KUALA LUMPUR: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar says the police are working with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to track down those responsible for posting a death threat on YouTube. Khalid was responding to a report that a group called Anak Malaysia Anti Demokrasi (AMAD) released a video threatening to kill him by blowing up his car.

He said he is neither scared nor intimidated by death threats, as they are part and parcel of being the country’s top policeman. “Such threats do not scare me ... to carry out the tasks entrusted to me. Such threats are common in the life of a police officer...,” he said in a statement.

In the 1.27-minute YouTube clip, a person whose face is blocked by an AMAD logo, flanked by two other masked people, read out the threat in Bahasa Malaysia. The narrator, whose voice was digitally altered, asked whether Malaysians could replace the Election Commission chief, Chief Justice and IGP through democratic means. Answering “No”, he labelled the trio “agents that derail democracy” before announcing that AMAD would kill the IGP.

The narrator said that by doing so, government agencies would be afraid to commit crimes against democracy. He added that the people would eventually rise up and choose the non-democratic path. As he ended the warning, one of the masked men pushed two toy cars in front of the narrator who then torched one of the cars with a cigarette lighter, followed by the sounds of an explosion.  — The Malaysian Insider

This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on February 26, 2015.