Its an old story, and I am not sure if the Malaysian Public got the closure for this. It has been so long, and so many new issues that popped up, this somehow, the ordeal or issue seams to be a distance past. Sighting the tittle “Amateur Videos Are Putting Official Abuse in New Light” over at C|net, I didn’t think it was about Malaysia at all, until I clicked on the link and suddenly, the articled started with ‘Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, “Do your Squat!, Do your Squat!”‘, and I was thinking, oh, what an old story, then I realized, there wasn’t any really good closure of the incident. Well, maybe there was, and I missed it, anyway, this is Malaysia.
On the closing quote of the article,
Hemy, who recently became a mother, said she views the video two ways. “Of course it brought me shame,” she said, “but it is good because it brought this to light.”
The male officer who recorded Hemy, identified during the government inquiry as Mohamad Dzulfatah, “is in the process of dismissal,” according to a police spokesman. He said that the female officer was “following instructions” and remains on duty but that police station “procedures have changed.”
The police are now trying to turn the technology to their own advantage: They are asking citizens to send digital images of traffic violators, double-parkers and people who otherwise add to this city’s monumental traffic jams.
Hemy’s drug possession case has yet to go to trial, but her lawyer said no drugs were ever found on her. She is suing the police for negligence and seeking damages of about $2.7 million.
Yap Swee Seng, executive director of Suaram, a human rights group, said Hemy has a strong case — one that shows how the common cellphone has shifted power to ordinary citizens.
“Five years ago this would have been totally impossible,” he said.
there seams to be some closure, but I certainly don’t felt the impact as imposed by the author…
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