Orang Asal Walk halted despite clearance from police

• Police stop march for Orang Asli rights

KUALA LUMPUR, Sat - Today marks the first anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007. What happened today, ironically, left us with very little wonder why the orang asal in this country have to continue to fight for their rights to exist.

In conjunction with the anniversary, Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia (“JAOS”) has organised exhibitions and workshops from 10 to 14 September 2008 at The Annexe, Central Market to increase awareness on the plight of the indigenous peoples in this country. The height of the 4-day event is the ‘walk’ from Central Market to the Palace to present a memorandum on indigenous peoples’ rights to the King.

The organisers and representatives from various orang asal communities gathered at The Annexe, Central Market as early as 9.30 a.m. in anticipation of the walk. Everyone was in high spirits as participants put on their traditional costumes and carried musical instruments. As they were getting ready to begin the walk, the participants sang the common orang asal song.

Some were seen carrying placards with words such as ‘Jangan Ceroboh Kawasan Orang Asal’, ‘Kami Bukan “Dan Lain-Lain”’, and ‘Hentikan Eksploitasi Hak Kami’. The map to the Palace was also distributed to everyone.

After moving barely a few hundred metres from Central Market, the participants were stopped by the police.

This appeared confusing as yesterday, the police confirmed with the organisers that they have approved the police permit for them to ‘walk’ to the Palace. Despite intense negotiations, the organisers failed to rationalise with the police to allow the walk to go on.

With deep disappointment, the organiser had to inform the participants to return to The Annexe. Some participants showed mild resistance, but being the civic minded lot they are, they obliged the police’s order and walked peacefully back to The Annexe. Along the way, at least one or two representatives of the orang asal were seen giving short interviews to the media protesting the police’s action to stop the ‘walk’.

I end this report with the lyrics sung by the orang asal as they attempted to march to the Palace:

Orang Asal … oh-oh … Orang Asal
Mengapa nangis, matamu bengkak
Aduh Papa, aduhlah mama
Ak Orang Asal, semakin ditindas

Orang Asal … oh-oh … Orang Asal
Mengapa nangis, matamu bengkak
Aduh aru, aduhlah aki
Adat kami hamper hilang

Orang Asal … oh-oh … Orang Asal
Jangan nangis, jangan putus asa
Ayuh semua, wahai Orang Asal
Mari berjuang, tahan adat kita

Kes liwat: Rumah Petra digeledah polis

Kes liwat: Rumah Petra digeledah polis
Aug 22, 08 2:35pm
Rumah pengendali blog popular Malaysia Today pagi ini diserbu polis, dilaporkan berhubung siasatan akuan berkanun seorang doktor Hospital Pusrawi dalam kes liwat yang didakwa membabitkan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Menurut laporan blog itu, sekumpulan polis menggeledah rumahnya dekat Bandar Baru Sungai Buloh mulai jam 8 pagi tadi.


Polis merampas sebuah komputer riba, alat pengimbas dan beberapa dokumen dalam serbuan selama dua jam, laporan itu dipetik.

Blog itu menyebut Raja Petra akan disiasat polis selepas pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pauh pada 26 Ogos ini.

Akuan berkanun doktor hospital swasta itu pertama kali muncul di Malaysia Today pada hari Anwar dituduh di mahkamah, 7 Ogos lalu.

Dalam akuan berkanunnya bertarikh 1 Ogos lalu, Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid berkata, beliau tetap berpegang kepada hasil pemeriksaannya ke atas Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, pemuda yang mendakwa diliwat oleh Anwar.

Anwar dibawa ke mahkamah sehari selepas Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) mengumumkan tarikh pilihanraya kecil itu yang diadakan selepas kekosongan yang ditinggalkan oleh penyandangannya Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, isteri Anwar.

Dr Mohamed Osman, yang memeriksa pemuda itu beberapa jam sebelum membuat laporan polis 28 Jun lalu, berkata beliau tetap berpegang dengan hasil pemeriksaannya itu.
Mohd Saiful ke Hospital Pusrawi dan kemudiannya di Hospital Kuala Lumpur sebelum membuat laporan polis, mendakwa diliwat oleh ketua umum PKR.

Di Hospital Pusrawi, Mohd Saiful diperiksa oleh Dr Mohamed Osman.

Dalam laporan perubatannya, yang dibocorkan kepada media, doktor tersebut menyatakan beliau tidak menemui sebarang bukti berlaku liwat.


Dr Mohamed Osman juga mendakwa beberapa perenggan dan perkataan telah ditambah kepada kenyataannya kepada polis berkaitan perkara tersebut.

Sebelum ini, Hospital Pusrawi menyatakan bahawa Dr Mohamad Osman tidak membuat sebarang pemeriksaan berkaitan liwat ke atas Mohd Saiful.

Cop arrested over alleged rape of 17yr-old

Cop arrested over alleged rape of 17yr-old
By RASHITHA A. HAMID


PETALING JAYA: A policemen was arrested after he allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl who was brought into the police station for interrogation.

The girl was allegedly forced to perform oral sex on the policeman, in his 20s, and was raped at a police station in Selangor on June 18.

It is learnt that the girl was on a motorcycle with her boyfriend at 5am when the policeman, who was on patrol, stopped them. As the boyfriend did not have a licence, the policeman and his colleague hauled the couple to the police station for questioning.

Sources said the boyfriend and the girl were questioned in different rooms.

“During questioning, the girl was forced to undress and the policeman threatened to throw her boyfriend in jail for 20 years if she refused to obey him,” said Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar.

Fearing for her boyfriend’s safety, the girl agreed to perform oral sex on him before being raped.

After half an hour, the two were released but the girl did not reveal the incident to her boyfriend or family members.

However, two days later she confided in her cousin who promptly told her parents.

Accompanied by family members, the girl lodged a police report at the Putra Heights police station on Sunday.

Khalid said that the policeman, who is married with a child, has been detained and remanded.

“He has been suspended pending investigation,” he added.