JULAU: A group of local community leaders and ex-servicemen lodged a report against PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu (popularly known as Mat Sabu) at the police station here on Monday afternoon.
Penghulu Mawa Layang, 71, who acted as the group’s spokesman said they were prompted to lodge the report against Mat Sabu after they read the latter’s statement published in a national newspaper (Utusan Malaysia) on Aug 27.
He said, like any peace-loving Malaysian, they, especially the ex-servicemen, were infuriated by the statement.
In the report, Mat Sabu had hailed Muhammad Indra as an ‘Independence Hero’ for supporting a group of 200 communist terrorists led by Loh Peng Tun in mounting a bloody attack on Bukit Kepong police station during the insurgency.
Mat Sabu’s statement was not only baseless but infuriating and provoking, he said, while expressing his fear that the twisting of facts by Mat Sabu would influence and poison the minds of the young generation.
“We are worried that the young generation would be misled by the twisted facts.
If the youngsters hail the communists as ‘heroes’, they would lose confidence in the security forces and when that happens, we fear something untoward like what had happened in the Middle-East would happen in our country as well.”
To avoid the worst from taking place, he said they felt obliged to lodge the police report, while requesting the relevant authority to act on their report.