Kenapa altantuya dibunuh-malaysiakini

Oleh kerana tidak berapa lama lagi Najib Tun Razak akan menjadi Perdana Menteri eloklah kita ingatkan rakyat mengenai tuduhan penglibatan Najib dan isterinya, Rosmah Mansor, dalam pembunuhan Altantuya Shaaribuu. Berikut adalah terjemahan artikel "The Altantuya Shaaribuu's

Case: How and why she was killed" oleh Arnaud Dubus yang disiarkan baru-baru ini dalam Liberation French Newspaper pada 5 Mac 2009 (versi asal dalam bahasa Inggeris dalam kurungan dan font italics).
Bacalah kerana tuduhan penglibatan Najib dan Rosmah dalam pembunuhan Altantuya ini amat penting sekali bagi negara kita. Kalau benar Najib dan Rosmah terlibat maka ianya bermakna Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang baru dan isterinya bersubahat dalam PEMBUNUHAN.

"Kes Altantuya Shaaribu: Bagaimana dan kenapa beliau dibunuh?"The Altantuya Shaaribuu’s Case: How and why she was killed? By Arnaud Dubus (in Kuala Lumpur, Ulaan Baataar and Paris), Liberation French Newspaper, 5 Mar 2009 Shaaribuu Setev marah dan kecewa. Di sebalik wajahnya yang muram itu tersirat suatu keazaman yang kuat. Orang tua berumur 60 tahun ini bertekad untuk lawan. Tertulis segalanya di air muka dan tumpuan pandangan beliau. “Anak perempuan saya dibunuh oleh orang Malaysia di bumi Malaysia. Dan mereka tidak pun mengeluarkan sepatah perkataan memohon maaf,” kata professor di bidang saikologi di University of Mongolia itu. (Shaaribuu Setev is a bitter and disappointed man. Yet behind the saddened face of this Mongolian lies a fierce determination. Seated in a sofa in the lobby of an Ulaan Baataar hotel rattled by gushes of a freezing wind, this sixty years old man is ready to fight. His face features, hardened by the suffering and the stern climate, and his intense gaze tell all. “My daughter has been murdered by Malaysians on Malaysian territory. And they did not have even offer a word of apology,” states this professor of psychology at the National University of Mongolia). Pembunuhan anak perempuan beliau, Altantuya Shaaribuu, berlaku pada Oktober 2006. Ini sesuatunya pembunuhan yang lain dari yang lain di rantau di mana pertikaian perniagaan atau perselisehan politik kadangkalanya diselesaikan dengan senapang. Segalanya sekitar kes ini, yang bermula pada 2002 apabila syarikat Peranchis, Armaris, menjual tiga (3) kapal selam kepada kerajaan Malaysia atas harga satu billion Euro, adalah luar dari yang biasa. (The assassination of his daughter, Altantuya Shaaribuu, took place in October 2006.

This was a murder unlike others in a region where business conflicts or petty politics are often settled with a gun. Everything in this case, which started in 2002 when the French Spanish company Armaris concluded the sale of three submarines to the Malaysian government for the amount of one billion Euros, is out of the ordinary.) Impak “Kes Altantuya” di Peranchis, Malaysia dan Mongolia masih belum memuncak ke tahap sepenuhnya. Pembunuhan wanita Mongolia berumur 28 tahun itu adalah akibat dari bayaran komisi atau “commission” sebanyak Euro 114 juta - lebih kurang RM 570 juta – yang dibayar oleh Armaris kepada pihak tertentu Malaysia. Pembayaran “commission” ini yang diakui oleh kerajaan Malaysia dalam parlimen di Kuala Lumpur, telah mencetuskan berbagai perkembangan yang berakhir dengan pembunuhan Altantuya dan lesapnya beberapa orang saksi utama kes pembunuhan tersebut. (The impact of the “Altantuya case” in France, Malaysia and Mongolia has yet to reach its climax. The murder of the 28 year old Mongolian was the result of a “commission” at the price of 114 million Euros by Armaris to its Malaysian counterpart. This “commission,” which was acknowledged by the Malaysian government in front of the Parliament in Kuala Lumpur, has triggered a chain of events that has led to the assassination of Altantuya and the disappearance of several key witnesses in the case.) Laporan polis Malaysia yang disediakan pada 19 November 2006 dan yang telah dirahsiakan sehingga sekarang