Malaysia (MNN) — Under court order, the Malaysian government is expected to release a classified report this week with information about the 2017 forced disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh.
“This has never been seen publicly; it’s never been published before,” Todd Nettleton with The Voice of the Martyrs USA says.
“The judge has ordered the government to turn it over to Susanna and her attorneys, as she is in the process of suing the government and suing, individually, some leadership within the Special Branch of the Malaysian police. They are the ones accused of the forced disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh.”
(Capture of Raymond Koh and his wife, courtesy TheStar.com)
Koh’s wife, Susanna, has been pressing for answers since he disappeared in February 2017.
“If the abduction hadn’t been accidentally caught on a security camera, it would be as if he fell off the face of the earth,” Nettleton says. “His car has never been found. He has never been seen or heard from since that day.”
Susanna began her lawsuit in 2020 after being repeatedly refused answers by officials.
“She told me when she went to an attorney and said, ‘Hey, I want to sue the government,’ the attorney asked, ‘Are you serious?! This is the same government that made your husband disappear.’ But she says, ‘Yes, I want to know the truth,’” Nettleton says.
“She wants to know what happened to [her] husband. It seems like the government has been covering up from the beginning.”
A simple misunderstanding led officials to target Pastor Koh. He was thought to be sharing the Gospel with ethnic Malay people, an unforgivable crime in Malaysia. More about persecution in Malaysia here.
“Subsequently, he (Koh) was mailed a box with bullets inside of it – not a very subtle way to threaten someone – and then in 2017, he disappeared,” Nettleton says.
Pray that the government will release the full report and that the truth will be revealed. Additionally, “pray for Susanna,” Nettleton requests.
“This has been a very long road for her and a very stressful process, so let’s pray that the Lord encourages her and sustains her.”
Header image depicts the Koh family before Pastor Raymond Koh’s forced disappearance in 2017. (Photo courtesy of VOM USA)
