"Now that the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) panel has concluded the inquiry, there is no better time for the Harapan government to take the necessary action to resolve this issue – and ensure that such incidents do not happen again."

– Ronnie Liu (2019)

COMMENT | The response of former prime minister (twice) Dr Mahathir Mohamad to the Suhakam report was that the findings were merely hearsay and that all this happened under the watch of the former BN government.

The report concluded that state agencies, which included the police's Special Branch, had abducted Amri Che Mat and Pastor Raymond Koh.

Amri's wife Norhayati Mohd Ariffin’s application of a judicial review to make public the findings of a task force set up to reinvestigate the disappearance of the two men is just another step on the long road in an attempt to hold the state responsible for the disappearance of two Malaysian citizens.

As anyone who has followed the Suhakam proceedings would realise, the testimonies of state witnesses in the disappearance of these two men were deemed suspect and unreliable.

The fact that operators from the state were active in...