Who is being protected in Teoh Beng Hock’s murder?

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Who is being protected in Teoh Beng Hock’s murder?


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Mariam Mokhtar

It is almost as if those responsible for the former aide’s death are being accorded a degree of protection

Teoh Beng Hock, then a 30-year-old aide to the DAP Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, was summoned to the MACC Selangor headquarters in Shah Alam on July 15, 2009, to answer allegations about the alleged abuse by his boss of state funds.

To be specific, it was about RM2,500 worth of bunting for use in the elections.


Teoh was held overnight and questioned by MACC officers on the 14th floor of the Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam where the MACC headquarters was located.

However, he failed to return home. His body was found the following day on the fifth-floor service corridor of the building.


To date, no-one has been punished for the murder. Why?

How did he get there? Was he pushed or did he jump? Why would a young man who was about to get married and whose fiancé was expecting his child, end his life?

The investigation into his death has been mired in controversy.

His parents have been denied the answers to their many questions, and they have had to endure a roller coaster ride of emotions and institutional delays, just to obtain justice for their son.


From the very beginning, the “routine” interrogation of Teoh by the MACC raised more questions than answers. It was even alleged that Teoh’s interrogation was intended to rattle the DAP in the run up to a general election.


However, somehow, somewhere, something went wrong, ending with Teoh’s lifeless body on the fifth-floor of the MACC headquarters building. The MACC ended up with a national and political nightmare which to this day remains unresolved.

The CCTV which was present on the floor and room of the building, was said to be pointing in the wrong direction or not functioning. Teoh’s wristwatch is still missing. Perhaps, the fall would have damaged the watch and pinpointed the exact time of his death.

Even the autopsy conducted on Teoh was suspect as the government pathologist’s findings differed widely from that of the second autopsy conducted by an independent world-renowned pathologist from Thailand, Dr Porntip Rojanasunand, who found that his injuries were consistent with a fall from a height.


The paperwork and permit needed to bring Porntip into Malaysia was another minefield that the family had to endure.

Malaysians will remember how in July 2009, then prime minister Najib Razak met the Teoh family and promised them, amongst other things that, “no stone will be left unturned in finding out the real cause of death and, if there is any foul play, action will definitely be taken”.

However, these were mere empty promises.

Eighteen months after his death, the ensuing inquest into Teoh’s death was inconclusive and an open verdict was delivered on Jan 5, 2011.

Public pressure prompted the government to convene a royal commission of inquiry, which ruled that he had been driven to suicide due to aggressive interrogation. Three officers were alleged to have interrogated Teoh.

In 2014, the Court of Appeal ruled that his death was caused or accelerated by unlawful acts, including those of some MACC officers.

Two years later, the attorney-general found that no criminal elements were involved and no MACC officers would be charged.

When Pakatan Harapan won the general election in 2018, Teoh’s death was again reopened.

Last week, the police said the attorney-general had decided that no further action was to be taken in the case.

A man died under suspicious circumstances. People lied about their whereabouts. The MACC failed in its duty of care to ensure Teoh’s safety.

We should not look away now just because the police said “NFA”. Haven’t previous probes also ended with the same sorry “NFA”?

It is almost as if those responsible for Teoh’s death are being accorded a degree of protection. Perhaps, the entire MACC’s operation will be brought under unwelcome public scrutiny if this is pursued?

Teoh’s death matters. It could so easily have happened to any of us or our loved ones.

We must continue the fight for justice for Teoh.

