What I encounter is an experience

07/03/2009

We (3 UTAR students) waited for bus since late 7 evening at the bus stop for bus number U41 Rapid KL beside Times Square. There are many people there mostly consist of malays. The bus came at around 8.45pm but it was too packed. So we waited for another round. Until 9.50pm the bus has not arrived. A young malay boy suddenly talk to us like wanted to quarrel, so my friend(boy) ignore him. That malay boy tap my friend’s shoulder, and after that my friend were being punched in the eye and dragged to the back of the bus stop and continuously beaten by at least 3 malay young men. I called for help but all the malays (around 30) stood by, everybody thought it was just normal fights. Until they have beaten my friend for around 3minutes, all of them ran away. My friend then only told us that they had taken his mobile phone in his pocket. My bag was carried by him was taken too. Inside consist of a camera(Sony T-100, forgot to report), wallet including Identification Card, car and motor license, credit card, atm card, UTAR student card and about RM 20 cash inside.

We had made a police report number THSL/007777/09 at Dang Wangi police station around 10.49pm. After that we sent our friend to Selayang Hospital for his injury.

After we analyze the whole incident, we realize that, the fighting were being purposely created in order to create a chaos situation where they can take advantage of it to steal and rob our belongings. This is because, we did not do anything to stir them up but they act it as if both parties were meant to fight. In between the beating, they took our belongings without us(all the witness of the situation) realizing at all. Until they have ran away, only we know what is really happening.

I have heard that many cases have already happened there with the same tactic. But it is still happening. As a UTARian, Sg Long campus student, that bus stop is the only way for us to take bus back from that area. It is very dangerous for us and thus, I hope that the media can perform their role for the society since the authority did not manage to stop this from happening again and again. I also hope that the authority can take these cases more seriously since it has already happened many times and that place is tourism hotspot. I believe that Malaysians will hope to give tourist a good impression about Malaysia especially on the safety side. I hope to warn all people to be aware of the tactics these people are using and avoid becoming the next victim.

Newspaper cutting :
http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/105275?tid=1

P/s: pls spread this around. Your little effort maybe can help the next victim.