Pudu Prison siege

Pudu Prison siege
Date 17–22 October 1986 Location Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Result Royal Malaysian Police victory UTK victory Hostages rescued
Belligerents
Royal Malaysia Police	Pudu Jail prisoners
Commanders and leaders
Comm Dato' Zaman Khan	Jimmy Chua
Strength
12 UTK operators	6 prisoners
Casualties and losses
None	6 captured
2 hostages lightly wounded

The Pudu Prison siege began on 17 October 1986 and ended six days later on 22 October. The siege began when six prisoners led by Jimmy Chua held a doctor and a laboratory technician hostage at the now demolished Pudu Prison, Kuala Lumpur. On 22 October, the hostage crisis at the prison ended without bloodshed when the Malaysian police counter-terrorism group Special Actions Unit (UTK) of PGK stormed the prison and rescued the two hostages.

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Siege Resolution

On 22 October, six days after the crisis had begun, a team of 12 UTK personnel under their commander ACP A. Navaratnam prepared to assault the prison clinic. They had sidearms, but the prime minister had given orders to resolve the crisis without bloodshed. The commandos then decided to utilise batons and rattan canes. The instruction was not to fire any shots but to contain the captors with the canes by pushing them away from the hostages. The director-general of Prisons who was assisting in the negotiation advised that the hostage-takers were relaxing and that the door to the prison clinic was ajar. Then one of the inmates at the prison cooperated with authorities. The inmate, who was not identified, made a phone call to the police when two of the prisoners were asleep and told them, Now is the time to act! explaining that the signal had been arranged during earlier negotiations. The prisoner then opened the gate of the wire fence behind the clinic and allowed the assaulting officers to enter.

At 5.30 pm local time, the UTK commandos silently stormed the prison clinic where Chua and his gangs as well as their hostages were located. Commissioner Zaman was the head of one group in the assault. An inmate who cooperated with the cops then tried to shield the hostages with his body when 12 rattan-wielding members of the commando forces burst into the room and disarmed the inmates. When the raid began, Jimmy Chua and Lai Huat were sleeping while the other prisoners were chatting. The commando forces shouted at the prisoners and they attempted to fight back, but were unsuccessful because they were caught by surprise and were weak from the long ordeal. All of the prisoners except Ng were treated at the clinic after the raid was over. Ng was taken to a government hospital with a shoulder wound and he was later returned to prison. The hostages suffered minor injuries to their hands and arms during the fighting, but were otherwise unharmed. ^[1]

The siege was ended, just a few minutes after the assault had commenced, with no casualties reported from the rescue team, hostages or prisoners, except for one prisoner who was slightly wounded. This was a successful hostage rescue mission with the assault team resolving the crisis in just one minute only without gunfire and by using hand-to-hand combat technique to subdue the prisoners and rescue the hostages.

Aftermath

On 18 April 1987, six men including Chua were tried in the High Court on charges of kidnapping a doctor and a technician in Pudu Prison. According to Magistrate C.R Lopez, who conducted a preliminary inquiry into the charges, there was sufficient evidence against them to proceed to trial. They were alleged to have held Dr. Radzi Jaafar and Dr. Abd Aziz Abd Majid in the prison clinic and to have demanded to be released unconditionally from prison as their ransom. Jimmy Chua and his gang were charged and convicted under Section 3 (1) of the Kidnapping Act of 1961 which carries a maximum punishment of death upon conviction. They were hanged on 10 October 1989. ^[2]

References

1. Badrul Hisham Abdul Aziz (June 2011). "BBCC himbau kenangan lama di Pudu Jail". Agenda Daily. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
2. Sarah Chan (October 2009). "5 Most Infamous Pudu Jail Inmates". Archived from the original on 23 October 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2012.

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