Seramai 138 warganegara China dalam pesawat itu.- malaysiakini
Tentera Malaysia dakwa berjaya kesan MH370 di Selat Melaka...
Dalam perkembangan yang memeranjatkan, tentera Malaysia mendedahkan mereka mengesan pesawat MH370 milik Malaysian Airlines yang hilang menerusi radar ketika pesawat yang masih hilang itu merentasi Selat Melaka, jauh dari di mana ia melakukan komunikasi terakhir dengan menara kawalan trafik awam di teluk Thailand.
Sumber tentera mengesahkan kepada Reuters Boeing 777-200ER dengan 239 penumpang bertukar laluan dan menuju ke sebelah lain semenanjung Malaysia.
“Ia mengubah laluan selepas Kota Baru dan mengambil altitud lebih rendah. Ia terbang ke Selat Melaka,” kata pegawai tentera, yang diberi taklimat mengenai siasatan itu, kepada Reuters.
Selat Melaka, salah satu laluan perkapalan yang paling sibuk di dunia, berada di pantai barat Malaysia.
Syarikat penerbangan itu berkata, pada Sabtu lalu, pesawat yang membawa 227 penumpang dan 12 anak kapal terputus hubungan selepas Kota Baru, bandar di pantai timur Malaysia.- tmi
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Angry relatives pelt MAS staff with water bottles...
This took place when the MAS employees could not provide any update on the missing flight, the New York Times (NYT) reported today.
"All Malaysians are liars!" one man yelled in Chinese, before adding, "Do you know what 'liars' means?"
"Tell him in English," the Chinese man shouted at one of the MAS employees who acted as an interpreter.
The other three were MAS senior managers and included Ignatius Ong Ming Choy, head of MAS subsidiary budget airline, Firefly.
NYT reported that none of the MAS officers responded to the man and it was not clear whether the interpreter had translated the accusation.
It
was reported that the first water bottle was lobbed when Ong asked
those present who wished to fly to Kuala Lumpur and who wished to stay
behind in Beijing, NYT reported.China has also sent a team to Kuala Lumpur in a bid to get the Malaysian authorities to expedite the search and rescue mission.
The Boeing 77-200 enroute to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, with 239 people on board, went missing early last Saturday.
In a related development, Reuters reported that China has deployed 10 satellites to help in the massive air and sea search for the missing aircraft.
The satellites will use high-resolution earth-imaging capabilities, visible light imaging and other technologies to "support and assist in the search and rescue operations for the Malaysia Airlines aircraft".- malaysiakini
MH370 detected above Malacca Straits at 2.40am...
The search for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH307 has been expanded to Sumatran waters, north of Straits of Malacca, as military radar may have detected the missing plane in the vicinity of Pulau Perak.
A Berita Harian report today quoted the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) as saying the plane may have reversed course further than expected while on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Air Force chief Rodzali Daud (left)
is quoted as saying that based on military radar readings from its
station in Butterworth, MH370 may have turned west after Kota Bahru and
flown past the east coast and Kedah."The last time the plane was detected was near Pulau Perak, in the Straits of Malacca, at 2.40am," Berita Harian quoted Rodzali as saying.
This contradicts earlier reports that the aircraft had disappeared from radar screens 120 nautical miles off Kota Bharu and over the South China Sea, at 1.30am on March 8.
The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) had previously said the search for the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, which is missing for the fourth day, had been focused around the waters between the east coast and Vietnam.
Berita Harian also said that military radar noted that the plane was flying about 1,000 metres lower than its original altitude of 10,000 metres after the turnaround.
There
are 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members on board
the plane. Of these, 152 are Chinese nationals, 38 are Malaysians and
the rest are from 12 other countries.Utusan Malaysia reported that 20,000 fishermen nationwide have been roped in to help in the search-and-rescue operation.
The newspaper quoted Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob as saying that this would involve 1,788 fishing boats around the waters off Kelantan, Terengganu, Perlis, Perak and Penang.
The fishermen were roped in at the request of acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, Ismail said.- malaysiakini
Anwar’s verdict - who is really guilty...
Anwar Ibrahim was found guilty by the Court of Appeal. Given the political scenario, in particular the Kajang Move, the decision was not really a surprise. After all, Anwar’s trial or appeal has never been usual to begin with.
When the Kajang Move was initiated by Anwar, his enemies also moved other initiatives. Apparently for nowAnwar’ s enemies seemed to have checkmated the Kajang Move. But this is not a chess game. Underestimating Anwar’s strength is at his enemies’ own peril.
