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15-12-2013, 09:10 PM
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Sinkies have been told via the state-controlled media that the findings of the COI on the Little India Riot would be completed within six months.
However it appears Pinky already knows some of the answers that the COI has been tasked to find out. Is this because he's the cleverest man on this planet? Is that why he's the highest paid politician in this whole wide world?
Or the simple answer may be this: the COI is just wayang. Its findings will be exactly what Pinky's LEEgime wants the world to know.
Below is the article that appears on the front page of The Sunday Times of 15th December 2013:
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No evidence riot reflects workers’ unhappiness: PM
By Fiona Chan, Senior Economics Correspondent in Tokyo, The Sunday Times, 15th December 2013, front page
There is no reason to believe that last Sunday’s riot in Little India stemmed from unhappiness among foreign workers, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday.
“We have not seen any evidence of that,” he said, when asked about speculation that pent-up tensions among foreign workers might have been a cause.
The riot was spontaneous and localised, with signs that alcohol was a factor, he said. It also involved men from many different companies and living in different places.
“It is unlikely that all the companies will have the same problem,” he told reporters in Tokyo, where he attended a summit marking 40 years of Asean-Japan relations.
In the aftermath of the riot, Law and Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam visited foreign workers at their dormitories and spoke with them in the presence of the media.
“There is no tension, there is no sense of grievance or hardship or injustice,” Mr Lee said.
About 400 men, mostly of South Asian origin, were involved in the riot after a traffic accident left a worker dead. So far, 33 men have been charged in court.
A large area around Little India has been declared a no-alcohol zone this weekend, and private buses that usually ferry foreign workers to and from the place on their day off will not run today.
The usually bustling area was noticeably quieter yesterday, with an increased, visible police presence.
Yesterday, the police issued a brief statement in the evening saying it is illegal to organise or take part in a public assembly without a permit.
“The public is requested to allow the community in Little India the space and time to recover from the events of last Sunday,” it said.
The cooling-off measures this weekend are temporary. Mr Lee said interim rules to help ensure order and stability in the area are likely to be decided this week.
The alcohol ban covers 374 establishments over quite a big area, and Mr Lee said this is because the authorities did not want anything to go wrong this weekend.
“Let’s just calm down, cool down, make sure that things are back to normal,” he said.
“After that, we can calibrate, and establish new rules. It will take us some time to work out what the final rules will be, but I think we should have interim rules by next week. We’ll see how it goes, and then we can adjust as we go on and work our way forward.”
Mr Lee acknowledged the impact on businesses but pointed out that even before the riot, the authorities were discussing restrictions on the selling and drinking of alcohol in Little India. Residents had complained about drunken and disorderly behaviour, including men urinating or vomiting in public and loitering in void decks and other common areas.
“We have put in more security patrols and auxiliary police. It has helped but I think we need to tighten up further,” he said.
“There are no easy solutions to these things... Now I think we have to call a time-out... We have to decide what the adjustments to the rules are and then we have to start planning again, which is what we will do.”
As for foreign workers, Mr Lee stressed that Singapore would not tolerate any ill or unfair treatment of them. “They are people, they are working, they have families to support and they are here to do a job,” he said.
“We have to make sure they are well treated, paid properly and on time, their safety is taken care of, their living conditions are also up to standard and that they are also given full protection of the law.”
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Below is the article that was published on the front page of The Straits Times of 14th December 2013:
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Ex-judge to head riot inquiry; findings within six months
by Royston Sim and Lim Yan Liang, The Straits Times, 14th December 2013, front page
FORMER Supreme Court judge G. Pannir Selvam will head a four-man team to probe Sunday’s Little India riot and deliver its findings within six months.
The other members of the Committee of Inquiry appointed by the Government are former police commissioner Tee Tua Ba, former NTUC president John De Payva and West Coast Citizens Consultative Committee chairman Andrew Chua. They have been asked to:
* Establish the factors and circumstances that led to the riot;
* Establish how the riot unfolded and how response forces managed the incident; and
* Consider whether current measures to manage such incidents are adequate in places where foreign workers congregate, such as Little India, and recommend any further measures needed to improve their management and reduce the risk of such incidents.
Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean told reporters yesterday: “I have appointed members to the committee who are experienced with the law, understand security requirements and are familiar with workers’ issues, as well as managing relations between the community and workers.
“This will allow the committee to study the issue thoroughly, come to a fair and objective assessment and submit its recommendations thereafter.”
The riot, sparked by a fatal traffic accident involving a 33-year-old Indian national, left 39 Home Team officers injured and 25 government vehicles damaged.
Some of the 400 rioters were said to have been drunk, and 31 men have been charged so far for involvement in the incident.
In response to what happened, the sale and consumption of alcohol will be banned over a large area around Little India today and tomorrow. Even before the Committee of Inquiry sits, Mr Teo said, police will learn from the measures put in place this weekend and tweak them for coming weeks.
Recommendations from an ongoing consultation about potential alcohol-free zones in Little India may be implemented before the panel completes its work.
He said the inquiry will be separate from court proceedings, and will not delve into criminal investigations and prosecutions. It has been directed to follow the Inquiries Act, which states that no evidence taken in the inquiry can be used against the rioters in a trial.
Asked if the panel will examine general grievances of foreign workers here, he said the members are empowered to look into all factors that led to the riot. Anyone with relevant input may contact the committee.
The Government also has an inter-ministerial committee that has been examining larger foreign worker issues, he added.
Mr Selvam called the riot a “grave incident” and said: “We will take a comprehensive approach to establish the factors that led to the riot, and consider whether current measures to manage such incidents are adequate.”
Mr De Payva said the committee will meet on Monday.
Those who wish to be represented or give evidence may contact committee secretary Chow Chee Kin or co-secretary Ong-Chew Peck Wan at: Ministry of Home Affairs, New Phoenix Park, 28 Irrawaddy Road, Singapore 329560 or e-mail: [email protected]
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?170533-Proof-that-COI-on-Little-India-Riot-is-just-wayang&goto=newpost).
Sinkies have been told via the state-controlled media that the findings of the COI on the Little India Riot would be completed within six months.
However it appears Pinky already knows some of the answers that the COI has been tasked to find out. Is this because he's the cleverest man on this planet? Is that why he's the highest paid politician in this whole wide world?
Or the simple answer may be this: the COI is just wayang. Its findings will be exactly what Pinky's LEEgime wants the world to know.
Below is the article that appears on the front page of The Sunday Times of 15th December 2013:
************************************************** ************
No evidence riot reflects workers’ unhappiness: PM
By Fiona Chan, Senior Economics Correspondent in Tokyo, The Sunday Times, 15th December 2013, front page
There is no reason to believe that last Sunday’s riot in Little India stemmed from unhappiness among foreign workers, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday.
“We have not seen any evidence of that,” he said, when asked about speculation that pent-up tensions among foreign workers might have been a cause.
The riot was spontaneous and localised, with signs that alcohol was a factor, he said. It also involved men from many different companies and living in different places.
“It is unlikely that all the companies will have the same problem,” he told reporters in Tokyo, where he attended a summit marking 40 years of Asean-Japan relations.
In the aftermath of the riot, Law and Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam visited foreign workers at their dormitories and spoke with them in the presence of the media.
“There is no tension, there is no sense of grievance or hardship or injustice,” Mr Lee said.
About 400 men, mostly of South Asian origin, were involved in the riot after a traffic accident left a worker dead. So far, 33 men have been charged in court.
A large area around Little India has been declared a no-alcohol zone this weekend, and private buses that usually ferry foreign workers to and from the place on their day off will not run today.
The usually bustling area was noticeably quieter yesterday, with an increased, visible police presence.
Yesterday, the police issued a brief statement in the evening saying it is illegal to organise or take part in a public assembly without a permit.
“The public is requested to allow the community in Little India the space and time to recover from the events of last Sunday,” it said.
The cooling-off measures this weekend are temporary. Mr Lee said interim rules to help ensure order and stability in the area are likely to be decided this week.
