- Teoh Lee Lan, sister to the late Teoh Beng Hock
COMMENT | It is important to remember that Teoh Beng Hock not only represents the deaths in custody that plague the state security apparatus, but more importantly symbolises how the state (which the DAP is part of) protects those who commit malfeasance while carrying out their duties.
When “Thanos” was transferred, the spirit of Beng Hock was present. When the MACC does not investigate certain cases, the spirit of Beng Hock is present. When the state claims that there is not enough evidence to prosecute religious provocateurs, the spirit of Beng Hock is present. When the police refuse to act on the kidnapping of M Indira Gandhi’s child, the spirit of Beng Hock is present. When Raymond Koh, Amri Che Mat, Pamela Ling, and others are subject to enforced disappearance, the spirit of Beng Hock is present.
When the mandarins of the DAP bowed and asked for the family of Beng Hock to accept the MACC’s apology, what they were essentially signalling is...