Police told the crime victims to report the crime as accidents

Yesterday, a little piece in the newspaper caught my eye:
An elder man who live in Bentong, was beaten and robbbed right in his house. He went to file a police report, and the police there told him to report the case as an accident, stating that he was out, while riding motorcycle, fell off and lost his wallet. This is making false police report, which is a crime in itself under Malaysian laws.

As this victim of crime is a sane and sensible person, he did not do as he was told by the police. Instead he went to the village headman* for help.

*For those who are using British English, in Malaysia the title Mayor is only appropriate for the Mayor of a big city, like Kuala Lumpur, the idea of a village mayor is only right in UK, and maybe Canada, US, Australasia, but definitely not Malaysia; in the senses of the scale of the power invested in them, and the official functionalities, and the moral and knowledge standard those people have.

And the village headman actually told the victim to do as the police said. So instead the victim and his daughter went to a local MP for help. And they told the newspaper, and that's how this little piece of news was published in the newspaper.

And you think the police department is under a lot of pressure from newspaper? politicians? the public outcry? Zero. In fact, today, a similar news is published again. In this case, a group of residents of Port Klang came out, claiming that they have the same kind of experience, a lot of them who were beaten, robbed, when trying to file police reports, the police told them to report their cases as accidents, and they lost their money, wallets, belongings in the accidents. So the result is that they can tell the public that the crime rate is dropping in Port Klang.

Only in Malaysia, police can actually told the victims of crimes to make false police reports, and no one to question them, no member of the cabinet is held responsible.

Added on 13 Jul, 2012:
Actually, on 1st Feb, 2010, I posted my own experience of filing police report. The police man taking my statement actually asked me why I wanted to file police report.
My post on 1st Feb, 2010: Why do you want to make a police report?

警察叫受害人報假案

怎麽說都令人難以相信，在自己家中被搶刼毆打後，去警局報案，警員竟然叫受害人如此說：是受害人自己在路上騎摩多意外跌車受傷，掉了錢包。

這在馬來西亞叫報假案，是犯法的。

受害人很理智也很清醒，他不照警察的話去做；他轉向村長求助，村長竟然叫他照警察的話去做。在這情況下，他和女兒去找國會議員投訴，所以報紙就在不顯眼的版位登了這麽一小則新聞。

上面這一則是前天的報紙看到的。今天的報紙又有一則類似的新聞：
巴生有一班人出來指責說，當地警方叫罪案的受害人報假案，把搶刼報成意外，如此他們就可以向公眾交待說巴生的罪案率極低。

有了這兩則新聞，有人出來駡嗎？沒有。不見有任何執政黨的政治人物出來駡警察，也不見有任何民間輿論在報紙、電視上譴責警方和政府，更不見有政府說那位內閣成員該爲此事負責。這就是馬來西亞。只在馬來西亞。

AUD2 for all day phone call and internet access in Australia

A relation of mine just sent me this sms, that in Australia, now it costs only AUD2 per day for whole day, unlimited phone calls to the entire Australia (which is a really wide coverage, like international call kind of long distance), and unlimited internet access. He watches movies on phone.

Can we even watch movies on phone? No, not movies, but just watch youtube? Dream on. Yes, I know there is 4G in the market now, but how many subscribers can actually watch movies on phone? If you do, please tell me. Today is 16 June, 2012. We are living in 21st century.

I have to admit, I am jealous. To live in such a backwater nation, that 4G is not enough to watch movies on phone, how can we expect to be the developed nation by 2020? Remeber, South Korea has just been listed as developed nation by the UN earlier this year.

Cannot watch movies on a 4G phone, only in Malaysia.

 親朋戚友中的某人從澳洲傳簡訊來說，現在在澳洲，一天只要兩塊錢澳幣，就可以全日無限次數時間打電話到澳洲全國各地，同時還有無限的互聯網上網時間。所以他現在在手機上看電影了。

在馬來西亞能嗎？別說電影了，看優酷？發夢了。在馬來西亞是有４Ｇ 在賣了，可是能看電影嗎？有人真的用手機上網看電影的，請告訴我。今天是２０１２年０６月１６日，我們活在廿一世紀了。

我是覺得很丟臉的，馬來西亞市場上有４Ｇ的廣告，可是有誰真的感受到４Ｇ的速度？今年年頭南韓已經被聯合國定位爲先進國了。馬來西亞？

用４Ｇ的手機，４Ｇ的網絡，但沒法用手機看電影，只在馬來西亞。

They are from Fantasy-Land, right?

I got a copy of that advertisements funded, freely distributed Chinese weekly tabloid, the name of it is a kind of fruit that is eaten as vegetable, you guessed it.

There is this piece about security in shopping mall, as last week, 2 separate cases of single women being attacked in the carpark of shopping mall happened, so a few Chinese dailies are running stories on the safety of women in the public. This tabloid just just follow the trend.

Just where is the author of this piece from? Fantasy-Land? In this piece, he (the non de plume suggests it is a he) advises women not to dress provocatively, as this attract the attention of the would be attackers. Huh? Women are attacked because of what they wear? Get a reality check! Since when do you see those women who were mobbed, robbed, raped dressed in sexy, provocative attires? And their ages? Even grandmas got raped! Where do you see a grandma dress sexily in Malaysia?

And this man actually list this as number 1 in his advice. It is like saying those victims deserve it because they dressed provocatively. Those women did not dress provocatively when crimes happened to them.