The alcohol ban covers 374 establishments over quite a big area, and Mr Lee said this is because the authorities did not want anything to go wrong this weekend.
“Let’s just calm down, cool down, make sure that things are back to normal,” he said.
“After that, we can calibrate, and establish new rules. It will take us some time to work out what the final rules will be, but I think we should have interim rules by next week. We’ll see how it goes, and then we can adjust as we go on and work our way forward.”
Mr Lee acknowledged the impact on businesses but pointed out that even before the riot, the authorities were discussing restrictions on the selling and drinking of alcohol in Little India. Residents had complained about drunken and disorderly behaviour, including men urinating or vomiting in public and loitering in void decks and other common areas.
“We have put in more security patrols and auxiliary police. It has helped but I think we need to tighten up further,” he said.
“There are no easy solutions to these things... Now I think we have to call a time-out... We have to decide what the adjustments to the rules are and then we have to start planning again, which is what we will do.”
As for foreign workers, Mr Lee stressed that Singapore would not tolerate any ill or unfair treatment of them. “They are people, they are working, they have families to support and they are here to do a job,” he said.
“We have to make sure they are well treated, paid properly and on time, their safety is taken care of, their living conditions are also up to standard and that they are also given full protection of the law.”
************************************************** ***********************************
Below is the article that was published on the front page of The Straits Times of 14th December 2013:
************************************************** *********************
Ex-judge to head riot inquiry; findings within six months
by Royston Sim and Lim Yan Liang, The Straits Times, 14th December 2013, front page
FORMER Supreme Court judge G. Pannir Selvam will head a four-man team to probe Sunday’s Little India riot and deliver its findings within six months.
The other members of the Committee of Inquiry appointed by the Government are former police commissioner Tee Tua Ba, former NTUC president John De Payva and West Coast Citizens Consultative Committee chairman Andrew Chua. They have been asked to:
* Establish the factors and circumstances that led to the riot;
* Establish how the riot unfolded and how response forces managed the incident; and
* Consider whether current measures to manage such incidents are adequate in places where foreign workers congregate, such as Little India, and recommend any further measures needed to improve their management and reduce the risk of such incidents.
Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean told reporters yesterday: “I have appointed members to the committee who are experienced with the law, understand security requirements and are familiar with workers’ issues, as well as managing relations between the community and workers.
“This will allow the committee to study the issue thoroughly, come to a fair and objective assessment and submit its recommendations thereafter.”
The riot, sparked by a fatal traffic accident involving a 33-year-old Indian national, left 39 Home Team officers injured and 25 government vehicles damaged.
Some of the 400 rioters were said to have been drunk, and 31 men have been charged so far for involvement in the incident.
In response to what happened, the sale and consumption of alcohol will be banned over a large area around Little India today and tomorrow. Even before the Committee of Inquiry sits, Mr Teo said, police will learn from the measures put in place this weekend and tweak them for coming weeks.
Recommendations from an ongoing consultation about potential alcohol-free zones in Little India may be implemented before the panel completes its work.
He said the inquiry will be separate from court proceedings, and will not delve into criminal investigations and prosecutions. It has been directed to follow the Inquiries Act, which states that no evidence taken in the inquiry can be used against the rioters in a trial.
Asked if the panel will examine general grievances of foreign workers here, he said the members are empowered to look into all factors that led to the riot. Anyone with relevant input may contact the committee.
The Government also has an inter-ministerial committee that has been examining larger foreign worker issues, he added.
Mr Selvam called the riot a “grave incident” and said: “We will take a comprehensive approach to establish the factors that led to the riot, and consider whether current measures to manage such incidents are adequate.”
Mr De Payva said the committee will meet on Monday.
Those who wish to be represented or give evidence may contact committee secretary Chow Chee Kin or co-secretary Ong-Chew Peck Wan at: Ministry of Home Affairs, New Phoenix Park, 28 Irrawaddy Road, Singapore 329560 or e-mail: [email protected]
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?170533-Proof-that-COI-on-Little-India-Riot-is-just-wayang&goto=newpost).