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The Malaysian Special Branch is the Malaysian government intelligence agency. It was established by the British colonialist government in the early 20th century, based on the Special Branch set up in the United Kingdom. As of 2006, it operates as a branch of the Royal Malaysian Police. An intelligence agency is a governmental organization devoted to gathering of information by means of espionage (spying), communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. ...
Special Branch is the arm of the British, Irish and many Commonwealth police forces that deals with national security matters. ...
Royal Malaysian Police or Polis Diraja Malaysia in Malay is a main branch of security forces in Malaysia. ...
Communist insurgency During the Malayan Emergency, when the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) guerillas were in open revolt, the Special Branch succesfully infiltrated the party chain of command. Reportedly, one Special Branch officer managed to gain sufficient trust from the MCP to be ordered to infiltrate the Special Branch. He in turn managed to feed false information back to the MCP. It has also been claimed that the second-most high-ranking official in the MCP was a Special Branch agent, who was executed when he was discovered. [1] The Malayan Emergency was an insurrection and guerrilla war of the Malay Races Liberation Army against the British and Malayan administration from 1948-1960 in what is now Malaysia. ...
Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), also known as the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) until the 1960s was founded in Singapore in 1930 with a predominantly Chinese membership, the party carried out armed resistance to the Japanese during World War II. From 1948 to 1960, its military arm, the Malayan Peoples...
Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. ...
Anwar Ibrahim scandal In 1998, former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was charged with sodomy and corruption, both crimes in Malaysia. During his trial, a number of statements were made by Special Branch officials, who had been implicated in the case. Anwar Ibrahim has been touring the lecture circuit around the world since his release in 2004. ...
Sodomy is a term of religious origin used to characterize certain sexual acts. ...
One allegation made against Anwar was that he had ordered Special Branch officials to obtain retractions of the sodomy-related allegations against him. However, the Special Branch officials involved told the court that they had reason to believe the charges were fabricated by Anwar's political opponents. [2] Two Special Branch men involved were its then Director, Mohamed Said bin Awang, and Second Deputy Director, Amir bin Junus. One witness at the trial testified that Mohamed Said had told Anwar to allow the Special Branch to look into the matter, instead of Anwar directing the Special Branch to cover it up. [3]
During the trial, Mohamed Said shed light on the Special Branch's practices — mainly by explaining what was called a "turning-over operation", whereby retractions were obtained. At one point, he described it as a "great secret", and refused to elaborate beyond his explanation that "Basically we do a quick assessment on our target, then we see how the possibilities are to turn over their stand," and that "If it is a certain political stand, we may neutralize the stand if it is a security threat". [4] Mohamed Said later responded to the question "If someone higher than the deputy prime minister were to instruct you to come and lie to the court here, would you do it?" with "Depends on the situation." After being pressed for a clarification by the judge, he said, "I may or I may not". [5]
Present day Raja Petra Kamarudin, a former detainee under the Internal Security Act (ISA), has claimed that when he was brought in for questioning, he was astonished by how well-informed they were about his activities: "It was astonishing that they had been able to take all those photographs of me without me realising it. It began to make me wonder whether they had any other photographs of me and my wife in my bedroom doing.....well, you know. ... It was as if they had been present in the meeting room, had participated in the meeting, and had tape-recorded the entire session. We might as well just admit our crime and sign the confession..." He also claimed that the Special Branch had successfully infiltrated the hierarchy of several political parties in the country. [1] The Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) is a preventive detention law in force in Malaysia. ...
A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ...
Notes and references - ↑ a b Kamarudin, Raja Petra (Mar. 6, 2006). Someone is watching. Malaysia Today.
- ↑ Kamarudin, Raja Petra (Feb. 18, 2005). FLASHBACK – The Kangaroo Court that tried and convicted Anwar. Malaysia Today.
- ↑ Kamarudin, Raja Petra (Apr. 29, 2005). Pardon for Anwar. Malaysia Today.
- ↑ Secret tactics used by Malaysian police, top cop tells Anwar trial. (Nov. 4, 1998). CNN.
- ↑ Malaysia's intelligence chief tells Anwar trial he would lie. (Nov. 5, 1998). CNN.
Malaysia Today is a Malaysian news website. ...
The Cable News Network, usually referred to as CNN, is a cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner[1] [2]. It is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System, owned by Time Warner. ...
The Cable News Network, usually referred to as CNN, is a cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner[1] [2]. It is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System, owned by Time Warner. ...
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