It's now 1.00am. I'm still roaming cyberspace to read the latest on what happened yesterday to Teo Beng Hock, the political secretary to Ean Yong, one of DAP Selangor State Exco member. He was called by MACC for questioning 2 days ago and was found dead yesterday, fallen to his death at the MACC building. He was supposed to get married today.
My previous post was supposed to be the last. After reading RPK's article on the above incident, I decided to resurrect this blog for the time being. It's not that I treat everything that RPK says as the gospel truth. In fact, there are things that he wrote which I disagreed. But what he wrote about this incident is not inconceivable. It's harder to believe that a mere witness can be subjected to 10 hours of interrogation. If it's true I dare not think of the fate of suspects in the hands of MACC. A case of assault by MACC officers has been highlighted in the press before.
I don't believe the many deaths that happened in police custody in the past were caused by the police with the intention to murder those suspects. But those were murders nonetheless, when through sheer recklessness the suspects were subjected to inhumane interrogation techniques which death is forseeable by a reasonable man.
Should we continue to tolerate these institutions, PDRM, MACC & RELA who uses disproportionate force to achieve their ends without any regard for the sanctity of life? How many more Kugans must die? How many more Beng Hocks must die? How many more nameless migrants/refugees must die? The answer is blowing in the wind? No. The answer depends on what we, the rakyat, the taxpayers who feed these institutions will do to them. I don't have the answer right now. But you can bet your last cent that I'll not rest nor be silent.
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