ini, mendedahkan dengan terperinci bagaimana wanita muda –Altantuya – dari keturunan golongan atasan Asia itu, telah dibunuh. Dalam laporan polis tersebut tercatit keterangan salah seorang yang melakukan pembunuhan itu, iaitu seorang anggota polis Cawangan Khas Malaysia bernama Sirul Omar yang diberi kepada seorang pegawai polis di sebuah balai polis berhampiran dengan tempat kejadian. “Bila wanita Cina melihat pistol saya, beliau telah merayu agar beliau jangan dibunuh sebab beliau mengandung. Azilah (pegawai atasan Sirul) telah memegang dan melempar wanita itu ke bumi. Saya terus menembak sebelah kiri mukanya. Azilah menanggalkan pakaian wanita tersebut dan memasukkannya ke dalam karung plastic hitam. Melihat tangan wanita itu masih bergerak-gerak, Azilah mengarahkan saya tembak lagi, dan saya lakukan.” Ini merupakan pengesahan bertulis yang pertama mengenai pembunuh-pembunuh Altantuya. “Lepas itu kami usung mayat wanita itu ke dalam belukar. Azilah mengikat bahan letupan dikaki, perut dan kepala, dan kami letupkan wanita itu”. (A report from the Malaysian police, written on 19th November 2006 and which has been kept secret until now, reveals dry and precise descriptions as to how this young woman, a member of Asian high society, has been killed. In this document, one of the killers, a policeman of the Malaysian Special Branch named Sirul Omar, replied to the questions of an officer at a police station close to the murder scene. “When the Chinese woman saw that I was taking a gun, she begged me to spare her, saying she was pregnant. Azilah (the commanding officer of Sirul) grabbed her and [threw] her on the ground. I immediately shot the left side of her face. Then Azilah took off her clothes and put them in a black plastic bag. Azilah noticed that her hand was still moving. He ordered me to shoot again, which I did”, said Sirul. This is the first confirmation of Altantuya’s assassins’ identity. “Then we carried her body into the woods. Azilah wrapped the explosives around her legs, her abdomen and her head, and we exploded her.”) Pendedahan laporan polis ini dalam surat khabar Perancis, Liberation, merupakan bab terkini dalam drama yang sungguh menarik ini yang melibatkan penjual senjata Peranchis, dukun Mongolia, dan ahli-ahli politik Malaysia. Kes ini boleh meletup bukan saja kepada kerajaan Malaysia, sebab Timbalan Perdana Menteri Najib Razak (yang dijadualkan akan menjadi Perdana Menteri akhir bulan March ini) disyakki terlibat dalam kes pembunuhan ini, tetapi juga ianya akan memalukan DCNS, syarikat Peranchis yang membina kapal-kapal tentera. Syarikat usahasama Perancis Sepanyol, Armaris, yang menjual dua kapal selam jenis Scorpene dan satu jenis Agosta kepada Malaysia pada bulan Jun 2002, telah dimilikki oleh DCNS pada tahun 2007. (The revelation of this report in the French newspaper Liberation is the latest chapter in this colorful and dramatic saga featuring French weapon sellers, Mongolian Shaman, and Malaysian politicians. This case is explosive not only for the Malaysian government, since the Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak (who is scheduled to become Prime Minister at the end of March) is suspected of having links to the case, but also because it could embarrass the DCNS, this French company specialising in military shipbuilding. The French Spanish company Armaris, which sold two Scorpène and one Agosta submarines to Malaysia in June 2002, was bought by DCNS in 2007.) Dengan kecantikan yang mempersona dan bersophistikasi itu, Altantuya mengingatkan kembali kepada Mata Hari Timur Jauh (ejen wanita dizaman Perang Dunia Kedua). Beliau dibesarkan di Saint Petersburg (Russia), dan menuntut di Institut Pengurusan Ekonomi di Beijing. Selain dari Bahasa Inggeris,beliau fasih dalam bahasa Russia, Cina dan Korea. Altantuya ditakdirkan bertemu Abdul Razak Baginda di Hong Kong pada tahun 2004. Baginda adalah pakar kajian bidang keselamatan dan Pengarah Pusat Penyelidikan Strategik Malaysia, iaitu pusat kajian yang pro-kerajaan