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COMMENT | Why I stand with Beng Hock's family
COMMENT | All our lives, we carry ideas that are close to our hearts. No more than half a dozen, perhaps. And one idea stands out: the fight for truth and justice is always worth it.

And from that fight, we learn what it means to be human and civilised. Otherwise, we are no different from brutes and savages.

On a hot, humid July night in 2009, a young man of 30, in the prime of his life, looks the world in the face, staring out of an open window of a 14-storey building in Shah Alam. The last thing on his mind is the horror of his own death. How could he not believe in the future? Or in life, love, and family happiness?

The next day, the 16th of July, he planned to register his marriage, followed by a photo shoot in a park among the flowers. And also among the birds and the bees - his fiancée, a teacher, was two months pregnant...


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