July 2009 « MageP’s Lab

May He Be The Last…. A Memorial for Beng Hock and Beyond

Date: 29 July 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 8:45pm till 10:30pm
Venue: KL-Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, 1st Floor Hall
Organized by: Civil Rights Committee, KL-Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall
Supported by: “Justice for Beng Hock” and “1BLACKMalaysia” facebook groups

This special memorial will be held tonight, the 14th day of Beng Hock’s death.

But this is not one for him alone, but for all [...]

Another custodial death

Just when we thought we’ve had enough of A Kugan.

Just when we thought we’ve had enough of Teo Beng Hock.

Just when we thought we’ve had enough of R Gunasegaran.

We’ve had recommendation and findings from the Royal Commission Inquiry into our police force.

The report has been there for ages.

Any action? Thanks to the indecisive former PM [...]

Ku Li: I don’t know what kind of politics they are playing!

Let’s hear it in Tengku Razaleigh own words.

“If I am chairman still of Petronas, I will pay without all the fuss. [...] And I feel all the more it should be paid because I signed the agreement! There is no two ways about it. It must be paid.”

“I don’t know what kind of politics they [...]

R.I.P. Yasmin Ahmad

[UPDATED POST] Yasmin Ahmad passed away peacefully on Saturday night.

R.I.P Yasmin, we’ll miss you dearly.

[ORIGINAL POST on 24 July 2009, 9:53am] Malaysia famous director Yasmin Ahmad first caught my heart when her film Sepet was published while I was still in university.

Year in year out, her seasonal greetings on TV for TV3 and Petronas (if [...]

A motherly love by Beng Hock’s fiancee

(Source: The Malaysian Insider, 24 July 2009)

I was overwhelmed by emotion when the crowd of 2,000 gave the political aide Teo Beng Hock’s fiancee a standing ovation when she was up there with the PR leaders to thank the crowd for the public support and donation of about RM52,000 gathered within 3 hours.

“I can do [...]

Beng Hock’s death: RCI is up, any lesson learnt?

Finally, after days of public clamoring, upon the PM Najib Tun Razak’s return from his oversea trip, to his credit, he announced the formation of Royal Commission Inquiry (RCI) to look into the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s investigative procedures and to determine if there were any human right violations when political aide Teoh Beng Hock was [...]

Ku Li on Beng Hock’s death: Please discuss

While we’ve both IGP Musa Hassan and Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein urging the public not to speculate on the death of political aide Teo Beng Hock, or risk being questioned by the police, the conscience of Umno Tengku Razaleigh is calling Malaysians to continue “asking questions” about the death.

It is our right and indeed our [...]

Distasteful article

In response to a racially sounded article by the new Group Managing Editor of The New Straits Times Zainul Ariffin Isa who was trying extremely so hard to please his new political master, with the title “Kematian Teoh timbulkan pelbagai spekulasi politik“, blogger cum lawyer Art Harun, in which in his profile, he describes himself [...]

Living an illusion

While former MCA vice-president Chua Jui Meng defected to PKR, The Malaysian Insider reported that Johor MB Abdul Ghani Othman remains very confident.

“Not much of impact to the political scene in Johor,” he said.

He said that as far as the opposition coalition in the Pakatan Rakyat was concerned, the people’s support appeared to have waned, [...]

Justice for Beng Hock, Answers for Rakyat!

Justice for Beng Hock, Answers for Rakyat!
I was among the thousands at Kelana Jaya Stadium to mark the death of political aide Teo Beng Hock.

Regardless of what’s written on some rubbish papers which were trying to instigate the unilaterally informed group, the takeaway message from the rally is clear.

Who killed Beng Hock?

Let’s not allow [...]