A court case that involved Dato’Seri Anwar Ibrahim which should be completed within a months of uninterrupted trial has taken many months of trials before the judges are able to reach the final verdict. Although the final verdict has not been made by the judge but the similarity of the DNA found from the objects used by Dato’Seri Anwar in the lockup and the DNA found in the anus of Mohd Saiful Bukhari has enable the general public to probably guess what would be the final verdict of the judges on Dato’ Seri Anwar. DNA has been used extensively in the west to track criminal cases and it works very well even in complicated criminal cases. Years ago peoples are using finger print in order to track down the criminals but it does not work in many situations particularly those criminal cases that involved sexual assault. In order to avoid finger prints to be detected, criminals nowadays are using hand gloves. Scientific advancement in cellular biology has enabled us to use the micro constituent of a cell known as DNA or Deoxyribonucleic Acid as a powerful evidence in criminal investigation.

Many court cases can takes less time to reach to the final verdict when DNA is used as evidence to support the involvement of a person in the criminal cases. No one will probably eager enough to place the DNA of Dato’ Seri Anwar into the anus of Mohd Saiful Bukhari and Dato’ Seri Anwar will not be so foolish to let someone to take his DNA and placed it into the anus of Mohd Saiful Bukhari. Even though semen may not be found in the anus but DNA of a person who has injected his semen into anyone anus will remain in the anus for a certain period of time. DNA could be from the semen or the skin of the penis that penetrated into the anus. When a penis of someone has penetrated into another person anus, the skin-to-skin contact between the two people will lead to the DNA of the person to remain in the anus of the person for a certain period of time. Dato’ Seri Anwar does not want to give his DNA to the police because he knows, once his DNA which he give to the police is the same as DNA found in the anus of Mohd Saiful Bukhari, the case will finally be closed. Without any doubt the judges will reach to the verdict that Dato’ Seri Anwar had committed the crime and Dato’ Seri Anwar will not be able to turn round the case again. Dato’ Seri Anwar will be definitely sentenced to so many years of imprisonment and his political career will definitely come to an end.

Dato’Seri Anwar wants to save his political career and he really wants to become the Prime Minister of Malaysia. In order to save his political career, he must not make the public to become so convince that he is without any doubt has committed the sodomy. Dato’ Seri Anwar chooses not to give his DNA to the police and in this way he will be able to twist the case to look like a conspiracy case intentionally done to him by his political enemies in order to undermine his political career. At least by doing so Dato’ Seri Anwar will be able to tell the public that the DNA found in the objects used by him in the lockup was not valid since the objects was taken from him without his permission. Although DNA found in the objects used by Anwar in the lockup match the DNA found in the anus of Mohd Saiful Bukhari, but the DNA found from the objects cannot be used as evidence in the court since the three objects were taken illegitimately by the police at first place during the trial. When the judge decided that DNA found in the objects taken from the lockup where Anwar was detained for one night cannot be used as evidence in the court, Dato’ Seri Anwar and all his team of lawyers particularly Mr Karpal Singh were so happy with the judge’s decision.

Although technically it is clear that the DNA found in the objects used by Anwar in the cell do match the DNA found in the anus of Mohd Saiful Bukhari but once the objects cannot be used as evidence by the court, the court cannot reach to the final verdict that DNA found in the anus of Saiful was belonging to Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim. In this way the judge will not be able to come to the verdict easily and Dato’ Seri Anwar can used whatever the verdict made by the judge as a political conspiracy of Barisan Nasional government against him. In this way Dato’ Seri Anwar will be able to attract public sympathy and finally lead to political victory on his side. Dato’ Seri Anwar has done it during general election in 1998 when there was an overwhelming public sympathy particularly among the Malays towards him that finally lead PAS to gain overwhelming victory in both Kelantan and Terengganu. In the sodomy trial in 1998 there was no DNA used and the case had happened quite a long time ago before the trial began and the possibility that the sexual acts were done willingly by both parties has made it difficult for the judges to reach to a unanimous decision that Dato’Seri Anwar had committed the sodomy. Among the three judges that conduct the trial, only two judges decided that Dato’ Seri Anwar had committed sodomy while the other one judge due to technical error had declined to reach to the same verdict. However all the judges believe that Anwar had committed the sodomy act.

