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Stealing
from the
dead? T
WHAT were these people
doing in my house at 7pm
on Sunday when the search
and rescue operations were
called off at 6.30pm?
HOW come my clothes
are on hangers and put
out to dry?
WHY did they have to touch
my personal belongings?
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December 15, 2008
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by R. Nadeswaran
citizen-nades@thesundaily.com
HESE two pictures are
telling indeed and related
to the questions posed by
Thanarajah Kanagaratnam,
whose wife, S. Yogeswari,
was killed in the landslide
in Taman Bukit Anatarabangsa
10 days ago. After the funeral rites
on Sunday evening, he returned
6.30pm. And that’s when I looked
at my watch. It showed 6.50pm.
We walked up to the house and
saw this group in front of the
house,” said Ravi.
Many other residents have
reported to the police their
houses had been broken into.
Three members of the Bukit
Antarabangsa Residents
Association have lodged police
reports.
Everyone had a field day. Instead
of controlling the situation to
prevent ‘outsiders’, there were no
checks,” he said.
As an immediate reponse,
Selangor police chief Datuk
Khalid Abu Bakar was quoted as
saying his men had secured all
areas, had set up floodlights at
night and escorted residents who
wanted to enter their homes.
to his parents’ home when he
received a call from a doctor living
Thanarajah and other residents
are also upset that unauthorised
Khalid claimed that although
many were crying foul over
alleged break-ins and looting, only
in the neighbourhood.
“He told me that he saw a
people, including those who had
nothing to do with the search and
six police reports had been lodged.
“These reports related to loss
man in uniform carting away a
trolley bag from my house. When
rescue operations, were
allowed in the area.
of items and damage to property.
What needs to be investigated will
I got there at about 7pm with
my cousins, I saw this group of
“There was
total chaos on
be investigated,” he said.
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uniformed men in front of my
house. One of them was holding a
bag,” said Thanarajah.
Saturday and
Sunday.
His cousin, Ravi Poobalan,
who snapped these pictures using
his mobile telephone, says he
remembers looking at his watch
while walking up to Thanarajah’s
house which was buried under
tones of mud. He noticed that
the excavator driver had stopped
work and was walking down.
“I asked him why he had
stopped and he replied that
the instructions were to stop at