Dear leaders of our country,

You have been entrusted with immense power to lead us and guide us Malaysians to higher levels. You have all the resources at your disposal to do all the necessary things to make Malaysia a better place to live. You have all the advisors that one can get to help Malaysians achieve higher goals.

But take a look at us. The people of Malaysia. Do you think that we ever feel safe in Malaysia? Don't just see the circle around you, you have nothing to worry. You have all the police to run around for you.

Please look at the everyday people who work, live and pay taxes. They are the same people who come from different backgrounds and different races but form a colourful society known as Malaysia. Please take a moment to think about us. Please do take a moment and ask yourselves, are you doing your best for Malaysians?

No! Look at the crime around us. Look at the kind of crimes that Malaysians have to endure to live in Malaysia. Look at the newspapers and you will see how snatch theft victims die from injuries, how a youth was killed by snatch thieves when he tried to chase them, how a mother of two died during a robbery, the list is very long.

In that list, you can find my father's name S Krishnasamy. Gunned down 42 weeks ago in Johor Baru’s MIC building.

Lives are taken away without any mercy. Is the life of a Malaysian so valueless that it is not worth protecting? Remember, all these lives put you in office and now that you have all the power, you have failed to safeguard the safety of these people.

You have failed all these people. You have failed their families. You have failed their loved ones. You have failed to uphold the trust given to you.

Take a look at it in the interest of the nation. Working, responsible Malaysians are killed by useless, dangerous criminals. If this goes on, Malaysia will lose its good citizens and instead will be filled up with useless scumbags.

Who is going to work to improve the country; who is going to teach the students; who is going to pay taxes to build the nation; who is going to bring Malaysia to the next step? The murderers, the snatch thieves, the criminals? What is the hope that we have for our country? Malaysia is losing her shine because of these criminals.

Dear leaders of the country, you still don't get it, do you? If good Malaysians are killed by bad Malaysians, then what do you have at the end? Only bad Malaysians. Is that what you want? Is that the legacy that you want to leave for your children? Is that the kind of dream that you have for Malaysians?

Remember, the people voted for you, the same people that have to move aside every time your car drives by with police outriders.

The journey of a million miles starts with a single step. You, too, can take the first step. You have been given the trust of Malaysians. Our future depends on the steps that you take.

Give us back our right to feel safe in Malaysia. Give us back the future that these criminals have snatched away from us. Put a stop to all these criminals. Gone are the days when the police expect us to believe them. We want firm action from the police. We want to see justice.

Don't just tell us that the police are looking into the matter. Find out what the police are doing. Are they actually doing something or are they just beating around the bush? Are they just closing cases without proper investigations?

How come the number of criminals is growing at an alarming rate? Look at some of the criminals, some of them are quite young but they have already been in prison several times. Yet they don't make an effort to change and worse still, many other youths are following in their footsteps. These crooks become a role model for other youths and very soon, it will become a ‘cool thing’ to be an ex-inmate like some of the American rappers.

Youths are seeing crime as the best vehicle to immense wealth. They have nothing to fear as the police are very lackadaisical in their action. Moreover, crime in Malaysia pays faster and better. And the dear leaders of Malaysia do not care much about what happens to ordinary Malaysians, as long their family and friends are not disturbed.

I have met and written to many leaders over my father's case. To many leaders from many political parties and of the different races. Most of them have given me the same answer and that is ‘The police are looking into it’.

If police are looking into it, why is it after 42 weeks no one has been charged? Is that what is meant by the ‘police are looking into it’? Several people were arrested and put under remand for my father's murder but they were later released.

One person, who is a politician himself and is a son of a senior politician, even got arrested under the Emergency Ordinance but was released a few hours later in the middle of the night. There are no more suspects and the leads have now gone cold.

Now, tell me dear leaders of Malaysia, do you still think ‘police are looking into’ my father's case? Next time, please think twice before giving out such answers. The murder has hurt us, the family, so much but empty promises hurt us even more.

Dear leaders of Malaysia, when I write to you, I do it because I am in great pain. I do not ask anything else from you. I just want justice for my father. I lost my father to violence. Half-baked answers would not cure my pain. It would not bring justice to a cruel murderer.

Please don't be fooled by the excuses that the police give and don't try to fool us by giving us lies. Take the first step to make Malaysia a better place. Please let good Malaysians live and throw bad Malaysians into the prison so that Malaysia would prosper and grow to be a nation that we can be proud of.