unexplained baggage in BN bus
February 27th, 2008
The Straits Times featured this piece of news which I thought was a crude and gruesome image of the Barisan Nasional and its ‘unexplained baggages’ that it is carrying into the elections.
The body of a man, suspected to have been murdered, was found in the luggage compartment of a bus carrying a Puteri Umno team to the nomination centre in Semenyih yesterday. The bus driver stumbled upon the unidentified man’s body, bundled in a thin mattress and stuffed into a bag, around 10am when he was checking the luggage compartment after the Puteri delegation had alighted at the Kajang Stadium to join Barisan Nasional supporters accompanying the candidates to the nomination centre. Judging from the injuries on his body, the man could have been murdered more than 48 hours ago, Kajang police said. They believe the death was not connected to the elections.
The painful reality is that despite the skeletons in the BN closet, they will still gain the majority and form the next government. Talk about disenfranchisement and despair! In moments like these I feel grateful for what we have here in this little red dot.
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