BERITA SENSASI

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EXPOSE OF “SB” INTELLIGENCE POLICE OFFICERS IN BUILDING A CLIMATE OF
FEAR –
MALAYSIA AS A POLICE STATE
(Please distribute freely)

The citizens of Malaysia have a right to know that their political
masters
do not trust them and are constantly keeping watch via their guard dogs,
the
Special Branch (not so) Intelligence police unit, ala Soviet Union.

We would like to expose them so that they know that Malaysians are not
blind to their repressive acts.

1. MD. KAMAL PAWANCHEE was interviewed in the New Straits Times on
Friday
November 06, 1998 in the page 3 article titled “Law graduates among nine
lucky to get seats”, written by Sujatani Poosparajah. In that article,
MD.
KAMAL PAWANCHEE claims to be a self-employed 30-something citizen
thatmanaged to get a seat in the trial of Anwar Ibrahim. His picture
appears
in the article (can someone please scan and distribute).

However, let it be known that this man is lying. He is a Special Branch
agent. In fact, he is not self-employed, but currently registered as a
student at University Malaya’s Teaching of English as a Second Language
(TESL) program (Bachelors of Education (TESL)). He was planted as a
student
since last year to monitor and report on University lecturers and
students
who talk, discuss, anything that is remotely construed as
“anti-government”.

The police are filling up the court with plainclothes policemen like
Kamal
so that ordinary citizens are denied space. Furthermore, they have the
gall
to be interviewed by the press (NST) and make statements like “the trial
was
conducted in a very fair manner”, to give the impression to readers that
even ordinary citizens observing the trial think it is fair.

Not coincidentally, those of us who know Kamal from the TESL program
were
quite shocked to see him at the Saturday Demonstrations (Oct 24) on
Jalan
Tuanku Abdul Rahman. He was with his SB colleagues, complete with a red
band
worn on his arm and harassing and beating innocent citizens.

As a result of agents like Kamal Pawanchee, many professors have been
harassed and threatened with anonymous phone calls threatening
academicians
to shut up or the safety of their family and children will be in
jeopardy.
They even visit the offices of these academicians and ask questions like
are
they members of PAS, or ABIM, who do they believe “Anwar or Mahathir”.
Mind
you, these are not people who are against Mahathir, but merely
professors
who have written about topics like the importance of an independent
judiciary to ensure national prosperity. This is happening at UM, UKM,
ITM,
UTM among others.

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as Minister of Education is responsible
forthis.He is fully cognizant of the activities of these SB agents. He
is
responsible for creating a climate of fear in academia which is supposed
to
be the birthplace of ideas and knowledge through open discourse and
academic
research.

The SB agents are not limiting their activities to universities. Even
secondary schools are not spared. They will harass teachers with
questions
like “Saya dengar awak beri markah tinggi kepada murid yang sokong
Anwar” (I
hear you give high marks to students who support Anwar). And again the
same
questions about the political affiliations of the teachers. One example
is at
SEKOLAH MENENGAH SAINS SELANGOR (Selangor Science Secondary School).
Theteachers had organized a “Sembahyang Hajat” to pray in preparation of
the
SPM examinations. After the prayers, the group were chanting
“Allahuakhbar”(God is great). Immediately the SB officers came and
started
their harassment, claiming that Allahuakhbar is a sign of support for
the
reformasi movement!

Besides our institutions of higher learning, even the media is not
spared
ofinfiltration by government agents. One example is the new TV station,
NTV7.Ever since this episode, NTV7 was forced to hire a “Senior News
Producer” ZAHARIN RAHMAN from RTM (read: Ministry of Information).
Zaharin’s
job is to check the content of the stories to make sure they are
pro-government. Note, in the Broadcasting business, there is no
justification for a Senior news producer position - it is absolutely
redundant. But Zaharin’s job is to make sure that visuals and stories
are
pro-government, preventing, for example, opposition parties from being
shown
on air. In edition, his only “editing”contribution was to insist that on
the
report when Sukma and Munawar were arrested, read the definition of
“liwat”
was explained to the audience (including children) so that people will
be
disgusted with Anwar’s crime. He wanted the anchor to say that liwat
means
“memasukkan zakar ke dalam dubur Sukma dan Munawar”. Thankfully, the
NTV7
team rejected that. No surprisingly, on that same 8pm news broadcast,
the
TV3 anchor said the exactsame description.

In addition to Zaharin, NTV7 also had to hire “ABANG JON” who works in
Building Maintenance. He is an SB agent who reports what the staff say
and,
whenever anything remotely anti-government is uttered, you can bet that
NTV7
will get a call from Jabatan Perdana Menteri or Kementerian Penerangan
threatening to revoke their broadcasting license.

This is the extent at which the government will go all out to deceive
and
manipulate its own people.
It is time the people rise up and throw these demagogues out of power.