3,000 rally to support Myanmar protests

KUALA LUMPUR: About 3,000 refugees, migrant workers and activists dressed in red marched to the Myanmar embassy here to hand over a memorandum urging the military rulers to settle the current crisis in the country.

Led by a group called the All Burma Democratic Force (ABDF), the peaceful demonstration started at about 9.30am and ended at noon yesterday.

The ABDF is an umbrella group of different organisations of different races and religions, including the Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organisation Malaysia, National League for Democracy (Liberated Area) Malaysia and Zomi National Congress Malaysia.

On Thursday, many Malaysians received SMSes urging them to wear red in a show of solidarity with the protesters in Myanmar.

ABDF vice-chairman Mohammad Sadek said the group’s secretary-general Aung Kyaw Moe handed a two-page memorandum to the embassy’s minister-counsellor Win Myint at 10am.

Protesters carried placards condemning the regime, with words like “Stop Torture”, “Evil Junta – Don’t Want”, “Don’t Kill Our Monks” and “Stop Fire”.

A police officer said the group did not have a permit to organise the demonstration, but as long as it was peaceful, they were allowed to carry on with the march to express their frustration.

About 50 policemen and Federal Reserve Unit personnel were on stand-by.

Local non-governmental organisations such as Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram), Youth for Change, Amnesty International and Parti Sosialis Malaysia also supported the march.

Mohammad Sadek said the memorandum, among other things, urged the UN Security Council to convene an emergency meeting to examine the deteriorating situation in Myanmar.

He said China and Russia must warn the regime that they would support the Security Council’s evaluation of the situation as well as adopt the council’s resolution.

“Therefore, we also marched to both embassies,” he added.

Mohammad Sadek said they also wanted the regime to release all political prisoners, including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, and to alleviate economic hardship and introduce serious reforms that ensured human rights, peace, justice and freedom.

In PENANG, about 70 monks staged a peaceful protest at the Malaysian Buddhist Association yesterday to express their unhappiness over the violent crackdown on monks in Myanmar.

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Police bust robbery gang in Kuching

KUCHING: Police here have busted a robbery gang with the arrest of five people including a woman.

The five suspects, aged 26 to 35, were picked up in a police raid on a construction site at Jalan Puncak Borneo here in the wee hours of Friday morning.

Three of the men and the woman are Indonesians while the fourth man is Malaysian.

Police seized a cutter, screwdriver and some stolen items including boxes of cigarettes, mobile phones and jewellery.

Also seized was a Kancil car believed to have been used to ferry the gang members away after a break-in.

With the arrests, police believe they have solved some 20 cases of robbery and break-ins in the city in the past three months.

One of the cases was the break-in of the house of Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister's Department Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman, who was robbed of cash and valuables worth RM400,000 early Thursday morning.

Police are now tracking down three more members of the gang believed to be still at large.

They are also on the look out for a dark coloured Unser and a Kancil with three yellow stripes on its sides, believed to be other vehicles used by the gang.

Acting Sarawak Commissioner of Police Datuk SAC I Abdul Rahman Hussin said the gang usually struck in the early hours of the morning.

"They usually break into affluent homes through the back door, tie up the victims and ransack the house.

"Before leaving, they help themselves to food and drinks in the house," he told a press conference on Saturday.

The group would then return to Indonesia to dispose of the stolen items, he said. He urged witnesses to come forward to assist police in their investigations.

Five nabbed - Woman released, four remanded for seven days

PETALING JAYA: Five people including a woman were arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jaziman.

The woman, however, was released several hours after her statement was recorded.

The men were remanded for seven days by a magistrate’s court here to facilitate police investigations. One of them is the woman’s husband, a tailor shop owner.

A special task force comprising officers from Bukit Aman assisted by their counterparts from Petaling Jaya and Selangor state police raided a shoplot in Section 7, Shah Alam, at 11.30pm on Thursday and nabbed the five.

The five are aged between 27 and 35.

CID director Commissioner Datuk Christopher Wan Soo Kee said the five were detained to assist police in their investigations into the murder of Nurin Jazlin.

“We seized two cars and five cellular phones from the suspects,” he said, adding that the arrests were made possible thanks to information from the public.

At 9.20am yesterday, the suspects were brought to Kuala Lumpur Hospital where a DNA test was done.

DNA tests were carried out as police had found foreign particles believed to be strands of hair inside the sports bag in which Nurin’s sexually assaulted and naked body was found.

It is learnt that one of the suspects, in his 30s, had previously been implicated in a couple of rape cases but was released due to the lack of evidence.

The five were taken to the magistrate’s court where a horde of pressmen waited for their arrival at 11.50am yesterday.

Some 20 minutes earlier, the woman suspect, believed to be pregnant, was seen being driven away from the court.

At 12.35pm, the men were taken to Bukit Aman for further interrogation.

