To recap, and to try to clear the professional jargons: Kugan Ananthan, a previously healthy 22-year-old Malaysian, died in police custody, with evidence of having being beaten.
The beatings may not have caused death directly, but all medical textbooks lay out the chain of events proposed by the UMMC pathologist - from prolonged or repeated injuries, to muscle breakdown, to kidney failure, to fluid accumulation in the lungs, so that Kugan could not breathe.
The Health DG admitted kidney failure could have taken place due to the beatings, yet he insisted “myocarditis” was the cause of death. He stated with certainty that inflammation of the heart muscle, of unspecified cause, led to the retention of fluid in the lungs, and kidney failure might have only been an “aggravating” factor.
While Kugan’s family were still saying their prayers of mourning, another young Malaysian, Adi Anwar Mansor, 23, was allegedly beaten brutally until he lay unconscious in an intensive care unit (ICU) in Klang.
“He was kicked on his back, hit on the back of his head and hit with a rubber hose until he could not take the pain,” said Jiknah Harun, 49, the thin, ashen-faced mother of Adi Anwar.
The police claimed initially Adi Anwar’s injuries were due to a scuffle at the time of arrest, and he became unconscious after drinking paint thinner while under police custody.
Again, the explanation was not very sophisticated. What “spin” can be put on the pictures of the lacerations, bruises and black eye, with the breathing tube sticking out of his mouth in ICU?
The pictures of Kugan and Adi Anwar’s injuries suggest both young Malaysians were beaten with a long, blunt object, leaving angry wheals and stripes.
We can only conclude these two young men were whipped and tortured.
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A seven-year-old kid asked me what happened to these two guys. I said the police beat them up. She was shocked. She thought police were supposed to be good people. I said only a few police were bad, not all of them were bad. Hehe...good education for the kid. ;-)
The beatings may not have caused death directly, but all medical textbooks lay out the chain of events proposed by the UMMC pathologist - from prolonged or repeated injuries, to muscle breakdown, to kidney failure, to fluid accumulation in the lungs, so that Kugan could not breathe.
The Health DG admitted kidney failure could have taken place due to the beatings, yet he insisted “myocarditis” was the cause of death. He stated with certainty that inflammation of the heart muscle, of unspecified cause, led to the retention of fluid in the lungs, and kidney failure might have only been an “aggravating” factor.
While Kugan’s family were still saying their prayers of mourning, another young Malaysian, Adi Anwar Mansor, 23, was allegedly beaten brutally until he lay unconscious in an intensive care unit (ICU) in Klang.“He was kicked on his back, hit on the back of his head and hit with a rubber hose until he could not take the pain,” said Jiknah Harun, 49, the thin, ashen-faced mother of Adi Anwar.
The police claimed initially Adi Anwar’s injuries were due to a scuffle at the time of arrest, and he became unconscious after drinking paint thinner while under police custody.
Again, the explanation was not very sophisticated. What “spin” can be put on the pictures of the lacerations, bruises and black eye, with the breathing tube sticking out of his mouth in ICU?The pictures of Kugan and Adi Anwar’s injuries suggest both young Malaysians were beaten with a long, blunt object, leaving angry wheals and stripes.
We can only conclude these two young men were whipped and tortured.
(Source: Malaysiakini - Support Mkini - Subscribe to Mkini!)
A seven-year-old kid asked me what happened to these two guys. I said the police beat them up. She was shocked. She thought police were supposed to be good people. I said only a few police were bad, not all of them were bad. Hehe...good education for the kid. ;-)
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