Malaysia Massacre Fight Goes On (BBC Report)

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8025383.stm
By Robin Brant
BBC Malaysia correspondent
The UK government is to review evidence about a massacre of unarmed Malaysian villagers by British troops in 1948.

At the time, Britain was war weary. But in thick, humid jungle at the end of a peninsula near the equator in South-East Asia, British soldiers still faced fierce fighting.
What was [...]

Batang Kali Massacre: Call for Speedy Resolution

 
Source: the Sun (Malaysia), 
 29 Apr 2009 http://www.thesundaily.com/articlePrint.cfm?id=32904
KUALA LUMPUR (April 29, 2009): Survivors and descendants of 24 tappers killed by the British Army in Batang Kali in 1948 are urging the British government for a speedy resolution to the massacre issue.

 

Lawyer Quek Ngee Meng, representating the Action Committee Condemning the Batang Kali Massacre, told a [...]

新闻稿: 2009年4月29日

英外交部与驻马最高专员曾在1月21日分别致函谭蓉代表律师与工委会，针对要求设立公共调查委员会、道歉及赔偿的请愿，做出拒绝的决定，即英外交部以前两次调查显示没有足够的证据采取刑事提控为由，在缺乏新证据的情况下，英政府不会重新翻案。
 在4月1日，谭蓉代表律师向英外交部与国防部发出的司法行动预告书，控状重点如下：
 1.  英政府决定不进行听证会，调查和补偿的理由是非法及不理智的
 2009年1月21日的官方信件中透露了两个不进行调查的主要原因是，
 第一、“前两次的调查显示没有足够的起诉证据”
第二、“这次也没有呈上任何新的证据”
 我们不认为以上论点在法律上能构成足够理由，同时我们也认为以上论点是非法及不理智的。
 首先，进行公众听证会的目的，不仅仅是为了搜集证据及作出控诉的决定。这从英国2005年听证会法令及过去法庭的判例中可略见一二。在一场听证会中，与普通审讯及案件调查不同的是，除了当事人本身之外，其他受案件影响的社群和受害者的亲属，都能够积极地参与听证会。因此官方在作出是否进行听证会之前，绝对有必要咨询此案受害人的家属。此案的家属们从来没有从律政处和警方获得任何有关调查的报告和结果。

Press Statement In Relation to The UK Government Reconsidering The Action Committee’s Reque

Press Statement In Relation to The UK Government Reconsidering The Action Committee’s Requests (29 April 2009)
1. While the Action Committee Condemning the Batang Kali Massacre welcomes the sensible move made by the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Secretary of State for Defence to withdraw their 21/1/09 refusal and reconsider the surviving families’ requests [...]