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Wang Kelian – into the heart of darkness - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Wednesday, February 06, 2019
Malaysiakini : “You know I hate, detest and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
COMMENT | I have no idea what will become of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the mass graves at Wang Kelian. While NGOs and activists have expressed support for the government’s decision to set up this RCI, I remain sceptical if anything will come of it.
Wang Kelian is more than just a mass grave. It is an indictment of a system that is mired in corruption bordering on the evil and a society that has very little interests in the plight of marginalised peoples who come to our homeland.
We are a nation that has still not acknowledged our history of slavery upon the indigenous people of this country. We do not attempt to learn from our past. We bury it, hoping that we may escape whatever lessons it could have taught us.
The executive director of the human rights NGO Tenaganita, Glorene A Das, reminded the powers that be to also investigate the individuals (including those who may be politically linked) who were behind the cover-up of Wang Kelian: “The reported cover-up of the activities of human trafficking syndicates and the annihilation of vital evidence needs to be explained; those involved in it should be brought to justice, without fear or favour.”
And this is an important point. The fact is that Wang Kelian could not have happened if the was no collusion among crime syndicates, the state security apparatus and most importantly, the political class who were needed to facilitate and give legitimacy to a cover-up. We are talking about high crimes perpetrated by local actors working in concert with foreign high-ranking officials.
With this in mind, the idea that the police are going to “assist” in this RCI is laughable. One of the things I argued that the new Pakatan Harapan government should do, after their historic May 9 win, is to unearth the killers and slavers of Wang Kelian. I have a deep mistrust of the state security apparatus. Please refer to this piece.
In it you will discover that all Bukit Aman has done is to stonewall journalists investigating this case. They dodged questions from the then opposition political operatives, contaminated (or worse) the crime scenes and these were enabled by the ruling BN regime. International publications like the Guardian reported that the state department claimed that there was high-level participation of government officials in Malaysia and Thailand in the Wang Kelian mass killings.

A police Special Branch report compiled over 10 years detailed the systemic corruption within the enforcement agencies, claiming that at least 80 percent of law enforcement officers at the border were corrupt. The DAP’s Steven Sim (photo), who has been doing sterling work, which often went unreported, questioned then home minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi on the status of 12 police officers who were persons of interests in this crime and what did the home minister say in his written reply? That there was no evidence of any wrongdoing.
No independent investigation was done
Bukit Aman, when this issue first seeped into the mainstream media, claimed that there was no evidence that any police personnel were involved. Never mind that evidence was tampered with. Never mind that there was circumstantial evidence of wrongdoing. Never mind that political operatives from the highest levels of the Umno system were repeating the same denials as the state security apparatus, despite no independent investigation having been done.
We are now to believe that the police are suddenly interested in discovering the “truth”
Unfortunately, the "truth" is unpalatable when it comes to human trafficking in Malaysia. As per this report: In one of their major coups in 2011, the Special Branch arrested eight Immigration Department officers based at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) for their alleged involvement in a human-trafficking operation. When interrogating the suspects, one of them was asked, "Who else are in the payroll of the syndicate?" And the shocking answer was: "It would be easier if you asked us for the names of officers not on the take."
Do you know what is dangerous about the game we are playing here? Forget about the fact that Bukit Aman assisting in this investigation should raise red flags. Consider the political operatives and their hangers-on who could have been involved in this. What we have are political operatives who are now part of the government, who were also part of the old regime. Who can you really trust when it comes to this RCI, in the sense that some kind of political interference could be applied to save the collective behinds of political operatives in the establishment and the opposition.
What we have are political operatives and their hangers-on who could have profited or covered up crimes in the old regime and who now work in this new regime. Would they really be interested in the truth being exposed? Would they really be interested to shine a light on the nexus of criminal enterprises, the security apparatus and political power in this country?
And what of the state security apparatus? Has there been any real reform since the Harapan government took over? There were rumblings of closing down certain units and chatter on the streets was because these units had become so entangled in criminal syndicates they were supposed to be investigating. It would be easier to close down these units and sweep everything under the carpet. I have said before, that the state security apparatus is riddled with petty fiefdoms, whose allegiances shift with the turning of the political tide.
I hope I am wrong. I truly do hope so, but I think nobody really wants to confront the heart of darkness which is Wang Kelian.
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