Malaysia. Kasih sayang telah cepat terjalin antara keduanya. Altantu yang dipanggil 'Tuya' oleh kawan-kawannya menjadi penolong yang berguna kepada Razak Baginda, terutamanya membantu Baginda menterjemahkan bahasa Russia kepada Inggeris. (With her magnetic beauty and sophistication, Altantuya is reminiscent of the troubling image of a Far East Mata Hari. She grew up in Saint Petersburg (Russia), then studied at the Institute of Economic Management in Beijing. Besides speaking English, she is fluent in Russian, Chinese and Korean. The fateful cycle for Altantuya came into gear when she met Abdul Razak Baginda in Hong Kong in 2004. Baginda is a security expert and the director of the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre, a pro-government think tank. The two quickly became romantically involved. Altantuya, nicknamed Tuya by her friends, proved to be a useful assistant, helping Baginda translate from Russian to English.) Altantuya muda dan cantik rupawan, sementara Baginda kacak, kaya dan merupakan tokoh terkenal di kalangan golongan elit Kuala Lumpur, lebih-lebih lagi kerana beliau amat karib dengan Timbalan Perdana Menteri merangkap Menteri Pertahanan, Najib Razak (Baginda juga adalah penasihat kepada Najib di bidang hal ehwal keselamatan). Baginda berlegar-legar dalam kumpulan elit eksklusif di Kuala Lumpur dengan kadangkalanya didampingi oleh isterinya yang sah. (Whereas Altantuya is young and beautiful, the rich and alluring Baginda is a well known figure of the Kuala Lumpur’s elite, notably because of his proximity to the Malaysian Deputy Prime minister and minister of Defense Najib Razak (he is also his security affairs adviser). Baginda parades in the most exclusive circles of Kuala Lumpur, sometimes accompanied by his legitimate wife.) Pada bulan Mac 2005, Altantuya dan Baginda membuat lawatan bersama ke Eropah dan melancung ke Peranchis, Jerman, Itali dan Portugal dengan menaikki kereta Ferrari merah kepunyaan Baginda; menginap di hotel-hotel termahal dan makan malam di restoran-restoran terkemuka. Lawatan tersebut bukan hanya bertujuan pelancungan; kontrek pembelian kapal selam sudah ditandatangani pada 2002, tetapi beberapa perkara penting masih perlu diselesaikan. “Kami tahu bahawa Baginda diperalatkan oleh Timbalan Perdana Menteri Najib Razak sebagai orang tengah untuk merundingkan perolehan kelengkapan senjata, terutamanya senjata yang berat-berat,” tegas seorang pakar bidang keselamatan serantau. (In March 2005, Altantuya and Baginda departed for Europe, touring France, Germany, Italy and Portugal in the red Ferrari of Baginda, staying in posh hotels and dining in the finest restaurants of the old Continent. This trip, however, was not only for tourism: the contract for the sale of the submarines had been signed in 2002, but important details had yet to be settled. “We knew that Baginda was used by Deputy Prime minister Najib Razak as an intermediary for weapons systems deals, especially the high level ones,” says a regional security affairs expert.) Pada hujung bulan Mac 2005, pasangan tersebut (Altantuya dan Baginda) berada di Paris di mana mereka telah bertemu Najib Razak. Suatu foto menunjukkan tiga sekawan itu di sebuah kelab eksklusif di Paris. “Tuya tunjuk kepada saya foto tersebut. Beliau terangkan salah seorang dari lelaki dalam foto itu adalah teman lelaki beliau, Abdul Razak Baginda, dan lelaki seorang lagi adalah ‘big boss’, Najib Razak. Saya tanakan samada mereka adik beradik kerana persamaan pada nama mereka, tapi dia jelaskan bukan, dan Najib adalah ‘perdana menteri’, kata Amy , sahabat baik Altantuya. Menurut seorang detektif peribadi, yang sekarang bersembunyi di India, Tuya yang cantik itu kadangkala menjadi perempuan simpanan Timbalan Perdana Menteri setelah dikenalkan kepada Najib oleh Baginda pada hujung 2004. (At the end of March 2005 the couple was in Paris, where they met with Najib Razak. A picture shows the threesome in a Parisian private club. “Tuya showed me the pix. She said that one