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Monday, August 19, 2013

Families question execution-style killing of five by police

FZ.COM/Himanshu Bhatt
 
GEORGE TOWN (Aug 19): Hysterical scenes were seen at the Penang Hospital mortuary this evening where the remains of thefive men who were shot dead by policeat 4.30am today lay.
 
Among the 100 people gathered at the mortuary gates were the friends, relatives and parents and siblings of the deceased who wept openly after seeing the bodies.
 
Amplified in their cries were that their children were innocent and unduly executed in the shootout at the Sungai Nibong apartment.
 
Families also said they had learnt that the CCTV cameras in the apartment complex were switched off prior to standoff.
 
"I don't know how they said my son was a Gang 04 member?" said a distraught Murugesan V Ramasamy, 53. He is father to M Suresh who was among the five killed and alleged by police to be gang members.
 
"The press should not just report something like that," Murugesan said, stressing that his son had no criminal record nor was he involved in any criminal activity.
 
Instead, he said, Suresh only worked in a drinks shop in the Jawi, Seberang Perai Selatan.
 
He said Suresh's body was riddled with bullets. "They shot my son like an animal," Murugesan cried.
 
Seri Delima assembly member and lawyer RSN Rayer, who was present at the hospital grounds, questioned the need for the execution-style killings when the men could have been apprehended without being shot.
 
(Police had earlier claimed that their team retaliated after they were shot at while staking out at the apartment.)
 
Rayer said two of them had no criminal records at all.
 
Bernamareported the five who were shot dead by police as J Gobinath, 31, R Ramesh, 27, A Vinut, 23, Suresh, 25 and M Gobinath, 21.
 
Rayer said the incident was similar to alleged executions by police on six Indians in Tanah Merah, Kelantan, and another six Indian youths in Kulim, in recent years.
 
He said the families will lodge police reports and demand that a second post-mortem be conducted.

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