Pengerang family commit suicide on New Year's Day


Poverty as well as forced relocation to make approach for a RM60 billion Refinery as well as Petrochemical Integrated Development (Rapid) plan could have led a family of three in Pengerang to finish their misery by committing self-murder on a first day of 2013.

The Chinese couple - a 62-year-old man as well as his 57-year-old mother - along with their son, elderly 20, who suffers from Down syndrome, were found passed in their home in Kampung Jawa, Pengerang yesterday.

According to English dailyThe Star, Kota Tinggi OCPD Supt Che Mahazan Che Aik pronounced a next door neighbour who smelled fume entrance from a residence alerted a police during around 10am yesterday.

pengerang resident self-murder 010113 01"When we went to a house, we found a bodies of two group as well as a lady in a bedroom. We hold which a family might have burnt something as well as suffocated themselves to genocide by inhaling smoke," he was quoted as saying.

According to Che Mahazan, a father had earlier told a next door neighbour which he longed for to kill himself ! as well as his family because they were living in poverty.

"Initial investigations showed which there was no evidence of rapist intent in a house," he said, adding which all a bodies were sent to a Kota Tinggi Hospital for post-mortem.

Chinese dailyChina Pressalso reported which a family was believed to be under tremendous pressure after a land they stayed on was acquired for a plan as well as a family was forced to relocate.
< br>Husband caring for mother as well as son

According to Chua Peng Sian, treasurer for a Coalition of Pengerang NGOs which is heading a anti-Rapid movement, a family was renting a residence on a affected land, as well as thus could usually perceived some RM20,000 of compensation.

NONEThe father had complained to internal political leaders after receiving a relocation direction as well as told them which he longed for to commit ! suicide, ! purported Chua (left).

"We found out from a internal residents which a family was in poverty. The mother was a cadence patient while a son was mentally-challenged.

"The father was a cook in a internal grill but he had to stop working recently to take care of his mother as well as son," pronounced Chua in a statement released yesterday.

Chua urged a government to seriously look in to a difficulty faced by Pengerang residents due to a Rapid plan or else there would be more such tragedies.

azlanThe RM60 billion Rapid project, jointly grown by inhabitant oil association Petronas, Johor state government as well as private companies including Dialog Group as well as Dutch association Royal Vopak, would eventually take up 9,000 hectares of land, inspiring during least fifteen villages in a area during a southern tip of Johor.

The bulk of a plan will be distant incomparable than a combined distance of Petr! onas' exi! prick oil complexes in Malacca, Kerteh as well as Gebeng.

The me ga plan aims to renovate southern Johor in to a enlightening as well as petrochemical centre, complementing a existent facilities on a east coast of a peninsula as well as in Singapore.


The internal residents have launched an anti-Rapid movement given early final year to protect their homes as well as environment. Read More @ Source



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