Another prominent Malaysian personality has been "killed" on Facebook.
This time, it is Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (pic) – PKR president and wife of opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Dr Wan Azizah supposedly "died" yesterday, according to an offensive and vulgar posting on popular social network site Facebook by a user known as "Blue Wave Army".
The user wrote in Bahasa Malaysia: "isteri ketua pembangkang dato seri wan azizah menghembuskan nafasnya yang terakhir tepat jam 7 petang tadi. Al-fatihah. Dengan ini, Hilanglah lagi mujahidah bangsat dalam pr. Alhamdulillah. -Syasya-"
(The wife of opposition leader Dato Seri Wan Azizah took her last breath at exactly 7pm just now. Al-fatihah. With this, lost is another scoundrel martyr in PR (Pakatan Rakyat). Praise be to God.)
In the same posting, there was also a picture of Dr Wan Azizah covered in white and another photograph of several men digging a grave.
Penang PKR Youth chief Dr Afif Bahardin said they will be lodging a police report against the Facebook user for spreading the false news of their party president's death.
"We ask the police to look seriously into this and take the appropriate action against those who uploaded the pictures and spread this false news," he said in a statement today.
Dr Afif said they expect the police to act swiftly to nab the culprit just as they had done with the Facebook user who had uploaded a doctored picture showing Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor dead from a supposed plane crash in Sumatera.
The disturbing picture showed a smashed body with Rosmah's head intact. The Facebook user, known as Syed Saifullah, was promptly picked up by the police from his home in Seri Iskandar, Perak, early this month.
"Action was taken immediately on the Facebook user in Rosmah's case. We expect the police to act fast in this case as well.
"Prove that the police does not practise selective crime prevention. The police had claimed that their credibility was challenged in Rosmah's case, so now they are being tested again. To what extent will the police force allow itself to be challenged?" Dr Afif said.
There are five Facebook accounts bearing the name "Blue Wave Army" when checked this morning. It is unclear which one made the posting and whether it has been removed.
The pages of all five contain postings against PR and its leaders.
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