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Midnight raid on students’ rooms, documents seized
Beh Lih Yi
4:34pm Fri Aug 22nd, 2003

Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) authorities carried out a midnight raid on the rooms of four women undergraduates and subsequently interrogated them for allegedly planning ‘underground activities’.

In the incident last Thursday, it was learnt that the residential college authorities searched the two rooms between 12 midnight to 3am.

According to a source, the six-member raiding team comprising four men and two women was led by residential college head Assoc Prof Dr Azali Mohamed.

However, Azali (photo) declined to comment on the raid when contacted later.

Documents confiscated

The source said the team had even searched the students’s personal files on their computers and confiscated several documents, including leaflets from opposition party PAS.

"They told the four that they had breached university regulations but didn’t explain what (wrongs) the students had committed," added the source who declined to be named.

The source said the four were then brought to Azali’s room at about 2am and were ‘interrogated’ by student affairs department deputy vice-chancellor Prof Dr Abdullah Al-Hadi Mohamed.

"The interrogation was merely a brainwash. They asked the four not to participate in any pro-opposition activities," said the source, adding that it could be an attempt to create fear among students in view of the coming campus elections.

The four are members of the Muslim Undergraduates Association (Persatuan Mahasiswa Islam, PMI) which was said to be linked to PAS.

Pro-opposition activities

Meanwhile, the source said the deputy vice-chancellor - who was appointed early this year - had embarked on an ‘unusual’ series of talks at different residential colleges recently.

"During these talks, he claimed there are campaigns among students to topple him and this was linked to the anti-establishment factions in the university."

According to the source, the deputy vice-chancellor also vowed to rid the campus of all ‘pro-opposition activities’.

Numerous attempts to reach Abdullah (left) for comment provide futile.

When contacted, an UPM student expressed anger and disappointment with the raid.

"We are angered by it, it was a shame. For Muslims, regardless of whether the students are Malay, Chinese or Indian, the raid violated the women’s rights when men entered their rooms at midnight."

Tainted elections

Campus elections for this year have been slated for Sept 4 while nomination day is fixed for next Saturday.

The UPM student council has been controlled by those labelled as ‘anti-establishment’ over the past few years. In last year’s polls, the faction won 34 out of 45 seats.

The faction has also been dominating the polls in other universities such as Universiti Malaya, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Universiti Sain Malaysia.

Campus elections, often tainted by partisan politics, never fails to make it to the limelight. Allegations of vote tampering and irregularities are common.

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