Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
MACC, why no action against officers in TBH case? By Lim Kit Siang
Sunday, June 16, 2013
From Malaysiakini MP SPEAKS The Malaysian Anti-Corruption
Commission (MACC) has urged the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission
(EAIC) to remove Mohd Nadzri Ibrahim, its sole investigator, from
investigating death-in-custody cases.
This
is MACCās response to the query by two DAP MPs, Zairil Khir Johari
(Bukit Bendera) and Steven Sim Chee Keong (Bukit Mertajam) whether
EAICās integrity would be in doubt if Mohd Nadzri (left-reminds me of a sly goat with a smirk, meaning Satan's disciple-edit) was
the MACC officer who was part of the MACC probe causing the mysterious
death of DAP aide Teoh Beng Hock at Selangor MACC headquarters in Shah
Alam on July 16, 2009.
A MACC statement issued on Thursday night read:
āMACC does not want any MACC officers linked to any controversies, whether it involves MACC itself or the EAIC.
āIn
this matter, MACC wishes to stress that Mohd Nadzri Ibrahim, an MACC
officer who was seconded to the EAIC since more than a year ago, is an
officer who has always conducted his duties professionally.
ā...MACC
is confident that the EAIC, which is an independent commission, would
also want to ensure justice for all parties involved in the issue of
deaths in custody.ā This is meaningless bureaucratic gobbledygook
designed to confuse rather than to illuminate the public, just because
the government agency concerned has got embarrassing things to hide from
the people.
Nadzri shouldn't be in EAIC
Stripped
of all its gobbledygook, the MACC statement is an admission that Mohd
Nadzri, seconded from MACC to EAIC, was implicated in mysterious
circumstances resulting in the death of Teoh Beng Hock at MACC
headquarters nearly four years ago. But
the MACC does not want the whole sordid tale to be reopened, and this
is why the MACC is asking the EAIC to remove Nadzri from
death-in-custody cases.
It is no business of MACC to make such a
request, for it has neither powers nor jurisdiction to dictate to EAIC
what its sole investigator, even seconded from MACC, should investigate
or not.
This problem is not whether the EAIC investigator should
investigate death-in-custody cases, but that Nadzri should not have been
seconded from MACC to EAIC to be chief investigator in the first place. In
fact, MACC should explain why no disciplinary action had been taken
against Mohd Nadzri when Teoh Beng Hock (TBH) royal commission of
inquiry (RCI) report made adverse comments about Nadzriās credibility
and integrity as well as role in Beng Hockās mysterious death.
The TBH RCI Report, in para 119, pronounced its finding on Teoh Beng Hockās death, as follows:
ā119.
Having considered all the evidence in its entirety, we found that TBH
was driven to commit suicide by the aggressive, relentless, oppressive
and unscrupulous interrogation to which he was subjected by certain
officers of the MACC who were involved in the ongoing operation by the
Selangor MACC on the night of the 15th and into the morning of the
16th.ā
Malaysians of course cannot accept the RCIās verdict of āforced suicideā as the cause of TBHās death.
Clearly
MACC officers were responsible for his death at MACC headquarters at
Shah Alam on July 16, 2009 through āaggressive, relentless, oppressive
and unscrupulous interrogationā - leaving to everybodyās imagination of
the unlawful and even lawless torture Beng Hock may have been subjected
to when he was entirely at the mercy of the āoppressive and
unscrupulousā MACC officers for 12 hours, during those fateful hours on
the night of July 15 and the early hours of July 16, 2009. MACC officers implicitly faulted
Although
the TBH RCI report failed to clearly and unmistakably pinpoint the MACC
officers responsible for Beng Hockās death, it is clear from the report
that the commissioners came to the conclusion that MACC officers were
responsible for Beng Hockās death. This is evident from two
paragraphs in the TBH RCI report referring to the testimony of one MACC
officer Raymond who had testified that he saw Beng Hock at 6 am on the
16th July 2009 ālying on the sofa outside Nadzriās roomā.
Expressing āgrave reservationsā over Raymondās evidence, the TBH RCI said (para 198):
āIn
our opinion, he was not a reliable witness and was used by those
responsible for TBHās death to distance them from their wrongdoings by
creating an impression that TBH was not only alive at 6am on the 16th
but was also resting comfortably and peacefully on the sofa outside
Nadzriās room.ā
In para 201, the TBH RCI said:
ā As it
become obvious to us that Raymondās evidence was tailored to fit certain
objectives which in this case dovetailed those of the MACC officers
responsible for TBHās death, we rejected his evidence as being unworthy
of any weight or consideration in respect of the time he claimed to have
seen TBH at 6am on the 16th.ā Nadzri was one of the MACC officers suspected of causing TBHās death at the MACC headquarters in Shah Alam on July 16, 2009. The TBH RCI report contained caustic comments about Nadzriās professionalism, credibility and integrity.
For
instance, the TBH RCI report reprimanded Nadzri for raising his voice
when interrogating TBH in the early hours of July 16 (āThird
Interrogationā), castigating Nadzriās conduct as ārather unnecessary and
uncalled forā, that Nadzri āshould have been more professional in his
approachā, and Nadzriās treatment of Beng Hock ācertainly unwarrantedā -
āunless there was an agenda to put pressure on TBH by continuing to
record his statement in these circumstances.ā [para 53]
The TBH
RCI even asked whether Nadzri āhad deliberately prolonged this process (
the two-hour āthird interrogationā) to torture TBH mentally and
disorient him to agree to turn against his boss out of despairā [Para
160], and condemning Nadzriās interrogation ānot only duplicitous of
work but contravenes sections 30 (1)(a) and 30(8) of the MACC Actā.
Under
these circumstances, with the approach of Beng Hockās fourth death
anniversary with the cause of his death at the MACC headquarters in Shah
Alam remaining an indictment of the institutional injustice of the
country, Malaysians are entitled to a full account as to what the MACC
have since done to punish Nadzri and other MACC officers responsible for
Beng Hockās death by their unlawful abuses of power. LIM KIT SIANG is DAP parliamentary leader and MP for Gelang Patah
This
is MACCās response to the query by two DAP MPs, Zairil Khir Johari
(Bukit Bendera) and Steven Sim Chee Keong (Bukit Mertajam) whether
EAICās integrity would be in doubt if Mohd Nadzri (left-reminds me of a sly goat with a smirk, meaning Satan's disciple-edit) was
the MACC officer who was part of the MACC probe causing the mysterious
death of DAP aide Teoh Beng Hock at Selangor MACC headquarters in Shah
Alam on July 16, 2009.
ā...MACC
is confident that the EAIC, which is an independent commission, would
also want to ensure justice for all parties involved in the issue of
deaths in custody.ā This is meaningless bureaucratic gobbledygook
designed to confuse rather than to illuminate the public, just because
the government agency concerned has got embarrassing things to hide from
the people.
But
the MACC does not want the whole sordid tale to be reopened, and this
is why the MACC is asking the EAIC to remove Nadzri from
death-in-custody cases.
The TBH RCI Report, in para 119, pronounced its finding on Teoh Beng Hockās death, as follows:
Expressing āgrave reservationsā over Raymondās evidence, the TBH RCI said (para 198):