Sources said one of the suspects is a car salesman.

Nurin Jazlin went missing after she went to a night market by herself near her house in Section 1, Wangsa Maju, in Setapak, on Aug 20.

Her body was found stuffed in a sports bag in Petaling Utama on Sept 17.

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Indonesian woman cuts off husband’s penis

JOHOR BARU: A 48-year-old Indonesian woman allegedly cut off her husband's penis out of jealousy after she discovered that he had devoted more attention to his second wife.

The Indonesian man, 43, was about to doze off next to his wife at a 'kongsi' for foreign construction workers in Taman Flora, Pulai, here at 11pm on Saturday when the incident occurred.

The wife then took out a knife and cut off her husband’s penis while shouting insults and accusations at him.

The victim’s loud screams of pain woke up other workers at the 'kongsi'. They rushed him to Kulai Hospital on seeing what had happened.

Nusajaya OCPD Supt Abd Aziz Ahmad said the doctors were able to reattach the victim's penis.

"He received 11 stitches and he was in the operating room for about six hours.

"Initial investigations revealed that the motive for the assault was jealousy," he said when contacted here on Monday.

Supt Abd Aziz said police had detained the wife and she would be investigated under Section 324 of the Penal Code for causing hurt with a weapon.

He added that police discovered that the husband had obtained a permanent resident status while both wives were still on working permits.

"We also learnt that the second wife is in her 30s and does not live in the same 'kongsi'," he said.

Supt Abd Aziz urged anyone with information to contact the police hotline at 07-2212999 or go to the nearest police station.

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First and last time Nurin went out alone

KUALA LUMPUR: When Nurin Jazlin Jazimin ventured to the pasar malam on the night of Aug 20, it was the first and only time she had done so by herself.

Her parents, Jazimin Abdul Jalil, 33, and Norazian Bistamin, 35, had always insisted that their four daughters went out of their second floor flat unit in Wangsa Maju here, whether to the playground or night market, in pairs or more.

“It was a rule for the girls. They know they must never go out alone,” Jazimin’s elder brother Jasni said.

Jasni, 44, said he needed to explain what happened that night because Jazimin and Norazian had been unfairly accused of being careless parents.

He said that night, Nurin Jazlin first went to the night market with her elder sister Jazshira at about 7.30pm.

“They bought murtabak and came back. The family was having guests.

“Nurin then went to the mother and asked for some money to buy hair clips. She asked for permission to go to the night market again,” he said.

Norazian agreed, assuming that Jazshira, nine, would again accompany Nurin Jazlin.

“The mother did not know Nurin had told the elder sister not to follow.

“Later, when Norazian saw the elder girl and asked where Nurin went, it was then that she knew Nurin had gone out alone,” said Jasni.

When Nurin Jazlin did not return home an hour later, the parents started to search for her.

Jazimin expressed disappointment over some press reports and accusations from strangers.

“I have never borrowed money from loan sharks and I am not saddled with heavy debts.

“As for those who blame me and my wife as careless parents, all I can say is this – we love our four girls very much and will never purposely put them in harm’s way,” he said, adding that such accusations hurt him and his wife very much.

“Somebody has sent her to heaven in a very terrible way. The killers must be found. Let no other child suffer like what Nurin had to endure,” he said.

Streams of relatives, neighbours, friends and well-wishers continued to visit Jazimin and Norazian to offer their condolences.

At the tahlil prayers last night, Jazimin said he had told Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar that he wanted to see the face of the killer if he was caught.

“I just want to see the person who killed my daughter,” he said.

He also said that he would still celebrate Hari Raya next month but it would not be as grand as previous year’s.

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IT engineer ends up cleaning toilets

By JANE RITIKOS

RAWANG: Bangladeshi Joynal Abedin Tasiauddin, 25, was working with a multi-national corporation back home when he was told he could get a well-paying job at a leading electronic company in Malaysia.

When the IT engineer arrived in March, he found himself cleaning toilets at shopping complexes.

“I was promised a job with the company working for eight hours, six days a week. I was promised a salary of RM2,000 but was not paid at all,” said Joynal, one of 80 Bangladeshis sheltered in a church here by Tenaganita Sdn Bhd, which is trying to send them home.

They are among 500 Bangladeshis brought in by an agent to “work” with the electronic company but ended up without salary and little food.

“We sold our land and homes to pay the agent RM2,500 to come here. In the end, we had to call home for money to buy food,” said Joynal.

University student Al Amin Noyon, 24, also paid the RM2,500 and quit his studies.

At the KL International Airport, he was picked up by his employer – a cleaning service company.

However, they did not get permanent jobs. Some had to do various menial jobs while others, like Al Amin, never worked a day here because there were no jobs.

So, the employer moved them around the country, placing them at warehouses. According to Al Amin, at one time, all of them had to share one toilet in a house.

