How many more lives must be lost before Malaysians run amok?

Written by  J. D. Lovrenciear l Malaysian Post

The nation is gripped with pain as citizens shake their heads in disbelief. The most recent death of a Customs employee - will this episode be the proverbial fourth stone that breaks the camel's back?

Or will Malaysians have to live through numerous more deaths of citizens under detention, under investigation and what nots before Malaysians finaly run into a frenzy?

Or as the authorities have admonished, people must not speculate but go about their everyday business as it does not involve them. And let the authorities do their job and when the answer is finally provided life will return to normalcy.

In the meantime, must also the citizens hear the government's call that people must not listen to opposition parties?

Mr Honorable Prime Minsiter of Malaysia, how many of the citizens have died in the last two decades while under detention; while being investigated by the authorities? And how many foreign nationals have died while in the country?

And in the case of MACC how come you have had two people landing a few floors and found dead?

And while you get your people to figure appropriate answers to these seemingly co-incidental deaths, you may also want to tell the citizens of Malaysia when you or your government can provide honest-before-God long overdue answers to two other questions:

One, how come the Mongolian national who was C4-ed had her immigration details removed?

Two, how on earth and why did the soldiers get the C4 and carry out the brutal killing respectively, of the Mongolian national?

When human lives are lost without acceptable reasons, all civil liberties have been pawned. Any amount of economic progress that a government procliams to have brought about cannot replace the crime of taking away a man's life without accountability.

- J. D. Lovrenciear is a well-known political commentator and a reader of Malaysian Post