Media Statement by Lim Kit Siang in Petaling
Jaya
on Monday, 28th July 2008:
Second Anwar sodomy charge - Police cannot keep silent a
single second on the latest shocking revelation of the first medical
report that Saiful had not been sodomised
The Police cannot keep silent a single second on the latest
shocking revelation in the second Anwar Ibrahim sodomy charge – that the
first medical report on Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan found no evidence of
sodomy four hours before he lodged the police report of sodomy against
Anwar on June 28.
The revelation, which first appeared in Raja Petra Kamaruddin's Malaysia
Today news portal, and is reported in Malaysiakini, is based on a
two-page medical report by Dr. Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid, the medical
officer in Hospital Pusrawi (Pusat Rawatan Islam) in Jalan Tun Razak,
Kuala Lumpur after examining Saiful at about 2 p.m on January 28 – some
four hours before Saiful lodged the police report against Anwar.
This is the account in Malaysiakini:
According to a copy of the two-page medical report
obtained by malaysiakini yesterday, Saiful went to the hospital
complaining of 'tenesmus' - a medical term for difficulty and pain
in passing motion.
He was examined by Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid, the medical officer
on duty.
The doctor said that the patient had alleged he was assaulted by the
intrusion of a piece of "plastic" in the anus.
Mohamed Osman, according to his medical report which was recorded at
2.14pm, found "zero active bleeding", "zero ulcer or pus", "zero
tear and scar" in Saiful's anus.
He also stated that Saiful appeared "alert", "comfortable", "not
pale" and did not show any fever symptoms.
Raja Petra in his blog alleged that Dr. Mohamed Osman, a
Burmese Muslim, who has 20 years of experience as a doctor who had
previously worked in government hospitals before joining Pusrawi about a
year ago, was detained by the police for three days but refused to
"doctor" his report to "implicate Anwar".
Raja Petra further alleged that Dr. Mohamed Osman "has now taken his
entire family and has gone into hiding because the police are looking
for him and want him to change his medical report".
These are very disturbing turn of developments in the latest sodomy
allegation against Anwar and police investigations, and will subject
Malaysia to a new and most adverse spate of international bashing unless
police can come forward without a single second of delay to
categorically throw light on the first medical report on Saiful and the
whereabouts of Dr. Mohamad Osman – especially in the light of the
outrage and scandal of the disappearance of private investigator Bala
Subramaniam in two conflicting Statutory Declaration (SDs) within 24
hours, shaking national and international confidence in institutional
integrity to their very roots.
Or is the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar contemplating
orchestrating a second briefing for foreign diplomats in Malaysia on the
medical report and disappearance of Dr. Mohamed Osman – where Hamid can
be assured of getting an even better turn-out by hitting over a century
of diplomats?
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Lim
Kit Siang, DAP
Parliamentary leader & MP for Ipoh Timor
http://dapmalaysia.org