“When we asked for our salaries and food, we got beaten up.”

The agent had confiscated their passports and personal belongings upon their arrival and they were detained twice at the Semenyih detention centre because they had no passports.

Tenaganita programme officer Florida Sandasamy said it was working with the Bangladesh embassy to get them repatriated.

She said Tenaganita was sheltering around 3,000 Bangladeshis in similar predicament in Teluk Intan, Cameron Highlands, Malacca, Perak and Johor.

Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) commissioner Datuk N. Siva Subramaniam, who visited the men yesterday, said there was an urgent need to find a long-term solution to address the issue of foreign workers being cheated and mistreated.

He said there must be better co-ordination between the Home Ministry and Human Resources Ministry, which issued documents for foreign workers, as there was a serious mismatch in the number of workers brought in and the number of jobs available.

“The authorities should investigate how approval letters were issued to the employers to bring in the workers,” he said.

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Riot probe: Seven of 44 individuals have surrendered so far

By R.S.N. MURALI

KUALA TERENGGANU: Seven people have so far surrendered to police in connection with the Sept 8 riot at Batu Burok, here.

Two more individuals, both labourers aged 22 and 25 from Kampung Kolam Air, Kuala Ibai, gave themselves up at 11.45am, on Thursday after one of their friends spotted their pictures in the newspaper.

State Deputy CID chief Supt Khairi Ahrasa said their statements had been recorded. The police expect a few more to surrender as the Friday deadline for the launch of the police manhunt draws near.

``We are not going to deliberately arrest anyone. Our probe is fair, therefore they don't have to afraid,'' he said here, on Thursday.

He said police had released four of the individuals who had surrendered; they were on police bail after their statements were recorded.

The police on Wednesday said that it would launch a manhunt on Friday to find the 44 individuals sought to facilitate the probe into the Sept 8 riot.

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M. Rajoli weds again?

So said veteran actor and comedian, M. Rajoli on rumours in the Internet that he had recently married for the third time.

“Don’t believe it because the only time that I took another wife was on a TV show,” he said, when contacted by The Malay Mail yesterday.

“My character married a second wife and the series shows how he copes with that responsibility.

“These people might have mistaken fiction for reality,” he said, referring to the series Ayahku Kahwin Lagi airing on TV9.

His second wife, actress Wan Chik Daud, brushed off the rumours.

“I think the rumour started when a journalist teased about his recent misfortunes in an article. It reads ‘now that his money was stolen, his car was stolen, next to be stolen is his heart!’ I guess some people misunderstood it.”

However, Wan Chik said she does not mind if her husband wants to get a third wife.

“I have no right to say no. As a Muslim, he is entitled to marry four.

“But he needs to be fair to his wives, and his third needs to get my approval first,” she said.

“She also needs to be filthy rich because she has to take me and the first wife on several vacations overseas,” said Wan Chik jokingly, and added that she did take his first wife for a holiday to China, New Zealand and Mecca.

On who is the perfect third wife for M. Rajoli, she said : “I had Datuk Siti Nurhaliza in mind, but unfortunately, Datuk K got to her first!”

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Body found in bag is Nurin

PETALING JAYA: The police have said that DNA tests on the body found stuffed in a sports bag on Monday in Petaling Jaya show that it is that of missing girl Nurin Jazlin Jazimin.

Petaling Jaya OCPD ACP Arjunaidi Mohamed on Thursday said that DNA tests have so far indicated that the body found in a shophouse at Jalan PJS1, Petaling Jaya Utama is that of Nurin, 8, who had been missing since Aug 20.

Police are waiting for confirmation of the DNA tests.

At Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Nurin's father Jazimin Abdul Jalil, 33, a taxi driver still denied the body was that of his daughter, reports BERNAMA.

"I am Nurin's father ... I know my daughter better than anyone else. My heart is saying the body is not my daughter.

"If police ask me to take the body, I will accept, I will perform the funeral rites and bury it. But I want the police to pursue the search for Nurin because I know Nurin is still safe out there," he said, speaking to reporters outside the HKL mortuary.

Jazimin added that he was sure the body was not Nurin because of the teeth and the scar that Nurin had.

According to Jazimin, Nurin's teeth did not have gaps between them and she also had a scar on her thigh.

Nurin's mother Norazian Bistaman, 35, said she was ready to accept what the authorities tell her.

"What else can I say. The DNA test shows she is my daughter. I will accept the will of God.

"As a mother, I still hope the body is not my daughter's. Which mother will accept the reality that her daughter was raped and killed brutally.

"Only God knows the extent of my sadness and grief," she said in tears.

Norazian said this year's Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations would be the most joyous and meaningful in her life in the event Nurin was found safe and sound.

"In fact, we've already bought Nurin's Hari Raya dress and I will patiently wait for her return," she added.

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