Justice delayed, justice denied is a well known maxim of justice. But in Anwar’s trial what we really see is justice hurried, justice buried. Unholy haste is the tagline of Anwar’s verdict. Our judges with superb legal minds only needed a short time to pronounce the verdict despite the appeal inter alia dealth with intricities of technical evidence. It prompted many to whisper this -were the judges merely reading out the ready-made script ? We only hope that was not the case.
Normalcy has never been the character of Anwar’s trial. The decision of the Court of Appeal’s judgment seems to reinforce this.
Anwar has been found guilty for an alleged offence of sodomy. But we tend to forget that in reaching the guilty rerdict against Anwar, there were other entities and institutions which had equally committed the gravest offences againts the nation. The only difference is that no declaration of guilty has been found against all these culprits.
Anwar’s trial unfortunately demonstrates the ugly pictures of the police investigation. It was a shoddy investigation by a shoddy investigator. The investigating officer in Anwar’s trial was declared as a liar by Suhakam, yet the lawyer acting for the prosecution in Anwar’s appeal, in his oral submission in the appeal, demanded the appellate forum to accept the evidence of this unreliable witness as a basis to allow the prosecution’s appeal.
To add salt to the injury, this lawyer even participated in Suhakam’s inquiry declaring this police officer as a liar. Not only Suhakam did not believe the reliability of this questionable witness, even the High Court judge accepted and upheld the Bar Council’s objection to the admission of this witness as a lawyer because of his doubtful integrity.
It remains a legal mystery how on earth the Court of Appeal could easily accept the testimony of Jude Pereira (left), thus warranting an appellate court’s interference overturning the High Court’s decision.The investigation is the bedrock of the criminal law. The main objective of criminal investigation is inter alia to ascertain the truth, thus identfying the real perpetrator of the crime. Any infirmities resulting from shoddy investigation would jeopardise not only the prosecution but also the accused person.
Reliability of evidence compromised
But the real threat is against the accused for the accused is presumed innocent until proven otherwise. An innocent person could be easily implicated when prosecution is based on poor and shoddy investigation. It goes without saying the credibility and integrity of the prosecuting officer played an important role in the entire scheme of investigation.
You don’t have to be a legal genius to doubt the evidence of investigating officer who failed to follow even the simple guideline in keeping the prosecution’s exhibit, what more the perishable exhibit. When the material exhibit i.e. the DNA samples were kept in the police cabinet instead of the refrigirator, the reliability of such vital evidence were duly compromised.
Such perishable exhibits needed to be meticulously preserved in order to prevent them from being degenerated, failing which the inevitable conclusion would be that such evidence would not be safe to be relied upon. In any civilisied jurisdiction, such evidence would not have seen the light of the day, yet our appellate forum failed to hold that the doubtful evidence were sufficient to cast doubt on the prosecution’s case.
It is not only the integrity of the investigating officer which was on trial. Even the prosecutorial agency has failed to exhibit the true and genuine profesionalism in its prosecuting tasks.
The principle of equality and fairness seems to be an exception rather a norm in prosecuting the opposition leaders. The constitutional protection of equality of treatment enshrined in Article 8 of the federal constitution has been frequently violated rather than adhered to. Anwar’s appeal is a glaring example of unequal treatment of citizens.
The
crime linked to Razak Baginda was the most heinous in the history of
our nation. It brings the entire administration of our justice system
into disrepute.Yet hitherto the perpetrators of Altantuya Shaariibuu’s
murder have not been convicted, let alone punished. Razak Baginda was
not found guilty. Yet the attorney-general (AG) did not file any appeal
against the High Court decision acquiting Razak Baginda.The AG did not even bother to engage the service of any senior private lawyer to conduct the trial of Razak Baginda. Even he himself did not see it as his esteemed responsibility to helm the prosecuting team bringing all the pepetrators of Altantuya’s murder to real and meaningful justice. People see Razak Baginda’s trial as merely a show trial.
Ling Leong Sik is another classic example of unequal treatment of our citizens. The AG never attempted to put the decision of the trial judge in this case to an appellate test as he did to Anwar’s case.
All these beg the following question: who was really on trial in Anwar’s fiasco, or to put it boldly who was really guilty in Anwar’s trial? - Mohd.Hanipa Maidin,Malaysiakini
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