Mind Your Language In Time Of Bereavement Questioning Bm Ability Of Shing Xuen S Mum Is Most Inhuman

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AS 16-year-old brutal school murder victim Yap Shing Xuen was given a grand farewell by hundreds of family members, teachers and friends on Sunday (Oct 20), a rightist keyboard warrior deservingly received cyber-wide condemnation for insensitively questioning why bereaved mother Wong Lee Ping spoke in Chinese during a recent media interview.
The Rakyat Post cited Threads user shamharimohdsidek questioning: “Many reporters in front of her … various races … She can only speak Chinese … What nationality is she? Doesn’t she know how to speak Bahasa Malaysia (BM)?”


Recall that the distraught Wong was accompanied by Seputeh MP Teresa Kok as she clarified that her SMK Bandar Utama Damansara 4 daughter was stabbed “200 times” instead of “50″ that was reported by most news outlets and that she was “never se*ually assaulted” by the assailant who happened to be a schoolmate two years her junior.

Fortunately, a fellow Threads commenter chipped in to rebut the seemingly hardcore opposition backer that Wong actually “spoke in three languages”.
“When the Malay journo asked in BM, she responded in BM; when the Malay Mail reporter asked in English, she replied in English, and likewise in Chinese when asked by the Chinese media. Do watch the news (interview) in full, pakcik (uncle).”
shamharimohdsidek’s insensitive remarks were exposed by Threads user hawaaina2025 who cited the comment as an example of accounts that are created to provoke racism, hence “should be reported under hate speech”.
Another commenter revealed his Facebook account which is no longer accessible.

More antics of so-called rightist agent provocateurs were exposed, among which questioning double standards as to:
The need for the school’s principal to apologise till shedding tears when no such scene was seen when Sabah religious school pupil Zara Qairina Mahathir fell to her death.The call by Deputy Communications Minister Teo Nie Ching not to viral photos of the underaged school murder victim and suspect.The entire Malay Muslim stood in solidarity to support a Chinese child who was stabbed to death but no such reciprocity when Muslims in Gaza are oppressed, tortured and killed in Gaza.
As rightly pointed out by an indigenous artist iban.woman, the late Shing Xuen’s mum should be allowed to address the media in her mother tongue if so desired as “she was fighting anger, disappointment and mixed feelings”.

In fact, one commenter highlighted that the crux of the problem with social media users today is that:
People only read the title but not the entire article (jumping into conclusion).When people only watch a ‘half-way’ video without looking for the full video.The worst is when people intentionally edited the video and then spread it to raise the anger of the rakyat.
Moving forward, the 14-year-old suspect in Shing Xuen’s murder will be charged for murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code today (Oct 22), according to the Attorney General’s Chambers.
He had previously been remanded for seven days to facilitate investigations after the female victim was found dead in a toilet at the school after being allegedly stabbed repeatedly by the suspect. 

 - Focus Malaysia

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