TAWAU: While waiting for the President of Singapore to make a decision on Yong Vui Kong’s appeal for clemency against the death sentence for drug trafficking, concerned Sabahans should not give up hope and must continue to peal for Vui Kong’s life.
Tawau member of parliament Datuk Chua Soon Bui said Vui Kong's story of repentance had brought about more than 100,000 support for clemency and more than one million visitors to the blog site by people from different walks of life and ages from all over the world.
“It is obvious that our existing laws on drug trafficking do not have any deferent effect. Many young people, especially women, have become drug mules in Malaysia," she said.
Chua who wrote a letter to Vui Kong, told him to continue to relate His story that will bring about changes by raising the awareness of society about the dark side of drugs.
“Your sincerity of remorsefulness and repentance has inspired many of us, you may not know it, but you have changed many lives to be better in many different ways,” Chua wrote.
Chua said that although she still does not have the chance to meet up with Vui Kong personally but after joining the ‘Give life a second chance, Save Vui Kong Campaign' for a few years and read his many articles, she felt as if she has known Vui Kong for a long time.
"Vui Kong will be 24 years old today (January 19) and I wish his time clock will continue ticking for years to come as in the photo designed for him,” she said.
"I know that it had not been easy for him to have met with ‘bad companies' and been victimised at such a young and fragile age of 18," she said.
Vui Kong has submitted his appeal for clemency to the Pesident of Singapore and he has truly repented and that he has earnestly changed.
The appeal for clemency is to request for the death sentence to be commuted to imprisonment and Chua had also submitted the appeal to the chairman of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nation in New York last year.
The Borneo Post
Thursday, January 19, 2012
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