AS Christians celebrate Easter today, Susanna Liew, the wife of missing Pastor Raymond Koh, is still seeking answers to his disappearance. 

She told The Malaysian Insight this is the fifth year the family will be spending Easter without him.  

Liew is hoping the family might get some answers from the task force that was set up to investigate the disappearance of Koh and Perlis activist Amri Che Mat.  

“If the task force has completed its probe, then the results should be made public. We are utterly disappointed that it (report) hasn’t come out yet. We are still waiting for it.” 

Koh was abducted by masked men in Jalan SS4B/10, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, on February 13, 2017. 

The Home Ministry then set up a special task force to investigate the missing Koh as well as Amri, who disappeared on November 24, 2016 after leaving his home in Kangar, Perlis. 

It was given six months, beginning June 2019, to do the job and report its findings but to date the ministry has kept quiet.  

Last Friday, Citizens Action Group on Enforced Disappearance (CAGED) said Putrajaya must release the findings of the task force. 

They said the authorities must publicly commit to right the wrongs in their search for the missing duo. 

CAGED had questioned what actions have been taken by the government and police in response to the findings of the task force.  

They said Home Minister Hamzah Zainuddin, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and the cabinet must make public the report of the task force.  

Liew also questioned the authorities’ silence on the report.

“The task force (in 2019) was given six months to complete the report. What is holding them back?  

“They (task force) need to be held accountable to the public.” 

She added that the findings need to be made known immediately, as it is long overdue.  

It has been two years since the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) concluded that the Bukit Aman Special Branch had a role in the disappearance of Amri and Koh. 

At the time, the home minister was Muhyiddin and then prime minister was Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who both promised to act on Suhakam’s conclusions.  

CAGED said Muhyiddin had formed the task force in 2019 to look into Suhakam’s findings. 

They also said the task force, chaired by former high court judge Abdul Rahim Uda, had issued no statements. 

“Based on one news report, we think it completed its work and submitted its report to Muhyiddin in January last year.” 

Suhakam also held a public inquiry into both men’s disappearances, which concluded the duo were abducted by the Special Branch from the federal police headquarters. – April 4, 2021.