'We want a complete investigation into the death of TBH. Why and how he died, was he strangled, tortured or he himself decided to jump out of the window?'

Najib: RCI will not probe cause of death

Md Imraz Muhammed Ikhbal: By limiting the scope of the RCI to only determining whether TBH's (Teoh Beng Hock's) human rights were violated by the MACC (Malysian Anti-Corruption Commission) and not the cause of his death, literally narrows down any remedial measures that may be warranted by its findings to just a mere revamp of the entire investigating procedures and protocols of the MACC.

Since the cause of death is not to be established, TBH's death - whether a murder or otherwise - will not be ascertained. The tragedy is that if it was a murder, then Najib's actions have literally allowed the murderers to go scot free and his only accountability to the crying nation is in the form of a revamp to interrogation procedures of the MACC, that too is of no certainty at this juncture.

That is how depreciated your life becomes as soon as you align yourself to the opposition. TBH may just have died in vain under the wicked system we have all collectively empowered.

Not Confused: No matter what the MACC says, its officers were, at the very least, complicit in his death. Heaven forbid, even if Teoh did commit suicide for some unexplained reason, he was nevertheless still in the custody of the MACC at that time, and clearly they were responsible for his safety.

The MACC chief and the investigating officer involved in this case should both resign as a matter of principle and to retrieve what little integrity the organisation has left. In any other true democracy, this is the very least that the rakyat can expect.

Najib, please stop giving us worthless and empty platitudes - we have heard them all before. We are sick and tired of another RCI (royal commission of inquiry) being established and its recommendations being shelved or just ignored. It is a waste of time, and more importantly, our hard-earned taxes.

I commiserate with TBH's family, who have been treated badly by the authorities in the aftermath of TBH's criminal death - they cry out for justice, and I doubt that they will ever see any. My heartfelt sympathies go out to them and TBH's new son.

Cala: Where is Najib's logic? A life is a life. By right what attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail feels about the verdict of the inquest is less important than what the CEO of Malaysia feels.

In this case, Najib is elected democratically, Gani is not. In addition, since a life has been taken while in the custody of MACC officers, what is there not to go deeper into TBH's death? Why are we to waste more taxpayers' money requiring a royal commission only to look into "MACC's procedure of conducting interrogation on TBH"?

To me, there is only one set of law. Everybody is equal before the law and that is the basic principle of the rule of law. Anybody found causing the death of another person ought to be punished. There is no two ways about it.

Consider it in another light, even if TBH was wrong for accepting RM2,400 over whatever excuse, is it justified that he be harmed?

Changeagent: While he is at it, would Najib also set up RCIs to determine if A Kugan, Aminulrasyid Amzad, N Tharmendran and Chua Buang Hing, among many other victims who suffered at the hands of the authorities, have had their human rights violated?

What about the rights of the peaceful protesters at the anti-ISA vigil or the Selangor residents who were seeking lower water tariffs at Masjid Negara? Can he also order more RCIs to determine if their rights to freedom of expression have been severely suppressed?

G Annamalai: We are not interested in the procedural mismanagement of MACC, which it seldom adheres to. We want a complete investigation into the death of TBH. Why and how he died, was he strangled, tortured or he himself decided to jump out of the window just for fun?

It is only by giving complete power to RCI that all these can be revealed. We don't have confidence in Gani Patail's appeal. He has so far failed to fulfill the expectation of the rakyat in all high-profile cases.

Let him rest and make another trip to Mecca. Najib can only redeem his reputation if he allows for a full RCI investigation.

Teh: A witness, who was invited by the MACC, fell to his death at the MACC building. Clearly his human rights have been violated. His life was taken away from him. You don't need a royal commission to know that.

To not investigate the cause of death of this witness is a further violation of his human rights and the rights of his family members who have waited patiently for more than a year for the outcome. Najib's decision is an insult to his own ‘People First' slogan.

Perkasa says no to Teoh royal commission

AnakBangsaMalaysia: Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali needs to experience the 'hospitality' of MACC for himself.

When he walks into the MACC headquarters and ends up dead the next morning, we will all pre-conclude that he was depressed, had enormous gambling debts and felt so ashamed of his inhumanity that he decided to beat himself to a pulp, strangle himself, shoot himself in the back of the head and then do a grand finish by throwing his own inert body from the 14th floor.

There will certainly be no need to waste taxpayers' monies on investigating his death.

Singa Pura Pura: Murder and rape are most disrespectful to Islam. Those who try to bury such dastardly deeds are just as doggedly impudent to the great religion.

Lover Boy: All Malaysians know that Perkasa is wholly or partly funded by Umno. Now, what Ibrahim Ali says go against what the PM intends to do. With election just around the corner, to boost the image of the PM, he will of course defy Ibrahim Ali and set up the royal commission.

He can tell the Chinese that he is setting up the RCI to find out the truth. You and I know the terms of reference are the furthest from getting the truth on the cause of death of TBH. So it is Umno and Perkasa playing good cop, bad cop. This is Apco strategy la !

Mangodurian: In a way this katak (frog) is right - the terms of reference of the royal commission is probably going to be so restricted that it will have no bearing whatsoever on finding the truth.

It will turn out to be another pre-election ‘sandiwara'. Why not a royal commission for the Altantuya Shaariibuu case instead?

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