of the men was her boyfriend, Abdul Razak Baginda, and the other the ‘big boss’, Najib Razak. I asked her if they were brothers because of the names, but she said no, and that Najib Razak was the ‘prime minister’”, said Amy, Altantuya’s best friend (Najib Razak has sworn on the Koran that he has never met Altantuya). According to a private detective, now in hiding in India, the beautiful Tuya was also the occasional mistress of the deputy Prime minister, who was introduced to her by Baginda at the end of 2004.) Kisah ini menjadi dramatik apabila pada Oktober 2006, Altantuya mendapatahu bayaran wang komisi (commission) oleh syarikat Peranchis-Sepanyol, Armaris, sudah diterima di sebuah akaun bank di Kuala Lumpur. Ianya dibayar kepada Perimekar, sebuah syarikat milik Baginda. Altantuya bergesa ke Kuala Lumpur untuk menuntut bahagian beliau dari Baginda; beliau mendakwa beliau berhak menerima Dollar Amerika 500,000.00 dari wang commission tersebut. Baginda dan Altantuya telah berpisah sebelum itu sebagai pasangan kekasih. Rosmah Mansor, seorang peniaga wanita yang amat ditakuti dan adalah isteri kepada Najib Razak, kerana rasa cemburunya terhadap Altantuya telah membantah sebarang bayaran kepada Altantuya. Altantuya tiba di Kuala Lumpur dengan diirringi dua wanita rakyat Mongolia, seorang darinya adalah dukun untuk pukau Baginda jika Baginda enggan membayar. Untuk beberapa hari Altantuya menganggu-gugat bekas kekasihnya. (The story became dramatic when, in October 2006, Altantuya was informed that the commission paid by the French-Spanish company Armaris had arrived on a Kuala Lumpur bank account. It had been paid to Perimekar, a company owned by Baginda. Altantuya rushed to Kuala Lumpur, in order to claim her share of the commission from Baginda ; she said she was entitled to 500,000 dollars. Baginda and Altantuya broke up prior to this. A jealous Rosmah Mansor, the feared businesswoman and wife of Najib Razak, objected any payment to Altantuya. Altantuya arrived in Kuala Lumpur with two other Mongolian women, one of them was a Shaman responsible for putting a spell on Baginda if he refused to pay. For several days, Altantuya harassed her ex-lover.) Pada 18 Oktober, Baginda sudah tidak tahan lagi dengan telatah Altantuya yang setiap hari mengacau di depan rumahnya. Baginda menghubungi Musa Safrie, pegawai aide de camp Najib Razak. Pada 19 Oktober 2006, sejurus sebelum jam 9 malam, dua pegawai polis Cawangan Khas, Azilah Hadridan dan Sirul Omar, telah dihantar ke hadapan rumah Baginda di mana Altantuya sedang menjerit-jerit. Mereka mendapat arahan untuk ‘hapuskan wanita Cina itu’. Mereka telah menculik Altantuya, bawa Altantuya sejauh sepuluh kilometer dan menembak Altantuya beberapa kali. Seterusnya mereka memusnahkan jenazah Altantuya dengan bahan letupan C 4, jenis bahan letupan yang hanya boleh didapati dari Kementerian Pertahanan. Kemasukkan Altantuya ke Malaysia telah dipadamkan dalam rekod immigeresen. Maka kelihatanlah seolah-olah Altantuya tidak pernah melawat Malaysia, malah tidak ada kesan langsung yang tingga mengenainya. (On the 18th of October, Baginda could no longer tolerate the daily scenes made by Altantuya in front of his house. He contacted Musa Safrie, who happened to also be Najib Razak’s aide de camp. On October 19th, 2006, a little before 9 pm, two police officers of the Special Branch, Azilah Hadridan and Sirul Omar, were sent in front of Baginda’s house where Altantuya was gesticulating and shouting. They had the order of “neutralizing the Chinese woman.” They kidnapped her, and drove her ten kilometers away and shot her several times. Then, they destroyed her body with C 4 explosives, a type which can only be obtained from within the Defense Ministry. Her entry into Malaysia was erased from the immigration records. It would appear that Altantuya had never come to Malaysia, because there is no trace left of her.) Tidak ada jenayah yang tak akan terdedah. Pemandu teksi yang membawa Altantuya tidak menagmbil ringan melihat