Ex-IGP a liar, says Hindraf

P Waythamoorthy calls on Musa Hassan to be a gentleman and admit that he spread lies about Hindraf.

GEORGE TOWN: Hindraf chairman P Waythamoorthy has accused former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan of being a liar.

He was responding to Musa’s denial that he had said Hindraf was involved with Sri Lankan Tamil freedom movement, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Waythamoorthy called on Musa to be a gentleman and admit that he made the unfounded accusation against the organisation.

He recalled that Musa had openly accused Hindraf of having LTTE links at least twice, one after the group’s Nov 25, 2007 mammoth demonstration and another in a court document.

“He falsely accused us of having LTTE links. The news was splashed across the media. Now he is unashamedly denying it.

“Musa is a lying again to cover up his earlier lie,” he told FMT.

Yesterday, Musa denied he had said that Hindraf was involved with LTTE in 2007. “I did not say Hindraf was involved with LTTE. I said the police were investigating if there was a link,” he had said.

Waythamoothy recalled that in the aftermath of Hindraf-led mammoth rally at KLCC and before the ISA swoop on several activists, including the movement’s legal advisor P Uthayakumar, on Dec 13, 2007, Musa accused the movement of having links with LTTE.

“Musa’s unjustifiable allegation formed the basis for the ISA detention,” said the Hindraf supremo.

He said subsequently Musa repeated the accusation in his affidavit-in-reply during a civil suit against the former IGP filed by Uthayakumar for unlawful detention under the now repealed ISA.

Waythamoorthy recalled that Musa had also publicly said that the police were hunting him down after the Hindraf leader left the country in 2007 to live in London.

“Musa should be gentleman enough to admit that he spread falsehood on Hindraf. His denial now proves that he is a liar,” he said.