Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
A sticker to remember Ganapathy's death By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Malaysiakini : “I was badly abused and assaulted to near death the night I was arrested.”
– Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim recalling the night he was arrested to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour
COMMENT
| The death in custody of A Ganapathy will not be remembered by a mega
rally or the spectacle of political operatives swooping around like
buzzards in a funeral procession but with a shrug by an apathetic
public, political class and the reality that there will never be any
kind of reform of the state security apparatus.
Prime Minister
Anwar Ibrahim has publicly claimed that he was abused and assaulted to
near death the night he was arrested so it is not as if the political
elites in this country have no idea what is going on in the shadows of
police lockups.
Does anyone remember A Kugan? The Kugan case, like most flashpoints
when it comes to the police or any of the enforcement branches of the
state, reveals simmering race and class tensions.
Some people
would be familiar with the gruesome post-mortem pictures of Kugan but to
me what is even more sinister was the attempted cover-up.
If his family didn't barge into the mortuary,
the truth or the inkling of it would most probably been cremated or
buried. The family could not even grieve in peace with mourners being arrested during the funeral.
The lies or misconduct of the first pathologist
(which only warranted a reprimand) seemed like an apathetic shrug from
the state as if Kugan’s murder did not even warrant a sophisticated
cover-up.
Me : Remember IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar his performance in the death of Aminulrasyid Amzah, (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar, who was then Selangor chief police officer, said that the schoolboy was a criminal, a thug, because he supposedly had a parang in his car.
