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Of all the comments, one had struck my interest. He said he used to live in Malaysia for many years and during his long stay in this country, he had never heard of young people attacking old folks or women and people really treated each other with respect. Therefore, he thought the caning sentence must have worked well in preventing crimes in Malaysia.
At the time when I read it, I was thinking 'when did this guy leave Malaysia anyway, a zillion years ago?' We now have had gruesome cases, just as worse as what normally happens in the western countries. Cases like a 12-year old stabbing his tuition teacher's 10-year old daughter repeatedly to death; a 15-year old teenager joined his friends (friends huh?) to gang rape a 30-year old woman; women brutally raped and killed and some of them were elderly or pregnant; snatch cases that had resulted in the deaths of the victims; old folks (above 70 years old) beaten and strangled to death when they were robbed while they were alone in their houses; people killed by road bullies over minor accidents etc etc. As gruesome as they can be, sometimes we heard cases of similar nature, happening again within a short span of time.
I was so compelled to reply to him by saying, 'Things have changed mate, we are no better than you guys or the States. We've had people who were killed so brutally, like they were animals.' But then, due to my patriotism that had kicked in, I didn't really want to defame my own country in the eyes of international people.
Aug 20, 2007 was the day when an 8-year old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin left her house in Wangsa Maju alone at night to go to a nearby night market and went missing. It was reported that she was last seen being dragged into a white van by a man.
According to her parents, they had never allowed their children (the eldest being 9 years old) to wander off by themselves unless in groups or at least in pairs. But on that fateful night, little did the mother know that when Nurin asked for money to buy hair clips, she had told her sister not to follow her as she wanted to go alone.
Nurin's uncle also said it was common for children living in those 2-bedroom flat houses to venture outdoors due to the houses being rather small. I could imagine and understand why... When I was a bachelor, I too lived in such a house. Having three people living together is a full house already, let alone six people (Nurin had three other siblings).
Weeks passed by but still no news of Nurin. Some organisations were willing to reward those who found and returned Nurin to her parents. The parents even gave their contact numbers but only to receive some prank calls. To add salt to injury, some people had the heart to ridicule and poke fun at the parents, making phone calls or sending sms'es to say Nurin, nicknamed "Kak Ngah", was with them, was dead and body in a river and scolded them for being negligent. Talk about some inconsiderate Malaysians huh..?
Then came one Monday the 17th September which marked the day that had shocked the nation, especially the families of Nurin. An employee of a book distribution company found a sports bag at the bottom of a staircase of a shoplot in Petaling Utama and brought it into her workplace, thinking that it belonged to her boss. Her boss later opened the bag and discovered the naked body of a girl, in a foetal position in the brand new bag.
The DNA of the dead girl stuffed in the sports bag matched that of Nurin's parents. Nurin’s dental records also matched with the body. Initially the parents refused to accept that the body was Nurin (they said they were convinced Nurin was still alive), probably due to the nature of her killing and that the body was so skinny. Understandably, any parents would be in denial their child would die in such a horrific way.
Nurin was believed to have been killed 24 hours before her nude body was found. Bruise marks on her body suggesting that she was beaten. Post-mortem also revealed the murderer had inserted a brinjal and a cucumber in her private parts, forcing the rupture of her rectum and to be infected with bacteria, resulting in her gruesome death.
Nurin was buried after the Friday prayer on 24 September. Many shed their tears, including me. The hunt for her abducter(s)/killer(s) continued, not only by the police but also the public. In time, justice will be served, and the criminal(s) will be punished - if not in front of a judge and before our very eyes, they will still have to face Allah, the ultimate judge of all, on Judgement Day....
Al-Fatihah to you, Allahyarhamah Nurin Jazlin......You can read more about Nurin here.
