RPK finally surfaces... on YouTube
After a long lull, fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin has surfaced publicly, albeit in form of a video interview published on popular video sharing website YouTube.
After a long lull, fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin has surfaced publicly, albeit in form of a video interview published on popular video sharing website YouTube.
Since April, Raja Petra has been missing from two trials he is currently facing. His whereabouts are unknown. He is believed to be overseas with his wife Marina Lee Abdullah.
Posted by one C4productionhouse - an obvious reference to the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder - the video portrayed Raja Petra speaking at length on how the government was allegedly persecuting him.
The subject of contention was the criminal charges he faces for his statutory declaration implicating Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor in the Altantuya murder.
"I didn't publish it. Someone else did," said Raja Petra, who instead blamed an Umno-linked website for somehow obtaining the document and publishing it.
Raja Petra then asked why the government did not investigate the said webmaster for publishing the document, adding that his identity was known.
Selective prosecution
He also questioned how the Attorney-General and Inspector-General of Police swiftly declared the document as a false statutory-declaration and immediately took action.
"No investigation was launched. They knew about it because it came out on an Umno website. But because it came out on an Umno website, they immediately said it was a false declaration.
"They already decided on my crime and punishment without even checking if my statutory declaration was true. They refuse to investigate my statutory declaration," he said.
In contrast, said Raja Petra, the government was quick to launch investigations on Selangor state reps for corruption based sketchy details on an anonymous website.
"This is selective prosecution that the Malaysian government practices. Even an anonymous allegation by an unknown person is good enough to raid their offices and charge them in court."Here we have a legal document, they say ‘No, this is false!'," he said.