Altantuya yang belum membayar sewa teksi secara seharian itu diculik di depan matanya. Pemandu teksi itu telah mencatit nombor pendaftaran kereta penculik, dan membuat laporan polis di balai terdekat. Beberapa hari kemudiannya, polis mengenalpasti kereta yang digunakan oleh penculik itu adalah kereta kerajaan. (There is no perfect crime. The taxi driver hired by Altantuya for the day did not appreciate that his passenger was kidnapped under his eyes without payment for the fare. He took note of the registration plate of the kidnapper’s car and filed a complaint at the local police station. In a few days, the police identified the car and realized that it was a government vehicle.) Pendedahan telah berlaku berterusan yang mana Najib Razak sebagai Timbalan Perdana Menteri pun tidak berdaya hendak menyekatnya. Najib cuba menutup kes tersebut. Beberapa jam sebelum Baginda ditahan, Najib menghantar SMS kepada Baginda: “Saya akan menemui Ketua Polis Negara jam 11.00 pagi ini..masalah akan selesai. Buat bertenang”. Beberapa jam kemudiannya, Baginda ditangkap bersama-sama dua pegawai polis dari Cawangan Khas, Azilah dan Sirul. (Events unfolded that even the Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak could not impede. He tried to cover the case. A few hours before the arrest of Baginda, he sent him a SMS : “I will see the Inspector General of Police at 11 am today… The problem will be solved. Be cool”. A few hours after, Baginda was arrested as well as the two police officers of the Special Branch, Azilah and Sirul.) Dalam perbicaraan mahkamah yang dianggap mencurigai oleh ramai pemerhati, Baginda telah dibebaskan dari tuduhan mengarah pembunuhan Altantuya dan dilepaskan dalam bulan November 2008. Azilah dan Sirul yang kini dituduh menjalankan pembunuhan tersebut telah dihadapkan di mahkamah. Jika tersabit kesalahan, hukumnya adalah hokum mati. Keputusan mahkamah ditetpakan pada 9 April 2009. (After a trial considered dubious by many observers, Baginda was acquitted with the accusation of having ordered the murder and released in November 2008. Accused of having perpetrated the murder, Azilah and Sirul appeared in front of the Court last month. If convicted, their sentence is death. The verdict is scheduled for the 9th of April.) Beberapa ribu batu dari Kuala Lumpur, iaitu di Ulaan Batur, ibu negeri Mongolia, Shaaribuu Setev, bapa Altantuya cuba menahan kemarahan beliau. Kepada beliau dan keluarga, pembebasan Baginda merupakan simbol ketidak-adilan proses kehakiman Malaysia. “Kerajaan Malaysia tidak pun menjawab beberapa surat dari Kementerian Luar Mongolia,”kata beliau. (Thousands of miles from there, in the Mongolian capital city Ulaan Baataar, Shaaribuu Setev, Altantuya’s father, is trying to control his anger. To him and his family, the acquittal and release of Baginda is symbolic of the unfairness of the Malaysian judicial process: “The Malaysian government is not even answering to the letters from the Mongolian Foreign Affairs Ministry,” he says.) Bila Shaaribuu pergi ke Parlimen Malaysia untuk menemui Najib, Timbalan Menteri itu telah cabut lari melalui pintu belakang. Kes Altantuya telah menjadi bahan penting dalam percatuan politik Malaysia antara Najib Razak (yang dijangka akan menjadi Perdana Menteri selepas Perhimpunan UMNO pada bulan Mac ini) dan Ketua Pembangkang, Anwar Ibrahim. Setakat ini, Najib Berjaya menepis, tetapi pembunhan Altantuya kekal bagaikan pedang yang terhunus dileher Najib. (When Shaaribuu came to the Malaysian parliament to meet Najib Razak, the Deputy Prime Minister had to escape through a back door in order to avoid an embarrassing encounter. The Altantuya case has become a key element of the Malaysian political game between Najib Razak (who is expected to become Prime Minister after the United Malay Nation Organisation (UMNO) Congress in March) and the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. So far, Najib Razak has navigated around the obstacles, but the murder of the young Mongolian remains a sword