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Sunday, July 19, 2015

HOW TREACHEROUS IS NAJIB: Now Utusan blames Low Yat riot on Chinese syndicates, corruption

HOW TREACHEROUS IS NAJIB: Now Utusan blames Low Yat riot on Chinese syndicates, corruption
KUALA LUMPUR - Low Yat Plaza is “bomb waiting to explode” if authorities do not tackle the purported counterfeiting, gangsterism and corruption that is associated with the traders there, Utusan Malaysia’s editors warned today following last week’s bloody riots.
Writing under their shared Awang Selamat pseudonym, the editors at the Umno-owned daily claimed that riots, which authorities say were triggered by a theft case, was rooted in resentment for the alleged corruption that allowed the traders to act with impunity.
Authorities including the National Security Council, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and the Attorney-General’s Chambers must launch a crackdown in order to defuse the unhappiness over the situation, they added.
“Conduct investigations especially into the symptoms of gangsterism and corruption. Expose and arrest anyone involved even if they are holding high positions.
“If drastic action is not taken, Low Yat Plaza will remain a bomb waiting to explode,” they wrote in the weekend Mingguan Malaysia edition.
The Utusan editors also warned Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar to be more careful in handling the incident at Low Yat Plaza to avoid adding further “injury and harm”.
Awang Selamat questioned today why a “Malay political leader” was arrested for making a comment in a WhatsApp group, while opposition leaders who made “provocative remarks” were not.
The alleged thief at Low Yat Plaza last weekend, Shahrul Anuar Abdul Aziz (centre), is escorted by a police officer in Kuala Lumpur on July 14, 2015.
The mob violence last Sunday was said to have stemmed from rumours spread through social media claiming that a Malay youth was cheated by an ethnic Chinese trader who sold him a counterfeit smartphone.
The man’s companion was said to have contacted their friends who then assaulted workers from a mobile phone store and caused an estimated RM70,000 in damage later in the day.
The fracas and subsequent rumour prompted a mob to gather outside Low Yat Plaza the day after the youth’s arrest to demand “justice”.
Police have maintained the crime was not racial in nature and have classified it a theft case involving an unemployed 22-year-old who was later charged with stealing a RM800 phone from an outlet in Low Yat last Saturday.
The incident that left five people hurt caused some observers to draw parallels with the deadly race riots of May 13, 1969.
Police have arrested 24 people in connection, including several for sedition; one person has also been charged under the security law for allegedly inciting racial tensions. - Malay Mail

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