Susanna Liew (left) and Norhayati Mohd Ariffin, whose husbands Raymond Koh and Amri Che Mat have been missing for over a year now.
Wives of missing men plead with Dr M for help
FMT Reporters | June 12, 2018
Norhayati Mohd Ariffin and Susanna Liew ask AGC to provide safe space for whistleblowers to come forward with information on their husbands' abductions.
wives of two activists who mysteriously vanished pleaded with PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad to help them find their husbands, a month after a police informer allegedly said the men had been taken by a team from Bukit Aman.
In an open letter to Mahathir, Susanna Liew and Norhayati Mohd Ariffin said they were aware of the challenges faced by the Pakatan Harapan administration following the coalition’s victory in the May 9 election.
“However, your government is the one in power today: any delay in this matter could be seen by those inside and outside Malaysia as a breach in the rule of law and the denial of our husbands’ right to be protected under that same law,” they said.
Norhayati’s husband Amri Che Mat has not been seen since Nov 24, 2016.
suspicious-looking men surrounded Amri’s vehicle on night of his disappearance.
His car was found 20km from his house in Bukit Chabang, Perlis.
12 weeks later, Feb 13, 2017, Pastor Raymond Koh abducted by several men in balaclavas using black SUVs to block his car in broad daylight on a busy road in Petaling Jaya. The incident was caught on CCTV from a nearby house.
Last month, Norhayati said she was approached by a man who identified himself as a police officer, and told her that her husband was taken by a team from Bukit Aman which was also responsible for Koh’s disappearance.
“When I asked him why Amri was taken, he alleged it was because of ‘Shia’ and ‘forex’,” she said.
officer whom she identified as Sergeant Mohd Shamzaini Mohd Daud, also told her that Koh had been taken because he “allegedly proselytised Muslims”.
police later told the Suhakam inquiry that Shamzaini had denied sharing any information on Amri’s case.
Norhayati appealed to Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to guarantee Shamzaini’s safety, saying he might not be willing to testify without adequate protection or legal immunity.
“As feared, it appears now that Norhayati’s concerns were justified,” they said.
“We believe there is compelling evidence our husbands were deprived of their liberty by parties acting with the knowledge, support and/or concealment of the act by state actors, and that this placed our husbands outside the protection of the law.”
They said they also believed that their husbands’ disappearances were linked to religious issues, and urged the government to launch an independent investigation of the claims.
“We also plead with the Attorney-General’s Chambers to quickly provide a safe space for whistleblowers to come forward with knowledge about our husbands’ abductions: who took them, where they are now and who was involved in this high-level conspiracy of silence.
“We include Sergeant Shamzaini in this request for immunity, especially since his confession that night may well have exposed him to efforts to pressure him into silence or to retract his confession, as he seems to have done in the unsigned police report submitted by PDRM at the Suhakam inquiry on May 30.
“Please help us find out what happened to our husbands, who took them and where they are now. We want them back with us. We beg for justice. We plead for the truth.”
My comments : There is no mistaking that the Pastor Koh abduction was done in broad daylight with military precision. One of the abductors was also video taping the abduction.
To me personally the give away was the guy on the kapchai motorbike whose job was to stop the traffic. He had obviously been trained to be calm but forceful, exactly how the police are trained to control traffic.
There is no fanatic outfit in Malaysia (Al Qaeda, Al Maunah, ISIS) which can carry out such a smooth abduction, using numerous cars and motorbikes and more than ten abductors in broad daylight.
It had to be some arm of the State's intelligence units, the Police or the Military. I suspect the abduction was carried out using the NSC Act (National Security Council Act).
As we are finding out now the Research Department (our spy wing) of the Prime Minister's Department had been abused to serve Najib's personal political ambitions and ensure that Najib remained the PM. The Majlis Keselamatan Negara or MKN were also hijacked by the politicians for their own purposes.
We need to get to the bottom of these abducgtions as soon as possible. Have we become a nation of uncivilised people? Those women have lost their husbands. Families have lost their fathers.
For what? My imaginary pet flying unicorn is better than your imaginary pet flying unicorn?
It is embarrassing enough that after letting him escape, the Police still cannot locate Jamal Ikan Bakar. The public is wondering if the Police deliberately allowed Ikan Bakar to escape. Or at least it was criminal negligence. Perhaps it is good that the IGP will be replaced. After that corrupted mamak IGP (now on the No Fly List) I thought the present IGP was a competent choice. Sadly not so.
The government has changed. Can we get to the bottom of these abduction cases?
I think this story is just beginning.
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