Hussein Hamid on Sirul Azhar Umar

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Hussein Hamid has much insight into this topic, so his comments are well worth reading and thinking about.

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I knew about Sirul's release from Villawood Detention Centre, early yesterday evening. This is not totally unexpected given the Australian High Court, last Friday, ruled that indefinite detention for people like Sirul, was "unlawful" if deportation was not an option.

That applied to Sirul because even though he had entered Australia under false pretence (he did not inform Australian Immigration that he had been a convicted felon) deportation was not an option because Malaysia was going to hang him for his deeds - and Australia would not send anybody home to be hanged...for whatever reason.

And so yesterday, Sirul was among the first batch of detainees released. Sirul is now a free man spending his first day of freedom in Canberra, with his son, Azam. I wish him the best. He has spent over a decade in detention for doing what he thought was his job as a Unit Tindakan Khas operative - killing someone on orders from his superior. He was following orders.

After the deed, when he was arrested in Pakistan, he did ask upon landing at KLIA : "Kenapa dia orang tak cover aku?" That question by Sirul tells us that as far as he was concerned, he was doing a job he was trained to do and he was perplexed that UTK had not provided him with a cover for his 'work' in murdering Altantuya.

Now fast forward to today.

What will happen to him now?

Sirul wants to stay in Australia and what happens now will be a matter for the Australian government to decide. The Malaysian government might ask to extradite Sirul and give an assurance to the Australian government that Sirul will not be hanged for his deed. It will be up to the Australian government to decide. Sirul will certainly ask for asylum in Australia. It will be up to the Australian government to decide. Sirul may ask for asylum in another country. It will be up to the Australian Government to decide if they will allow him to go to that country. All that we can hope is that Sirul will have the right people to advise him on what to do in order to get the decision he wants for himself and his son Azam - whose fate, to stay or not to stay in Australia, will depend on what fate has been decided for Sirul by the powers that be.

What happens to the people in Malaysia, who, in one way or another, have been 'involved' in Sirul's case?

If they have done the right thing by Sirul, no problems. Those who have helped him through the difficult times in the past decades will have his gratitude. I know there are a few people who have stood by him all this while and to them, I am sure, Sirul will again turn for help for him to face the future.

To those who have profited from the woes and problems of Sirul....a word of advice....watch your backs. They know who they are and I know who they are. There are a few Datuks among them. A few lawyers. They know who they are and I know who they are. Among them is Rizal Mansor.....Rosmah's former aide turned prosecution witness against Rosmah. This Rizal Mansor must feel a bit restless now that Sirul is out. Why he is restless? I know and Rizal knows and a few others who donated towards Sirul's defence funds...also know....so that is why Rizal is restless.

Najib really has nothing to worry about as far as Sirul is concerned. Why not?

Common sense will tell you that there is nothing Sirul can do to make life more miserable for Najib. Kepit Man is already in jail. He is already facing millions in fines and hundreds of millions that he still has to pay to LHDN. And if God is unkind, his wife will soon join him in Kajang....so for Kepit Man aka BossKu aka ex Perdana Menteri of Malaysia, Sirul is less of a worry to him than the mosquitoes at Kajang.

Let us all wait and see what the next few weeks or months will bring to the fate of Sirul. He has gone through so much personal pain and suffering for having carried out what he thought was a job that he was trained to do, as a UTK operative. Enough said.

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