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Take a poll: Should C/Insp Azilah and Cpl Sirul continue to cover their faces? | Take a poll: Should C/Insp Azilah and Cpl Sirul continue to cover their faces? |
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| Saturday, 01 November 2008 09:59am | |
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The picture on the left was taken recently, probably yesterday. The picture on the right was taken on November 15, 2006 when the two policemen accused in the Altantuya Murder Trial - C/Insp Azilah Hadri and Cpl Sirul Azha Umar were first brought to court. The question which has been lingering in the minds of many Malaysians is whether the police are protecting their own men or C/Insp Azilah and Cpl Sirul should be allowed to cover their faces because they are innocent until proven guilty? Since the day Azilah and Sirul were charged, the public, unless they were in the courtroom, have not seen their faces. It is a well known fact that, without assistance from the police, the two would not be able to take all the time to completely cover their faces from public view.
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Azilah Hadri and Cpl Sirul Azha Umar in the Altantuya Murder Trial cover their
faces?
Comments (13)
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This is one very weird trial from the beginning!
written by Visvanathan Murugiah, Saturday, November 01 2008 11:20 am
I don't agree....
written by Pawancheek B Marican, Saturday, November 01 2008 12:07 pm
I don't agree with this business of allowing the two accused to cover their faces. Why should they be scared; after all they are innocent until they are found guilty by the court.
like must be treated alike
written by Cheong Sek Kwan, Saturday, November 01 2008 01:21 pm
All are innocent until proven guilty.
Privilege
written by Rajan.M (via email), Saturday, November 01 2008 02:49 pm
This is another case of double standards practiced by the people in power. I use to wonder from day one that these ‘accused’ enforcement officers who appeared in our national TV fully dressed with hood over them. Definitely these ‘accused’ officers are the so called privileged Malaysians. Can the enforcement officers offer the same privilege to the ordinary citizen in the street? Each time the ‘accused’ officers are captured on national TV, it reminds me of a case a few years ago, where a specialist Doctor (Gynecologist) at Kuantan was arrested and handcuffed and these scene was captured on our national TV. This Doctor merely treated a patient who was brought in by an enforcement officer, who was profusely bleeding may be after a D & C else where. As a specialist Doctor he was just doing his Noble profession in an emergency but in return the police arrested him as the patient died of excess loss of blood. I am sure that this Doctor will live with this stigma through out his life.
Should C/Insp Azilah and Cpl Sirul continue to cover their faces?
written by Mohd Rosli bin Yusoff , Saturday, November 01 2008 03:06 pm
Up to them...
Should C/Insp Azilah and Cpl Sirul continue to cover their faces?
written by Chai Ko Thing, Saturday, November 01 2008 03:06 pm
The Brave One.
Not to be allowed to cover themselves completely!
written by Tan Peek Guat, Saturday, November 01 2008 03:11 pm
The Police should not be allowed to practise double-standards.
CELEBRATE NUDITY OF SHAME
written by Stephen Tan Ban Cheng, Saturday, November 01 2008 06:08 pm
A wit once told me that being a First Worlder is actually a state of mind. It is actually having the right attitude to do what is good and what is right.
REMAND PRISONERS ARE WELL FED
written by G Nanda Goban, Saturday, November 01 2008 08:32 pm
Remand prisoners seem to be well fed in our Malaysian prisons.
They have their reasons?
written by Ding Chu Teck, Sunday, November 02 2008 05:38 pm
They need to cover up because they know they are going to resume duty sooner or later.
Absolutely innocent
written by Teo Siew Chin, Sunday, November 02 2008 06:46 pm
Tak bikin tak perlu lah malu.
Let the Police Head speak.
written by Tan Peek Guat, Monday, November 03 2008 02:57 am
Indeed, the whole police force "is now answerable to their own conscience" - for all their misdeeds, and including all those favouritisms shown; or are they also a part and parcel of "Ketuanan Melayu"?
Thanks for conducting the poll written by Tammy Loo (via email), Tuesday, November 04 2008 05:35 pm
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Take a look at these three pictures.
This must be a privilege because other accuseds are not so
lucky as they have to try all sorts of means, usually using the newspapers, to
cover their faces from the intruding press.















I am perplexed! I am confused! I am amazed! I am disappointed! I am disillusioned! These are some of the remarks that I have heard people make over this trial.
To me.....this is one very weird trial from the start. Very strange indeed! I guess the tag line from the X files is all the more apt in this weird case. "The truth is out there". Maybe some day we Malaysians will know what "really" happened.
Visvanathan Murugiah.
P/S To the PDRM, all I have to say is this...No double standards please. The faces of the two remaining accused persons should not be hidden any longer.