The father of Altantuya Shaariibuu, who was killed and her body blown to pieces in Shah Alam 12 years ago, has made an impassioned plea to the Pakatan Harapan government to reopen investigations to discover the identity of the person who ordered her murder.
Shaariibuu Setev, in a letter to Bukit Gelugor MP Ramkarpal Singh, said “a powerful person” must have sanctioned the crime.
He said “the world waits that the just court of Malaysia will resolve this matter”.
“If justice, truth, hope, trust and human ways disappear from this world, it shall be equal to the earth without the sun,” he wrote.
In a statement accompaning Setev’s letter, Ramkarpal said Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun’s statement that Bukit Aman has not reopened the murder case because no new police reports have been lodged on the matter was unacceptable.
Ramkarpal said there was no need for a new police report as it was very likely that the person or persons who ordered the murder of Altantuya were already known to the police from the earlier investigations.
He said this was too crucial an aspect to have been missed out in the investigations.
“It defies logic for investigators to have only asked who killed her without asking why in their investigations,” he added.
He also pointed out that Mongolia’s President Battulga Khaltmaa had appealed to Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to reopen the investigations in his congratulatory message to the latter.
Ramkarpal urged Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and Fuzi to reopen the investigations into the Altantuya murder urgently or to convene a Royal Commission of Inquiry to determine the motive behind the crime.
Altantuya, 28 at the time of her death, was killed on Oct 19-20, 2006, by two Malaysian police officers.
She was shot twice in the head before being wrapped in military grade explosives and blown to pieces in a forest. The motive for the crime and the source of the policemen’s orders remain unknown.
The killers, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, were members of an elite police commando unit that provided bodyguards for Malaysia’s top leaders, including then Defence Minister Najib Razak.
Both were convicted and sentenced to death. However, Sirul fled to Australia before the final court verdict and has been in detention in Sydney for nearly two years.
Australia forbids the extradition of people to any country where they would face the death penalty.
Setev said he could not give up the fight to seek the truth behind his daughter’s murder “as a man and as a father”.
“With the death of Altantuya, not everything was finished. Reputation of Malaysia was tarnished. Relationship between Mongolia and Malaysia got cold. My family life was ruined and two kids were left without the right to call their ‘mother’,” he said.
He said his daughter‘s elder son started working when he was 11 carrying goods in the market in order to earn money for medicines for his brother.
“Mother of Altantuya got psychologically disturbed and there is one more person in my family that needed someone else’s care.
“The sons of Altantuya got treated like criminals by others in this country (Mongolia) and there were two incidents where Mungunshagai, the elder, and Altanzut, sister of Altantuya, had to defend themselves against bullies.
“They had to face arrest and investigation by police … and the Human Rights Commission of Mongolia. I had to change officially the name of my grandchild.”
Setev said he was forced to sell his two-room apartment and pay for the medical expenses of his younger grandchild and for living expenses.
“I carried all the burden and at such age and l had to work at three different jobs.
“I don‘t think that with the destroying of my daughter in 2006 everything will be finished. It will have the opposite effect and will be remembered for many years.
“How to punish the culprits is the matter of law. For myself, I am waiting for 12 years to hear the word ‘Sorry’ from the criminals and the government of Malaysia.”
Original article from https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2018/05/25/father-pleads-for-fresh-probe-into-altantuya-murder/?fbclid=IwAR0KPiJBun7oGYIlG9kyzYYtnu64KY4qzaRMkEjgQB1wVrj7_zKQfwu9ok0
