IS THIS YOU, TIAN? 'Coffin' of Batu MP found outside Malacca PKR office

It looks like the threats - political as well as physical - against PKR MP for Batu Tian Chua are not going to stop anytime soon.

The latest is a 'coffin' with Tian's photo place outside the PKR Malacca office.

However, the 50-year-old Tian, who hails from Malacca, was not fazed by the latest threat on his safety.

"It has been non-stop since they made the accusation against me," Tian told Malaysia Chronicle, confirming the latest 'discovery' outside the Malacca office this morning.

Just a day ago, Tian - who is also the PKR vice president - had pleaded not guilty to Sedition charges that he linked Umno to the shooting of the first 2 policemen killed in the Lahad Datu debacle.

Contempt for Najib and Umno-BN grows

The charges have stirred up more public contempt for the Prime Minister Najib Razak and his administration than they had probably expected.

Najib is perceived to have pressed the charges against Tian in a bid to find a scapegoat to take the political heat off his own mishandling of the intrusion that has drawn both national and international ridicule.

Calls have grown for his government to hold a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the intrusion by 200 armed gunmen from Sulu into Sabah's Lahad Datu district.

Among questions that Malaysians are demanding answers to include, how the Sulu gunmen had managed to slip past Malaysian security lines and why did Najib dilly-dally for three weeks before sending in the police to evict the gunmen.

Other questions are, why did he send in the police and not the army? Could the high death toll be avoided if Najib had acted more swiftly and called in the military to apply the right troops to task right from the start?

"There should be an immediate end to finger-pointing to fix blame for the Sabah Sulu crisis as the priority must to restore peace, calm and normalcy fo the east coast of Sabah in the shortest possible time," DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang said in a statement.

"The prosecution of Tian Chua is completely unjustifiable, indefensible and discriminatory especially as the PKR leader had denied the allegations made against him and has in fact instituted legal proceedings to clear his name."

Malaysia Chronicle