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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 26. October 3 1977

Execution of Child

Execution of Child

Dear Editor,

Drawing of a soldier with a gun

It was very heart-breaking to read the article on last Salient telling of a 14 year boy who was sentenced to death in the High Court of Penang for having ammunition under the infamous ISA. To all Malaysians, ISA is no more a new tactic for the Malaysian Authority to suppress the people at home from having freedom of speach and action. This 14 year old boy is just only a sea p goat under the whole bloody repressive government. As all of us have passed our juvenescence, we should be much able to appraise our mentality of thought of being an innocent 14 year old boy. What do we want a gun for? As the boy had maintained that he was totally unaware of the plastic bag that contained a gun throughout the trial. In the name of humanity, my heart was fully filled with sympathy and condolence with the boy and my ignited anger and ill-feeling towards the tyrannous Malaysian Authority butcher could never calm down.

This is only the first case, how many more are going to be treated the same way? I am sure this is not an impasse stiuation, till the day comes when all of us consolidate our impetus and unite together to fight for our basic human rights.

Yours sincerely,

A Malaysian.