Karpal gets Death Threats

Two live bullets and a death threat was mailed to DAP chairman Karpal Singh’s house in Jalan Utama here.

Karpal Singh said he was in Kuala Lumpur when an employee at his Penang office in Green Hall called at 9.45am on Thursday to inform him of the letter.

Another employee had earlier picked up his mail from the house
“I told her (the staff member) to keep the envelope and its contents in my office safe until I arrived in Penang to lodge a police report,” he told reporters here yesterday.

Karpal Singh showed reporters the bullets, the letter which was written in red ink and the envelope which was postmarked “Ipoh, Perak, Feb 12”.

The sender had used on the envelope a 50-sen commemorative stamp launched in conjunction with the Sultan of Perak’s recent silver jubilee.

The writer told Karpal Singh not to fool around with the Malay rulers and Malays in general and also threatened to burn his entire family, adding that he knew where Karpal Singh lived.

Karpal Singh, who is Bukit Gelugor MP, said the previous occasion he received bullets in the mail was in May last year. That letter was sent to his office in Jalan Pudu Ulu in Kuala Lumpur.

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, who visited Karpal Singh at his house, urged police to provide protection to him, his family and his properties, including both his offices in Kuala Lumpur and Penang.

Lim also condemned Umno Youth for holding demonstrations over the Perak issue and for hitting out at Karpal Singh over alleged treachery against the Perak Sultan.

Police media relations officer Supt Shaharon Anuar Abdul Latif, in a statement of behalf of the state police chief, confirmed that police had received Karpal Singh’s report.

The case has been classified as criminal intimidation by anonymous communications