Seremban, 22nd July 2008 

It is unfair and mischievous to put the blame on Anwar Ibrahim, as he is justified in refusing to give further samples. It is not Anwar who is un-cooperative. It is the police forensics who are at fault, and insisting on further blood samples when he had already given many times over between 1998 and 2004.

The onus of providing a DNA sample is on the police as it has ample DNA samples of Anwar in its possession.

From the experience of police forensics in other countries, DNA samples collected are well preserved for many many years, and do not get ‘old’ as claimed by Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi.

The police forensics have misled the Prime Minister, the Home Minister and the police should not try to pull over the eyes of the people. By claiming that Anwar’s dna samples are old, they are making themselves the laughing stock of the whole world.

Why DNA samples do not grow old? There are many living examples:-

1. Stephen Hawking, the Nobel Prize winning physicist have donated his DNA samples to the Human Genome institution for posterity and for research. Professor Hawking too not subscribe to the claim by Abdullah that a DNA sample can grow old.

2. In advanced countries, DNA samples are collected and stored for purposes of statistics, and scientific research.

3. Police foresics in developed countries have DNA libraries of felons and crooks. There are innumerable cases of rapists who escaped. but .were nabbed years after the crime, because they left tell tale semen on the clothes of the rape victims .

4. Scientists have discovered preserved DNA in prehistoric humans and animals.

It is obvious that Anwar’s DNA samples given between 1998 and 2004 must be available and intact for examination purposes by police forensics department.

The Home Minister and the police must stop harrassing Anwar for new DNA samples. The onus is on the police to provide DNA samples, not by Anwar.

The frantic appeal to Anwar to give a blood example has caused suspicion that the police have no substantive evidence of sodomy on the body of Saiful Bukhari Azlan in their possession.

Public perception is that a fresh blood sample from Anwar is desperately needed in order to fabricate evidence against Anwar.

DR. CHEN MAN HIN
(DAP Life Adviser)