'WHO KILLED ALTANTUYA' may well enter the Worlds's Guinness Book of Records

If BN wants to ride the storms building up as we countdown to our mother-of-elections, GE 13, it must solve the mysteries surrounding the brutal slaying of a foreign national – and a mother and daughter she happens to be.

So far none within the rank and files of BN have had the courage to echo with all concerned citizens the piercing questions that remain shrouded in swaddles of political intrigue and mystery:

Why was a lone woman, who was helpless in the powerful arms of slayers so brutally annihilated with C4?

How come we do not know and neither do the Palace of Justice want to unravel as to who authorized the use of military grade explosive on a single, lone mother?

Who gave the marching orders for the diligent Immigration staff to delete all entry and egress records of a visitor to our nation who came here without the slightest clue of what dangers lay ahead of her given the plotting mysterious people who would have had a hand in the eventual murder of Altantuya?

How come it has been ruled that motive is not significant to establish the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

These are questions that have asked relentless in public forums and in the alternate media as well as in private conversations, corporate corridors and at warongs all across the country.

But there appear to be dead silence from the corners of the BN fort. No one leader had expressed the importance and the crucial need to seek out answers to these questions.

We only hear members from civil society and the opposition front expressing concerns and begging for honest answers but only end up facings rebuttals and reprimands not to 'politicize' the crime.

It therefore appears set that it does not matter any more why and how this helpless, fragile woman met her death in the hands of a thick plot.

YOKE OF DISGRACE: Betrayal of nation's integrity

Soon we will be marching to the polls demanding many things to change or celebrating with BN for their “promises fulfilled”.

But little do we care that our nation’s hands are stained with murder. Little do we bother that while we are fighting for justice as we court that hope of an opposition victory or celebrating with BN for all that has been – good and bad, these past five over decades, the slaying of a foreign citizen is actually wrapped and sealed in mystery that appears to be coated thick with a political plot.

The truth is, for as long as the people of Malaysia are helpless and unable or could not care-a-less to throw wide open all lids on the murder, BN’s conscience remains guilty.

The least the BN leaders could do is at best to ensure that answers to the long outstanding questions are laid bare.

The day the nation enters the Guinness Book of Records for a murder unresolved, we would have hung a yoke of disgrace permanently on the neck of all Malaysians before the just world of citizens outside our shores.

That then in essence is the biggest treason ever to be committed against a nation by its own leaders.

How come then no one wants to debate this issue or question it? The eerie silence haunts the very soul of this nation making all the over-heating pre-election debates over religion and the religious status of this country mere hogwash.

MAILBAG