Clowns

Malaysia has again been embarrassed by the country's volunteer corps (RELA) after two officers arrested and wrongly detained an Indian national film director whom they mistook to be an illegal immigrant.

The director, Mr Sanjiv Mishra, was in Malaysia filming a tourism documentary titled Dream Hotels in Asia for a German production company when two Rela officers arrested him on Monday.

Mr Mishra was only released when his colleagues brought his passport to the station as proof that he entered the country legally.

Rela has attracted a barrage of criticism for abuses of power, including from the US-based Human Rights Watch, which earlier this month called for it to be immediately disbanded.

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What can I say, it's cowboy country in there! Too little things to do for too many people so they find it necessary to find little things for their people to do in order to achieve an illusion of doing something important.