was being racial. he also mentioned a lot about the importance of calling for a royal commission and stressed that there should be consultation of PR when forming the commission. he said the MACC was set up declare war on corruption but they declare war on PR instead. haha. good one. another good one was that he said he had said to MACC chairman, ahmad said if he wants to find fault with PR, resign as the chairman, enter the politcial arena and come fight with us (PR). kit siang asked a show of hands those who believe that beng hock jumped… of course no hands were up but when he asked those who do not believe that he jumped, all hands went up at once. he ended up by saying that if tomorrow the PM does not call for a royal commission “let’s multiply the number of this forum! let’s have 100 protests a month!”

mahfuz omar (PAS) questioned the long hours of interrogation of beng hock and the retaining of beng hock’s handphone.  he said it is against human rights to keep a person in interrogation for 11 hours straight.  “SPRM” he said, using the malay acronymn for MACC, “said that beng hock ask to sleep in the couch after he was release. huh what? if i’m interrogated for so long, and i’m released, i would have fast get the hell out of the building, why would i want to sleep there.” he also mentioned that if beng hock fell, why there were no external injuries on his body. he said that why even if he fell down the steps 3 flights or so, he would have got bruises or blue black marks but beng hock fell 9 floors, and no body injury?? when he said SPRM instead of being ‘pencegah rasuah’ is ‘perompak rasuah’, everbody cheered; not that what he had said earlier, or what the others said, the crowd did not cheered and clapped. they did. now and then when the speakers made some interesting remarks, the crowd cheered and clapped. mahfuz ended with a nice quote when he said “do not let beng hock’s death be a darkness but let it be a light that shine to brighten malaysia.”

lim guan eng was the last to speak. he started off  by saying that 5 days ago, nobody know who was teoh beng hock but now the whole nation knows. he also said after knowing, now you’ll cry for your son, daughter, father, mother, husband, wife for fear of what happened to beng hock may happen to any of us.  like his father, he asked how can a young, happy, healthy man walked into  the MACC office alive, and came out dead?

he made fun of MACC (and remember nazri) saying beng hock jumped. “wow. you think so easy ah to walk around MACC office, choose a window, then jumped” because he said when he was in MACC office, he notice there are many doors and the doors are electrically controlled. he also said that the windows are fenced up righ to the centre, as with all windows on high-rise buidlings, thus it will be difficult for someone to jump.

then he mentioned about the police investigating MACC. who in the world can trust the police now, he said and it’s good to hear that he mentioned at one time the IGP musa hasan was under some investigation by MACC (remember?) but in the end MACC  let him go. now, if MACC can let him go, do you think he will let MACC go too? so how to trust the police to investigate MACC??

he also on mentioning that MACC said beng hock jumped, why is it they like to blame the victim? for example he said the case of the teenage malay girl he defended against thamby cik, the poor girl was blamed… then when he try to defend the girl, he was blamed! the government has a culture of blaming the victim!

he ended by saying that teoh beng hock, must be like many of us, who had a dream to see a perfect malaysia. it is our duty then, he said to make sure his dream come true, it is our duty to clean up the police force, the MACC to make sure our chidlren are safe in this country.