We come from a society where rape and incest is less commonly reported as it should be. In any society or culture, it is difficult for a person to admit to rape. Especially if it's date rape, marital rape or incest.
Do you want to know something i came across as shocking? As you know, I work with Refugees. Last month i came across this lady who was sold for "a night" to four men on her journey to Malaysia. As she was fleeing from her country and the military's persecution for a safer live, she was brutally raped, and in wonder, survived the ordeal. We got to know about the case through one of the Burmese community. While we thought that it was a must that she received emotional support, we found out a more alarming fact, she got pregnant through that ordeal. A few weeks 0f emotional support and counseling later, she decided to keep the baby, only because she said it would be a sin to abort a life. When i took her to the gynae and reality struck her via the sonogram, she broke down and sob uncontrollably.
This is real, unedited, this is what it is.
The fact is, although we are not sold into sex or slavery in Malaysia, we assume Rape does not happen on a daily basis. Only because it is not commonly reported.
DO YOU KNOW WHY MALAYSIANS DO NOT REPORT?
Here is something you probably never heard off. Well, not to blame you because we generally do not go out of our way to find out about random stuff especially if it hasn't happened to us
This is the protocol of how a rape case is handled in Malaysia.
When a person is raped within 72 hours, a medical examination can be done to certify medically that forced sexual advances has occurred, HOWEVER;
1. The victim must make a police report first ands give a statement before a medical examination is allowed. The victim must GO to the police station and does not necessarily get a female officer to take down their statements.
2. The victim must go to the government hospital for the medical examination and retrieval of evidence. No special privileges are given to rape victims. They are made to wait like the others at the A&E. Lawfully, only a gynae can perform medical examinations such as these which is intrusive and sensitive, however, medical officers who are inexperienced are said to have performed the examination.
3. Examination must be done with the presence of a female officer in the room. Evidence might be doctored otherwise (rolls eyes)
4. Rape victims cannot go to any private clinics even if it is an emergency and if they are hurt very badly IF they intend to file a report against the rapist. Similarly, private clinics, hospitals, are not given any authority to collect evidence for rape cases.
5. If a person is spilling blood, severely hurt, evidence will not be collected until a police statement is given if the case is to be classified as a rape case. Many patients have been sent from the hospital to the police station because they had not made the statement first before going to the doctor.
6. There is a One Stop Centre for rape is KL. However, victims will still have to travel to the nearest police station to take their statements first before they are given any treatment or any examination is done.
ALL THESE CAN BE OMITTED IF A VICTIM CHOOSES NOT TO REPORT THE CASE.
I don't know about you but i was shocked when i found out about this . A few lawyers at UNHCR shared these information with me, and with further research, i realised it to be true.
How do WE stand and watch this? WHat has our Women's Ministry been advocating if such a simple thing is still obsolete and extremely preposterous?
A person's rights have been brutally violated when she is raped. Yet, instead of preparing a safe environment for her to help her gain some justic for the injuctice she has faced, we trample her further with our stupid protocols which do NOT make any sense...
You be the Judge of it....
This is our Malaysia... Beloved Malaysia
Do you want to know something i came across as shocking? As you know, I work with Refugees. Last month i came across this lady who was sold for "a night" to four men on her journey to Malaysia. As she was fleeing from her country and the military's persecution for a safer live, she was brutally raped, and in wonder, survived the ordeal. We got to know about the case through one of the Burmese community. While we thought that it was a must that she received emotional support, we found out a more alarming fact, she got pregnant through that ordeal. A few weeks 0f emotional support and counseling later, she decided to keep the baby, only because she said it would be a sin to abort a life. When i took her to the gynae and reality struck her via the sonogram, she broke down and sob uncontrollably.
This is real, unedited, this is what it is.
The fact is, although we are not sold into sex or slavery in Malaysia, we assume Rape does not happen on a daily basis. Only because it is not commonly reported.
DO YOU KNOW WHY MALAYSIANS DO NOT REPORT?
Here is something you probably never heard off. Well, not to blame you because we generally do not go out of our way to find out about random stuff especially if it hasn't happened to us
This is the protocol of how a rape case is handled in Malaysia.
When a person is raped within 72 hours, a medical examination can be done to certify medically that forced sexual advances has occurred, HOWEVER;
1. The victim must make a police report first ands give a statement before a medical examination is allowed. The victim must GO to the police station and does not necessarily get a female officer to take down their statements.
2. The victim must go to the government hospital for the medical examination and retrieval of evidence. No special privileges are given to rape victims. They are made to wait like the others at the A&E. Lawfully, only a gynae can perform medical examinations such as these which is intrusive and sensitive, however, medical officers who are inexperienced are said to have performed the examination.
3. Examination must be done with the presence of a female officer in the room. Evidence might be doctored otherwise (rolls eyes)
4. Rape victims cannot go to any private clinics even if it is an emergency and if they are hurt very badly IF they intend to file a report against the rapist. Similarly, private clinics, hospitals, are not given any authority to collect evidence for rape cases.
5. If a person is spilling blood, severely hurt, evidence will not be collected until a police statement is given if the case is to be classified as a rape case. Many patients have been sent from the hospital to the police station because they had not made the statement first before going to the doctor.
6. There is a One Stop Centre for rape is KL. However, victims will still have to travel to the nearest police station to take their statements first before they are given any treatment or any examination is done.
ALL THESE CAN BE OMITTED IF A VICTIM CHOOSES NOT TO REPORT THE CASE.
I don't know about you but i was shocked when i found out about this . A few lawyers at UNHCR shared these information with me, and with further research, i realised it to be true.
How do WE stand and watch this? WHat has our Women's Ministry been advocating if such a simple thing is still obsolete and extremely preposterous?
A person's rights have been brutally violated when she is raped. Yet, instead of preparing a safe environment for her to help her gain some justic for the injuctice she has faced, we trample her further with our stupid protocols which do NOT make any sense...
You be the Judge of it....
This is our Malaysia... Beloved Malaysia
1 comments:
It was a shock to me, someone who works and breathes humanitarian work in Malaysia... What more the general public. It makes me sick to my stomach sometimes when i think of malaysian mentality, that "tidak-apa-attitude" makes me sick....
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