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kt comments:

Teoh BH died because of performing some duties (to answer allegations about the alleged abuse by his boss of state funds). And as would have it, DAP abandoned him - see follows:

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6/01/2017

Let us not forget Teoh Beng Hock

Alas, someone in the DAP might have forgotten

The evil that was perpetuated on a young man
By a Nazi-like organization that has been rotten
Yet easily forgiven by a political flash in the pan

All for grubby politics, none for integrity nor justice

For a man slain on the very eve of his wedding day

Oh we weep, what treachery to become so solicitous

To abandon principles, an evil crime now is gainsay

DAP leader Lim Kit Siang shook hands with Rohaizad Yaakob, a top Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) official to show the opposition’s solidarity with the MACC 

Yet just a year earlier Kit Siang in his article, titled "Malaysians will not rest until justice is done for the killing of Teoh Beng Hock" said DAP and Pakatan Rakyat would continue to highlight the injustice of Teoh Beng Hock’s unresolved murder

what utter bullshit

But I haven't!

When is the MACC going to hand over to the police the person responsible for the untimely death of Teoh Beng Hock?

8/06/2015

Forgetting Teoh Beng Hock

O so soon you've forgotten me
Hey, my late name was Teoh Beng Hock
Is that even in your memory
Or just a wee footnote in history
My story soon to become mere talk-cock

Those who sinned against me
Cursing my family with veritable untold woes
Making Er Jia a fatherless baby
And those men with no pity
Have become icons by you, your new heroes

Thou faithless headless chooks

Have further insulted my already grieving family
Giving the enemy support but not rebukes
Ever greater pain my family now brooks
All because of your sad self-interest treachery

Bhai once said don't be immoral
In desperately seeking victory without morality
Nor should one be ever unethical
But safeguard and value our principle
To never sacrifice and replace with hypocrisy

YOU UNMITIGATED HYPOCRITICAL BASTARDS!

Read also my KTemoc Komposes posts:

(1) Remembering Teoh Beng Hock

(2) The murder of Teoh Beng Hock

(3) I work for the rights of the dead

And read Malaysiakini:

(1) MACC - from zero to hero in eyes of 'hypocrites'

(2) Opposition visits MACC HQ to show solidarity

12/27/2012

The murder of Teoh Beng Hock

I posted Remembering Teoh Beng Hock more than 2 years ago on 06/06/2010 and reproduced below as Part I.

I believe we should not forget his unnecessary and cruel death and the lack of justice for him and his family.

Part II of The Murder of Teoh Beng Hock is immediately after the first part and is presented in more cryptic form.

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Part I (the Murder)

The next day I was to wed my love

She would have taken up my name

But some said the Immortals above

Like Fate, would play a cruel game

I was called in as a so-called witness

To come up with required evidence

'They' gave me dozen hours of stress

To support their pre-determinations

Oh, didn't I mention my wedding

When friends'd celebrate with me?

Alas, that did not come to being

Why so? Ask that Am-ay cee cee

'They' said I was one who’d loiter

And nap to soothe my sleepy eye

So as to feel fresh to reconnoitre

For a nice spot to takeoff and fly

In 7 months I was to have a baby

How proud I’d be as a new father

Waiting, thanks to Am-ay cee cee,

On the other side of the Styx river

‘They’ now add insults to injury

Claiming I had Triad association

A red herring to deflect query

Of my death and their connection

Just their leitmotif, it's not new

Unbridled power, their slogan

Unaccountability is their cue

Don’t believe me? Ask Kugan

Did you see the tears of my father

And also those of my bride to be

They both seek a simple answer

From a very silent Am-ay cee cee

Part II (The Murderer)

He was the one who hung me just by my belt

In death-defying position outside the window.

Shit happened, belt broke, thus I was dealt

Horrifying death in a plunge towards below.

Act of unforgivable criminality he was guilty,

Murdering me ‘coz of his callous arrogance

Using fabricated pretext of interviewing me.

Denied me basic rights to smash my resistance

Deceitfully absent during police check of DNA

Instructing his prints on window be wiped clean

Nothing in the office of Am-ay-cee-cee to say

He was present there at floor number fourteen

All subterfuge will not my red blood wiped off

Staining his two evil hands that had slain me

His Maker will not permit him excuses to doff

Injustice he committed, & acquitted it shall be

Moved away he has, but we know who he is

Related: I work for the rights of the dead