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Date: 27 Aug 1999
Time: 02:44:10
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============================================================================================================================== No anti-govt group in schools, says Najib
Education Minister says that contrary to a newspaper report, police have not found any uniformed group in schools infiltrated by anti-government bodies
KUALA LUMPUR -- The Education Ministry has described as baseless a recent newspaper report which claimed that an anti-government group had managed to infiltrate a uniformed body in secondary schools.
Education Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said police had carried out an investigation soon after the report was published in The Star.
Following their probe, they said that there was no such group, which supposedly comprised former army officials who were spreading anti-government ideologies in schools, the minister said.
The Star had carried a front-page report on the group on Aug 15.
The report said that the group had allegedly recruited students and members of the public -- under the cover of Kelab Remaja Sekolah (KRS) -- to instil hatred towards the government and take up arms, if necessary.
A senior Defence Ministry official was quoted to have said that the movement was trying to set up a private army to rise up against the government at any time.
The group was also reported to have provided weapons training for students.
The official said the authorities had arrested four men, including a former military commando, and seized fake military uniforms, fake Defence Ministry rubber stamps and anti-government pamphlets.
The KRS was launched in 95 by the government as a uniformed group in schools.
Its aim was to prevent students from being involved in unhealthy activities.
About 5,000 students from 60 schools in the Klang Valley are believed to be members of the KRS.
Commenting on the arrest of the four men, Datuk Najib said: "One of the men is being investigated for disguising himself as a public official and giving a false impression to the general public for materialistic reasons."
The minister also said that The Star report had "made something, which did not happen, into a supposedly big thing".
He said the police had remanded three men for impersonating army officials. -- New Straits Times