Monday, September 17, 2007

UPM Conspiracy..... Again

July 2006, UPM's atmosphere turned ugly when 50 "pro-establishment" students took law into their own hands and manhandled seven students who are members of an organistaion preceived to be "anto-establishment". Giving an account of the incident to theSun newspaper, third-year Chinese Studies student Lim Sok Swan said she and six other friends were manning a help counter for new students when the incident started. Lim said a group of about 50 students led by a student council leader suddenly surrounded and scolded them for setting up the help counter when the SPF is not a registered body.





Last week, UPM was again dwelled into another conspiracy when several staff members of the student affairs department (HEP) raided the room of Yee Yang Yang, a first-year student in Hostel 13 who is a member of a pro-student grouping. After raiding his room, Yee was then interrogated for 2 hours starting from 11pm. Most of his electronical devices such as laptop, handphone, MP4 player, 2 pendrives were taken away from him beside leaflets and personal documents. The HEP staff, commanded by a UPM personnel known as Jamali from the Unit Tugas Khas, left without providing any written acknowledgment of the items confiscated.

The very next day, other students headed to the HEP office demanding for official acknowledgement upon the item that have been confiscated from Yee.





The question is, how safe can UPM be in the future if they can't even handle both staff and students properly.

2 comments:

Crabbed!! said...

Wow man....life in university is certainly hard...

It's a good thing that Chinese stick for each other. Can't help but wonder what would happen if I was there. Would I be subjected to such discrimination? Glad that none of our friends faced such treatment.

midnight said...

crapped!!:
I'm not too sure myself man. So far I've only heard this kind of cases coming from UPM. So I'm guessing everywhere else is safe for now.