Pull your panties up, Mr IGP or PDRM or Bukit Aman….
The mother of 22-year-old cadet, Syamsul Haris Shamsudin, suspects foul play in her son’s death, despite the official version which said that there were no criminal elements involved.
Syamsul died on the 28th July, during Palapes training at the Army Combat Training Centre (Pulada) in Ulu Tiram, Johor. Palapes is the Reserve Officer Training Unit. He was a cadet at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). His training started on 27 July and was scheduled to end on 3 August.
He was buried on 29th July at the Kampung Riching Ulu Muslim cemetery in Selangor.
Ummul Haiman Bee Daulatgun was dissatisfied with what the officials told her, and on 19 August, she filed an application for a second post-mortem and an inquest into her son’s death.
She claimed that when she asked her son’s peers about the circumstances during training that subsequently led to her son’s death, the cadets pleaded ignorance and all responded with the same reply which was, “I don’t know, I didn’t see”.
On 1 August, the police said that there was no criminal element in Syamsul’s death…
And yet, when his mother, the lady in the photo went to view her son’s body, not only was she forbidden from photographing his injuries, but what I write below, is what she reported seeing.
She said that when she went to see her son’s body, there were several injuries, with swelling and wounds on the body and his shoulder.
Her son’s nose was also oozing blood, as if he had suffered a head trauma from impact.
She added that that was a lot of blood stains, and wounds that looked like punched holes or gunshots.
Her son had been bandaged thickly, but a lot of blood was still oozing from the hole, and the blood soaked the neck and mattress lining.
She added that her son’s eyes were bleeding continuously.
She had been informed that Syamsul had died after suffering from a seizure following a shooting training exercise.
However, her relative was told that her son was killed in a fight.
If you recall, the same tidak apa attitude or the lack of professionalism or whatever you want to call it was experienced by the mother of 13-year-old Zara Qairina Mahathir, whose death has ignited a fire in the rakyat.
It was police incompetence, the forensic department’s failure, the hospital pathologist’s failure, the investigating officer’s tidak apa attitude and the education and ministry of education’s collective pathetic response to alleged cases of bullying which has hit epidemic proportions in the country.
A 13-year-old falls from her third floor dormitory and this was not considered suspicious enough for the police to spring into action. This was also not considered to be enough material to get a post mortem done.
Many will claim that her mother refused a post mortem. However, a suspicious death should have made it necessary for a post mortem, even if the mother who is grieving and traumatised by her daughter’s death will refuse one. As most Malaysians are aware, Muslims are told to bury their dead within 24 hours and avoid a post mortem etc. So, don’t blame the mother as this is how we are brought up. Moreover, we do not question the authorities enough.
So, back to Syamsul’s suspicious death, his mother has made allegations that her son was murdered. THe police handling of this case is pathetic. Failure after failure after failure.
Pull your panties up Mr IGP and get your police force functioning properly instead of doing things by halves. You are failing to protect the rakyat.
And now, after a public uproar and the court’s decision to allow a second post mortem, Bukit Aman will now handle the investigation.
So which is it? Incompetence? Tidak apa attitude? Or cover-up?
If only the police had DONE THEIR JOB PROPERLY at the beginning!
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