Sapa balun wang pampasan landasan keretapi maut bernilai RM207 bilion...

Nizar menunjukkan dokumen yang diedarkan kepada wartawan pada sidang media.

AJK PAS Pusat, Datuk Seri Mohamad Nizar Jamaludin hari ini mendedahkan beberapa dokumen penting yang menunjukkan kerajaan Malaysia memang telah menerima wang sebanyak RM207 bilion dari kerajaan Jepun sebagai pampasan kepada rakyat Malaysia yang terlibat dalam pembinaan landasan keretapi maut Jepun.

(Surat dari Kementerian Kewangan kepada Persatuan)

Dokumen itu berupa surat permohonan dari Persatuan Kebajikan Bekas dan Warisan Buroh Binaan Landasan Keretapi Siam ke Burma 1942-1946 (Persatuan) yang jelas menyatakan jumlah RM207 bilion yang dituntut itu.
Surat permohonan ini dibuat oleh Persatuan kepada Perdana Menteri pada 27 Julai 2011.

Pendedahan ini dibuat Nizar dalam sidang media khasnya hari ini. Beliau meminta agar pihak kerajaan membuat penjelasan terhadap semua dokumen itu dan menjelaskan di mana wang itu sekarang jika ianya benar-benar wujud.


Nizar juga menunjukkan kepada media dokumen pengesahan dari pelbagai kementerian dan jabatan serta pejabat Peguam Negara mengenai tuntutan itu.

(Surat dari Jabatan Peguam Negara kepada Persatuan)

Antaranya, Bahagian Pengeluaran, Kementerian Kewangan Malaysia dalam suratnya kepada Persatuan berkata, "Sukacita dimaklumkan bahawa tuntutan pengeluaran berjumlah RM207 bilion telah diangkat untuk tindakan dan kelulusan Kerajaan di mana prosesnya telah dimaklumkan ke Peguam Negara dan peringkat Kementerian Sumber Manusia."

Surat bertarikh 29 Mac 2011 ini telah ditandatangani oleh Datuk Hajah Zalekha bt Hassan, Bahagian Pengeluaran Bayaran.

Jabatan Peguam Negara pula dalam suratnya kepada Persatuan berkata, "Untuk maklumat, perkara tersebut perlu dirujuk kepada Kabinet untuk kelulusan. Kertas Kabinet sedang disediakan untuk tindakan seterusnya."

Surat ini ditandatangani oleh Hasin bin Razak, Deputy Director of Management Division, Attorney General Chambers.

Nizar sebelum ini ketika berucap dalam Dewan Rakyat meminta Perdana Menteri menjelaskan tuntutan Persatuan ini namun tidak ada sebarang penjelasan dibuat mengenainya.

Baru-baru ini, beliau ke Kedutaan Jepun untuk berbincang mengenainya. Wakil kedutaan mengesahkan beliau pernah mendengar mengenainya tetapi hanya mengesahkan pembayaran pernah dibuat tetapi tidak menyebutkan angkanya. Beliau akan merujuk balik kepada Tokyo mengenainya.

Wakil Kedutaan kemudiannya menafikan wang RM207 bilion itu yang dirujuk.-harakahdaily

RM207 billion poser over 'missing' compensation from Japan...

The BN government has been told to explain the whereabouts of some RM207 billion paid by the government of Japan as compensation to some 30,000 Malaysians once recruited as forced labour during the Japanese occupation of Malaya.

According to Bukit Gantang member of parliament Mohamad Nizar Jamaludin, the money had been delivered to the Malaysian government a decade ago but neither the surviving victims nor their families had received any payment.

Nizar said that the sum had already been paid by Japan to Malaysia as early as 2004 because Bank Negara Malaysia had in that year issued a banker's cheque for the sum of RM107 billion and another RM100 billion in the form of Maybank shares, registered on December 13, 2004.

“30,000 Malayan citizens were involved in the construction of the railway," Nizar said, referring to the 'Death Railway', a 400-kilometre railway project by the Japanese occupation to connect Burma and Thailand.

Citing a letter sent by an association representing Death Railway victims and their kins to prime minister Najib Razak dated July 27 last year, Nizar revealed that the Prime Minister's Department had followed it up with the Human Resouces ministry in August 2011.

Speaking at the parliament, Nizar (left) also claimed that all parties including the Attorney General had agreed that the money should be disbursed to the intended recipients.

"If the matter was tabled and approved by the cabinet, why should the money be kept by the Treasury for so long?" asked Nizar.

The former Perak Menteri Besar added that the father of Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin, the current Chief Judge of Malaya, was one of the recipients, being a former forced labourer during the Japanese occupation of 1942-1945.

"He now lives in Ipoh and can relate the hardship experienced by the 30,000 citizens," Nizar added.

Nizar reminded the BN government that by further delaying the release of the money to the victims, it was betraying the people's trust, adding that the governments of Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam, whose citizens were also part of the Death Railway, had already distributed the compensation money to the victims.-harakahdaily

 

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