“NO need to ascertain this type or that type, boss. If people insult us, there’s no need to insult back. If others are racist and you retaliate with racism, you’ll just drop to a level of a racist,” reacted a commenter believed to be of Indian origin to the fatal drunk driving accident that killed 22-year-old Bangladeshi tourist Muzahid Millad.
If people make mistakes, suffice to just punish the individual. No need to drag one race, one religion into the matter. Condemning a race or cursing a religion is useless. Just like school kids.
Living in the same country yet day in, day out want to fight about this race, that race, this type, that type. Aren’t you tired?
The feedback which appeared in a post entitled “Grab Passenger Perished Drunk Driver’s Atrocity: Family of Bangladeshi Tourist Rammed by Drunken Soldier Demands Justice” by Malaya Kini received all-round applause as the cyberspace was abuzz with the actual identity of the suspect – a 31-year-old military officer.
To recap, the e-hailing Perodua Alza in which Muzahid and his wife Nafisa Tabassun Adiba, 20, were travelling on the Maju Expressway (MEX) en route the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to the city centre had collided head-on with a Ford Fiesta driven by the solider which was believed to have entered the opposite lane.
Muzahid who is also popular gaming content creator died at the scene from severe head injuries while Nafisa is receiving treatment at Kuala Lumpur Hospital (the 41-year-old e-hailing driver also sustained head injuries).
Pitted against the backdrop of the March 29 Klang fatal accident which sparked uproar nationwide after a 32-year-old father of three on a motorcycle was rammed into by a drunk and drugged driver, the police were praised for having re-classified the latest MEX incident to Section 302 of the Penal Code which prescribes the mandatory death sentence for murder.
Earlier, the military personnel who carries the rank of Kapten has been remanded until April 28 by the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate’s Court.
The case was originally investigated under Section 44(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987 which deals with driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol or drugs causing death or injury.
It imposes strict penalties of 10-15 years jail, RM50,000-RM100,000 fine and 10+ years license disqualification for first-time offenders causing death.
The second karma could be that every Malaysian in regardless of race and religion must now support the most severe punishment for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs or both for the culprit is no longer limited to a particular ethnic group.
Such call was mooted by a seemingly Chinese origin commenter in the FB post by Santai jer.
It’s time for us all to unite in support of this motion. Anyone who drives while drunk or under the influence of illegal substances will continue to be subject to imprisonment and mandatory whipping. If it causes death, immediately impose the death penalty.
Only with such punishments will preventive measures be more effective. Let us no longer resort to awareness campaigns that do not lead us anywhere.
Interestingly, the commenter received thumbs up from the majority Malay audience who claimed that “we Type M don’t discriminate nor back up criminals, so just use the law against the offenders”.
As Malaysians are now on level term that drunk driving is no longer confined to a person’s race not faith, the victim’s uncle, Mohibul Hassan, 50, is looking forward to see if justice would be served in his nephew’s case.
“If he was drunk, why was he driving the car? Perhaps no point asking now,” he lamented when met at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL) on Thursday (April 23) afternoon,
“If he (the military officer) was drunk, I want to see what how the Malaysian law is going to treat this case (especially as a foreigner is involved).”
- Focus Malaysia
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