Malaysia is a country that has far more natural blessings than

many other countries in the developing world but bad leadership

especially by Dr Mahathir and the current PM, Abdullah Badawi
has turned the nation into a sort of hell on earth.

Racial polarisation, corruption, bribery and crime, particularly

violent crime, have all brought untold nightmares for the long-
suffering citizens who have to put up with unimaginable levels
of stress whether while travelling to work outside or while they
were inside their homes. Below are 3 articles which would help
clarify just how hellish the situation has become. Even the jails
themselves are a living nightmare.

2,571 detainees died in past 9 years

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A total of 2,571 detainees died of various diseases while being
held in the country's prisons and detention centres between 1999
and 2008. A total of 153 detainees died while in police custody
during the same period.

- extract from the Star paper 24 March 2009 pg N22

14 houses evacuated as cops hunt robbery-rape suspects

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Five men believed to be involved in several robbery and rapes in
three states were finally nabbed after police conducted a thorough
search of 14 homes in Taman Muhibah, Kluang.

- extract from the Star paper 24 March 2009 pg N14

Rape victim's body found hanged from durian tree

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The body of a woman, believed to be a rape victim, was found hanged
from a durian tree in Sungei Choh. She was clad only in her underwear.
The body was found by passers-by at 7.50am. The woman had a rope tied
round her neck and the other end tied to a branch of the tree. Her
legs were tied and her feet were touching the ground. There were
strangulation marks on her neck and bruises on her body.

- extract from the Star paper 24 March 2009 pg N26

The national papers normally report only the tip of the crime iceberg
and the situation is much worse than one could gather from the reports.
It is normal for dead bodies to appear after daybreak in this country,
indicating how dangerous it is to be caught unawares by the two-legged
beasts that prowl the streets and lanes along the breadth and length of
the land after nightfall. One is not even safe inside one's home as the
criminals in Malaysia are world-class experts in housebreaking. Women
have been physically assaulted while still inside their cars, never
mind houses that are hopelesssly vulnerable to crime gangs.

Sometimes the victims are set on fire together with their vehicles, and
it is quite possible that some of the victims were burnt while still
alive and breathing.
Crime was not so bad in Malaysia until Dr Mahathir, the father of racism
and corruption took power in 1981. It then was downhill all the way and
the present PM, Abdullah was a hopeless case. He was the partying and
travelling PM while the ordinary folks suffered. Worse, the political
right-wing extremists were allowed to have a free hand in running the
country and some of them definitely had ties with motorcycle criminal
gangs which were responsible for many wayside robberies and assaults.

The police meanwhile regarded the fight against crime as a diversionary

sideshow because protecting the ruling politicians was their main task.
The ruling class and their interests took top priority and the police
could only go after violent criminals when their revolvers were fully
loaded and not before. As for the crime victims, they are just merely
insignificant statistics; no compensation has ever being considered
for their suffering in this supposedly 'civilised' and 'model' nation.
A truly civilised nation would at least compensate those who the state
had failed to protect from wrongdoers. But here, it is as if these
victims of crime fully deserved to suffer.

Bribery is so fashionable and cool in Malaysia, that even many senior

politicians dabbled in it, and the result is crime and political power
are highly intertwined in the country. Many criminals often are let off
early from their jail time or sentences are greatly reduced. It helps
explain why many criminals with multiple crime records are able to roam
so freely in Malaysia & to harvest the vast opportunities that await them
here and there, and these people are often the ones who inflict maximum
harm on their victims. Little wonder Malaysia is so like hell on earth.