- Migrant Care
VIVAnews – The families of three Indonesian migrant workers (TKI) whose deaths in Malaysia rose suspicion will call on the Nusa Tenggara Barat Police Department to carry out autopsy over the bodies.
Families' councellor from an NGO Koslata, M. Soleh, said that the demand for an autopsy over Herman,34, Abdul Kadir Jaelani, 25, and Mad Noon, 28, will be officially filed to the Police this afternoon. They wanted to confirm two issues through the post mortem examination: whether the victims had died from gunshot wounds, and whether stitches on the bodies' eyes had indicated organ theft.
Soleh described how the families had doubts over the bodies' conditions. At that time, Abdul Kadir’s brother, Hirman, accompanied by several migrant workers, came to Port Dickson Hospital to see his brother's body. He recognized the stitches on the left to right of the chest, from the chest to the abdomen, and on the left to right of the abdomen of the victims, including the stitches on the eyes.
“As the situation in Malaysia was quite different, they didn’t dare to ask questions, let alone to sue,” said Soleh.
The families were not informed that the three bodies were dead from gunshot wounds fired by Malaysian Police.
The problem surfaced in Mataram. The families and migrant worker observers were told that the two victims, Abdul Kadir and Mad Noon, were killed by multiple gunshots. Meanwhile, Herman was killed by a single shot in the head.
“Logically speaking, there should be gunshot wounds in the bodies, especially in Herman’s head. However, the witnesses at that time couldn’t find the gunshot wounds because they didn’t know about the cause of death,” he said. A witness said that he only saw perfect stitches.
No information was announced as to whether the stitches came from an autopsy or not.
“The family just received the autopsy report yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
Soleh explained that mysterious death did not only happen to the three migrant workers. Some time ago in a neighboring village, a similar case happened. A dead immigrant worker was sent home with stitches, particularly ones in the eyes.
Soleh said that his team asked for information from a medical examiner. “The examiner said that special procedures are applied in an autopsy. Question must be posed as to why full body autopsy all the way to the eyes was performed.”
