Afraid of being targeted by the police, residents in the town of Jinjang in the Kepong parliamentary constituency quietly took down their white flags despite still being in need of help.

Speaking to Malaysiakini today, Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng said he received information that there was a wooden house in Jinjang that raised a white flag yesterday.

When he visited the family and sent some food today, he found that the white flag had been...