suspended over his head.) Suatu aspek yang masih amat tersembunyi dalam kes Altantuya ini adalah peranan syarikat Armaris. Pada Oktober 2007, Timbalan Menteri Pertahanan Malaysia, Zainal Abidin Zin, mengaku dalam Parlimen bahawa Armaris telah menyuap Euro 114 juta kepada syarikat Perimekar. Beliau menegaskan ianya bukan rasuah, tetapi kononnya bayaran untuk “perkhidmatan sokongan dan koordinasi”. (One of the most obscure aspects of the Altantuya case is the role of the Armaris company. In October 2007, the Malaysian Deputy Defense minister, Zainal Abdidin Zin, acknowledged in front of the Parliament that Armaris had effectively paid 114 million Euros in commission to Perimekar. He maintained that it was not a bribe, but a payment for “support and coordination services.”) Adakah telah berlaku rasuah sepertimana yang telah berlaku dalam kes perolehan kapal perang oleh Taiwan juga dari syarikat Peranchis DCNS? DCNS, sebuah syarikat swasta yang dibiayai dari wang kerajaan, menolak sebarang temubual. “Tiada siapa pun boleh membuat komen tentang kes ini,” jawab pegawai perhubungan syarikat tersebut di Paris. Suatu dokumen yang boleh mengaitkan Altantuya dengan syarikat Peranchis tersebut adalah surat jaminan dari Abdul Razak Baginda untuk membolehkan kekasihnya memperolehi visa untuk memasukki zon Schengen (dalam mana Peranchis adalah negara ahli). Kedutaan Peranchis tidak boleh menolak permohonan dari seorang yang telah dikurniakan gelaran Legion d’Honneur. Tetapi peranan Altantuya dalam perundingan perolehan kapal selam itu masih belum terbongkar dengan tepat. Agensi-agensi perisekan menadapati latarbelakang Altantuya menakjubkan, dan FSB Russia (dulunya KGB) sedang mengikuti kes Altantuya dengan rapi. (Was there corruption as in the case of the Taiwanese frigates in which the French DCNS was also implicated ? DCNS, a private company with public financing, has declined our request for a meeting. “Nobody can comment on this case,” was the sober reply of the DCNS Press relations officer in Paris. A document, which could establish a link between Altantuya and the French company is the guarantee letter written by Abdul Razak Baginda so that his mistress could obtain a visa to enter the Schengen zone (of whom France is a member country). The French embassy could not refuse this service to a man decorated with the Legion d’Honneur. But the role of Altantuya in the submarines negotiations is still not clear. Intelligence agencies find her background intriguing and the Russian FSB (ex-KGB) is following closely the case.) Di Ulaan Baatar, Mungunshagai, anak lelaki sulong Altantuya yang berumur 12 tahun, begitu dihantui oleh kematian emaknya. Altanshagai, anak yang bongsu berumur 5 tahun dan cacat otaknya, masih belum memahami yang beliau tidak akan lagi menemui emaknya. “Dia menanyakan emaknya setiap waktu dan akan duduk bersujud dikerusinya sepanjang hari. Setiap petang saya memberinya gula-gula dan memberitahunya emaknya yang telah memberikan kepada saya untuk memberikan kepadanya,” kata Shaaribuu Setev, datuk kepada kedua anak lelaki tersebut. Berhubung dengan Baginda pula, beliau kini tinggal senang lenang di United Kingdom bersama keluarga beliau. Baginda tidak pernah menyuarakan sepatah perkataan kesal terhadap pembunuhan ke atas wanita yang telah berkongsi hidup dengan beliau selama dua tahun itu. (In Ulaan Baataar, Mungunshagai, the eldest son of Altantuya, who is 12 years old, is traumatized by the death of his mother. Altanshagai, the youngest, who is five years old and mentally handicapped, has not understood that he will never see again his mother. “He is asking for her all the time and is staying the whole day prostrated on his chair. Every evening, I bring him sweets and I tell him that his mother gave it to me for him”, says Shaaribuu Setev, the grandfather of the two boys. As for Baginda, he settled down in the United Kingdom with his family. He never uttered a word of regret on the deadly fate of the one who shared his life for two years.) "