{"id":6287,"date":"2010-01-07T22:50:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T14:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6287"},"modified":"2010-01-07T22:50:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T14:50:22","slug":"wheres-the-report-ask-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/01\/07\/wheres-the-report-ask-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the report, ask parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was just thinking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/12\/01\/blame-is-on-the-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kampar bridge disaster<\/strong><\/a> two days ago (its new school term, and my mind just went to the families that lost their children)\u00a0 and look<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/1\/7\/nation\/20100107162510&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> at what appear<\/strong><\/a>s in today&#8217;s news. So, what has been done so far? I know Perak state government had the contractor blacklisted. The outcome of\u00a0 the investigation was announced, but I don&#8217;t remember the report being released. Teachers given counseling (parents and students?).\u00a0 The parents started a law suit. Other than that?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The parents of the three drowned schoolchildren from the Kuala Dipang  collapsed bridge tragedy late last year wants the Education Ministry to  publicise its report on its investigations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Perak Speaker  V. Sivakumar said the three parents were hell-bent on pursuing the  matter and wanted the findings to be made known to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201dIf  there is nothing to hide, why keep it (the findings) a secret?\u201d he told  reporters during a press conference here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201dThe  Government should tell the parents and the public what went wrong and  punish those responsible for the tragedy,\u201d said Sivakumar, also the  Tronoh assemblyman who led the Pakatan Rakat ad hoc investigation  committee into the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201dThe matter should not be put aside as  it has not been resolved yet,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sivakumar said no  action has been taken against those responsible for approving the  contruction of the bridge since the Education Ministry completed their  investigations last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201dThey already know the cause for the  collapse of the bridge and also identified all the parties involved,\u201d he  said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201dOnly the contractor who built the bridge has been made  the scapegoat,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He noted that Perak Mentri Besar  Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir had blacklisted the contractor and said  he would not be awarded any more contracts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just thinking about the Kampar bridge disaster two days ago (its new school term, and my mind just went to the families that lost their children)\u00a0 and look at what appears in today&#8217;s news. So, what has been done so far? I know Perak state government had the contractor blacklisted. The outcome of\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,7],"tags":[117,19,148,20],"class_list":["post-6287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-crime","tag-education","tag-perak","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6288,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions\/6288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}