The abducter(s)/killer(s) of Nurin is a really really sick man. To equalise him as animals would be an understatement, coz he is worse than iblis (mother of all devils). Why did he keep Nurin for so long, subjecting her to such tortures, for what, to satisfy his sexual needs (if any)? What kind of pleasures did he get by stuffing brinjal and cucumber into her intestines? Why did he keep Nurin for so long despite her parents' pleading, did he really 'love' or 'hate' Nurin so much? What outcome did he expect would come out of his actions; that Nurin would survive and live long enough to probably forgive him and that he would escape from his heinous acts? Where did he put his brain, mind and soul - down the toilet?
Apparently, Nurin's case was not the first to happen in this country. There were other young Malaysian girls who suffered just as worse as Nurin. They were sodomised, raped, had objects shoved into their private parts, strangulated and killed, only to be found hours or days later in conditions that evoked our sadness and anger.
Is this the kind of society that we can be proud of as we march to become a 'developed' nation? I strongly feel that Islamic (i.e. hudud) elements should be introduced into our laws. It has been shown that countries which practise them have very low crime rates. Heck, their shop owners can leave their shops/stalls unattended during prayer times, not having to worry about thieves for there are hardly any around. Imagine doing the same here? You wish...
Raising children nowadays proved to be far more challenging than what our grandparents experienced. If they are daughters, we fear for their safety and if they are sons, we fear they would inflict harm on other people, especially women, Na'uzubillah.....Now, let's not even go to the many other countless bad influences out there....
Ya Allah, semoga keluarga Nurin diberi ketabahan oleh Mu Ya Allah. Lindungilah kami semua dari hasad dengki dan kekejaman manusia, dan hindarilah kami dari berhasad dengki dan berlaku kejam kepada manusia yang lain, Aaaaamiinnnn.....
(Translation) Ya Allah, may you give strength to Nurin's family during such hardship. Protect us from the cruelty of other human beings, and prevent us from inflicting any harm towards other humans Ya Allah, Aaaaamiinnnn.....
P/S: I value my families, close and far, just as much as I value this country. In case you haven't noticed, I had removed 'old' postings that I deem unnecessary to be published in this blog.
Labels: Life, Nurin Jazlin, Safety issues
posted by The Pisces Man @ 5:32 am
8 Comments:
Saya terpanggil untuk melawat blog saudara berikutan terdapat sedikit isu melibatkan saudara dari..... alaaaa....u tau, tau ajalah... ;-)
Nice blog and nice writings.. though mainly in English, you manage to make it simple (without having to use so many bombastic words/phrases) and interesting.
With regard to this particular Nurin's entry, our hearts go to the families right? And thank you for highlighting it here in such a way that makes us think more deeply than just what had happened to the girl.
Oh ya, saya yang komen ni tadi.. terima kasih kerana hanya postkan tulisan yang berdasarkan what had appeared on papers ie what has been publicly known, without menokok tambah apa yg dibaca di email or blog org lain.
Ternyata saudara tidak mudah percaya sumber2x itu dan agak analitikal kan..?
Terima kasih Encik/cik/puan kerana menyahut panggilan..:-)
Saya bukanlah analitikal dalam semua perkara tapi lebih kepada when it comes to news or information and what with this IT age, lies can easily spread by just one click on the Forward button.
My English is simple and interesting? Oh, thank you... maybe bcoz I don't know that many bombastic words/phrases? Hehe...
Her murder motives could be of anything....besides the killer(s) being totally out of their sane mind and humanity, it could also be passion killing....those sadomasochistic people who did this to her were actually enjoying the consequences of what it would bring to her parents. Instead of burning the body, or disposing it without leaving much of an evidence, they chose to shame her parents by leaving her dead body in a very poor state. In other words, mereka sengaja tinggalkan her body to be found and they worked exactly like any other "buffalo-bill" cases.
MAy we be protected from any harm, terminal illness, catastrophes and evil eyes. Aameen.
Yeah, that is one of the theories/motives that people had been talking about. But poor the young innocent soul who had to suffer as a consequence of that. Just hope it was not over trivial matters....
we can call ourselves a developing nation... but the things that are developing do not confine only to our economy... know what i mean?
hey, thanks for popping by and dropping a comment.
Thanx for coming, Zewt.... sure, no problem in dropping by at your side/site again..
cheers :)
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