A MOVEMENT calling itself Gerakan Pulangkan Anak-Anak Kami (GPAAK) has urged the relevant authorities to immediately return to their parents’ custody the allegedly abused/tortured children who were seized, separated and “illegally hidden in violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Children (CRC)” during the recent Op Global raids.
The seemingly Perikatan Nasuonal (PN)-led initiative further demanded the resignation of Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution; Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri, and Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Razarudin Husain.
GPAAK’s spokesman Datuk Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz has further expressed regrets over the numerous irresponsible statements by IGP Razarudin which he described as “misleading and slanderous” stemming from the rescue of 402 children following police raids on 20 charity houses belonging to Global Ikhwan Service and Business Holding Sdn Bhd (GISBH) in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan on Sept 12.
The movement also regretted the “confusing and slanderous” statement by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) director Datuk Mohd Shahzihan Ahmad on Oct 2 who disputed the legality of marriages and divorces of GISBH members (including the widely practised polygamy without prior consent of the Syariah Court).
Also targeted was Perlis Mufti Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin (Dr MAZA) whom GPAAK wanted to step down for having claimed the existence of a cult with elements of religious gangsterism in Malaysia while practicing ‘strange’ beliefs and “is very obsessed with their leaders and organisation”.
Following this, the movement has issued 12 demands to the Madani government which can be summarised as follows:
#1: The government must IMMEDIATELY return these children to their parents because the arrest was a mistake from the very beginning it and there had been confusion of intelligence and investigation on the part of the police and the Social Welfare Department (JKM);
#2: The government must take disciplinary action against police and JKM officers who were involved in the arrest/conducted the intelligence;
#3: The government must take disciplinary action against JKM officers and the police who took advantage of parents who do not understand the law by forcing, lying or deceiving them to sign documents that could result in them being charged in court;
#4: The government must IMMEDIATELY conduct a judicial review on the order to extend the detention of these children because there is a possibility that JKM’s application to the court to extend the detention of these children is made using information obtained by means of deception and coercion on parents of the children;
#5: The government must IMMEDIATELY inform the parents about the whereabouts of their children and allow them to meet their children;
#6: The government must IMMEDIATELY provide access to the media and GPAAK to view the condition of parents and children who are still detained at JKM detention centres;
#7: The government must IMMEDIATELY request the Special Select Committee on Human Rights and Gender Equality of Parliament to summon and investigate the IGP and JKM’S director-general Datuk Che Murad Sayang for violating Article 9 and 18 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the fundamental rights of the children’s parents;
#8: The Government must IMMEDIATELY establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to investigate the Op Global implementation which appears to be chaotic, exceeded its scope and in violation of the law, human rights, and Articles 9 and 18 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
#9: The government must investigate the background and credibility of the informant to the police, namely PUKAS Malaysia (the Malaysian Centre for the Study of Deviant Teachings) and the woman who is said to be a former GISBH member;
#10: The government and state governments must stop issuing statements related to GISBH which are not based on facts, malicious, and only add to slander and embarrassing the parents/children;
#11: Based on statements made irresponsibly by several parties regarding GISBH which had resulted in these parents and children being detained, and leading to them having suffered, experiencing trauma, psychological disorders and depression, GPAAK demands the resignation of the IGP and Perlis Mufti; and
#12: Over the offence of having arrested, detained, separated the children from their parents, forcing false admission and violating Articles 9 and 18 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we demand that both the Home Minister and the Women, Family and Community Development Minister be held accountable and make to resign. – Oct 14, 2024
Main image credit: Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz/Facebook
