The Victim

[prodigal_sun]

It's saddening reading the news of the death of the Singaporean hostage, Lo Hwei Yen. I can only imagine her fear and what her last hour would have been like. I read about hundreds of deaths from terrorist attacks in the papers, usually with much detachment; they were just like, statistics. I guess her being a Singaporean has hit much closer to

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[debbstar]

she was an ex-classmate :(

[prodigal_sun]

wow. sorry to hear that!

[boilingchill]

I think she might have been one of the social political high flyers considering Chok Tong attended her wedding.

So i reckon they might want to keep this under wraps until they couldn't. Smacks like one of those TV crime dramas.

Madness.

[prodigal_sun]

i just read the papers that her father in law was serving in CT's grassroots group, so i guess there's the connection

yea, madness indeed

[froufrou]

I guess what smacked right home was that it could've been anyone's sister or friend. And the fact that she used to be a junior from my school was also quite saddening.

Pardon me if this sounds off-handish but if you think about it, what if it had been some fat old man in his 60s? I honestly wouldn't think it would have warranted 3 full pages on ST today....

[prodigal_sun]

yea...the very 'realness' of it all is chilling..

i just read the papers earlier and i do think a fat old man in his 60s would still have 3 pages. 1 page to talk about the trip to the morgue, 1 obligatory page on victim's life / personality, last page on guesswork of how victim died.

it's probably warranted for anyone who has the dubious distinction of being Singapore's first terror victim.

[sweetching]

It's so sad , the killings, so senseless. But it goes to show how much damage hatred and intolerance can do.

[prodigal_sun]

exactly. it's so hard to rationalise massacres like that.
this is one of those times when i truly am grateful to be living in SG