Dato’ Seri Anwar knows that he has the ability to talk and to act as if he is not guilty of the allegation that has been made against him. Why Dato’Seri Anwar refuse to give his DNA? This is part of political strategies of Dato’Seri Anwar to create some doubt in the mind of some peoples about the accusation made against him. Anwar knows that some peoples particularly the emotional types Malays will believe in him that the accusation against him is a political conspiracy made by his political enemies. The truth is, once Anwar admitted that he had committed sodomy or forced to admit by giving his DNA to the police, his political career will end automatically. Dato’ Seri Anwar does not want this to happen to him and when many groups display their anguish over his unwillingness to give his DNA, he remains adamant on his stand not to give his DNA to the police. Dato’ Seri Anwar thinks that he can escape this time again as he had done it in 1998 but Allah is Great and many people are making prayer to Allah, asking Allah to reveal the truth as many are confused as whether Anwar has committed sodomy or it is a mere conspiracy as claimed by Anwar. Many are confused and Anwar knows that if he cannot convince them that he was not committing sodomy but at least he can confuse them and to lead them to believe that it is an act of conspiracy against him. As times goes on peoples will forget the sodomy case and Anwar will be able to come back to politic again. Now Anwar is already 64 years old and to remain in prison for another 20 years will makes him to become too old to be the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Certainly Anwar is not willing to be put behind bars again and now he must be the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

During investigation, in the evening on 16th July 2008 Dato’ Seri Anwar was brought to the police station and hospital for investigation, Dato’ Seri Anwar had already made up his mind that he will not give his DNA to the police at any cause. He knew that when he gave to the police his DNA, that was the end of his political career. However Allah is Great, the detaining of Dato’Seri Anwar on that night in the lockup was finally decided as legal by judge after Supt. Jude Pereira gave statement in the court recently as Dato’ Seri Anwar had signed the letter of warrant of detention. I think Dato’ Seri Anwar had signed the warrant to kept him in the cell for one night without a doubt because he think there is no other ways to get a person DNA except by giving blood. Dato’ Seri Anwar did not know that there are many ways to get a person’s DNA other than blood. When the decision previously made by the judge that the DNA taken from the 3 objects used by Anwar in the lockup cannot be accepted as evidence was revoked by the judge, it caught Anwar and all his lawyers by surprised. Now probably in my opinion there is no ways for Anwar to turn the case again as a case of conspiracy as he used to do in 1998. However to my surprise, Anwar still go around making public lectures explaining that the case as a conspiracy case against him and I have met with two elderly persons whom I knew quite well who have attended the lectures given by Anwar in Stadium Melawati, Shah Alam. He showed me the pamphlets explaining the case as a conspiracy and in the pamphlets there are photograph of Anwar with the blue eyes. In the pamphlets, they say, from the CCTV Mohd Saiful Bukhari was not seen entering the room but was only seen taking the lift up and down. Is it possible that a person simply take a lift up and down without any purpose and again in the pamphlets they say, there is no semen in the anus, how DNA of Anwar can be found in the Mohd Saiful Bukhari anus. With such statements Anwar hope the public will believe him that the DNA of Anwar was planted by someone into the anus of Mohd Saiful Bukhari. How stupid a person supposed to be the candidate for the Prime Minister of Malaysia to give his DNA to his conspirator so that the DNA can be planted into the anus of Mohd Saiful Bukhari?

How important DNA in cases such as these. Without DNA it would be extremely difficult to prove that a person has done criminal cases particularly related to sexual assault. It is difficult to prove sexual criminal cases without using DNA. Malaysia must move ahead in making it compulsory or mandatory for those charges with criminal charges to give to the police their DNA. Our experience with such person like Anwar who declined to give his DNA should become a lesson to all of us in Malaysia. We have to make the process of charging a person in court and to reach to the verdict running fast and smooth. In order to do that, our government must make it a mandatory requirement that all criminal charges to be brought to the court must be accompanied with DNA or video or tapes. Criminal charges which are not accompanied with these evidences will be time and money consuming. We have to use all the technological and scientific advances to track evidences to all our criminal charges in Malaysia. Our police force must include persons who are expert in DNA investigations and expert in placing video camera and tapes in places where crimes are committed. We need to use video and camera in crime investigation so that all criminal cases will take less time to reach to the verdict and it will be certainly cost effective.

Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
April 2011
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre
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