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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Don’t distort the facts on arrest of 80 activists – Sivarajan Arumugam



Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) is disturbed by the Inspector-General of Police’s (IGP) recent statement on the events at the Customs office in Kelana Jaya yesterday.
He claimed that our group were “barbaric” and were “trespassing” into the Customs premises. 
PSM is puzzled how we can have been trespassing into a government building when we were visiting the public information GST counter on the ground floor of the building.
Do we have to get prior entry permit from Customs and probably the police to get our queries answered at the information counter, which is supposed to give information to the public in the first place.
We, too, condemn the IGP declaring us as “barbaric.” We peacefully walked into the Customs Department directly to the information counter. But unfortunately, it was the police who behaved barbarically and pulled and shoved many of us in an attempt to arrest us.
The doors of the information counter were closed on purpose and the police's “Light Strike Force” was called in to guard the entrance. What is the point of having a public information counter when it is locked and guarded by the Police's Federal Reserve Unit (FRU) with shields and batons?
Who has acted unreasonable and barbaric here, the police or us?
How can the IGP call us barbaric when we negotiated peacefully with the Petaling Jaya police chief to arrange for dialogue session with the Custom’s director since the information counter was closed by FRU. The police chief obligingly arranged Abdul Ghani Osman, the director, to meet us and answer our questions. Does this seem barbaric to the IGP?
The dialogue started smoothly with Ghani responding to our questions. But after the first two questions from the floor, he refused to answer any further and left the meeting. We waited for him for four hours to give us further clarification on the matter, or at least confirm that he will be replying to us in another meeting, but unfortunately, he never turned up. Our delegation made several attempts to meet him, but we were obstructed by the police again.
The police then acted barbarically by arresting us. Most of us were handcuffed and then punched and kicked before we were thrown into the police truck. It was unnecessary for such a high-handed tactics by the police as we were not resisting arrest.
The police have further aggravated the matter by detaining 26 of our members overnight at the detention centre in the main police station in Shah Alam. We have been made known that police will seek for remand and throw heavy chargers on our members whom only wanted to seek clarification from the Customs department. 
The police actions are totally uncalled for as the whole meeting could have been successfully held with a proper dialogue session. But neither Customs nor the police were sincere in assisting the rakyat in getting crucial information on the GST which is only one week away from its implementation. 
Currently , there are two members of parliament , Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj (Sungai Siput) and Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli (Kuala Krai) being held in detention with another 18 male and six female activists and party members at Shah Alam .
PSM and the civil society condemn the police abusive arrest and mala fide by the IGP, deliberately distorting the events to justify their arrest and charge. We demand the immediate release of all those arrested with no charges as the only party that acted barbarically and unreasonable today were the police. – March 24, 2015.
Sivarajan Arumugam is a member of Parti Sosialis Malaysia.

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