DAP’s Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong today flayed the PAS-led Kelantan state government for considering the use of the 18th century guillotine punishment to amputate limbs under the propose hudud law in the state.

Kelantan Deputy Menteri Besar Nik Amar Abdullah reportedly said that the state’s hudud technical committee will consider using a ‘mini-guillotine’ to amputate limbs according to the hudud law, instead of relying on surgeons.

But Liew, in a statement flayed the idea and said that the idea itself should be “guillotined immediately”.

“The obsession with such inhumane methods of punishment on the part of Nik Amar is disappointing,” he said.

Liew said that Malaysia did not need an added form of cruel punishment at a time when human rights proponents are pushing for reduced usage of punishments such as the death penalty and judicial caning.

“The reasons for opposing such cruel and irreversible methods in principle have been explained time and again,” he said.

“I fail to understand Nik Amar’s obssesion. He would do the nation a great service by focussing the public discourse not on the graphic descriptions of a particular way to amputate limps but to return to the core issue of justice,” he added.

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