Hadi: Use silat instead of bullets for 'small' thugs

Billy Boey, Christine Chan, Chie Kow Gah, Darwish Zainal, Arvind Raj, Andrew Ong, Alyaa Alhadjri, Sumisha Naidu, Kow Kwan Yee, Gary Louis Supi, Zulaika Zulkifli, Koh Shing Yee, Zulaikha Zulkifli, Zahra Hamdan, Wong Teck Chi, Tan Hong Kai, Susan Loone, Salhan K Ahmad, Goh Seng Ching, Joseph Sipalan, Lawrence Yong, Low Chia Ming, Sharon Juliat Selvanathan, Tharshinaa Chandran, Vasugi Supramanian, Tan Jiun Wuu, Way Lee Loon, Wang Yuan, Mukhriz Hazim, Nicholas Wong, Rahim Sabri, Tham Seen Hau, Zikri Kamarulzaman, Fathi Aris Omar, Kow Gah Chie, Koh Jun Lin, Jimadie Shah Othman, Kamles Kumar, Hafiz Yatim, Hazlan Zakaria, Gavaskar Brian Raj, Farah Noor Samat, Lee Way Loon, Fatin Najwa Yahya, Fadzly Esa, Aidila Razak, Ahmad Fadli KC, Anne Muhammad, Anjulie Ngan, Abdul Hafiz Yatim, Abdul Rahim Sabri, Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, Lee Long Hui, Leven Woon, Nandini Balakrishnan, Muda Mohd Noor, Nigel Aw, Norain Saleh, Norsyafinas Ahmad Sukri, Puteri Aida Haryani, Radzi Razak, Rahmah Ghazali, Ram Anand, Regina Lee, Richard Loo Wai Hoong, S PathmawathyPublished: Oct 10, 2013 3:47 PM | Updated: Oct 10, 2013 9:17 PM

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang believes that certain situations warranted the police to use bullets but when dealing with parang-wielding criminals, he advocates the use of silat instead.

NONE In what appeared to be an agreement with Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s call for extrajudicial killings, he also stressed on the importance for the authorities to determine if an individual is a criminal before shooting the person.

According to the Marang MP, the "police can shoot but it depends on the situation."

"We have to know if he is a criminal or not. If he is armed with a parang only, many of our police know the martial art silat, that is sufficient.

"There are small and big criminals. The action to shoot must depend on the situation," he reiterated with a laugh during a press conference at the PAS headquarters.

The PAS president was responding to Ahmad Zahid’s controversial statement at an event in Malacca last week that the police should gun down suspected criminals.

However, Hadi refused to elaborate on the matter, saying he had not read about the matter nor was he aware of the question that was posed to Ahmad Zahid during the event.

Also present was PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali, vice-presidents Salahudin Ayub and Mahfuz Omar along with Anak Bukit state assemblyperson Amiruddin Hamzah.

Salahudin added that enforcement personnel must apply their standard operating procedure no matter how critical the situation before using their firearms.

"No matter what the issue, the federal constitution and the law cannot be ignored. We should correct our methods and approach. The ends cannot justify the means," he told reporters after the press conference.

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