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Three robbers shot dead
COPS CORNER GANG WHO PREYED ON CORPORATE FIGURES, EXPATS
by Charles Ramendran
newsdesk@thesundaily.com
KAJANG: An Indonesian rob-and-rape
gang’s two-year reign of terror ended when
three suspects were killed in a shootout with
police near the Sungai Ramal toll plaza near
here early yesterday.
Two others managed to escape in the
dark.
The “Ronald Gang”, so named after its
leader who was among the dead, had pulled
off about 50 robberies in several states, flee-
ing with hundreds of thousands of ringgit
in valuables and cash from the homes of
corporate figures and expatriates.
The gang members, who had been
entering the country regularly with valid
travel documents, smuggled their loot out
of the country and returned within weeks
for more “jobs”.
Selangor state serious crime police
had trailed the gang members, who were
travelling in a car reported stolen in Kuala
Lumpur, until the shootout at 2am.
Be consistent in foreign policy,
Santiago urges Malaysia
by Karen Arukesamy
newsdesk@thesundaily.com
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s foreign policy
“should be consistent” in supporting and
providing aid for all war victims, says Klang MP
Charles Santiago.
“Our government’s policy is quite clear that
people who are defenceless and powerless
should be supported and it is a good policy.
But that support must also be extended to all
victims of war, not just one community,” he
added.
Speaking in a dialogue on human rights
violation, organised by Global Peace Initiative
Kuala Lumpur, Santiago urged the government
to help the war victims in Sri Lanka and Africa,
just like how it is helping the Palestinians now.
“The foreign policy must be a consistent
policy for all at all times,” said Santiago, urging
the government to get Asean and the United
Nations General Assembly involved, and to
refer Sri Lanka to the international war crimes
tribunal.
“Right now, there is a dire need for humani-
State police chief DCP Datuk Khalid Abu
Bakar said the suspects realised they were
being trailed near Kajang and started firing
at the unmarked police car.
“The police detectives returned fire, kill-
ing three of them. Two others fled on foot
in the dark,” he added.
Khalid said the 40-year-old “Ronald”
was among the three shot dead. The other
two dead gang members are aged 27 and
30.
Police recovered a loaded handgun,
several handtools and a sickle from the
gang’s car.
He said the gang preyed mainly on the
homes of corporate figures in at least seven
states in the peninsula and was known to
assault their victims after tying them up.
The gang members had also raped one
of their victims in a robbery in Johor and
police are checking whether they were be-
hind similar sexual assaults in other cases.
Police have mounted a search for the
two gang members on the run.
In another unrelated case, police are
tarian aid for Gaza and Sri Lanka but the aid
cannot go through because of the blockades
by the Israeli and Sri Lankan armies.
Santiago also slammed Home Minister
Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar’s statement that
“Malaysia does not support Sri Lanka”, saying:
“It does not make sense as they are all war
victims.”
Sharing a similar view, Kota Damansara
assemblyman and Parti Sosialis Malaysia presi-
dent Dr Mohd Nasir said: “We seem to have
double standards. It seems like Palestine is okay
(to provide support) but Sri Lanka is not (okay
to provide support).
“It is genocide and in both cases the US is
in support of the Israeli and Sri Lankan govern-
ments.”
Said Nasir: “The common misconception
is that the Gaza war is between the Jews and
Muslims. It is about the occupation of land
and getting full support from the super pow-
ers which is the same in Sri Lanka between
the Sinhalese and Tamils. So why the double
standard?”
NGO Tech Outreach chairman Dr Selvamalar
looking for a man behind the forging of
road tax stickers in a house in Taman
Damai Perdana in Cheras.
Kajang OCPD ACP Shakaruddin Che
Mood said police raided a house at 2am but
a woman suspect sped off in a car.
“The suspect was caught after a
short chase. The woman, a Thai
national, is the wife of a man
who is under restricted resi-
dence for car theft activities.
The Proton Perdana she
drove was a stolen car.”
Police found several
forged road tax documents
and seized a computer and
printer.
Shakaruddin said
the 32-year-old woman,
pregnant and a mother of
two, told police she did not
know the whereabouts of her
husband. She was released on
bail due to her health
condition.
Ayadurai said Malaysia
needed to facilitate hu-
manitarian aid for the war
victims in Sri Lanka.
“It would be very good if
the government can help by
starting a fund for Sri Lankan
war victims just like the Gaza
fund,” she said.
She said it was not easy for NGOs to
deliver humanitarian aid in Sri Lanka due to
the blockades but it could be done with the
government’s intervention.
Baby girl found in garbage bin
KUALA LUMPUR: A healthy
three-month-old baby girl was
found by a security guard in a
garbage bin near the Jelatek
LRT Station, here, early yester-
day.
Ampang Jaya OCPD ACP
| TUESDAY JANUARY 20 2009
UM denies funding
selected candidates
by Kristene Silva Marie
newsdesk@thesundaily.com
KUALA LUMPUR: Universiti Malaya (UM) has denied
a newspaper report that it took sides and funded the
campaigning of pro-establishment candidates in the
campus elections yesterday.
UM deputy vice-chancellor (student affairs and
alumni) Associate Prof Datuk Dr Azarae Haji Idris said all
costs were borne by the candidates themselves
and the UM administration had nothing to
do with the campaigning.
“All candidates were given an
equal budget to help them run
their campaigns. Other than
that, we also allocated some
for organising the election
process,” he added.
On Friday, Oriental
Daily News reported how
UM funded RM10,000 on
each pro-establishment
candidate and a three-
day-two-night campaigning
strategy camp on Pangkor
Island.
A random check on the
campus election campaign
found many posters and
banners (pix) strung up by
candidates from Aspirasi
(pro-establishment), Ga-
gasan (anti-establishment)
and Independents vying for
seats in the student repre-
sentative council for every
academic year.
The undergraduates are
contesting for 41 seats in
the council – 32 faculty
and nine campus seats.
Jalil Hassan said the guard wit- the object but was stopped by
nessed an argument between the man who dragged her into
a man and woman in a car be- the car and sped off,” he said.
fore the man threw an object, Jalil said police were in the
taken from the car boot, into midst of tracking down the
the garbage bin. couple, based on their car reg-
“The woman tried to retrieve istration number. – Bernama