Thursday, April 16, 2009

malaysiakini and JUSTICE Not SEEN to Be Done?

This is a RM64 million question.
Who exactly has been tried in the Altantuya murder case?
From the very beginning, many questions were left unanswered as to why and how the case was handled from the changing of the prosecution officers and the behaviour of the investigation personnel.
If proper justice is to be served, justice must be seen to be done but this malaysiakini article asks a very pertinent question, "Exactly who has been in the dock for murder all these months?"
Altantuya's killers - 'Show us their faces' suggests that since no one has seen the faces of the men found convicted of the murder, how does the public know that the two masked men are in fact the persons accused of the crime?
In fact the persecution has failed in this very basic requirement of showing the public that justice is being served from day one of the trial. Now months later, there is always a doubt about their true identity.
Now if those men are swapped by say an undocumented migrant, no one except the authorities will know any better.
After all, people do get killed in police custody - now it could be a more sophisticated procedure. The judge could sentence the wrong people to hang.

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