The Home ministry has been taken to task over the police’s signature campaign against PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu over the latter's revisionist view on Malaysia's history of independence.
Revealing a letter signed by a brigade commander of the General Operations Force, the police's paramilitary arm, Parit Buntar member of parliament Mujahid Yusof Rawa said that the directive was sent on September 14 to all civil servants, police pensioners including their spouses and families to sign up for the campaign against Mat Sabu. (pic)
The letter claiming that the veteran PAS leader's view was "flawed and uncivilised" and derogatory to police officers in the country, included a format of a signature drive to be returned by September 22, 2011.
"This means that the directive came from the upper echelon of the police. I am revealing this in parliament, not in a coffee house. So I urge the ministry to answer. If I am proven wrong, I will retract my allegation,” said Mujahid, who added that the whole saga surrounding Mat Sabu’s statement could have been staged.
He also questioned why the police was interfering in a political controversy.
Last August, Mat Sabu hailed left-wing independence fighters saying their contribution had been blacked out by UMNO-leaning historians.
He also praised the late Muhammad Indera who led the 1950 attack on a colonial era police base in Bukit Kepong, sparking a media campaign by UMNO-controlled media accusing Mat Sabu as communist.
- Harakahdaily
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