And there is no editor in the tabloid? The editor lets this piece run. Just what is wrong with those people? Every time when the victims of crimes are women, there are always men telling women not to dress provocatively.  Criminals pick their targets based on whatever factors, one of it is the weaklings, and women are always supposed to be weak, so they are more likely to be the targets.

We should compile a list of what victims were wearing when crimes happened to them. But even after we have proof that it had nothing to do with what women were wearing, will those men who live in Fantasy-Land come up with a new excuse to put the blame on women?

This is Malaysia.

看著這份免費，靠廣告維持的１／４開中文週報，報的名稱是一種被當作蔬菜食用的水果。

上星期發生了兩起女性在購物中心的停車場成爲罪犯的受害人的事件，所以這廣告週報也和其他中文日報一樣，談論女性在購物中的的停車場的安全問題。

這週報有一篇專題，執筆的是男人吧（照筆名來看該是男人）？在這專題中，作者以專家的口肳，列出多項女性本身該注意的事項，第一項是：
女性別穿的太感，這樣會使自己在公衆場所太引人注目，很容易被歹徒盯上。

你沒看錯，我也沒看錯、打錯，那以專家口肳寫的人的確是如此寫的。

女人是因爲穿得太性感才成爲受害人的？這話有甚麽根據？那作者是根據甚麽資料來如此寫的？他是從那兒來的？他有沒有看新聞的？老婆婆也被搶刧強姦，老婆婆也會穿得太性感，引來罪犯？馬來西亞有多少婆婆級的人會如此穿的？那些打刧，强姦的受害人，有那個是穿得像性感女神似的？

這作者竟然第一忠告就是說別穿得太性感，簡直就是在說受害人都是自找的。

罪犯在犯罪時，都是在有機會的情況下，向弱者下手。根本和受害人穿的是甚麽無關。

那小報沒有編輯的？這樣的文章也能刋出？編輯和作者都是住在幻想世界的？

該有人把受害人在案發時的穿著編成統計數字公佈出來。但公佈之後呢？就算我們有證據證明女性的穿著的性感指數和罪案的發生沒有關聯，那些住在幻想世界的男人又會幻想出新的說法，說這全是受害人自己的錯吧？真的是只在馬來西亞。

A political contract limiting the number of schools

A few days ago, Muhyuddin, the vice prime minister of Malaysia, said that due to the law and the contract the Malaysian Chinese had entered with the government of Malaysia, his hands are tied to give permission for a new Chinese Independent secondary school to be set up in Kuantan.

The law? Which law? and the contract? Who, when, where, why, how did the contract was bargained, and signed? He offerred no answer.

And the chairman of MCA first said this, and then that, but never actually say anything about the existence of such a contract, is it true? And well, according to the Unions of The School Board of Chinese Independent School, they have proof that MCA actually entered this contract with government.

Only in Malaysia, the politicians actually gave consent to the government to limit the freedom and right of the people.

Yesterday was June 4 寫在6/4廿三週年之後

Yesterday is 4th of June, 2012, the 23rd anniversay of 6/4 Tiananmen Square. It was strangely quiet on the news and the web. I had to search for the news about the memorial activities. And equally natural and normal, there is very little activities in Taiwan, The Republic of China. Just the usual annual speech on 6/4 from the president, and even that got very little news coverage in Taiwan. I actually had to dig on the web to see a little piece mentioning the speech, and no full text available. Looks like the memory of it is fading away, it is only still fresh in the memory of the parents of those who were killed on 4th June, 1989, at Tiananmen Square.

And of course, there is no news report about any memorial activities in Malaysia. Especially since Bersih 3.0 428, think the government is going remind itself of what people could do? And not to mention Malaysia is not going to ruin her diplomatic relationship with China.

The 23rd anniversay of Tiananmen Square reminds me of the other massacres, that happened in Malaysia during the WWII, and the massacres committed by Colonial British after WWII. The descendants, and survivors of the massacres committed finally take the UK crown to court in UK this year. But very little news coverage. And no follow-up coverage, naturally.

This is Malaysia, our journalism is still far behind what the journalists in countries like US, UK, Germany considered to be the norm, that is the newspapers, TV will actually send journalists to do follow-up reports on major issues, or investigate the organized criminal activites, case in point: BBC website posted a series by a journalist from Eastern Europe, who went undercover to investigate the organized criminal activites in human-trafficiking and arrangement of illegal workers from Eastern Europe to UK. While the government admitted human-trafficking is happeneing in Malaysia, we do not see any indepth report about that, much less undercover investigation.

昨天是２０１２年６月４日，六四的廿三週年，在網絡上，報紙，電視的新聞上都是靜悄悄的。在台灣的只看到中華民國台灣省的總統馬英九先生的年度演講詞，那也只是一則短短的新聞報導，全文也不見刋出。

在馬來西亞自然是甚麽活動也沒有。就算有也不會有任何新聞報導了，你以爲馬來西亞政府會讓人民聯想到４２８啊？當然也不要得罪控制大陸的中華人民共和國了。

天安門２３週年令我想到在馬來西亞在二次世界大戰時發生的多場大屠殺，還有戰後英殖民政府所幹下的。英殖民政府的屠殺的倖存者，受害人的後代今年終於到英國去告英國政府了；只有零星的新聞報導。自然也沒有追踪報導進展了。

這就是馬來西亞，新聞報導是不會有深入追踪跟進的。在英美，甚至德國等國家已經視爲平常的追踪，調查式的報導，在馬來西亞是看不到的。

我是失望的。這就是馬來西亞。