Lavish funeral is wrong
There has been a huge over-reaction to the execution last Friday of Nguyen Tuong Van and now he is about to become a national matyr with hhis funeral this week at MMelbourne's St POatrick Cathedral.
Are we forgetting he was a criminal, a drug runner and a heroin dealer?
No, I don't support execution. No, I don't believe Nguyen Tuong Van deserved to die, but the fact remains he broke the law in Singapore - a country that makes it blatantly clear the death sentence applies to drug convictions.
To accord Nguyen Tuong Van a high-status funeral, befitting thhat of a statesman, is sending totally the wrong message.
Are we going to have all this hoo-haa repeated when the Bali Nine almost inevitably meet the same fate that befell Van?
I hope not.
Robin Hodgins
Darwin
Newshawk: http://www.napnt.org
Pubdate: Tues, 6 December 2005
Source: The Northern Territory News(Australia Web)
Author: Letters to the Editor
Website: http://www.ntnews.news.com.au
1 Comments:
as a bystanding singaporean, i cannot stand there to just watch. well, the funeral he had might be a prove that many out there is against the singapore capital punishment for drugs trafficking.
god bless his soul but could we forget what he could have done had he managed to bring in all those?
the death sentence had always manage to reamin so here, and many times had mothers weep for their children.
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