Days ago, their faces concealed, they dragged a 12-year-old away from his mother and jabbed him with a syringe in the car park of a mall.
Then came the blood-curdling text messages to Rafizi Ramli’s wife. The first of these made more sinister by its brevity, read: “Be quiet. If you continue, AIDS”. It was what the Chinese call, “slaughtering the chicken to frighten the monkey”.
For the men involved in this cowardly plot, this was an easy “job”. Carried out in broad daylight, it required no firearms or explosives. All it took was a few days of stalking the mother and son. And an iron-clad guarantee that they will be “protected” come what may.
Men like them don’t wake up one morning and say, “Let’s go out and frighten a mother and her child to death”. Instead, they go about their “job”, working in the shadows cast by powerful men who hate to see their plans thwarted by...