KUALA SELANGOR: The arrest of 12 individuals linked with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) group was neither political nor racially motivated. The nation’s top cop also defended the action taken by Bukit Aman’s Special Branch Counter Terrorism Division (E8) which he described as being consistent with the threats faced by the country. “It (the arrests) were not politically linked and neither was there any pressure from any quarters to make the arrests or not to make the arrests. The comic book was a collaboration between Asian Comic Cultural Museum curator Hew Kuan Yau and local artist Chong Po Ling, also known as Tomato. According to the statement, Dr Mahathir had never given permission for his picture to be used for any purpose whatsoever, or for the comic book to be distributed in schools.

Source: New Strait Times October 19, 2019 07:07 UTC