“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...