| by comrade commissar | Thomas | @ Monday, November 01, 2004, 1:11:00 AM | permalink |
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This is the sort of news to spoil your day & cloud your thoughts for the following hours afterwards.
straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/latest/story/0,5562,282407,00.html? (requires registration) THE search for missing eight-year-old Huang Na drew to a close on Sunday in the worst possible way: Her naked body was found badly-decomposed, unrecognisable and stuffed into a box less than half her size.When the news of her disappearance first came out afew weeks back, my reaction was: "So what? what's it got to do with me?" Its not that I'm cold-hearted, its just that there's always that assumption that the girl will eventually be found safe & sound, & all this fuss will be then seen as being overboard. It just seems more logical to assume that here in "I can go out at 3am & not get killed" Singapore, we can at least be sure that sadistic tragedies are mostly odd annodotes from international news sources. Right? At the moment I feel a sense of bitter anger. I'm not really sure who this anger is directed at - The culprit(s)? The police? Disappointment & a rude reminder of the darkness that dwell within Man? The realisation that a child of 8 years, who had many more years before her, had it suddenly snatched away? That a mother is alive to know that her flesh & blood has passed on before herself in such unimaginable circumstances? I think to express sympathy & regret over this would mean nothing to everyone who is concerned. The fact is that this has happened, & I won't be sleeping in peace tonight. Why did it have to end up like this? |
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To me, it's just one of those bad news in the newspaper, seriously. I'm not cold-hearted or what...
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Jason @ times 11:29 PM, November 02, 2004
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Yes, you are cold-hearted if you can read about a little girl's murder in the newspaper and write it off as just "bad news". This is news that means some part of our society failed to look out for Huang Na, and her death is the result of this oversight. This is especially evident, given the story of her life in Singapore.
Bad news would be about accidents that nobody could prevent happening. This, on the other hand, is tragic news, and demands a deeper response.
PS. (Why yes, my favourite colour is obnoxious!)
- by comrade May-Lynn @ times 8:25 PM, November 03, 2004
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