Report found, doctor lost
Soon after reports surfaced that a doctor determined there was no evidence to support claims by Saiful Bukhari Azlan of sodomy against Anwar, that very doctor disappeared. As this isn’t the first disappearance of late, the result will be likely be additional undesirable international attention given to Malaysia.
Doctor Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid’s “diagnosis reportedly stated ‘TRO Assault (sodomise)’, or to rule out assault,” as reported by the Straits Times. He also reportedly advised that Saiful get a second opinion at a government hospital. Of course this feeds Anwar’s accusations that police are complicit in persecuting him for political reasons.
Malaysians are clearly becoming frustrated with the state to which politics there has sunk. Datuk Hamdan Adnan, director of the Institute of Public Relations, went so far as to say that “police should either drop the case against Anwar or charge the so-called victim if there was truth in the doctor’s report.”
